What each tactical choice returns, and what it costs
Your set plays and your defences are not worth the same against every opponent. You just have to be able to measure it.
- Which defence you score against. 6-0, 5-1, 3-2-1: your attacking output, defensive system by defensive system.
- Where your attacks end up. Wing, 9 m, 6 m, 7 m: the zones that produce, and the ones that go quiet.
- What your keepers save. Saves by opposing shooting zone, keeper by keeper.
- What the match cost you. Turnovers, passive play, two-minute suspensions and penalties conceded, tied back to the sequence that caused them.


