Systems

[BOHL-]

Hello,

I understand that better hockey teams will have more shots and Possession time, but do different tactical systems actually have an effect on the production of shots? Like a net front presence "fire everything at the net" type producing more shots than a only taking quality looks systems. Or is there no influence and what matters is how the specific players perform the tactic? And the tactic chosen has what amount of impact on the sim?

[Colorado]

There is such a high degree of vagueness and uncertainty within the game around tactics. I've been saying it for years and it feels too much of a guessing game.

It's difficult to know the extent and depth of how the sim and match engine incorporates tactical instructions.

I buy this game every single year, but I find the whole crapshoot around tactics along with the poor design of various screens in the game infuriating.

They just need to polish this stuff right up and get the game living up to it's full potential before building in more new features.

[artlan]

Originally Posted by Colorado

There is such a high degree of vagueness and uncertainty within the game around tactics. I've been saying it for years and it feels too much of a guessing game.

It's difficult to know the extent and depth of how the sim and match engine incorporates tactical instructions.

I buy this game every single year, but I find the whole crapshoot around tactics along with the poor design of various screens in the game infuriating.

They just need to polish this stuff right up and get the game living up to it's full potential before building in more new features.

Agreed, 100%.

Tactics and scouting are two very important areas that require significant improvements in my opinion.

[Savoie45]

Originally Posted by Colorado

There is such a high degree of vagueness and uncertainty within the game around tactics. I've been saying it for years and it feels too much of a guessing game.

It's difficult to know the extent and depth of how the sim and match engine incorporates tactical instructions.

I buy this game every single year, but I find the whole crapshoot around tactics along with the poor design of various screens in the game infuriating.

They just need to polish this stuff right up and get the game living up to it's full potential before building in more new features.

I typically up the attacking and shooting first, but you also have to make adjustments to defense. For example, in the backchecking description it says putting the slider at "Often" will result in players doing better at getting back to play defense at the cost of being less effective of taking advantage of a turnovers. Tempo also factors in as you might be able to create more shots by upping the tempo, but also at the risk of having more turnovers. Nothing is guaranteed, but I think between the descriptions and the guide here on the forums, that should help. I actually like that it's not as easy as "do this and this and you'll get this."

[Savoie45]

Originally Posted by artlan

Agreed, 100%.

Tactics and scouting are two very important areas that require significant improvements in my opinion.

I don't worry about scouting other than making sure I have enough scouts. From there I set the financial bonus to 12 and let the AI do all the scouting. If my scouts are good enough I'll usually have almost all players fully scouted and pretty accurately.