Justino Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Do they differ for home and away games ? Must admit I liked to keep one tactic for both but that doesn't seem possible anymore as my away record is shocking compared to my home games 4-4-1-1 at home wins me games, away it doesn't for some reason might try a 4-3-2-1 with two IF's-S and a flat 3 cm's Don't know why the gulf is so huge between home games and away games mind Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnompenhandy Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 There is a whole forum for discussing tactics. I go by match odds rather than home/away but there is a difference in that the opposition are likely to play more offensively on their pitch and defensively on yours - or to be more accurate, more offensively when the odds are in their favour, and defensively when the odds are in your favour. At the beginning of my current season I was predicted to be relegated; teams played very openly against me and I hammered them 4-0, 5-0. Now in the second half of the season and I'm sitting top of the table, those same teams are playing very defensively and I'm struggling to grind them down. I have to tweak my tactics. It's all quite realistic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAULHOLMES Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 There is some recent academic research into home advantage -- IRL, not FM -- that finds home advanatge stems almost entirely from referee bias, but that it is a major factor in all sports -- especially those where referee decisions can make a huge difference, such as football (soccer) and basketball. I forget the exact stats, but it was in the range of a 20% benefit to playing at home. In game, I do what phnompenhandy does, which is to say 3 tactics: one counter attacking for when I play a better team or an evenly-matched team on their turf; a standard tactic for evenly-matched games; and an attacking tactic for when I play a team I should beat on their turf, or an evenly-matched team at home. But I also switch during the game, so if I go 1 up against an evenly-matched team, I switch to the counter-attacking style. You can't play Man United at Old Trafford the same way you'd play Blackburn at home (ok, bad example after yesterday) -- unless you're Barcelona. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrithral Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Hey, I run a site that covers refereeing performances and in particular incorrect decisions, any chance you could link me to that academic research? http://www.debatabledecisions.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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