Man-Up 2-4-1 Overload

Install notes

FRAME half (goal at top): 0.167 goal line · 0.36 top of 8m arc · 0.433 top of 12m fan. IMPORTANT and non-obvious: man-up in the women's game does not add an attacker. Offside caps the attacking end at seven whatever the card situation, so the advantage is subtractive — you keep your seven and THEY play a body short. Be careful with the causation: offside does not force the short-handed team down to six field plus keeper (its own end allows eight, and a team of eleven could legally put eight back). It drops to six because the carded player is off and the rest of the shape still has to be covered. The result is the same on the diagram and the reasoning matters when a coach asks why. The 2-4-1 is the verified base shape; the overload (shown right) is the standard answer to a short-handed zone. Card man-up here comes from the card structure, not a men's-style penalty box: under the 2026 NCAA rules most one-minute penalties are releasable, so the advantage ends the moment we score. Confirm the coach's own man-up call before naming this in the app. COUNT THE DASHED TOKENS: six field defenders plus their keeper against our seven, and that is what a women's man-up looks like — nobody was added, one of theirs was taken away. Where the advantage actually is, is drawn rather than described: WR on the overload side has nobody within reach of her, and there is no defender at all behind the cage for X. No ball movement is seeded because the call is a read, not a sequence — you swing until the short-handed zone over-shifts and then reverse.