Common Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)

Every powerful tool has a learning curve. The difference between struggling users and confident ones is not intelligence — it’s avoiding a few predictable mistakes.

This guide highlights the most common errors new users make and explains how to correct them early.

Mistake #1: Treating one stat as a signal

A frequent beginner error is relying on a single metric:

• High possession
• One momentum spike
• A short burst of attacks

Football is multi-dimensional. No single stat tells the full story.

What to do instead:
Look for convergence — multiple indicators pointing in the same direction.

Mistake #2: Ignoring time context

Stats without time are misleading.

Five attacks in five minutes is very different from five attacks over forty minutes.

What to do instead:
Always ask:

• When did this happen?
• Is it accelerating or slowing?

Mistake #3: Expecting strategies to predict outcomes

Strategies are not crystal balls.

Their purpose is to:

• Filter situations
• Surface patterns
• Highlight moments of interest

They do not guarantee outcomes.

What to do instead:
Treat strategies as scanners, not promises.

Mistake #4: Overloading strategies with rules

New users often believe more rules means more precision.

In reality:

• Too many rules reduce match volume
• Complexity hides logic
• Small tweaks become hard to evaluate

What to do instead:
Start with simple rule sets. Expand only when you understand the impact of each rule.

Mistake #5: Using OR logic mentally

Users often think in terms of:

“This OR that should trigger.”

But rules inside a strategy are always combined with AND logic.

What to do instead:
Use ranges and bounding rules, or create separate strategies for separate logic paths.

Mistake #6: Forgetting match flow resets

Goals, cards, and substitutions can invalidate previous patterns.

Beginners often assume:

“What was happening before will keep happening.”

What to do instead:
After major events, reassess momentum and pressure from scratch.

Mistake #7: Confusing activity with intent

Not all movement is meaningful.

A team can look busy without being dangerous.

What to do instead:
Focus on sustained pressure and quality indicators, not raw volume alone.

Mistake #8: Expecting instant mastery

Pattern recognition takes repetition.

The platform accelerates learning, but it cannot replace experience.

What to do instead:
Review history, rewatch matches mentally, and compare expectation versus reality.

Awareness compounds. Mastery follows.