Quote: Originally posted by oldresorter on 2/26/2009How to slip a little weight on your side of the digital coinThis is strictly opinion - this game's success is made up of putting many 1% things together rather than getting one item correct - evidence is the many different opinions voiced on forum threads by coaches achieving a fair amount of success, there appears to be no one way to win.I often give advice to new coaches along the lines is figure out a system, recruit for it, gameplan for it, and make small incremental changes within your system to see how it reacts. Along those lines, if you have more than one team, you can learn much quicker by using the 'system' with multiple teams.
this couldn't be truer. i have recommended to a number of coaches that they work on building a vision of the team/setup they think would be great, particularly just before recruiting, and to try to evaluate the current version of the vision at least every season.
i think evaluating and refining the vision is the limiting factor for most coaches, quality recruiting can be achieved in a few seasons, as well as decent game planning. but coming up with a complete team strategy takes much thought and observation, trial and error. its possible throw together a pretty good plan pretty quickly, but the difference at the high end of competition surely comes down to the 1%s and .1%s oldr referred to. keep in mind each game is a series of very many coinflips, if you can shave 1% on each coin flip, your chance of winning the game will be pretty good. and you can't squeeze every last drop out purely through speculation... a deterministic effort to experiment and observe is the only way.