Always!
I'm always receptive... but what will you allow me to do if the advice is of little use?
eg if I'm complaining that I can't read a match and someone asks me where the space is or where the threat is coming from... where am I meant to go from there?
If I already state that I can't read a match then asking me where the space is cannot really be considered useful advice can it?
Useful advice would state clearly identifiable/measurable conditions that would help me to see what too much space looks like or what a threat looks like.
I have seen many many posts from different people who appear to have a real grasp of this game... but I have yet to find anyone either willing or capable of educating other less observant people.
Honestly, I don't want somebody to play the game for me... but I would have thought that with all of the apparent know-how out there that somebody could have put together clearly identifiable situations which dictate a certain tactical response.
For instance... if they are constantly putting balls over the top of your defence and getting to the ball first then it is fairly obvious the D-Line is too high. To a novice like me there appears to be one clear change that can be made in this situation... lower your defensive line.
Now, if a lower defensive line is usually played with less closing down then stating this would also help out a novice... perhaps adding the dangers of closing down more so close to your own goal (and how to mitigate against this if you do choose to close down more anyway) would also help educate people.
Of course, I suspect there are alternative solutions to that problem, like maybe pressuring the ball distribution to make it harder for the over-the-top ball to be accurate or just having faster defenders... but I'm guessing this would require certain types of player attributes and I would consider this a slightly more advanced solution.
By all means present all of the different solutions... but include all of the necessary information (like must have higher pace and certain type of personality or whatever).
But what you tend to find is that people are very keen to make sweeping statements like "if there is a lot of space in the middle then maybe you could exploit that" without explaining how to identify that there is a lot of space in the middle... I have never seen big gaping holes in the middle and thought I should exploit that... and I have watched A LOT of games. Maybe it is my 1080p resolution that's the problem?
And how would one exploit the middle effectively - like a certain role/duty or combination of players or other TI's to help exploit the middle... I don't know or else I would be sharing the info with people!
I will concede that I have often seen big gaps on the wings and thought I would exploit that... but if "exploit the flank" makes any difference at all it appears to be very subtle with most of my tactics - maybe there is a reason for this?
It's easier just to crank up the mentality on the wingers.
My strong suspicions at this stage are that it is very very easy to identify problems after the fact (ie after you lose the game) but it is infinitely more difficult to spot when a lesser team is going to have the game of their lives against you - even for the so called experts... which is why there is so much post-match advice out there but as far as I can tell there is no "when they do this you do this" type of advice out there.
It also smells strongly of a RNG that is weighted by team expectations... what I mean is that if your team is expected to finish bottom in the league it makes sense that any of the random events in each match are strongly weighted against you... and this RNG weighting is likely adjusted after each match... so the more you win and the further your team is from it's expectations the harder it becomes to beat the RNG until you return to your expected position.
This can be achieved in many different ways to help obfuscate what is going on... like injuries to key players, morale problems (high and low), weather conditions, red cards, staff poaching, unrealistic wage expectations etc.
A very simplistic programming technique that helps keep things more realistic on a "per season" basis but can yield some very strange and frustrating individual results.
You can beat the odds... just like you can rep the same number on the roulette table several times or roll a double on the craps table or even win the lottery etc but for every time you manage it there will be many times that you don't!
So, I am very receptive to useful advice... but you can surely allow me a certain dismissive tone for responses that really don't help my particular situation can't you?
I'm always receptive... but what will you allow me to do if the advice is of little use?
eg if I'm complaining that I can't read a match and someone asks me where the space is or where the threat is coming from... where am I meant to go from there?
If I already state that I can't read a match then asking me where the space is cannot really be considered useful advice can it?
Useful advice would state clearly identifiable/measurable conditions that would help me to see what too much space looks like or what a threat looks like.
I have seen many many posts from different people who appear to have a real grasp of this game... but I have yet to find anyone either willing or capable of educating other less observant people.
Honestly, I don't want somebody to play the game for me... but I would have thought that with all of the apparent know-how out there that somebody could have put together clearly identifiable situations which dictate a certain tactical response.
For instance... if they are constantly putting balls over the top of your defence and getting to the ball first then it is fairly obvious the D-Line is too high. To a novice like me there appears to be one clear change that can be made in this situation... lower your defensive line.
Now, if a lower defensive line is usually played with less closing down then stating this would also help out a novice... perhaps adding the dangers of closing down more so close to your own goal (and how to mitigate against this if you do choose to close down more anyway) would also help educate people.
Of course, I suspect there are alternative solutions to that problem, like maybe pressuring the ball distribution to make it harder for the over-the-top ball to be accurate or just having faster defenders... but I'm guessing this would require certain types of player attributes and I would consider this a slightly more advanced solution.
By all means present all of the different solutions... but include all of the necessary information (like must have higher pace and certain type of personality or whatever).
But what you tend to find is that people are very keen to make sweeping statements like "if there is a lot of space in the middle then maybe you could exploit that" without explaining how to identify that there is a lot of space in the middle... I have never seen big gaping holes in the middle and thought I should exploit that... and I have watched A LOT of games. Maybe it is my 1080p resolution that's the problem?
And how would one exploit the middle effectively - like a certain role/duty or combination of players or other TI's to help exploit the middle... I don't know or else I would be sharing the info with people!
I will concede that I have often seen big gaps on the wings and thought I would exploit that... but if "exploit the flank" makes any difference at all it appears to be very subtle with most of my tactics - maybe there is a reason for this?
It's easier just to crank up the mentality on the wingers.
My strong suspicions at this stage are that it is very very easy to identify problems after the fact (ie after you lose the game) but it is infinitely more difficult to spot when a lesser team is going to have the game of their lives against you - even for the so called experts... which is why there is so much post-match advice out there but as far as I can tell there is no "when they do this you do this" type of advice out there.
It also smells strongly of a RNG that is weighted by team expectations... what I mean is that if your team is expected to finish bottom in the league it makes sense that any of the random events in each match are strongly weighted against you... and this RNG weighting is likely adjusted after each match... so the more you win and the further your team is from it's expectations the harder it becomes to beat the RNG until you return to your expected position.
This can be achieved in many different ways to help obfuscate what is going on... like injuries to key players, morale problems (high and low), weather conditions, red cards, staff poaching, unrealistic wage expectations etc.
A very simplistic programming technique that helps keep things more realistic on a "per season" basis but can yield some very strange and frustrating individual results.
You can beat the odds... just like you can rep the same number on the roulette table several times or roll a double on the craps table or even win the lottery etc but for every time you manage it there will be many times that you don't!
So, I am very receptive to useful advice... but you can surely allow me a certain dismissive tone for responses that really don't help my particular situation can't you?
