No it is a very important aspect to visualization and spatially understanding plays, formations and theory.
Even more than that, "The American government has in fact found video gaming as a strategic tool for bolstering national security by improving the performance of army and navy officials and personnel. In other words, the government has been using video games for military training.
Within the United States Department of Defense, video games have become useful in training military personnel—from ranking official and strategists to officers and battlefront personnel. In fact, the department has been running a program to carryout this specific initiative—the Advanced Distributed Learning program."
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