Where and when to be where
by the book is often the last refuge of scoundrels. It's like officiating has anal compulsivity up the ying-yang. Hmmm, perhaps that is redundant.
Mechanics are guidelines that best fit the game when everybody is standing still. No number of rules within rules is going to master the complexity of what can happen. Knowing what to look for, and having a quality internal algorithm for processing what you see, that's the most important thing, by far.
Knowing what's going to happen. That's really useful. And it can be done. It can even be taught.
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