Tool tips · Match day
Minutes, honestly counted, before anyone asks you about them
Build the XI on a pitch, period by period, and the minutes come out on their own.
Fixtures, the team sheet on a drag-and-drop pitch, periods, minutes, goals and the instruction you gave before kick-off.
When
Team sheet before kick-off, everything else afterwards.
Why
Minutes are derived from the periods a player was on for, so they cannot be forgotten and cannot quietly favour the players you remember best.
The mistake most coaches make
Trusting your memory of who played and for how long. Every coach believes they rotate fairly and roughly half of them are wrong, not through favouritism but because the players you think about most are the ones you remember substituting.
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Pick the format and formation
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Drag the XI onto the pitch
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Set the shape for each period
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Minutes are derived, not typed
In practice
Drag the side onto the pitch for the first half, hit "start this period with the same side" for the second, and take off whoever came off. Minutes for all fourteen players are then calculated, not typed.
Match Day
Open it and try it on one session
You will not get anything out of a single entry, and that is the honest answer. Match Day is inside the platform. Setting up takes a couple of minutes and needs no payment details.
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