An essential advantage of the functional paradigm for the present study is due to the focus of the method on any single participant. In the present modification of the paradigm, each player was asked to vividly imagine a series of incidents between familiar game mates. In each incident there was an offender–defender clash with considerable reason for the latter to commit an unsportsmanlike foul. An aggregation of the entire (multi-factorial) set of each player’s predictions of mates’ involvement in violent defensive acts enabled a quasi-diagnosis of his prediction schema.