“Well, here are the pointers from our game if you ever feel like looking at them. The 2-1 win was easily in your grasp from the beginning, independent of what your perceive as superior luck. I'll shorten it to two key points.

1. Foremost here is controlling my opportunities. At the start of your first drive, you put the ball into the hands of a player who was in easy range of a 2 dice blitz with reroll. Obviously I knocked the ball out. I didn't score, but neither did you. Falling back with a few players to control the safe motion of the ball would have eliminated my opportunity for an easy strip. During your second drive, you left several 1 dice blitz opportunities on the board, and with 0 rerolls, you had to be sure that I would be happy to see you drop the ball. Once I blitzed you at -2d and got the ball (off of a block-less carrier), but as lucky as that seems, if you had tagged my player with a tackler, this maneuver would have been more than twice as unlikely to succeed. Controlling your opponent's opportunities is a facit of the game that has NOTHING TO DO with luck, therefore, it is the most reliable way to win. As with any chess-like game, predict what I am going to do before your turn ends and make it as hard as possible to do so successfully. Put yourself in your opponent's shoes and ask yourself 'what would I be aiming for here?'

2. Safeties: Your major edge over me in this game was the presence of 5 tacklers to nullify my few dodge players. But because you never left one or two in a 'safety' position, it was on 2 different occasions very easy for me to bypass them completely and run off with the ball. One tackler should always be in position several squares behind your main line on offense OR defense to catch breakaway runners, and against elves this is triplely so.

I hope this helps. You may write this game off as the result of 'luck' or 'elfity nonsense' but through and through, it was yours to win.”