Sorry for multiple posts, but would love to know what team you are using and some of the changes you have made
I'm Hearts, came second behind Celtic in the lead, starting out with -15 points. The team was under administration, and they sold some of my best players before the season started. So my prediction was 12th, which is last place.
I have did a lot of changes, difficult to write all, but I will the take the most important ones, starting out with the original favourite version. I used my training games to tweak, and I found out I conceded a lot, so I wanted to change that.
- First I wanted to make my players to not press as much, as it leaves spaces behind. Therefore I unticked hassle opponents in team instructions.
- Then I wanted to find out a good strategy to increase my percentages of good tacklings. I implemented play aggressive in the team instructions. I found out this made me won the ball more often, usually over 85 % good tacklings each game.
- I also wanted to get more players around the ball to win the ball. Therefore I removed play wider in team instructions. Now my players have very fluid fluidity, hard tacklings, all have mark tighter and they play closer together because of the width change. This makes my team play as a great unit for winning the ball. Much better defense after this.
- Next I wanted to use my fullbacks more in the attack. I found out they were a bit closed of space to run into because of the wingers. I simply took the wingers into attacking midfielders, so I have 3 CAM's now. The outside CAM's are shadow strikers, the one in the middle treq.
- The centrebacks do not have cover anymore, instead they both are normal defenders.
- All players have tight marking and hard tacklings implemented in the player instructions.
- The two ball winners now have defend duty, to get better cover in defence. I don't want them leaving there position as much pressing.
- I also implemented look for overlap in team instructions. The fullbacks get's the ball more in attack, scoring goals and crossing.
This was some of the changes, feel free to try some of them yourself. Of course I also changed many player instructions.