Sweecoon

I feel like the effects of the various tactical instructions (and even player roles to some extent) are too obscure. FM15 and 16 had a guide someone wrote called Lines and Diamonds which completely changed how I played the game. For example, the pass into space option. The game itself says something vague like “tells players to make more passes into open space”, but lines and diamonds said something like “increases passing risk for all players by one setting, increases passing directness by one setting, and increases forward runs by one setting”. This is so much clearer in terms of what actually gets changed in the match engine. Returning to the game now having stuck to those older games for years, I appreciate many of the changes but feel so many instructions are just too vaguely described and lack documentation. Like be more expressive. It seems to be combining the old “be more expressive” instruction with the old “roam from positions” instruction? But I have no idea how or to what extent. Some people seem to think it makes players less likely to follow your instructions and more likely to follow their preferred moves. Some people think it just increases the likelihood of tricks and ambitious passing. I am left not really knowing and not really able to make clear tactical choices. I feel like if I ever want to properly understand what an option does, I have to go on the forums where I will be met with 3 or 4 different threads containing posts by 11 or 12 different people with about 20 contradictory opinions between them. So I am left frustratingly resetting matches over and over again with different options selected to try and deduce what is actually going on. Is there any more definitive documentation at all? The manual helps somewhat but still leaves me with lots of questions.