Hattrick Indonesia

2011-07-24T07:53:00.000-07:00

taken from http://www88.hattrick.org/Forum/Read.aspx?t=15036721&n=1&v=4
by Zorbas

I've been quite reluctant to open this thread, but many people encouraged me to do it, so here we are. This wants to be somehow the unwritten manual of HT, with useful info that can not be found in the written one.

What you'll find here is the result of a collective work, mainly made in the Romanian community (see also (http://hattrick-romania.ro/), but also in two federations I'm a member: Tactics (13038) and ALTERNATIV (47178). Different studies have been consulted as well, so the info here should be quite accurate.

I'd be more than happy to update it, in case someone wants to bring new things onto the table or in case there are reliable proofs some facts here have to suffer some changes.

So let's start!

► the offensive coach offers a boost of 8% to your attack ratings and a penalty of 11% to the defence ratings.

► the defensive coach offers a boost of 14% to your defence ratings and a penalty of 8% to your attack ratings.

► the neutral coach doesn't have a specific influence on your attack/defence ratings.*

*This calculations are made considering the neutral coach as a reference.

► The sports psychologists increase your team confidence and - directly - your attack ratings. It's good to have a minimum of 5 of them, to keep your confidence up, but this depends of how you can manage with the 30 staff members limit.

► The Passing skill of your inner midfielders offers a boost to your attack ratings (especially if they are played offensive and they've got a nice skill on Passing).

► If a player has played in two different positions during the week, the position that grants him the best training effect will be chosen at the update.

► When you play 1 Forward only, a good option is to maximize the attack on that side, playing the Forward Towards Wing or an Inner Midfielder Towards Wing (or even an Offensive/Normal WingBack).

► When you play PIC your Team Spirit will get a boost (multiply your actual TS with 1.33). When you play MOTS your TS will fall down with 50%.

► Your chances to score are distributed as they follow: 35% in the middle, 25% on each side (R/L) and 15% free kicks (direct and indirect FK).

► No matter if the HTs tried to lower the importance of the midfield rating, this is still the most important thing that can lead your team to victory. So do your best to possess your opponent (I'm not talking to the CA managers here :D).

Having Multi Skilled players with Playmaking skill will help you to have a better midfield rating (Defenders with PM, Wingers with PM, Defensive Forwards with PM).

► When you train Set Pieces, your Goalkeeper and your Set Pieces Taker will get a 25% bonus on training.

► When you sell a player it's not only your TS who may suffer a fall (depending on your player's character), but also your formation experience, if he was a regular player in your first 11.

► A good help to win a match is the Team Spirit. Having a high TS it's helpful to your midfield rating. The most possession you have, the most chances to score you'll get. A coach with a high leadership will help you to avoid losing too quick the TS.

► Try to be unpredictable, which will make it harder for your opponent to 'read' your tactics. Be diversified, don't play always the same tactic. 'Hide' your real final ratings with different substitutions and orders during the match (the final ratings are an average), especially when you're comfortable in the lead, but be cautious with that.

► In case of need, especially if you have a coach with low LS, you could surprise your opponent changing the coach just before the match starts (less time for your opponent to react, but pay attention on time), improving your team ratings where needed (defensive, neutral, offensive). A Solid coach/Poor LS costs 268.700 €. If you can afford it and you think it's worth, go for it.

► A coach with SOLID LEADERSHIP will drop his LS to Passable:
- in 112-150 days if he's low Solid LS
- in 150-224 days if he's medium Solid LS
- in 224-385 days if he's high Solid LS

► The formation experience (4-4-2, 3-5-2 etc) can drop only after a match, not after every HT update (or when you sell a player which used to be a regular one in your team).

► The influence on midfield rating:

Playing CA 93%
Playing at home 119.892%
Playing derby 111.493% *
Playing PIC 83.945%
Playing MOTS 111.49%

* away team only, the home team gets the 119.892%, as usual.

► The influence of Team Spirit and attitude on midfield is:

TEAM SPIRIT PIC NORMAL MOTS
Paradise on Earth! 122% 142% 162%
walking on clouds 116% 135% 154%
delirious 110% 128% 146%
satisfied 104% 121% 138%
content 98% 114% 130%
calm 92% 107% 122%
composed 87% 100% 113%
irritated 81% 93% 105%
furious 75% 86% 97%
murderous 63% 72% 81%

► Trading tips: (8613)

► The overconfidence message in the beginning of the match never appears when you play MOTS! It may sound silly to play MOTS just to avoid that, but some could lose their 1st place in the League in the end of the season, PICing a match who may look easier than it is.
Be careful doing that if you'll have to play a Qualification match after this.

► When you get an overconfidence message in the beginning of the match, only your midfield is affected.

► If we consider a player playing at 100% of his capacity in Excellent form, then he will perform:
FORM PERFORMANCE
Excellent 100%
Solid 96.70%
Passable 89.70%
Inadequate 82%
Weak 73.20%
Poor 62.90%
Wretched 50%
Disastrous 30.50%

► When you get a negative experience message in the match report all your ratings are affected and your team will perform as going into disorganisation, depending of both teams' experience. In the match report doesn't appear the level of disorganisation, but you can see that in midfield, as you'll notice the difference in possession, comparing to the first half (the final ratings are the average of all 90 minutes or possible extra ones).

► When you get a disorganization message in the match report, depending of the level your organisation drops, your team will perform as it follows:

ORGANISATION PERFORMANCE
Solid 95-98%
Passable 89-94%
Inadequate 83-88%
Weak 76-82%
Poor 66-75%
Wretched X-65%

► When you play against a Walkover team, you will win 5-0, get the formation experience and training for the full 90 min and the TS will be affected as usual (PIC, Normal, MOTS).

► There is an opinion (do not confuse it with a rule) that says that the match engine will consider first the general probability of winning for both teams, after that it will consider the exact score and in the end it will decide the distribution of the chances (which one will be goal and which one not).

This would explain somehow how at times a wretched attack rating will score against an utopian defending rating or how a divine attack rating doesn't score against a solid defending rating, for example.

► The total passing skill of all your outfield players determines your Attack On Wings / Attack In The Middle tactical skill.

► On the new engine there is no chance in the 45th and the 90th minute. The most chances seem to happen between min. 25-37.

► The efficiency of a coach - comparing to 100% of a Solid one - is:

COACH EFFICIENCY
Excellent 105.30%
Solid 100%
Passable 90.90%
Inadequate 83.30%
Weak 76.90%
Poor 71.40%

► The Powerful and Quick players will never suffer a weather penalty event in the first half, if weather is Sunny.

► If you want to know more about the Team Spirit drop or PIC effect, you may want to consider this table: (http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/3466/teams...t.jpg) (at times that website is down).

► Having a high number of Head players your team will be more likely to score from the Head SE, but also to defend against your opponent's Headers. The influence of your Headers in scoring is A LOT BIGGER than in defending against your opponent's ones (corners). (13700898.133).

► Talking HatStats/LoddarStats, the "weakest" player in HT is the CDO, comparing to what is he losing and what is he bringing in the total team ratings. Don't get fooled about that, at times a CDO is all you may need to win a match, if you want just some extra midfield.

► After the match engine is analysing the possession, giving you an ordinary chance, it will compare the attack/defence ratings and if it's the case it will offer you the goal.
The scorer will be picked randomly (the FWs are more likely to be found on the scoring sheet).

► You can set up the Set Pieces Taker - in case your regular one is being substituted - using the Penalty Takers tab. If your SP Taker will be substituted, the second player from the Penalty Takers tab will do the job, not the substitute.

► If you need to improve your Team Spirit you can lower the training intensity. You could check exactly how much will that be here: (http://www.databased.at/hattrick/x-ray/?start...files) (Tools -> Matches -> TS vs TI). Be careful, you'll have to do that the latest Thursday morning and when you'll be back on 100% intensity you'll suffer a long term bad effect on your players' forms and your TS will drop badly.

► The harder you train, the better the squad's form becomes in general, and effects from training increase (make the connection with the previous trick).

► At the beginning of the season, after the TS reset, your team TS is composed medium (4.50).

► When your team gets a Special Event, it depends of the side where the match engine will give it to you (I'm talking about Technical vs Head, Quick for Wingers etc).

► When you buy a player, there is a chance that your TS may drop, depending of the player's character:
- Popular/Sympathetic - 0% chances for a TS fall
- Pleasant - 30%
- Controversial - 47%
- Nasty - 69%

► When you sell a player the chances for a TS drop are:
- Popular - 27% chances for a TS fall
- Sympathetic - 22%
- Pleasant - 12%
- Controversial/Nasty - 0%

► If a team has become ownerless it turns into a bot-team on the first of the three following points in time:
- before the 1st round of the Cup.
- after the 7th round of the league.
- after the 14th round of the league.

► You can make good money when you buy players, not only when you sell them. Buy cheap, especially in the end of the season, when prices are low!

► Do you need to know when and where the late international friendlies are played or if a player from TL got already the training/health update? This is a list with all the updates in the HT-World: (http://www.angelfire.com/theforce2/helghallen...e.htm).

► The experience of the player has an impact on a penalty competition only and NOT on a regular penalty kick (or set pieces chance) in the match.

► The fixtures (matches between the 8 teams of the league) are:

Week 1 1 - 2 3 - 4 5 - 6 7 - 8
Week 2 4 - 1 2 - 7 6 - 3 8 - 5
Week 3 1 - 8 3 - 5 4 - 2 7 - 6
Week 4 6 - 1 2 - 3 5 - 7 8 - 4
Week 5 1 - 7 4 - 5 3 - 8 2 - 6
Week 6 5 - 1 7 - 3 6 - 4 8 - 2
Week 7 1 - 3 2 - 5 4 - 7 6 - 8
Week 8 3 - 1 5 - 2 7 - 4 8 - 6
Week 9 1 - 5 3 - 7 4 - 6 2 - 8
Week 10 7 - 1 5 - 4 8 - 3 6 - 2
Week 11 1 - 6 3 - 2 7 - 5 4 - 8
Week 12 8 - 1 5 - 3 2 - 4 6 - 7
Week 13 1 - 4 7 - 2 3 - 6 5 - 8
Week 14 2 -1 4 - 3 6 - 5 8 - 7

► There are some agglomeration penalties, in case you play 2 or 3 players on the same central position. Those penalties occur to all the skills of the players from that specific central compartment of your team and they are:

- 2 Central Defenders: -3.6%
- 3 Central Defenders: -10%

- 2 Inner Midfielders: -6.5%
- 3 Inner Midfielders: -17.5%

- 2 Forwads: -5.5%
- 3 Forwards: -13.5%

► (http://www.bogayman.ro/academie/en/regulimana....html) - if you're interested to find out some tricks about the Youth Academy.

► AOW/AIM Tactics level = [sum of passing]/5 - 2

Sum of Passing skills of your players (excluding the GK):

30 - Weak Tactic level
35 - Inadequate
40 - Passable
45 - Solid
50 - Excellent
55 - Formidable
60 - Outstanding
65 - Brilliant
70 - Magnificent
75 - WorldClass
80 - Supernatural
85 - Titanic
90 - Extra-Terrestrial
95 - Mythical
100 - Magical
105 - Utopian
110 - Divine.

Example: Sum of Passing for your players is 60.
Formula: [sum of Passing]/5 - 2 = 60/5 - 2 = 12 - 2 = 10
So your AOW/AIM tactical skill is Outstanding (10).

► CA calculator: (http://www.ronaldinho.dk/ht/CA.asp).

► Stamina factor = ((stamina+6.5)/14)^0.6

Stamina tools: (http://lizardopoli.altervista.org/staminia/)

(http://img854.imageshack.us/i/contributiontab....png/)
(http://hattrick-romania.ro/procente-rezistenta....)
(http://www.hattrickinfo.com/en/players/16).

About stamina: "What's in that tea?" (15032954.1).

► Form factor = ((form-0.5)/7)^0.45

► Weekly skill drop formula: [(Skill-14,85)^2]/1000 (regardless the age; for the 28yo+ players an extra age drop will occur)
(http://acandio.blogspot.com/2011/01/hattrick-....html)

► The influence of player's XP:

Formula: XP influence: =1+0,0716*ROOT(XP-1)

Experience Contribution
Non-existent 0%
Disastrous 5%
Wretched 8.80%
Poor 11.30%
Weak 13.40%
Inadequate 15.20%
Passable 16.80%
Solid 18.20%
Excellent 19.60%
Formidable 20.90%
Outstanding 22.10%
Brilliant 23.20%
Magnificent 24.30%
WorldClass 25.30%
Supernatural 26.30%
Titanic 27.30%
Extra-Terrestrial 28.20%
Mythical 29.10%
Magical 30.00%
Utopian 30.8%
Divine 31.60%

► XP points (1 XP level = 28 XP points):
Match type XP points
National friendly match 0.1
International friendly match 0.2
League match 1
Cup match 2
U20/NT friendly match 2
Qualifying match 2
Hattrick Masters match 5
U20/NT official match 10
U20/NT World Cup (semi)final 20

► Specialities by position (statistics by EngelRS4): (14695202.1).

► Long Shots tactic level = 1.66*SC + 0.55*SP - 7.6
SC = outfield players average scoring
SP = outfield players average set pieces

Penalty on LS:
- Midfield: -5%
- Attack: -2,7%

(13160), (13124), (13125)

LS level - TOTAL
2 wretched - 15 to 18.4
3 poor - 18.5 to 20.3
4 weak - 20.4 to 23.0
5 inadequate - 23.1 to 24.6
6 passable - 24.7 to 25.9
7 solid - 26 to 27.8
8 excellent - 27.9 to 29.4
9 formidable - 29.5 to 31.1
10 outstanding - 31.2 to 33.1
11 brilliant - 33.2 to 34.2
12 magnificent - 34.3 to 36.2
13 worldclass - 36.3 to 37.8
14 supernatural - 37.9 to 40.0
15 titanic - 40.1 to 42.1
16 extraterrestial - 42.2 to 43.9
17 mythical - 44 to 45.5
18 magical - 45.6 to ?
19 utopian - 47.7
20 divine - ?

TOTAL = 3*avg(SC)+avg(SP)
where avg(SC) = average Scoring of all your ten field players
and avg(SP) = average Set Pieces of all your ten field players

POSITIONS (legend)

GK

WBO
WBN
WBD
WBTM CDO
CD
CDTW CDO
CD CDO
CD
CDTW WBO
WBN
WBD
WBTM
WO
WTM
WN
WD IMO
IMTW
IMN
IMD IMO
IMD
IMN IMO
IMTW
IMN
IMD WO
WTM
WN
WD

FW
DF
FTW FW
DF FW
DF
FTW

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► the Goalkeeper contributes with:
- 86.6% of his GK skill to the Central Defence rating
- 42.5% of his Defending skill to the Central Defence rating
- 59.7% of his GK skill to the Side Defence ratings
- 27.6% of his Defending skill to the Side Defence ratings.

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► The Central Defender Normal (CD) uses:
- 100% of his Defending skill for Central Defence
- 51.6% of his Defending skill for Side Defence
- 23.6% of his Playmaking skill for Midfield

►The Central Defender Offensive (CDO) is using:
- 31.8% of his PM skill for the Midfield rating
- 72.5% of his Defending skill for the Central Defence rating
- 37.8% of his Defending skill for the Side Defence rating

► The Central Defender Towards Wing (CDTW) is using:
- 16.5% of his PM skill for the Midfield rating
- 77.8% of his Defending skill for the Central Defence rating
- 71.1% of his Defending skill for the Side Defence rating
- 24.6% of his Winger skill for the Side Attack rating

► The Wing Back Defensive (WBD) will use:
- 6.6% of his Playmaking skill for your midfield rating
- 47.9% of his Defending skill for Central Defence rating
- 100% of his Defending skill for the Side defence rating
- 32.3% of his Winger skill for the Side Attack rating

► The Wingback Normal (WBN) uses:
- 45% of his Defending skill for Central Defence
- 91.9% of his Defending skill for Side Defence
- 16.7% of his Playmaking for Midfield
- 50.6% of his Winger skill for Side Attack

► The Wing Back Offensive (WBO) will use:
- 38.2% of his Defending skill for Central Defence
- 69.8% of his Defending skill for Side Defence
- 23% of his Playmaking skill for Midfield
- 61.8% of his Winger skill for Side Attack

► The Wingback Towards Middle (WBTM) uses:
- 68.3% of his Defending skill for the Central Defence
- 68.7% of his Defending skill for Side Defence
- 16.7% of his Playmaking skill for Midfield
- 27.9% of his Winger skill for Side Attack

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► The Winger Offensive (WO) uses:
- 38.1% of his PM for midfield
- 8.5% of his Defending for Central Defence
- 18.0% of his Defending for Side Defence
- 13.5% of his Passing for Central Attack
- 24.6% of his Passing for Side Attack
- 100% of his Winger for Side Attack

► The Winger Towards Middle (WTM) uses:
- 57.4% of his PM for Midfield
- 56.4% of his Winger for Side Attack
- 13.3% of his Passing for Side Attack
- 14.8% of his Passing for Central Attack
- 24.4% of his Defending for Central Defence
- 28.4% of his Defending for Side Defence

► The Winger Normal (WN) uses:
- 85.4% of his Winger skill for Side Attack
- 21% of his Passing skill for Side Attack
- 10.4% of his Passing for Central Attack
- 45.5% of his Playmaking skill for Midfield
- 20.1% of his Defending skill for Central Defence
- 34.9% of his Defending skill for Side Defence

► The Winger Defensive (WD) will use:
- 26.4% of his Defending skill for Central Defence
- 48.5% of his Defending skill for Side Defence
- 38.1% of his Playmaking skill for Midfield
- 72.3% of his Winger skill for Side Attack
- 17.3% of his Passing skill for Side Attack
- 5.2% of his Passing skill for Central Attack

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► The Inner Midfielder Normal (IMN) uses:
- 100% of his Playmaking for Midfield
- 40% of his Defending for Central Defence
- 18.9% of his Defending for Side Defence
- 32.5% of his Passing for Central Attack
- 21.8% of his Passing for Side Attack

► The Inner midfielder defensive (IMD) uses:
- 94.4% of his Playmaking for Midfield
- 59.4% of his Defending for Central Defence
- 27% of his Defending for Side Defence
- 21.9% of his Passing for Central Attack
- 14% of his Passing for Side Attack

►The Inner Midfielder Offensive (IMO) uses:
- 94.4% of his Playmaking for Midfield
- 21.6% of his Defending for Central Defence
- 10.2% of his Defending for Side Defence
- 48.3% of his Passing for Central Attack
- 21.6% of his Passing for Side Attack

► The Inner Midfielder Towards Wing (IMTW ) uses:
- 88.1% of his Playmaking for Midfield
- 49.4% of his Winger for Side Attack
- 27.1% of his Passing for Side Attack
- 22.7% of his Passing for Central Attack
- 34.8% of his Defending for Central Defence
- 29.1% of his Defending for Side Defence.

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► The Forward Normal (FW) uses:
- 100% of his Scoring skill for Central Attack
- 22.4% of his Scoring skill for Side Attack
- 36.9% of his Passing skill for Central Attack
- 12.2% of his Passing skill for Side Attack
- 19% of his Winger skill for Side Attack

► The Forward Towards Wing (FTW) uses:
- 60.7% of his Scoring skill for Central Attack
- 45.1% of his Scoring skill for Side Attack
- 26.1% of his Passing skill for Central Attack
- 18% of his Passing skill for Side Attack
- 52.2% of his Winger skill for Side Attack

► The Defensive Forward (DF) uses:
- 58.3% of his Scoring skill for Central Attack
- 10.9% of his Scoring skill for Side Attack
- 40.6% of his Playmaking skill for Midfield
- 58.3% of his Passing skill for Central Attack
- 21.5% of his Passing skill for Side Attack
- 12.4% of his Winger skill for Side Attack

► For Technical Defensive Forward (TDF) the contributions are the same with the DF, with the difference that his Passing skill contributes to the Side Attack with 27.9% instead of 21.5% (as it is for the non-technical defensive forward).

Skills' Contributions TABLE

Position PM CD#GK CD#DE SD#GK SD#DE CA#SC CA#PS SA#W SA#PS SA#SC
GK 86.6% 42.5% 59.7% 27.6%
CD 23.6% 100.00% 51.6%
CDTW 16.5% 77.8% 71.1% 24.6%
CDO 31.8% 72.5% 37.8%
WBN 16.7% 45% 91.9% 50.6%
WBD 6.6% 47.9% 100.00% 32.3%
WBTM 16.7% 68.3% 68.7% 27.9%
WBO 23% 38.2% 69.8% 61.8%
IMN 100.00% 40% 18.9% 32.5% 21.8%
IMO 94.4% 21.6% 10.2% 48.3% 21.6%
IMD 94.4% 59.4% 27% 21.9% 14%
IMTW 88.1% 34.8% 29.1% 22.7% 49.4% 27.1%
WN 45.5% 20.1% 34.9% 10.4% 85.4% 21%
WO 38.1% 8.5% 18% 13.5% 100.00% 24.6%
WTM 57.4% 24.4% 28.4% 14.8% 56.4% 13.3%
WD 38.1% 26.4% 48.5% 5.2% 72.3% 17.3%
FW 100.00% 36.9% 19% 12.2% 22.4%
DF 40.6% 58.3% 54.3% 12.4% 21.5% 10.9%
TDF 40.6% 58.3% 54.3% 12.4% 27.9% 10.9%
FTW 60.7% 26.1% 52.2% 18% 45.1%

Legend:

CD#GK - contribution of the Goalkeeper skill to the Central Defence rating
CD#DE - contribution of the Defending skill to the Central Defence rating
SD#GK - contribution of the Goalkeeper skill to the Side Defence rating
SD#DE - contribution of the Defending skill to the Side Defence rating
CA#SC - contribution of the Scoring skill to the Central Attack rating
CA#PS - contribution of the Passing skill to the Central Attack rating
SA#W - contribution of the Winger skill to the Side Attack rating
SA#PS - contribution of the Passing skill to the Side Attack rating
SA#SC - contribution of the Scoring skill to the Side Attack rating

USEFUL LINKS

○ for beginners
(http://www.hattrickinfo.com/en/) - infocenter (English)
(http://www.ht-links.de/) - German

○LOCAL SCHEDULE IN HT WORLD

During the week:
[1st update after the League match] Daily update
Team spirit.
Arena update.
Weather update.
Injuries update.
TSI changes for injured players.
The skills drop for older players.
Supporters are coming/going.

[2nd update after the League match] Daily update
Team spirit.
Arena update.
Weather update.
Injuries update.
TSI changes for injured players.

[3rd update after the League match] Daily update
Team spirit.
Arena update.
Weather update.
Injuries update.
TSI changes for injured players.

[1st update after the Cup/friendly match] Daily update
Team spirit.
Arena update.
Weather update.
Injuries update.
TSI changes for injured players.
Supporters are coming/going.
The engine takes into account the intensity of training.

[2nd update after the Cup/friendly match] Daily update and training
Team spirit.
Arena update.
Weather update.
Injuries update.
TSI changes for injured players.
The training occurs (it takes a few minutes).

[3rd update after the Cup/friendly match] Daily update
Team spirit.
Arena update.
Weather update.
Injuries update.
TSI changes for injured players.

[4th update after the Cup/friendly match] Daily and weekly update
Team spirit.
Arena update.
Weather update.
Injuries update.
TSI changes for injured players.
Economical update.
Youth Academy update.
Confidence update.
Supporters' mood update.
Youth pull.

At the end of every match:
For everyone
The experience of the players.
The formation experience (3-5-2, 4-4-2 etc).
The new injuries.

At the end of the official matches
Team Spirit.
Team Confidence.
Supporters' mood.
Sponsors' mood.
Yellow/Red cards.

○ TS calculators
(http://ht4u.altervista.org/TSpredictor/team_s...r.php)
(http://www.2shared.com/document/BFoM39MD/Team....html) - (http://hattrickinfo.com/en/tools)
how quick the TS drops/pops according to the coach leadership - (http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/3466/teams...t.jpg)
evolution after lowering the training intensity - (http://www.hagonline.org/?id=34%C3%A2%C5%92%C...g=eng)
Relation coach-TS - (http://hattrick-romania.ro/relatia-lider-antr....html)
when you sell/buy a player - (http://hattrick-romania.ro/sansa-scadere-ts-l....html)
buy/sell players - (http://wiki.hattrick.org/Transfers#TS-Drop)
HAG TI-lowering Calculator - (http://www.hagonline.org/?id=34&lang=eng)

○ Arena calculators
(http://hattrick-romania.ro/procente-optime-st....html)
(http://hattrick-romania.ro/numar-spectatori.html)
(http://www.databased.at/hattrick/x-ray/index....=1300)
(http://www.arenaoptimizer.es/)
(http://nrgjack.altervista.org/eco.php)
(http://www.htarena.org/)

○ Achievements
(http://wiki.hattrick.org/Achievements)

○ Others
abbreviations - (http://hattrick-romania.ro/abrevieri-uzuale.html)
conversion player into coach - (http://hattrick-romania.ro/cost-transformare-....html)
conversion player into coach - (http://www.databased.at/hattrick/x-ray/pages/...h.asp)
Spokespersons number - (http://www.databased.at/hattrick/x-ray/pages/...=true)
Physiotherapists number - (http://hattrick-romania.ro/studiu-fizioterape....html)
Skill drop - (http://ht4u.altervista.org/index.php)

Injury calculator - (http://ht-box.ru/healing.php)

► Youth Academy:
○ (http://www.bogayman.ro/academie/en/regulimana....html) - everything about Youth Academy
○ (http://hattrick-romania.ro/antrenament-academie...)
○ (http://www.hattrick-youthclub.org)
○ (http://wiki.hattrick.org/Training_Notes)
○ (http://easyupdate.de/hattricks/index.php/Engl...texte)

4. Other info:

○ (http://www.angelfire.com/theforce2/helghallen...e.htm) - updates in HT world
○ (http://www.hagonline.org/#manual-chapter#id=12) - logged in users statistics
○ (http://www.flattermann.net/)
○ (http://hattricklinks.com/)
○ (http://www.introht.com/category/guia-basica/)
○ ...

5. Programs:

○ HO - (http://ho1.sourceforge.net/nightly/)
○ Cup Manager - (http://hattrick.cupmanager.org) - a popular website that helps you organizing private cups
○ Manager flags - (http://www.maptrick.org/)
○ logo - (http://www.says-it.com/seal/)
○ HAM (http://www.lokesoftware.dk/ham/index.htm)
○ Hattrick - Cupmanager (http://www.databased.at/hattrick/cupmanager/)

Tables:
○ Tabletrick - (http://wiki.hattrick.org/wiki/Tabletrick)
○ OpenTableTrick - (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/pro...Trick)
○ Table Generator - (http://nrgjack.altervista.org/table.php)
○ HatTables - (http://hattick.wetpaint.com/page/HatTables+%2...sh%29)
○ Excel table on forums - (http://cid-db7e4b3c83cf5ba5.skydrive.live.com...8.xla)

2D match viewer:
○ HTPLUS - (http://www.htplus.info/htplus/index.php)

6. Statistics:

○ (http://alltid.org/)
○ (http://www.hattristics.org/pub/) - cards, special events, chances etc.
○ (http://www.htstats.com/)
○ HattriX-Ray (http://www.databased.at/hattrick/x-ray)

7. Mozilla Firefox add-ons

○ (http://www.ht-foxtrick.com/forum/portal.php)
○ (http://alltid.org/new-alltid-firefox-extension-v20)
○ (http://www.aldeaglobal.net/psicotsi/)

8. Google Chrome - fast web browser, with incorporated online translator (helpful to read other HT countries' conferences).
○ (http://www.google.com/chrome)
○ psicotsi (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/90921)
○ (http://www.ht-foxtrick.com/forum/portal.php)

Hattrick Denominations and frequent abbreviations

2010-06-08T10:40:00.001-07:00

A
AiM - Attack in the Middle
AoA - All out Attack
AoW - Attack on Wings

B
BP - Ball possession

C
CA - counter attack
CD - central defender

D
def - defensive
Deffor - defensive forward

E

F
FF - Firefox
FU - Financial update
FtW/FTW - Forward to wing
FW - Forward

G
GK - Goalkeeper

H
HT - Hattrick

I
IM - inner midfielder

J

K

L

M
Mid - Midfield
Mots/MOTS - Match of the season

N

O
off - offensive
oIM/oDef - offensive inner midfielder/defender etc.

P
PA - Press announcement
PM - playmaking or private message (= HT-Mail)
PIC - Play it Cool
PS - Passing

Q

R
RG - Regainer

S
SE - Special event

T
TL - Transfer list or training level
TM - Transfer market
TO - Thread opener
TS - Team spirit
TSI - Total Skill Index

U

V

W
W - Winger
WB - wing back
WO - walkover
WtM - Winger to the middle

X
XP - Experience

Y
YA - Youth Academy
YP - Youth Pull

Z

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Of course there are also other abbreviations used in Hattrick's forums, quite some of them are not specific to Hattrick, like "imho", "lol" or others. A list with some of them can be found here: (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Inte...words).

Various stuff

2010-06-08T10:39:00.001-07:00

1. Hattrick and random?
You have to understand that this game does not go without a certain amount of random. It's a part of the game and you need to live with it.
Don't forget that Hattrick is to be considered as game based on probabilities in many cases (especially when it comes to the match calculation).

2. I have no idea how to proceed! What should I do?
Don't hit the panic button and ask yourself calmly how you can solve the problem. If it's a game-related question that hasn't been solved by this thread, you should and have to ask! It's a pleasure for a lot of experienced managers to help you.

3. Achievements? What's that?
Achievements are not related to the core game. You get a new achievement if you do something special. For instance: a certain number of stars in a match, a certain fanclub size, a certain "average" match rating, and so on.
Don't ruin your team for this.

4. What happens if an injured player is in the lineup? Will there be a substitution or will there be one player less on the pitch?
There will be a substitution at the beginning of the match (if there is one available on the bench).

5. A piece of advice to those who want to spend much more time here:
A few of the tips given above concerning training won't work for you if you got more ambitions than a normal manager, if you want to invest more than an hour per day. For this very reason it might come in useful to ask yourself how ambitious you really are and how much time you really want to invest.
Well, if you count yourself amongst the very ambitious managers, you should start gathering information about trading, skill trading, subskills, estimating the subskills from TSI and wage and think about unconventional training types. The key to success can be found in the precise knowledge about and the constant observation of the transfer market.

Link collection

2010-06-08T10:38:00.001-07:00

(http://wiki.hattrick.org)
Hattrick's official Wiki

(http://alltid.org/)
An endless number of statistics

(http://www.tulospalvelu.biz/calendar/index.php)
The week at Hattrick

(http://www.aldeaglobal.net/psicotsi/lang-en.htm)
Another sub skill tool, available for Firefox only

(http://mikehell.kicks-ass.net/ht-dog/index.jsp)
HT-Dog, discover the opponent's strengths and weaknesses

(http://ffa.anthes.org/tools/transfer.htm)
The FFA's transfer tool

(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/3962/perfo...1.jpg)
The influence of form on player performance

(http://coninstal.go.ro/studiu_suporteri.html)
Fanclub's growth in relation to supporter mood and division (in Romanian, but she be more or less easy to understand)

(http://home1.stofanet.dk/donkjaer/)
More info on Hattrick's economic evolution

(http://hattrick-db.ch.vu/)
Hattrick database

(http://foxtrick.px.cz/)
Foxtrick (Firefox browser is required)

(http://www.tomattrick.org/)
Online tool

(http://www.slothen.dk/ht/)
A few statistics

(http://www.manager.brygge.dk/Hattrick/experienc...)
A study about experience gains

(http://iht.smdesign.es/node/201)
A study about the stamina training share needed depending on the players' age

(http://www.databased.at/hattrick/htpe/pages/s...s.asp)
A study on the transfer activity (updated daily)

(http://www.hattrickorganizer.net/)
Probably Hattrick's most popular tool

(http://www.lokesoftware.dk/ham/index.htm)
Yet another tool, one of the oldest on the market

(http://hattrickcontrol.asconet.ro/html/englis...s.htm)
Got a need for some tool?

(http://www.esnips.com/web/matchp)
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/7351800/midfieldpredi...)
Sule_'s midfield prediction tool

(http://hem.passagen.se/hammervald/abc_of_tact...x.htm)
ABC of tactics. Good for starters, but it's not maintained anymore which means: use with a lot of caution

(http://www.arenaoptimizer.es/)
A useful tool if you want to expand your arena, using pretty new knowledge

(http://www.databased.at/hattrick/x-ray/index.asp)
The X-Files tools at databased

(http://www.databased.at/hattrick/htpe/)
A tool for transfer comparisons, with more statistics on the transfer

(http://www.maptrick.org)
Statistics about the evolution of user numbers

(http://www.hattristics.org/pub/index.php)
More statistics

(http://www.ht-league.com/)
Even more statistics

(http://www.databased.at/hattrick/search/)

Friendly pool

2010-06-08T10:37:00.001-07:00

1. Where can I find it?
You need to click on "My Club" then go to "Senior Team" and finally to "Challenges".

2. How to become a member of it?
Follow the path described in question 1 and then click on "Add your team to pool"

3. Can I select any criteria?
Yes. "Any" is selected as a default for all criteria. You can define the following things:
- national or international friendly
- home or away (or "any")
- cup rules or normal rules

4. I'm a Hattrick Supporter. Can I search using more criteria than normal users?
Yes, as a supporter you will be able to select the country of your opponent and even his division.
You can also browse the pool.

5. Is it possible to remove my team from the pool?
Yes, it's possible. You just need to click on "Remove from pool". You will find the button at the same place where you added your team to the pool.

6. I'm still playing in the cup. Can I add my team to the pool nevertheless?
No, that's not possible.

7. I want to add my team to the pool, but it seems it's impossible right now. Why?
Did you already check if your team is currently playing a match? If that's the case, try again later.

8. I'm a Hattrick Supporter and I can't become a member of the pool. I can't even browse it. Why?
Did you already check if your team is currently playing a match? If that's the case, try again later.

9. I'm a Hattrick Supporter, which gives me the option "Possible to challenge", and I've added my team to the pool. Will unchecking "Possible to challenge" prevent the pool from matching me to another team?
No, it won't. Those are two different pairs of shoes. You need to remove your team from the pool.

10. I added my team to the pool and a friendly was arranged automatically. Do I need to add my team to the pool again next week in order to get an automatically arranged friendly match?
Yes, you need to. Your team has been automatically removed when the friendly match was arranged by the system.

11. I'm a Hattrick Supporter and have been browsing the friendly pool. I've clicked on the "Book" button and now I got to play against some team despite not wanting it. Can this error be reverted?
No, impossible. Watch out: there's also no confirmation box when clicking that button!

12. Is there a pool for youth academy teams as well?
Yes.

13. Are there bot teams available in the pool?
No.

14. Someone has added his team to the pool and it matches to the criteria I chose, but it also matches to another club searching with the same criteria. Who will get the friendly?
Out of a few team that entered the pool with the same criteria, the team that entered the pool first will get the friendly once another club fulfilling these criteria pops up.

Team spirit and Confidence - Part 2

2010-06-08T10:36:00.001-07:00

5. Confidence?
Your team's confidence has an influence over your team's attack ratings in a match. Your (team's) confidence changes after a competition match in relation to the match's result.
At each economy update, the confidence drops or climbs a bit towards decent. Sport psychologists can improve confidence.

6. Help! My team underestimates the opponent. What's going on?
It could happen that your team underestimates the opponent in a league match. This is possible when your opponent is placed 5 or more positions below your team in the league table. Underestimating the opponent lowers your midfield rating by one third. Underestimating can happen when your confidence is decent or higher. The higher your team's confidence is, the more you risk that your guys underestimate the opponent.

Team spirit and confidence - Part 1

2010-06-08T10:35:00.001-07:00

1. Team spirit? What's that?
High team spirit means higher midfield rating. Low team spirit means lower midfield rating.
The neutral value for team spirit is "composed". If your team spirit is above this value, it tends to drop back to "composed" slowly. If your team spirit is below this value, it tends to climb back to "composed" slowly.
The further away from the neutral it is, the faster the dropping back to the neutral value is.
The team spirit is reset to the neutral value before the start of a new season, no matter what the team spirit was at the end of the finished season.

2. How can I boost my team spirit?
There's only one really reasonable way for this, playing one or more competition games with the "play it cool" option.
There's also the possibility to lower the training level, but this solution leads to a few new problems. Your players will train less fast, their form can drop dramatically (the probability for this is pretty high) and naturally, when raising the training level again, the team spirit will drop.

3. Team spirit droped. What happened?
Well, there are a few possibilities why this could have happened:
- you recently played a match using "Match of the Season", this options reduces your team spirit by half
- you did one or more transfers
- you raised the training level
- team spirit encountered a normal drop as a few daily updates passed and your team spirit was above the neutral value

4. Pic? Mots? What the hell are you people speaking about!?
Both are options for competition games
"Pic" is the abbrevation for "Play it cool". Playing it cool raises your team spirit by one third. Playing it cool lowers your midfield rating for that match.
"Mots" is the abbrevation for "Match of the Season". Playing the match of the season lowers your team spirit by half. Playing match of the season boosts your midfield rating for that match.

Form

2010-06-08T10:34:00.001-07:00

1. What's that actually?
Your player has got some skills. The form determines how good he can make use of them. If a player is in bad form, he will not be of a great help during a match.

2. My players' form is bad! What should I do?
- each player should play once a week
- raise the training level, in case it's not at 100% yet
- recruit more assistant coaches (but watch out to have not more than 10, assistant and goalkeeping coaches combined!)
- maybe you need a coach with better trainer abilities (unless he's not solid already)
- hope for better days, there's a certain random factor which you can't influence
- maybe you have set a high stamina share (above 20% for instance), if that's the case try lowering it

3. General (Form) is probably the solution to all my form problems, right?
No, it's not a solution, as it only influences form only for a short time, and it's very likely form goes down again after switching to another training type.

Arena

2010-06-08T10:33:00.001-07:00

1. Should I expand my arena?
No, not at the beginning. This will only be required later on, once your fanclub has grown and once your club stands on solid ground economically speaking. You only need to expand your arena once it's regularly sold out.

2. I have a home match. Can I predict the number of spectators?
A precise prediction is not possible in any case, there are too many factors, for instance: your own fanclub's size, your fans' mood, weather, your opponent's fanclub size, his fanclub's mood.
If it's late in the season, there will be more spectators as well.

3. I really want to expand my arena, is there an ideal way to expand your stadium?
No, such a "key" doesn't exist (anymore).

A few seasons ago many managers used this key:
Terraces 62,5%
Basic seating 25%
Seats under roof 10%
Seats in VIP boxes 2,5%

However that key wasn't "correct" as well.

A recent study: (http://brun.dk/hattrick/index.php?content=15&...glish) lead to some interesting conclusion about possible seat distributions

	Rain	Overcast	Partially Cloudy	Sunny
Terraces	53,397	58,7545	61,4506	62,5511
Basic seating	19,1039	23,3825	25,5859	26,5347
Seats under roof	24,8879	15,5593	10,6448	8,6345
Seats in VIP boxes	2,6112	2,3036	2,3187	2,2796

As you can see the distribution is strongly related to the weather. You will need to find out by yourself which distribution suits the most for your club.
There's no best stadium size per fan. In most cases the expansion aims to have a total number of seats between 10 and 22 times the team's fanclub. A lot depends on the success you're aiming for and there's no patent remedy.

More information about the stadium expansion can be found here as well: (http://wiki.hattrick.org/Arena#Stadium_Expans...ories).
You will find an interesting tool here also: (http://www.arenaoptimizer.es/).

4. How long does it take to expand my stadium?
The more seats you build, the longer it takes. Roughly said/seen:
up to 5.000.000 rial: 7 daily updates
up to 15.000.000 rial: 8 updates
up to 25.000.000 rial: 9 updates
etc.
Also, before doing any expansion you can also request a (free) proposal telling you how many days the expansion could take.

5. When will an expansion start to be profitable?
Some time ago people said on this subject: "On average within 2 seasons, after 14 home matches sold out".
But of course, this largely depends on how many and which seatings you build.

With the new costs/prices, an expansion is profitable much earlier.
Let's pick an example. 10,000 additional seats using the key provided in question number 3: 6,250 terraces, 2,500 basic seating, 1,000 seats under roof and 250 seats in VIP boxes. Such an expansion would cost 643,750 US$.
The construction of each of this seats cost 63.375 US$ on average. Maintenance costs per week are 0.65 US$ and the average entry fee is 8.55 US$ - both are average values. You'd make profits after 9 home matches were sold out (one complete season + at least 2 additional weeks), taking construction and maintenance costs under consideration. Cup matches at home shorten this time span of course.

Finances

2010-06-08T10:32:00.003-07:00

1. Are there some basic principles?
There's not one way to go, but there are for sure a lot of things you have to consider.
- try to break even on the two weeks balance (one week with a home and one week with an away match in your league) pretty quickly. It's not possible right from the start, but the figures will get better soon.
- avoid debt, interest on debt can kill your team
- avoid wasting money on useless stuff
- maybe you're terrified enough to buy a player right before a match without thinking much at it and maybe it will even help you winning, but it can leave a big dent in your budget and it's even likely it's not a reinforcement on the long run - thinking a lot before doing a transfer is the better idea
- don't recruit more staff than you really need
- expanding your arena is not required right from the start (see also (14104108.18) on this matter)
- use your common sense a lot!

2. I'm in debt. Help!
You need at least a break even on the two weeks balance (one week with a home and one week with an away match in your league) as soon as possible. This can be reached by reducing your spendings and expenses at the most. Some hints:
- sell players, even top players, when it can help you to get rid of your debt
- recruit accountants if the debt is too high (you will find more on the number of accountants that should be recruited in the "Staff" chapter of this guide)
- stop investing in any kind of youth programme (in case you haven't done it yet)
- fire staff (on the accountants: see two hints above), maybe even all of them, don't forget it will cost you 180.000 rial to fire one of them, which means you will stop paying their week until one week after having fired them
- reduce your squad to a minimum of players. Buying new players is always possible later again. Don't hesitate to fire your golfers (the players that will cost you more to transferlist them than the money you would get from the transfer itself, if the player would ever be bought).
- You don't need a substitute goalkeeper. You can for example put your coach as a substitute or as a regular goalkeeper during the friendly matches. Remember that goalkeepers have higher wages than normal field players
- don't play friendlies in foreign countries. Invite foreign teams playing since a long time (and possibly playing in higher divisions as well) to your arena, use cup rules.
- If you already have trainees that received quite some training before check the transfer compare to see what they are worth (don't ask in the forum, it's forbidden!). Maybe there's some hidden value there (remark: the transfer compare is not always correct, having a look at (http://www.databased.at/hattrick/htpe/) as well is never a bad idea)

Always watch your money and try to break even in the two weeks balance mentioned above.

You should also think at an economic plan. It would be time to make one, if you've not done so yet. Don't forget: Never spend money until you have it!

Transfers

2010-06-08T10:32:00.001-07:00

1. Should I quickly buy some players now?
No! That's probably one of the worst things a new manager could make. You should think at other possible acquisitions only when you've already worked out a training concept, changed your coach and finally you should already have bought your trainees. Don't buy players just because you want to have them.

2. Should I pay attention at the players' wage?
Oh yes! Many new managers did already buy a player for (much) less than 20.000.000 rial who then popped out to have an enormous primary skill and made their team go bankrupt very quickly as such players have very high wages.

3. Does it cost something to transferlist a player?
Yes, 100.000 rial

4. Where can I put my transfer ads?
Transfer ads are forbidden by the forum rules (which you can find here:(/Help/Rules/HRForum.aspx).

5. I'm buying my own player right now. Will it cost me something?
Yes, you will have to pay the usual fees (which you won't get back), you will also pay the player an additional salary when buying him.

Stars

2010-06-08T10:31:00.001-07:00

1. Stars? Are they important?
Not primarily. Stars tell you something about the individual performance of a player and they allow you to draw comparisons between players playing on the same position. They don't allow you to compare a central midfielder with a defensive forward for example.
Skills matter much more important for your players.

2. I lost my last match, but my team's total number of stars was higher. What happened?
The match ratings are important. You can find them at the bottom of a match report. The number of stars isn't used for the calculation of the matches.
It's not always the best team that will win a match. That would be boring, wouldn't it?
Hattrick has no ambition to reproduce real life football 1:1. You should be aware that some things in Hattrick are completely different from what you happen to know from real life. A 28 year old player might be at the top in real life, but this can be seen as old in Hattrick. A player of that age won't learn much anymore from training.

3. What about stars in the old engine?
The old match engine (abolished since global season 34 for official matches, since global season 35 for all matches) only knew yellow stars. They were an indication for the players' performance at the end of a match (or at the moment of his substitution).

4. How do they work nowadays?
The yellow stars still give you an indication about the player's performance at the end of the match. However, stamina has a higher value these days (for positions on the pitch). This is reflected by the brown stars. Yellow and brown stars give you the average value of the player's performance (for the total time he stood on the pitch).

5. What exactly are stars telling about a player's exhaustion?
Excellent stamina isn't enough to play a match without losing performance.
A linear loss of performance starts at a certain moment, the exact moment is determined through the player's stamina level.

6. Can players recover during a match?
It happens during halftime and right before overtime (which can happen in cup matches and friendlies with cup rules). However, they recover just a tiny little bit. The effect of the rest is therefore soon consumed.

7. Why are there sometimes red and not brown stars?
In some really rare occasions a player's performance at the end of the match is better than his average performance through the match. A positive weather special event can help him compensate his fatigue. You will see red stars in such cases. The average performance is just the amount of yellow stars (unlike the normal case!), whilst the sum of yellow and red stars is the performance at the end of the match.

There is a short overview on the stars' functioning here: (http://digilander.libero.it/arosati76/stars.gif).

Orders

2010-06-08T10:30:00.003-07:00

1. What's the relation between the lineup and training?
The lineup should be made in accordance to the training type you chose.
If you chose scoring, then you will probably rather play with 3-4-3 and 4-3-3 in order to train a maximum of 6 forwards per week, which you couldn't with a 4-5-1 for instance.
If you chose playmaking as a training type, then you will rather rely on 3-5-2 and 4-5-1 than on 5-3-2 or something else.
Someone choosing defending will rather play with a 5-3-2 or a 5-4-1 or some other (legal) formation with 5 defenders. He will probably not play 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 (although he might choose 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 occasionally for league matches).

2. I'm sure there is a line-up superior to all others, right?
No, such a line-up does not exist.

3. When do tactics make sense?
It depends on your opponents. Tactics only make sense as well if your team is more or less optimised for them, for example concerning passing and special abilities. You can find more on tactics here: (/Help/Rules/Tactics.aspx)

4. Let's talk about the orders page: "offensive", "defensive" and plenty of other funny things are displayed there. What's that?
An offensive player contributes more to the offense, to the attack and the midfield that is. A defensive player will contribute more to the midfield or to the defence. A player playing towards the middle will contribute more to the central positions (inner defence for a wing back playing towards the middle and inner midfield for a winger playing towards the middle). A player playing towards wing will contribute to the outer areas. If a player has a certain individual order, the match ratings will change in favour of the areas he should pay more attention to. Example: An offensive inner midfield will contribute less to the defence and the inner midfield but more to the attack. See also the table "Individual orders" (/Help/Rules/IndividualOrders.aspx) which you can access through the chapter "Lineup: The basics" (/Help/Rules/LineupBasics.aspx)
You can also assign a player to another position, depending on his current position.

5. What about the opponent?
It's very likely your opponent is asking the same question. You have to learn to observe your opponent and to try to unveil his true intentions. For example you should check for the lineups played in the recent matches, for his overall lineup preferences. Maybe you can also guess what he's training, if ever he does. What sort of coach does he have and what are the coach's leadership abilities? Is the guy even logging in regularly? In short: you need to observe your opponent and you need to guess what will be his lineup against your team. The more you know, the better for you.

6. There is no way I'm going to win, what should I do?
Not having a chance at all happens very rarely, but nevertheless it happens from time to time that it's highly unlikely you will succeed. In such cases it can be very appropriate to use "Play it cool" in case the own coach's leadership abilities are high enough or in case the team spirit has been badly hurt recently.

7. Are there helpful tools for the lineup?
There are tools. Some even give you a rating prediction for your team, maybe they will even indicate you the chances of success. But, try to remember this sentence: "Never trust a tool!". Tools will never be using the Hattrick engine and they can only be seen as (good or bad) oracles after all.

8. Is it important to win my friendlies?
Except for bragging maybe? No. Results in friendlies don't matter. Note that red or yellow cards from friendlies don't matter as well.

Stamina

2010-06-08T10:30:00.001-07:00

1. Something important to read on this subject?
Yes. This editorial gives you a lot of details on stamina: (/MyHattrick/Editorials/default.aspx?EditorialID...) There is also a chapter worth to be read in this editorial: (/MyHattrick/Editorials/default.aspx?EditorialID...) .

2. Is there an ideal stamina training share
No such thing exists. Each squad has a different age structure and therefore other needs. You need to find out by yourself what the ideal stamina training share for your team. You need to play around a bit for this.
To sum it up: the stamina training share can be too high, but it can also be too low. Avoid both cases.

3. Are there some general guidelines then?
The stamina training share should be high enough to make sure your squad doesn't lose stamina constantly.
You need to find out by yourself how much of your total training should be dedicated to stamina training.
You will find a pretty developed (and lengthy) study on this matter here: (http://iht.smdesign.es/node/201).

4. What is influenced by stamina?
Stamina has an influence on a lot of areas.
a) Influences on matches
- Less stamina makes players getting tired faster
- A defender lacking stamina meeting a forward with lots of stamina could trigger a special event in favour of the forward.

b) Influences on training
- Each week you will dedicate a certain percentage of your total training to stamina training. (Skill) training will take longer when the share is higher.
- Age is important for stamina gains. Young players gain stamina without much trouble, but old guys take somewhat longer.
- Very low stamina values rise faster than high stamina values (supposing all other conditions are identical). However, this has low importance, as all youth players have at least weak stamina.

5. Who needs stamina the most?
All players need stamina as they would get tired during the course of a match otherwise. Especially midfielders and all other players contributing to the midfield (offensive defenders, defensive forwards and all kinds of wingers with playmaking, the latter ones especially when playing towards the middle) need stamina. On the other hand a goalkeeper needs less stamina.

Training types - Part 2

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7. Passing
Advantages:
- well-paid on the transfer market
- training is fast

Disadvantages:
- you need a lot of money to buy suitable trainees
- 16 players can be trained, but they need to be bought and their wages are not exactly low
- 2-5-3 is the only way to max out profit from training
- not suitable for newbies

8. Set pieces:
Advantages:
- total tactical freedom
- all field players are trained, there's a bonus of 25% for the set pieces taker and the goalkeeper (which means up to four players can get this bonus)

Disadvantages:
- you need to have quite some cash for this as you will need to buy 22 trainees (leave alone the eventual substitutes); all of them should have pretty high skills already
- team spirit and formation experience suffer a lot from the transfers
- not suitable for new managers

9. Stamina
Stamina used to be a training type on its own, but nowadays you can only dedicate a certain part of your training to stamina training.
More information on stamina training can be found here: (14104108.13).

10. Are there other training types?
Yes, but those are not suitable for new managers and in general only a few managers use them, as they are pretty complex or take a lot of time.

Training types - Part 1

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1. Goalkeeping:
Advantages:
- only two trainees. You will have more spare money to buy other players in order to reinforce your team
- absolute tactical freedom, you can play with any formation (but of course you should avoid the "weird" formations)
- fast money: within a season you'll be able to get money. You can use that money to immediately change towards another training type and buy the required trainees
- fair transfers: a goalkeeper's skill can always be checked via a suitable goalkeeping tool, knowing the exact skill sub-level is a good thing, as it can make kind of a difference on the transfer market
- fast skill ups

Disadvantages:
- less profit on the long run
- the team improves pretty slowly
- no really important part of the team is trained and the keeper doesn't even help your defence that much

2. Defending:
Advantages:
- cheap trainees
- from time to time you will be able to bring down a much stronger team (needs some tactical skill, though)
- Central defenders and wing backs get 100% of the training effect; this enables you to train up to 5 player per match and up to 10 per week

Disadvantages:
- Buying 10 good trainees can prove to be expensive
- Not much freedom on formations. If you want to take a maximum profit from training, you have to play 5-4-1 or 5-3-2. 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 are also possible for league matches, in which case you will only train 9 players.
- The slowest training type around
- Victories are more difficult to achieve. If you want to see many goals, you might end up bored.

3. Playmaking:
Advantages:
- reasonable profit
- reasonable training speed
- It's easier to win matches as your midfield is improved by this training type.
- 3-5-2 is the main formation for playmaking training and is also considered to be the best formation for most matches

Disadvantages:
- other secondary skills (Defending, passing or winger) are required to max out the profits
- trainees with secondary skills are expensive, especially since you need to buy 6 inner midfielders and 4 wingers. The first will get 100% of the training effect, the latter only about half as much as the first.

4. Scoring:
Advantages:
- only 6 trainees to care about
- pretty quick training
- improves your attack ratings

Disadvantages:
- little tactical flexibility: only 3-4-3 and 4-3-3 are available (otherwise at least one trainee out of six won't be trained), 5-2-3 only in very rare cases.
- serious trainees are expensive
- secondary skills are required (passing or winger) to max out the profit
- you will need to amass a serious midfield power by buying those players, which quite difficult for new teams.

5. Crossing (Winger)
Advantages:
- training is fast
- trainees are generally cheap (however, high profit is only possible if serious secondary skills are available, which makes buying trainees an expensive trip)
- high tactical flexibility (all formations can be used without killing a training spot)

Disadvantages:
- 4 Trainees (the wing backs) will only get about half of the effect of the training
- pretty complex training type: You won't be able to max out profits and to use tactical flexibility without sufficient experience as a manager

6. Wing attacks
Advantages:
- allows you to train more players than for crossing

Disadvantages:
- 10 trainees (which could cost you a bit)
- no tactical flexibility in case you want to max out training profits, you are "condemned" to play 3-4-3 (4-3-3 is also a vague possibility)
- takes more time than crossing

Training - Part 2

2010-06-08T10:25:00.001-07:00

8. Which players get skill training?
A player gets some training if he has played a match during the week preceding the training update. It does matter where the player played (it must have been on a position relevant for the training type), the number of minutes does matter as well. The full training effect is granted to the player if he has absolved 90 minutes on a relevant position.

9. My player received a red card/My player had to leave the pitch after receiving the second yellow card. Will he get trained nevertheless?
Yes, but only for the minutes he stood on the pitch, and naturally he must have played on a position relevant for the training type.

10. A player needed to be substituted due to an injury. Will he get his share of the training?
Yes, but only for the minutes he stood on the pitch, and naturally he must have played on a position relevant for the training type.

11. A player needed to be substituted due to an injury. Will the substitute get his share of the training?
Yes, but only for the minutes he stood on the pitch, and naturally he must have played on a position relevant for the training type.

12. My player had to leave the pitch due to a second yellow/a red card during the last league match. He played on a position relevant for the training. Does it make sense to make him play again on the same position during the upcoming friendly?
Yes, the minutes are added up. A total of 90 minutes can be accumulated. Example: you are training playmaking. The player had played 50 minutes as a central midfielder in the league match when he received a red card. Make him play at 40 minutes on the same position in the friendly right after this match and he'll be granted playmaking training for these 90 minutes, the maximum he could get that week.

13. General (Form). Does it make sense?
No, it doesn't improve your players' skills at all, except for the goalkeeper who gets a very tiny amount of goalkeeping training. It even likely it doesn't work wonders for the form (on the long run respectively when changing to another training type).
But, and there is always a but, general training can make sense when you are facing a really crucial match (don't worry yet, you won't have one very soon).

Training - Part 1

2010-06-08T10:24:00.001-07:00

1. Why is it so important to have some serious training ongoing?
Training your players has multiple advantages. For one it will strengthen the part of the team that is trained and for two the revenue after selling trained players will help you buy better players for your team. But most importantly it's your economic life insurance in Hattrick.

2. I'm a new user, are the training types that are particularly easy/useful for me?
Hattrick offers a large number of training types. The most suitable for new users are most likely: Scoring, Playmaking, Defending and, perhaps, Goalkeeping. Crossing is pretty complicated and permanent set pieces training needs founds that you, as new user, just don't have.

3. Who should be trained?
You will buy young players, your trainees, when they're between 17 and 19 years old and you will sell them after some seasons of permanent training. To be trained adequately they need to play on positions that are relevant for the kind of the training they should get.
Nothing prevents you from keeping those players, or some of them at the least, once you think their training is finished, and to train another part of your team.

4. Are friendly matches really important?
Oh yes, they are. They allow you to train more players per week, twice as many actually, and maybe even to gain a little extra money as well.

5. Which training level do I have to set?
Nobody forces you to set a certain level, but setting a level of 100% ensures that your players' form doesn't meet the freezing point and that you get a maximum of training out of your players.

6. Is there an ideal stamina training share?
Nope, such a thing doesn't exist. Each squad consists of other players and thus has other requirements than others, due to a different age structure in the team. You can read more on stamina here: (14104108.13).

7. Training speed depends on what?
- Trainer abilities
- Number of assistant/goalkeeper coaches
- Training level
- The age of the concerned player
- Current skill level
- Training type
- Number of minutes played on a training position during the week of the training
- The higher the stamina share, the lower the normal training

Staff - Part 2

2010-06-08T10:23:00.001-07:00

5. When is it useful to employ accountants?
Accountants can help you getting rid of your debt.
If your debt is worse than 20.000.000 rial (and won't go away quickly), you should think on recruiting one accountant. A second accountant can be recruited when you're more than 30.000.000 rial in the red.
Also, if you're very wealthy and lucky enough to possess more than 500.000.000 rial for some time, you can even get some interest out of it. Please note that it makes no sense to employ accountants for a very short time. By the way: if you employ more than 10 accountants, you will lose 10% of your current cash funds.

6. Assistant coaches and goalkeeper coaches, can you tell me more about those?
They increase the training speed and improve the team's average form. As you can only have 10 in total, you should, as soon as you can afford it, aim at a ratio between 8-2 and 10-0. Things are of course inverted for people choosing to train goalkeepers.
If the total of assistant and goalkeeper coaches exceeds 10, you risk losing your training and some team spirit. As a new user you will most likely have to settle down with a reduced number of assistant and goalkeeper coaches.

7. Got any use for physiotherapists?
They diminish the risk for injuries. Unluckily their real effects are unknown. This is why you should only employ 1 or 2 at the beginning. The others will have to wait until you finances allow you to pay their weekly wages. Having more than 10 physiotherapists will ruin your youth (youth academy not affected).

8. There are sport psychologists available. Are my players that unstable?
Well, psychologists affect your team's self-confidence. According to the manual they have a certain effect on the team spirit as well, but to which amount remains unknown.
Psychologists' effect can only be seen right after competitive games and during the weekly economy update. You can find more information about confidence here: (14104108.20).

9. Now, let's talk about doctors. How can they help my players?
Employing doctors will increase the healing rate of injured players. If you have more than 10 doctors, you will most likely see the supporter's mood fall down.
There are numerous healing calculators, not all are really accurate (some use older formulas). Here is one you can use: (http://www.ht-box.ru/healing.php?age=22&inj=5...13610).

Staff - Part 1

2010-06-08T10:22:00.001-07:00

1. What's the use of staff?
Each staff member has a certain effect on some part of your team. If you recruit more staff members of a certain type, their total effect will increase, but every additional staff member's effect is lower than the effect of the one recruited previously.

2. How much will they cost me?
Each staff member earns 180.000 rial a week. Firing one will cost you an additional 180.000 rial, recruiting a staff member is free of costs. One hint: when firing a staff member, you should do it right before that week's economy update, to savour his effects for a maximum of time.

3. How many staff members should I recruit?
In theory you can hire as many of them as your finances allow, but either way it's pretty nonsense (in most cases) to have more than ten staff members of a certain type.
Note that assistant and goalkeeper coaches are added up, so don't employ more than a total of 10 there (8 assistant coaches and two goalkeeper coaches for instance), otherwise you will risk losing that week's training.
As you might be guessing, it can be very harmful for your team if you recruit more than ten staff members of a certain type.

4. What are these spokespersons good for?
They have a positive effect on your sponsors and your fan's mood. Your sponsors' payments depend on the size of your fanclub and on the sponsors' mood. If you have more than 10 spokespersons, your sponsors' mood can drop.
More information on sponsors can be found here: (http://wiki.hattrick.org/Sponsors) and here: (http://wiki.hattrick.org/Spokesperson).

Coach

2010-06-08T10:21:00.001-07:00

1. What is the use of the trainer abilities?
The trainer abilities are the most important training parameter. Higher trainer's abilities lead to a much faster training. Also the squad's average form is depending a lot on the trainer abilities.

2. Are the leadership abilities of any use?
They determine how fast the team spirit converges back to the neutral value (composed, 4.5). If the team spirit lies below the neutral value, higher leadership abilities will lead to a faster increase of the team spirit. If the team spirit lies above the neutral value, high leadership abilities prevents the team spirit from falling down too fast.

3. A coach needs some experience, right?
No, the experience doesn't matter for a coach. It's only important when you appoint one of your players as your new coach.

4. Does the coach need any other skills?
No, not really. The other skills don't matter at all for the training.

5. Is there any kind of special wage for the coach?
No, just as any other player he will be paid for his skills. However, coaches normally have a low wage because in most cases the coaches have low or non existent skills.

6. How can I get a new coach?
There are two possibilities for this. You can buy an external coach or appoint one of your players as a new coach. If you appoint one of your own players, he needs to fulfill certain requirements, as explained below.

7. Should my coach be defence-minded, fond of attacking or neither attack nor defence-minded?It depends on the training concept you choose (an offensive coach is perhaps more suitable for a team training defending, since the defence is strengthened due to training, and the other way round) and on your personal preferences. There's no patent remedy for this issue.

[Required here: statistical data in English showing the effects of the different training types, I've got only one in German on some external site...]

8. I want to appoint one of my players as a new coach. How can I do that?
First of all, this way to recruit a coach should only interest once you're required to rely on team spirit management in a more regular manner. It's also of no use to appoint one of your players as a coach when the player's leadership abilities are weak or even lower. You will only start saving lots of money from passable leadership on (but there can already be a small benefit for inadequate leadership, yet it's not much).
Experience matters when you appoint a player as your coach. A higher experience results in a cheaper conversion (leadership abilities don't matter for the price of this). The trainer abilities can't be higher than the player's experience at the moment of the conversion. A player with passable experience can be converted to a player with passable trainer abilities, not to one with solid trainer abilities, though.
Please notice that the player must have been a member of your squad for 16 weeks (112 days) previously.

9. Is it possible to improve the coaches or one of the player's leadership abilities?
No, that's impossible.

10. My coach is out of commission due to an injury. Will it hurt my training?
No, it has no consequences for the training.

Manager Licence Challenge - Part 2

2010-06-08T10:20:00.001-07:00

Challenge 9: "Joining a forum" - 1.000.000 rial
You have finished that challenge if you can read this sentence.

Challenge 10: "Bid on a player" - 1.500.000 rial
It doesn't matter if you buy the player or not (you shouldn't before you've not established a plan, see the earlier messages in this thread). It's enough to just bid on a player once and you will have passed the challenge.

Challenge 11: "Checking match results" - 1.000.000 rial
It might seem strange to you, but you don't have to wait until the match is finished. Just go to "My Club" and click on your last match on the "Matches" page.

Challenge 12: "Transfer listing a player" - 1.500.000 rial
Try selling a player (try avoiding to transfer list a high profile player, though). It doesn't matter if someone buys him or not.

Challenge 13: "Choosing training type" - 1.000.000 rial
Go to the "Training" page and choose another training type.

Challenge 14: "Placing a new match order" (4-4-2) - 1.000.000 rial
Change the line-up for your next match. You can't use the same match than the one you used for challenge 8 and other players must be used as well.

Challenge 15: "Fill in your details" - 2.000.000 rial
You need to fill in some personal data which will then be checked by the GameMasters (GM). It can take up to a few days until the GMs have checked them. Once the check has been successfully passed, you can do more stuff on the matches page (you will be able to change the tactics and the players' individual orders).

Challenge 16: "Read about Hattrick Supporter" - 1.000.000 rial
Click on "Help", then on "About Hattrick".

Challenge 17: "Getting Hattrick Credits" - 1.000.000 rial
You need to visit the Shop and "buy" three Hattrick Credits. You can "buy" them for yourself or for another manager. It won't cost you anything.

Challenge 18: "Changing formation" - 1.000.000 rial
To be successful at this challenge, you need to set a formation that differs from the default 4-4-2 formation. After accomplishing challenge 15, you can set individual orders for any player (except the goalkeeper of course). To change the formation, you need to give at least one of your players the individual order to play as an extra central defender or central midfielder or forward. Don't forget to save the line-up! You can't use one of the matches you used to accomplish challenges 8 and 14.

Challenge 19: Quiz - 650.000 rial

Challenge 20: Quiz - 650.000 rial

Challenge 21: Quiz - 650.000 rial

Challenge 22: Quiz - 650.000 rial

Challenge 23: Quiz - 700.000 rial

Challenge 24: Quiz - 700.000 rial

Manager Licence Challenge - Part 1

2010-06-08T10:19:00.001-07:00

1. Manager Licence Challenge - what's that supposed to be?
You get a certain amount of money for each finished challenge. After finishing all the challenges, your initial budget will have grown to 30.000.000 rial.

2. Do I really have to finish that boring Manager Licence Challenge?
You won't be able to enjoy Hattrick to the full extent without the completion of the Manager Licence Challenge. Completing the licence challenges will also help you to get a better game knowledge. The following paragraphs and the next message will present you an overview of the challenges. They will also show you how much money you will get by completing the challenge successfully.

Challenges:

Challenge 1: "Naming your arena" - 500.000 rial
Easy one. Go to the "Arena" page via the "My Club" menu and change the name of your arena.

Challenge 2: "Promoting a youth player" - 500.000 rial
Easy one as well. Go to your team via the "My Club" menu and pull a youth player.

Challenge 3: "Checking finances" - 1.000.000 rial
Just check the "Finances" page and you're done with this one as well.

Challenge 4: "Checking your players" - 1.000.000 rial
Just visit the "Players" page.

Challenge 5: "Hire a staff member" - 1.000.000 rial
Go to the "Staff" page via the "My Club" and hire one new staff member (Perhaps an assistant coach?).

Challenge 6: "Searching for other users, teams, etc." - 1.000.000 rial
Click on "World", then on "Search" and search for a team, a league, a manager, etc.

Challenge 7: "Booking a friendly" - 1.500.000 rial
You have to accept a challenge (you can do that by clicking on "My Club" and then by checking for challenges on the "Challenges" page) or to challenge someone for a friendly match. In the second case you need to wait until of the people you challenged accepts your challenge.

Challenge 8: "Placing orders for a match" (4-4-2) - 2.500.000 rial
You can only pass this challenge once challenge 7 has been completed. If a friendly match has been arranged, you need to set a line-up on the "Matches" page and, most importantly, you shouldn't forget to save that line-up.

Mistakes to avoid

2010-06-08T10:18:00.003-07:00

1. Should I do some random transfers?
No, you should better not do that. Doing transfers without thinking much is a good way to get your team into debts and to leave the game by going bankrupt. You probably don't want to risk that.
Better get a training concept first and only buy players after that (you still shouldn't waste for any kind of player that crosses your mind).
If you're club's in debt, you might find some tips here: (14104108.17).

2. I'm playing with 4 central midfielders/central defenders/forwards. It's probably a good idea, isn't it?
No, it's not. Of course on a pure technical way it's possible and it might make you win, but you should be aware that the training for that week is wasted. Why? You mustn't have more than 3 players on a central position at the same time. You're allowed to have maximum of 3 central defenders at the same time on the pitch (the same goes for central midfielders and for forwards).

3. I didn't set a line-up in my last match/I put less than 9 players on the pitch for the last match. I lost 0:5. Will it have bad consequences for me?
Yes. The training for that week is wasted.

4. I'm spending money for the youth scouting/youth academy. I'm sure it's good thing, because the future belongs to the youth, right?The basic idea isn't that bad, since you're going to give training to young players in your senior squad. But, when investing money in any kind of youth system, you should think on the fact that this is an investment you'll have to do every week in order to get some benefit (and even then it's not granted for sure). It's a lot of money for a new team. It's money that should rather be invested into training or player material for the senior team, or money that should be kept as a reserve until your team gets the first revenues from training.
A youth academy will cost you 1.000.000 rial on a weekly basis and you'll have to keep your youth academy open for six week before you can close (and you can only close it when you're not in a youth league, otherwise you got to wait even longer).

5. Forum behaviour, what's that?
This thread, in case you've not noticed, has been placed into the Questions (English) forum. It's a public forum, just as all national forums for instance. There are rules for all those and you should abide by them. The general forum rules can be found here: (/Help/Rules/HRForum.aspx) (public forums can have specific rules, so watch out for the forum stickies if there are).

As said, there are rules and you should respect that. If you do it, you won't get bad surprises. If you open a thread in the questions forum, you should do it in a polite and respectful manner. The people answering you are players just like you and they're spending some of their time on a volunteer basis, just to help you.

6. Are standard setups important?
If you don't have a standard line-up, you're risking to play a match with less than 9 players. That shouldn't happen without having a standard setup naturally, since a good manager is logging in regularly and knows what's going on in his team, but sometimes real life can upset your plans and it could happen that you can't access Hattrick before the match starts (perhaps Hattrick is down? Or your phone line has been cut all of a sudden by that gang digging a hole in front of your window?)
Tip: Each time you save your line-up, check the box next to "Make this the standard setup". That way your last working line-up is also your default setup.

First steps

2010-06-08T10:18:00.001-07:00

1. I've received my team just a few moments ago. What should I do now?
You should make yourself a plan on how to proceed in Hattrick. It's not a good idea to throw all your money on the transfer market and to spend it all on players. Hattrick is a marathon and not a sprint. Learn from other managers and use the questions forum.

2. I need to complete the manager licence, but I don't really get it. Can you tell me more on this?
More information: (14104108.4) + (14104108.5).

3. I want to do some first reasonable steps now. Tell me more!
You should and have to take a deep look at your team. Which players do you have? In what part of your team are there young? Is there a part of your team that has got strong players? Which part of the initial team was served the worst players? What's the general stamina of your boys?

Once you've done that, you should think on what kind of training type you want to go for (you can find an overview on the most common training types and general remarks on training a bit later in this thread).
This is perhaps also the moment where you might want to look out for a CHPP tool to help you a little bit (but that's not a must, it's possible to play Hattrick without one!). You can find some here: (14104108.23).

4. My coach... should I sack him and get a new one?
Your first coach is normally not even worth being called a coach. This is why you should spend money for the first time on something, you should actually buy a new coach. Most managers start with buying an external coach, with passable as a trainer skill and poor leadership abilities. The leadership abilities of this guy don't matter yet, as they're only important when you start using Match of the season (mots) and play it cool (pic) more often and in a more strategic way. So, reasonable leadership abilities would just be a waste of money right now. Both, passable trainer skill and poor leadership abilities, are not a must, but as written, most people start with this combination.
Some people also think that one should first finish the Manager Licence Challenge and then buy a coach with solid coach abilities and poor leadership. It's a matter of taste and a possibility as well. If you do this and if you're playing in a low division: watch your money afterwards.

5. What now?
At this point you will normally have found a training type for your team. You should have gone through the questions you can read in point 3 of this message as well. Now it's time to get some suitable trainees (young players that can be trained). You can find them on the transfer market. But be careful and don't buy everything that crosses your way!
More details about the trainees can be found in this message: [message=].

6. Stamina?
The normal initial squad is suffering from bad stamina values. Once you've picked a training type and bought the trainees, you should think on a strategy to get all those players (the old ones that you haven't sacked or sold and the new ones that you've bought) reasonable stamina values. It's most likely a good idea to set a high stamina training share for the first couple of training updates and then lower it after those are through. You have to find out yourself what's the best percentage for that. This is because it's different for each team, just as for the "final" stamina value.

7. Are there other (really important!) things that I should read as soon as possible?
Yes. You should absolutely read the manual (/Help/Rules/). Not everything can be found there and you need to read between the lines in many cases, but reading is absolutely essential.
If you're up to read more than the normal newbie, then you'll find some interesting stuff here: (14104108.27). Be sure to have read everything else before.

Best Specialties For Positions

2010-05-28T07:35:00.001-07:00

I just want to get everyones opinion on best specialities for a given position and why. My current preferred order list is:

Defenders
Powerful
-gain some Scoring(not really important), Defending and Playmaking in the rain
-According to hattristics the positive effect from weather happens 30% of all rain matches
-lose some Scoring(not really important) in the sun
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 16% of all sun matches
-lose more stamina in the sun, can have a negative effect
-improves pressing tactic
Unpredictable(Assuming has high defending)
-sufficient defending eliminates negative effect
-good passing can create chance
-According to hattristics the negative event being converted for DEFs is 1.1% (~1/99 matches)
-According to hattristics the positive event for DEFs chance of happening is 2.7% (~1/37 matches)
-According to hattristics the conversion rate for this event is 54.8% (~1/67.5 matches)
Head
-improves chance of scoring on a SP
-can have negative effect from Technical wingers and forwards
-each add. adds about 7% avg chance for a header event
-each add. reduces about .5% avg chance for opponent a header event
Quick(Do not recommend)
-can stop quick event from wingers and forwards
-lose some Scoring and Defending in rain
-lose some Defending in sun
-According to hattristics the negative effect for defenders from weather is 20.1% (1/5 matches)
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 30% of all rain matches
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 17% of all sun matches

IM
Technical
-gain some Scoring(not really important) and Playmaking in sun
-lose some Scoring(not really important) and Playmaking in rain
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 31% of all rain matches
-According to hattristics the positive effect from weather happens 32% of all sun matches
Head
-improves chance of scoring on a SP
-can have negative effect from Technical wingers and forwards
-each add. adds about 7% avg chance for a header event
-each add. reduces about .5% avg chance for opponent a header event
Powerful
-gain some Scoring(not really important), Defending and Playmaking in the rain
-According to hattristics the positive effect from weather happens 30% of all rain matches
-lose some Scoring(not really important) in the sun
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 16% of all sun matches
-lose more stamina in the sun, can have a negative effect
-improves pressing tactic
Quick
-can stop quick event from wingers and forwards
-lose some Scoring(not really important) and Defending in rain
-lose some Defending in sun
-According to hattristics the negative effect for IMs from weather is 19.2% (~1/5 matches)
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 30% of all rain matches
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 17% of all sun matches
Unpredictable
-good passing can create chance
-According to hattristics the negative event being converted for DEFs is 2.5% (~1/40 matches)
-According to hattristics the positive event for DEFs chance of happening is 3.4% (~1/34 matches)
-According to hattristics the conversion rate for this event is 55.9% (~1/60.8 matches)

WI
Technical
-create chances if an opposing defender or inner midfielder is a head specialist
-gain some Scoring(not really important) and Playmaking in sun
-lose some Scoring(not really important) and Playmaking in rain
Head
-improves chance of scoring on a SP
-can have a positive effect from winger event
-each add. adds about 7% avg chance for a header event
-each add. reduces about .5% avg chance for opponent a header event
Quick
-can create quick event
-lose some Scoring(not really important) and Defending in rain
-lose some Defending in sun
-According to hattristics the negative effect for WIs from weather is 18.9% (~1/5 matches)
-According to hattristics the positive effect for WIs chance of happening is 15.3% (~1/6.75 matches)
-According to hattristics the conversion rate for this event is 60.6% (~1/11.14 matches)
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 30% of all rain matches
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 17% of all sun matches
Powerful
-gain some Scoring(not really important), Defending and Playmaking in the rain
-According to hattristics the positive effect from weather happens 30% of all rain matches
-lose some Scoring(not really important) in the sun
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 16% of all sun matches
-lose more stamina in the sun, can have a negative effect
-improves pressing tactic
Unpredictable
-good passing can create chance
-According to hattristics the negative event being converted for WIs is 0%
-According to hattristics the positive event for WIs chance of happening is 5.6% (~1/18 matches)
-According to hattristics the conversion rate for this event is 43.8% (~1/41 matches)

FW
Technical
-create chances if an opposing defender or inner midfielder is a head specialist
-gain some Scoring and Playmaking in sun
-lose some Scoring and Playmaking in rain
Head
-improves chance of scoring on a SP
-can have a positive effect from winger event
-each add. adds about 7% avg chance for a header event
-each add. reduces about .5% avg chance for opponent a header event
Quick
-can create quick event
-lose some Scoring and Defending(not really important) in rain
-lose some Defending(not really important) in sun
-According to hattristics the negative effect for FWs from weather is 14.6% (~1/7 matches)
-According to hattristics the positive effect for FWs chance of happening is 16.2% (~1/6.25 matches)
-According to hattristics the conversion rate for this event is 81.7% (~1/7.65 matches)
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 30% of all rain matches
-According to hattristics the negative effect from weather happens 17% of all sun matches
Unpredictable
-good passing can create chance
-can use scoring skill to intercept the ball
-unpredictability itself may also create unlikely scoring opportunities
-According to hattristics the negative event being converted for FWs is 0%
-According to hattristics the positive event for WIs chance of happening is 5.6% (~1/18 matches)
-According to hattristics the conversion rate for this event is 43.8% (~1/41 matches)

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Def
1) Head - useful in all positions really
2) Powerful - very useful if you are a defensive team and likely to press but in most cases I would still prefer Heads
3) Unpredictable - under-rated as a useful spec on a defender though really need reasonable passing.

IM
1) Head
2) Powerful if decent stamina

I would also consider Technical if you would like to have a mix of weather dependant IMs in your squad, unpredictable only if he has decent defence and passing skills and quick only if to use a lot as a WTM.

WG
1) Quick
2) Head
3) Unpredictable
4) Technical

FW
1) Quick
2) Head
3) Unpredictable
4) Technical

I may in some cases shuffle Unpredictable above Head for forward or winger dependant on how many other Head specialists I had in team and having a Head specialist at either forward or wing can be useful to finish off a winger SE but an Unpredictable would then be useful as a 2nd winger or 2nd/3rd forward.

Selling keepers

2010-03-19T07:59:00.000-07:00

Q : Hey all, if training keepers at what stage should they be at before you start selling them? for example i have an extra-terrestrial keeper who is 21. should i have sold him already or wait till he goes up another level or two?

A : Sell! Sell!Make sure you sell very late at night or first thing in the morning (OC time).

A : Any side skills, defending and/or set pieces? If not sell, otherwise it might be worth switching training to train one of those skills up (if you want to).

A : Time to sell, no question. You are getting into the zone where profit-per-pop dips, combined with a serious rise in wages.
I have a gk who has just popped to WC - the level I usually sell at, but the market is OK at the moment for another pop + I want to up his SP, so I will give him one more GK pop + 2-3 SP pops.

Once you get above this (especially if age 20+ becomes a factor) profits start to drop. It iis better to sell and buy in a Formid and train him up (highest profit band = Formid +4 levels).

HOWEVER. If you have read the editorial on the new changes to the ME, released today, you will note that GKs have had their GK skill downgraded, which means that Def on a GK will become more important, so my next trainees will be Def heavy.

Hope this helps - after today's editorial I am not quite sure what will happen on the TM, it may be that higher level GKs become more valuable... or not.

A: That might be right if you plot time-to-pop vs profit. I haven't done the math, but if you combine these two sites you can calculate the optimum:
(http://www.lokesoftware.dk/ham/index.htm)(Stats)
(http://trainingspeed.freehostia.com)

substitution

2010-02-23T22:07:00.001-08:00

if your player injured, and no substitution prepared from him, this table is used to replace your player

GK: GK - D - M - W - F
D: D - M - W - F - GK
M: M - D - W - F - GK
W: W - F - M - D - GK
F: F - W - M - D - GK

example, if your forward is injured, an you not prepared substitution for Forward and wingger, then midfielder will replace him

Hattrick World Cup 2010 Thailand

2010-02-17T21:40:00.000-08:00

this is a hattrick world cup

This round started on 2009-09-25 at 20:00.

Group	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	#7	#8
Group 1								-
Group 2								-
Group 3								-
Group 4								-
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Group 10
Group 11
Group 12
Group 13
Group 14
Group 15
Group 16

Groups II
This round starts on 2010 February 19 at 20:00:00 and will be played in Prathet Thai.
Round II - Group 1
MP GF GA GD P
1 Nederland 0 0 0 0 0
2 Sverige 0 0 0 0 0
3 Cyprus 0 0 0 0 0
4 Oceania 0 0 0 0 0

Round II - Group 2
MP GF GA GD P
1 Belarus 0 0 0 0 0
2 Deutschland 0 0 0 0 0
3 Israel 0 0 0 0 0
4 Hrvatska 0 0 0 0 0

Round II - Group 3
MP GF GA GD P
1 Chile 0 0 0 0 0
2 Polska 0 0 0 0 0
3 Norge 0 0 0 0 0
4 USA 0 0 0 0 0

Round II - Group 4
MP GF GA GD P
1 Česká republika 0 0 0 0 0
2 Indonesia 0 0 0 0 0
3 Bosna i Hercegovina 0 0 0 0 0
4 Lëtzebuerg 0 0 0 0 0

Round II - Group 5
MP GF GA GD P
1 România 0 0 0 0 0
2 Magyarország 0 0 0 0 0
3 Latvija 0 0 0 0 0
4 South Africa 0 0 0 0 0

Round II - Group 6
MP GF GA GD P
1 Slovenija 0 0 0 0 0
2 El Salvador 0 0 0 0 0
3 Ísland 0 0 0 0 0
4 Hellas 0 0 0 0 0

Round II - Group 7
MP GF GA GD P
1 Scotland 0 0 0 0 0
2 Suomi 0 0 0 0 0
3 Belgium 0 0 0 0 0
4 Lietuva 0 0 0 0 0

Round II - Group 8
MP GF GA GD P
1 France 0 0 0 0 0
2 Danmark 0 0 0 0 0
3 Slovensko 0 0 0 0 0
4 Philippines 0 0 0 0 0

celebrity teams part II

2010-02-11T20:44:00.000-08:00

another celebrity teams on hattrick

Knock Internationals (31886)

Managed by BarryG

12. Alessandro Nesta

30 years and 68 days, TSI = 34 370
In weak form, passable stamina.

18. Andrey Shevchenko

34 years and 45 days, TSI = 110
In inadequate form, weak stamina.

Andy O'Brien

46 years and 34 days, TSI = 0
In poor form, disastrous stamina.

24. Andy Reid

35 years and 54 days, TSI = 0
In inadequate form, disastrous stamina.

Carlos Alberto Tévez

20 years and 40 days, TSI = 10
In poor form, poor stamina.

21. Christian Vieri

34 years and 77 days, TSI = 1 360
In inadequate form, wretched stamina.

14. Craig Bellamy 3

35 years and 57 days, TSI = 310
In inadequate form, weak stamina.

1. David James

24 years and 54 days, TSI = 22 380
In passable form, solid stamina.

David Villa

31 years and 73 days, TSI = 300
In inadequate form, poor stamina.

23. Davide Beckham

38 years and 22 days, TSI = 0
In solid form, disastrous stamina. [Unpredictable]

7. Eric Cantona

41 years and 103 days, TSI = 0
In wretched form, disastrous stamina. [Quick]

5. Fabio Cannavaro

38 years and 37 days, TSI = 0
In wretched form, disastrous stamina.

15. Fernando Couto

42 years and 60 days, TSI = 0
In passable form, disastrous stamina.

Fernando Hierro

24 years and 26 days, TSI = 1 230
In inadequate form, poor stamina. [Unpredictable]

39. Fernando Redondo

32 years and 65 days, TSI = 100
In inadequate form, weak stamina. [Technical]

9. Fernando Torres

29 years and 58 days, TSI = 5 170
In passable form, passable stamina.

Gareth Bale

29 years and 82 days, TSI = 990
In poor form, weak stamina.

Gary Lineker

23 years and 67 days, TSI = 12 680
In passable form, solid stamina. [Powerful]

Giuseppe Baresi

25 years and 19 days, TSI = 9 420
In weak form, solid stamina.

35. Ian Brown

45 years and 92 days, TSI = 0
In wretched form, disastrous stamina.

6. John Giles

33 years and 60 days, TSI = 4 980
In weak form, weak stamina.

22. John O'Shea

47 years and 18 days, TSI = 0
In wretched form, disastrous stamina. [Quick]

29. Jorge Costa

42 years and 80 days, TSI = 0
In weak form, disastrous stamina. [Quick]

25. Keith Foy

33 years and 17 days, TSI = 310
In weak form, wretched stamina. [Unpredictable]

20-09-2009

(Inner midfielder)

37. Marco Tardelli

26 years and 26 days, TSI = 1 970
In weak form, passable stamina.

Martin Peters

25 years and 80 days, TSI = 10
In disastrous form, disastrous stamina.

20. Paolo Rossi

33 years and 61 days, TSI = 4 920
In wretched form, weak stamina.

4. Patrick Vieira

25 years and 1 days, TSI = 1 980
In inadequate form, passable stamina. [Head]

11. Pavel Nedvěd

30 years and 15 days, TSI = 1 290
In solid form, weak stamina.

Ray Wilson

31 years and 36 days, TSI = 60
In weak form, wretched stamina. [Quick]

Roberto Ayala

24 years and 48 days, TSI = 50
In wretched form, weak stamina. [Powerful]

Roger Hunt

23 years and 60 days, TSI = 80
In poor form, wretched stamina. [Technical]

Ronaldo Luís de Limeira

27 years and 64 days, TSI = 250
In poor form, weak stamina.

16. Roy Keane

40 years and 84 days, TSI = 0
In poor form, disastrous stamina. [Powerful]

34. Rui Costa

30 years and 44 days, TSI = 150
In inadequate form, wretched stamina.

17. Ruud van Nistelrooij

39 years and 53 days, TSI = 10
In poor form, disastrous stamina.

30. Sérgio Conceição

26 years and 62 days, TSI = 2 210
In solid form, passable stamina. [Powerful]

32. Xavi Alonso

33 years and 59 days, TSI = 11 860
In poor form, weak stamina. [Unpredictable]

Celebrity Teams

2010-02-11T20:39:00.000-08:00

this is one of the celebrity teams on hattrick

i'm sure it take some time and also money offcourse to compile this team

Cleethorpes Isotopes (57457)

Managed by Wee_man14

Alex Ferguson

33 years and 2 days, TSI = 50
In weak form, poor stamina. [Technical]

Alvaro Faria

45 years and 54 days, TSI = 0
In poor form, disastrous stamina. [Head]

Andrew Jackson

21 years and 105 days, TSI = 4 410
In passable form, passable stamina. [Unpredictable]

Andriy Kanchelskis

34 years and 47 days, TSI = 40
In passable form, weak stamina.

Andy Cole

27 years and 91 days, TSI = 170
In poor form, poor stamina. [Head]

Artie Ziff

41 years and 51 days, TSI = 0
In weak form, disastrous stamina. [Unpredictable]

Bart Simpson

30 years and 104 days, TSI = 790
In solid form, inadequate stamina. [Quick]

Ben Foster

22 years and 75 days, TSI = 300
In inadequate form, wretched stamina.

Boris Fuks

28 years and 85 days, TSI = 140
In solid form, disastrous stamina.

Carl Henrik Carlson

23 years and 60 days, TSI = 180
In weak form, wretched stamina.

David May

37 years and 56 days, TSI = 0
In disastrous form, disastrous stamina.

David Melton

28 years and 57 days, TSI = 680
In solid form, passable stamina. [Head]

Dennis Irwin

25 years and 82 days, TSI = 0
In wretched form, poor stamina.

Edwin van der Sar

33 years and 91 days, TSI = 2 220
In poor form, poor stamina.

Elliot Hand

30 years and 90 days, TSI = 24 160
In solid form, inadequate stamina.

Fred Toranzos

31 years and 28 days, TSI = 1 420
In passable form, passable stamina. [Quick]

Henning Berg

30 years and 20 days, TSI = 40
In poor form, wretched stamina. [Quick]

Know the Drop of Team Spirit

2010-02-08T19:26:00.000-08:00

- With every update the team spirit (TS) drops on the next level in the table. With Play It Cool (PIC) the TS will rise by a third (i.e. will be multiplied by 1.333). With Match Of The Season (MOTS) the TS will drop by half (i.e. will be devided by 2).

- The tables are valuable for leadership abilities (LS) without any sub-level, and with a neutral team leader (the only player in the team with the highest LS) and neutral confidence.
E.g.: With a coach, whose LS only has dropped on inadequate and a high confidence you can still reach the values (numbers) of the table "LS ability passable / solid".

- Right below of the table I listed the updates of Spain, Italy and Portugal, the three biggest non german speaking HT countries right now.

Team spirit

2010-02-08T19:19:00.000-08:00

team sprit affect on your team performance on next macth

it's affect to all player especialy to midfielder, table bellow is represente the effect

Level of team spirit	Effect on midfield rating
Paradise on earth *	+125%
Walking on clouds	+100%
Delirious	+75%
Satisfied	+50%
Content	+33%
Calm	+10%
Composed - center**	0
Composed	-10%
Irritated	-33%
Furious	-55%
Morderous	-78%
Like the cold war***	-100%

* It is impossible to play a match with team spirit being at Paradise on earth. The indicated percentage is an approximation.
** At the start of the season your team spirit is at this level.
*** You have no midfield at all.

Team spirit is affected by:

Confidence
Team Attitude - I.e. if you have told your team to play Match of the Season, Play It Cool or Normal (see Team Attitude in the Match section)
The Leadership level of your coach (very important)

Team spirit will always move towards Composed. If the team spirit is below Composed, several factors affect how quickly it will rise again:
- If your Team Attitude is set to Play It Cool your team spirit will rise.
- The Leadership level of your coach is very important.
- Sports psychologists affect team spirit slightly.

A high team spirit will drop towards Composed. The factors listed above that make a low team spirit rise faster, will also make a high team spirit drop slower.

MOTS will result in your team spirit being halved after the match.
PIC will result in your team spirit rising by 1/3 after the match.

The leadership skill of your coach is very important if you wish to mainain a high level of team spirit.

I.e. a coach with Poor leadership can only keep the team spirit at ”low Content” from Sunday to Sunday if you PIC every Sunday.

If your team spirit is at "Walking on Clouds" and your coach has Solid leadership skill, the team spirit will drop to "Delirious" after 3 daily updates.

Team spirit will move towards ”Composed” throughout the week, until the next competitive match is played. The rate that team spirit changes depends on the leadership skill of your coach.

If you PIC/MOTS, the change in team spirit will occur immediately after the match.

Buying or selling players can lower the team spirit. If that happens team spirit will decrease by approximately 1/3 of a level.

When buying or selling players the probability of a drop in team spirit is influenced by the personality of the player(s).

Team spirit is reset to “Composed” during the off-season.

By lowering training level you acchieve a boost to team spirit. But lowering training level can have a dramatic effect on the form of the players in the following weeks.

Lowering training level 25-30% provides one level in team spirit.

Eg by lowering your training level from 100% to 30 your team spirit will go from Calm to Walking on clouds. A lowring from 100% to 18% can boost your team spirit form Murderous to Satisfied.

A lowering of training level has to be done before the update on the day before training takes place. So if training takes place on a Friday in your country you should lower it before the Thursday update.

When you increase training level after a lowering team spirit will reverse to the level it was on prior to the lowering. However the team spirit has naturally dropped a bit in the meantime so when the training level is set back to its starting point the team spirit will be a bit lower caused by the natural fall.

Transfer Price List

2010-02-07T05:27:00.000-08:00

this is transfer price evaluation statistics
by know this data, you have a guideline how much you shoud spend your money for buying a player

Keeper
Skill level	Avg. Transfer Price (€)	Avg. Age	Value of training (€)	Transfers
Inadequate	14,942	21.0	14,942	(692)
Passable	53,657	22.2	38,715	(1378)
Solid	206,949	22.9	153,292	(1339)
Excellent	511,271	24.8	304,322	(603)
Formidable	1,148,876	24.8	637,605	(396)
Outstanding	1,852,694	24.5	703,819	(308)
Brilliant	2,571,640	23.8	718,946	(257)
Magnificent	3,201,979	24.3	630,339	(198)
World Class	3,880,841	24.6	678,861	(173)
Supernatural	4,564,082	24.4	683,241	(130)
Titanic	5,193,750	24.4	629,668	(92)
Ex.-Terrestrial	5,167,239	26.3	- 26,511	(66)
Mythical	5,821,608	26.7	654,369	(36)
Magical	5,121,731	28.8	- 699,877	(26)
Utopian	5,343,536	28.8	221,805	(17)
Divine	5,718,353	28.2	374,817	(17)

Keeper >= other skills Skill level higher than weak. 10 or more transfers available

Defending
Skill level	Avg. Transfer Price (€)	Avg. Age	Value of training (€)	Transfers
Inadequate	18,700	19.5	18,700	(1423)
Passable	50,926	20.4	32,226	(4648)
Solid	211,410	21.6	160,484	(3680)
Excellent	483,688	22.4	272,278	(1975)
Formidable	915,501	23.5	431,813	(1323)
Outstanding	1,445,685	24.0	530,185	(1092)
Brilliant	1,966,297	24.8	520,612	(784)
Magnificent	2,402,584	25.8	436,287	(679)
World Class	2,651,096	26.7	248,512	(670)
Supernatural	2,796,697	27.3	145,601	(596)
Titanic	2,878,701	27.6	82,004	(449)
Ex.-Terrestrial	2,595,430	28.0	- 283,271	(179)
Mythical	2,310,143	28.3	- 285,286	(92)
Magical	1,792,129	29.1	- 518,014	(31)
Utopian	1,641,279	29.6	- 150,850	(14)
Divine	1,873,106	30.1	231,827	(18)

Defending >= other skills Skill level higher than weak. 10 or more transfers available

Playmaking
Skill level	Avg. Transfer Price (€)	Avg. Age	Value of training (€)	Transfers
Inadequate	36,001	19.0	36,001	(1829)
Passable	76,048	20.0	40,047	(4634)
Solid	203,256	21.2	127,209	(3888)
Excellent	402,653	22.3	199,396	(2282)
Formidable	684,748	23.3	282,095	(1622)
Outstanding	1,047,351	24.4	362,604	(1296)
Brilliant	1,406,172	25.5	358,821	(1044)
Magnificent	1,790,385	26.3	384,212	(913)
World Class	2,059,375	27.1	268,990	(910)
Supernatural	2,309,972	27.5	250,597	(1114)
Titanic	2,344,544	27.9	34,572	(1248)
Ex.-Terrestrial	2,116,400	28.3	- 228,145	(916)
Mythical	1,545,425	28.8	- 570,974	(598)
Magical	928,982	29.0	- 616,443	(343)
Utopian	692,784	29.1	- 236,199	(128)
Divine	1,198,192	29.9	505,408	(26)

Playmaking >= other skills Skill level higher than weak. 10 or more transfers available

Winger
Skill level	Avg. Transfer Price (€)	Avg. Age	Value of training (€)	Transfers
Inadequate	19,290	19.5	19,290	(1134)
Passable	55,344	20.4	36,054	(2615)
Solid	158,393	20.8	103,049	(2505)
Excellent	462,556	21.4	304,163	(1039)
Formidable	974,023	22.9	511,467	(445)
Outstanding	1,404,676	23.7	430,653	(428)
Brilliant	2,030,566	24.0	625,890	(286)
Magnificent	2,559,274	24.4	528,708	(276)
World Class	2,811,002	25.4	251,728	(237)
Supernatural	2,981,929	25.7	170,926	(234)
Titanic	3,275,915	25.9	293,987	(232)
Ex.-Terrestrial	3,014,059	26.3	- 261,856	(134)
Mythical	2,805,013	26.6	- 209,046	(77)
Magical	2,114,793	27.2	- 690,220	(36)
Utopian	1,518,579	26.5	- 596,214	(19)
Divine	1,275,130	28.7	- 243,449	(15)

Winger >= other skills Skill level higher than weak. 10 or more transfers available

Scoring
Skill level	Avg. Transfer Price (€)	Avg. Age	Value of training (€)	Transfers
Inadequate	25,972	19.6	25,972	(1165)
Passable	53,147	20.4	27,174	(3424)
Solid	188,635	21.5	135,488	(2946)
Excellent	510,422	22.1	321,788	(1324)
Formidable	995,422	23.3	485,000	(862)
Outstanding	1,446,710	24.5	451,288	(597)
Brilliant	2,024,897	25.0	578,186	(513)
Magnificent	2,428,150	25.7	403,254	(514)
World Class	2,824,907	26.6	396,756	(561)
Supernatural	3,235,264	26.7	410,357	(613)
Titanic	3,280,758	27.3	45,494	(449)
Ex.-Terrestrial	2,990,429	27.7	- 290,329	(248)
Mythical	2,537,953	28.1	- 452,476	(106)
Magical	1,927,577	28.4	- 610,376	(59)
Utopian	1,519,377	28.8	- 408,200	(13)

Scoring >= other skills Skill level higher than weak. 10 or more transfers available

Passing
Skill level	Avg. Transfer Price (€)	Avg. Age	Value of training (€)	Transfers
Inadequate	702,319	22.6	702,319	(7038)
Passable	1,014,851	23.3	312,532	(5730)
Solid	1,369,752	23.8	354,902	(3510)
Excellent	1,906,324	24.7	536,572	(1551)
Formidable	2,640,350	26.2	734,027	(603)
Outstanding	2,918,464	26.8	278,114	(291)
Brilliant	3,328,095	26.9	409,630	(133)
Magnificent	3,453,444	27.7	125,350	(54)
World Class	3,635,194	28.5	181,750	(36)
Supernatural	4,391,607	27.7	756,413	(11)

Scoring or Playmaking >= other skills Skill level higher than weak. 10 or more transfers available

Formation Tactics Tips

2010-02-06T21:39:00.000-08:00

there is many variation on choosing formation, there ware
4-4-2, normal
4-4-2, 3 inner midfield players
4-3-3, normal
4-3-3, 3 inner midfield players
4-5-1, normal
3-5-2, symmetric/asymmetric defence
5-3-2, normal
5-3-2, 3 inner midfield players
3-4-3, normal
3-4-3, 3 inner midfield players
5-4-1, normal
5-4-1, 3 inner midfield players

better think is use formation based on your training program and also your player advantage
but sometime you must used a dramatic formation to get won the crucial games
but remember not use more than 3 player in one position to avoid traning loss

there also some checklist you might to know to increse efeciensi of the formation
- Experience is great factor, your team play better is the player used to play the formation
- The coach's preference (offensive/defensive/normal preference), it get some bonus on formation efective based on coach preference
- Your players are a classic parameter, used your player skill and specialist to won the games
- Team attitude (PIC, Normal, MOTS), used Play it Cool (PIC) when you sure that you will won or lose the game, use MOTS if the games realy realy very is important :p, otherwise use normal
-Home/away is similar to team attitude. Away you need to strengthen your defence and vice versa.
-The opponent's formation, tactics and squad. :D

Winger

2010-02-04T06:57:00.000-08:00

train winger?

potential winger should have
Speciality : Quick
Winger : +++
Playmaking : ++
stamina : ++
Passing : +
Defending : +

As well as Normal wingers, there are three orders that can be given to these players

* Winger toward middle increases midfield contribution, but lowers the offensive contribution
* Offensive winger increases the offensive contribution, but lowers the defensive one
* Defensive winger increases defence, but lessens attack ratings

Reasons why newbies should not do winger training

With the number of relevant secondary skills, selection of trainees, bidding and selling is too difficult for many newbies.
The wingback slots, which represent 4 of the 8 total trainable positions, are difficult for even experienced users to employ profitably.
Goalkeeping training sometimes has the lowest investment cost, and is therefore better suited to the cash-poor newbie.
There is a significant risk that the team will not be competitive in midfield.

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Reasons why newbies should do winger training

Fast generation of quality players
Fast generation of significant level of wing attack
Possibility of generating capital very quickly that can be used to fund team improvements, switch to better trainees or switch to another training regime
Low startup cost
Creates feeling of rapid improvement which is good for enjoyment of game and morale
May be better than playmaking as a short-term strategy for boosting midfield if it generates enough profit to put in low-cost, experienced inner midfielders, rather than inexperienced trainees.
May be a tactically and financially sound long-term strategy as the majority of users still concentrate on central attack and defense.

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Major contingencies affecting the decision for newbies

How competitive is their league? If it is very competitive, then staying in it will need fast results, so winger training may be a good strategy. If it is not very competitive, then there is no pressure of time, you can train what you want. Consequently winger training may not be so attractive, as speed is one of the major attractions.
How much financial pressure are they under? If they need money fast, then winger training with its fast results and low investment cost is again recommended. If there is less financial pressure, again, the attraction is diminished.
How much effort do they want to put into building their team? Winger training is complicated and requires more study of tactics and player types than the other training regimes. The amount of effort required will be increased still further for people who are complete beginners at on-line trading games or football management sims. If they plan to just log on once or twice a week, winger training may not be the best choice.
What kind of players did the player inherit? If the team you started with has some players who would are excellent prospects for a particular training regime, the player should probably go for that kind. E.g. if he or she has a team with three or four excellent young playmakers, it would probably be advisable to train playmaking.

[taken from wiki.hattrick.org]

Pemain Forward dalam hattrick

2010-02-03T00:48:00.000-08:00

forward dalam sepak bola adalah pemain depan, lihat definisinya di http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trequartista#Deep-lying_forward_.28SS.29

berikut ini merupakan intepretasi skill pemain forward dalam dunia nyata di dalam hattrick, tentu saja bukan berarti tanpa skill ini tidak bisa menjadi pemain forward, namun akan lebih efektif jika mempunyai skill tersebut

pembagian di dalam wiki disebutkan terdapat beberapa jenis pemain forward, yaitu

Centre forward
The centre forward is often a tall player, typically known as a target man, who is used to win long balls or receive passes and "hold up" the ball as team-mates advance, to help teammates score by providing a pass ('through ball' into the box), or to score himself; the latter variation usually requiring quicker pace. Some forwards operate on the wings of the field and work their way goalward. A centre forward usually must be strong, to win key headers and 'outmuscle' defenders.

dalam hattrick ini bisa di intepretasikan pemain depan dengan head specialist
position : forward
Speciality :head
Skills needed : +++ Scoring
++ Passing

Striker
Strikers are more known for their ability to peel off defenders and to run into space via the blind side of the defender and to receive the ball in a good goalscoring position. They are typically fast players with exceptional ball control and dribbling abilities.

dalam hattrick bisa di bayangkan pemain depan yang mempunyai kecepatan
position : forward
Speciality : quick
Skills needed : +++ Scoring
+++ Passing

Second striker atau Trequartista
Deep-lying forwards have a long history in the game, but the terminology to describe them has varied over the years. Originally such players were termed inside forwards, or deep-lying centre forwards. More recently, two more variations of this old type of player have developed: the second or support or auxiliary striker and, in what is arguably a distinct position unto its own, being neither midfield nor attack, the Number 10, or playmaker, an advanced as opposed to a deep-lying playmaker.

dalam hattrick, pemain ini merupakan pemain forward yang juga membantu midfield, jadi diperlukan kemampuan playmaking yang bagus
Position : Forward
Individual Order : defensive
Speciality : Technical
Skills needed +++ Playmaking
++ Passing
+ Scoring

Winger
A winger is an attacking player who is stationed in a wide position near the touchlines. They can be classified as forwards, considering their origin as the old "outside-forward" position, and continue to be termed as such in most parts of the world, especially in Latin and Dutch footballing cultures. However, in the Anglo-Saxon world, they are usually counted as part of the midfield.

Position : Forward
Individual Order : attacking
Speciality : Technical/Quick
Skills needed +++ Winger
+++ Passing
+ Scoring

Strike teams and combinations
A strike team is two or more strikers that work well together to a devastating effect. The history of football has been filled with many effective combinations. Two-player partnerships such as Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole of the 1999 Manchester United treble winning squad, are well known, but also important to any attack are bigger groups of players who form distinct strike packages. Three-man teams often operate in "triangles", giving a wealth of attacking options. Four-man packages expand options even more.

dalam hattrick team work seperti ini bisa diartikan kumpulan pemain depan yang memiliki kemampuan passing yang baik. dengan passing yang baik, tentu saja event kerja sama antar pemain jadi lebih besar, selain itu harus sering dilatih untuk bermain bersamaan untuk mendapat formation experience

Position : Forward
Skills needed +++ Passing
++ Scoring
++ Playmaking

Trading Tips on hattrick

2010-02-02T17:32:00.000-08:00

originaly Written by nonkelvladimir

A completely balanced team. Players with the perfect skills. All the right specialities at the right place. The highest ratings you can imagine.

How are you ever gonna get there without some money? Here are some trading tips!

This article was published earlier on the Belgian forum by top class manager Patrickske (1526580). Be aware that these tips are indeed tips and not strict rules that will guarantee success. But they might be handy!

Know The Market!

If you want to trade, you got to have some decent knowledge about the transfer market. How do the prices evolve over the season? What's the actual worth of the player I want to buy?
The transfer market has a recurrent pattern:

week 1-4 ==> prices are at the highest
week 5-7 ==> prices lower slightly compared to week 1-4
week 7-10 ==> prices lower significantly
week 11-14==>prices are at their bottom point
week 15-16==>prices start to rise again

week 1-4 ==> prices peak again
etc...

Looking at this schedule you'll immediately see that you better try not to buy your players in the first weeks of the season, as the chances you'll sell them again with profit are not that high.
Seen from this point of view, you better buy a player in week 13-14, so you can sell him again in week 1-2 with high profits. You barely need any knowledge for this: The market will automatically provide you with some profits.

What is the player you want to buy worth?

It is very important that you know and understand the actual worth of the player you want to purchase. Most managers who want to trade, base their judgement on the Transfer Compare (TC), but it is even more important to know exactly what the specific player is worth.
For instance: Today an Outstanding striker with Passable passing has a value of about €700 000. But suddenly, you see such a striker with a TC around €450 000. Chances are big you'll be able to buy this striker for about €450 000 (because nobody likes to pay more than the average TC).
After the purchase you'll quickly notice that the TC will evolve back into the direction of the player's actual value. Bingo!

Beat the market!

If you plan to start bidding on regular players, you'll soon notice it's not that easy to purchase these kids for low prices.
Try to focus instead on players who are not so interesting at the time that you're buying them.

• Extremely low form:
Intrest will be significantly lower, but when his form gets better at your team, interest will rise once more also.
• Extremely low stamina:
Same story as with form. Try to pull this trick with players who have many sidestats, so TSI will exponently increase when form/stamina is up again. The higher the TSI, the higher the prices will be...
• Heavy injury:
With a really harsh injury, chances only increase to encounter a really low price!
• Poor form for an international:
It is always easier to resell an international. Try to purchase these as cheap as possible (e.g. due to bad form) and if you can get him to Solid, or even Excellent form, put him back on the transfer list for big profits.
• Extremely high wages:
Most teams aren't interested in players with wages above €100 000. This offers an opportunity for trades you can transfer again for a lot of cash with some luck.
• Buy players who nearly celebrate their birthday:
For a strange reason, players of 18-19y old are often a lot cheaper than a 20y old.
Consequently, you can buy a 19y old who is nearly celebrating his birthday, so you pay the price of his 19y TC. Just a few days later he'll have the (higher) TC of a 20y old, so you can sell this player quite easily with profit!
• Purchase at difficult hours:
Around 6h00 (HT Clock) there's barely anyone online... more chance for a nice transfer!
• Buy when the site is having problems:
When everybody is frikkin' angry because the forums are down or the site is immensly slow, you should get in action! Nobody is eager to surf on the transfer market right now, but you are!
• Place a strategical bid:
Let's say a player's worth and his TC tell us he's about €700 000 worth. Well, place a bid of €550 000... Interest for this player will downsize and from time to time nobody else will stop by to place a higher bid.
• Overbluff farms:
Beat a farm in trying to buy a potential NT-player. You'll quickly receive a message from the scouts asking you what you want to train. If the response isn't satisfying, then you shouldn't have much problems to resell this player for more money.
• Buy (really) old players with high wages right before their birthday:
You'll have to pay this high wage upon purchase, but the intrest in this player shall be low due to this. When the player becomes a year older, his wages will lower significantly, so all of a sudden more teams will show interest for this player.
• Buy unique players:
Unique is maybe a bit exaggerated, but still: An amazing player with the right speciality and proper secondary skills is always easier to sell for a nice price. Such players are very limited on the market, so you can set its price.
• Field your trades only 5 minutes:
Why? This way, he will perform at his maximum (no stamina loss). Many managers will interprate his performance incorrectly... the more stars, the better, for a lot of users...
• Buy really old players:
Try to buy players e.g. 34y old who still've got a high stat (e.g. Supernatural). You'll have to pay very few since your player can nearly enjoy his retirement. But! His TC will also show 32-33y old players, which in many cases really affects the TC in favorable ways for you. This way you can sell these oldies for a nice price.
• Check the TC +1y!: As said before, players of 19y old often have a value way below the same player at 20y. So check the same TC but 1 year older! Beware of the opposite story as well. Starting from 25y, values will gradually fall. So take note that a 25th birthday party might affect your trade's value quite a lot.

How to buy?

When will your trade be successful? This is only possible if your buying price is a good one. What’s a good offer?
Your goal should be to make €100 000 net profits per trade in a rather simple way. Say you discover a player you could sell for €600 000 - well, you should try to buy him for 440-450k max. If you start to work with lower margins, chances to sell it without profit will get bigger.
So be patient and if you cross your limit, stop bidding. Only start bidding after you have agreed upon a maximum bid!

How to sell?

Since you can only list a player after he has played at least once for your team, you should try to make sure he shall actually be sold. So choose the selling price at the bottom of the Transfer Compare. If the player has a nice Speciality, you can raise the minimum bid. Keep your buying price and your estimated profit margin in mind!
A player Statement (the little text balloon) with his qualities, like TSI of spec, can also be useful. Use this function if you can.

That’s about it in a nutshell. Enjoy the transfer market and if you want to discuss this article, take a look at the Forum (13745500.1)!

Hasil Merdeka Friendly Games

2009-08-23T21:30:00.000-07:00

Hasil Pertandingan

Regu Merah VS Regu Putih
AY Indonesia------- 3-0 ------Pesut >>>(237568080)
Gundala--------------- 0-3 ------Bayoer Leverkusen >>>(237558344)
The Nice------------- 5-1 ------Trans Indo Prima >>>(237561765)
Medan United--------- 1-2 ------Dana's FC >>>(237558529)
STIN Jayapura-------- 0-6 ------Rengat Machines FC >>>(237559653)
RwBelong FC--------- 0-3 ------Elven Princess FC >>>(237602372)
Felaga Bir------------- 0-8 ------pagardewa FC >>>(237615668)
Iron City FC--------- 2-6 ------Kolam Hati >>>(237556242) (Kolam Hati WO)
FC Satria Madukara-- 5-0 ------White_Knight >>>(237614157) (Madukara WO)
Comm 61------------- 4-2 ------The_Blues_Chelsea >>>(237616413) (Comm 61 WO)
LEE UNITED------------ 0-6 ------Tanya Kenapa? >>>(237521598)
Starfall FC------------- 0-9 ------Persiku >>>(237576464)
Bumi Patriot F.C------- 0-2 ------Oskab FC >>>(237600588) (Bumi Patriot WO)
Juara Bulan Ultras------ 4-1 ------Cheneda Warriors >>>(237559046) (Juara Bulan Ultras WO)
Raja Singa------------- 3-1 -----International Medan >>>(237633389)
PS STIN---------------- 5-3 -----The Pathetic >>>(237602518) (The Pathetic WO)
JatiAsih FC------------- 3-1 ------0810012060 >>>(237559933) (0810012060 WO)
Anchur Lebhur--------- 1-0 ------Fan MU Boys >>>(237588556)
Fantastic Frost-------- 0-6 ------Stozza FC >>>(237542057) (Stozza FC WO)
~*~Ongis Nade FC~*~- 2-3 ------Ivan_peterpan FC >>>(237537821)
Ondel2 FC---------------- 3-5 ------The_Great_Team >>>(237587057)
fc termehek mehek-- 2-1 ------New Club Pecinta Wanita >>>(237601918)
Lebak Rejo FC--------- 3-1 ------Jesko United >>>(237562279)
PS Kayu Manis----------3-1 ------Bep FC >>>(237587015)
Rival Tangguh----------- 1-2 ------SiLenT_RaGe (113105) >>>(237614090)
DEODORANT------------ 6-1 ------Jakarta Diablos >>>(237593682)
manggar beach---------- 8-1 ------Srimulat >>>(237506020) (manggar beach WO)
ACMILANGUNERS------ 0-1 ------katrok 4 mata FC >>>(237588226) (katrok 4 mata WO)
Black_DC------------------9-0 ------Aliyyah FC >>>(237669880) (Black_DC WO)

Total Pertandingan : 29 dari 40
Regu Merah : 13
Regu Putih : 16

dan,, pemenang pada tahun 2009 ini adalah REGU PUTIH

Jumlah Peserta : 58 dari 80

Pertandingan Ter-ramai : 2901 penonton, Gundala vs Bayoer, (237558344)

Topskorer : Danny Brough (4 gol), Persiku, (237576464)

Rating Terbaik :
Best Rating----------------Area-----------------Team
excellent(low)-----------midfield------------pagardewa
titanic(veryhigh)------right defence-------pagardewa
mythical(low)--------central defence------pagardewa
brilliant(veryhigh)----left defence---------pagardewa
solid(veryhigh)--------right attack---------pagardewa
excellent(verylow)---central attack-----rengat machines
passable(verylow)-----left attack-------bayoer leverkusen

The corner of the Hattrickaholic

2009-08-18T18:18:00.000-07:00

Funny Comic about Hattrick

1	Super pull	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/1.html)
2	Technical support	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/2-technical-su....html)
3	I defeated my co-worker	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/3-i-defeated-m....html)
4a/b	Supporter (+blooper) / CHPP unapproved	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/4a-supporter-4....html)
5	Transfers and Computer help	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/5-transfers-an....html)
6	Scouting day	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/6-scouting-day.html)
7	Cup Final s31 (3p)	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/07/7-cup-final.html) MatchID: (112156994)
8	Who's the Boss	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/8-whos-boss.html)
9	Sorrow	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/9-sorrow.html)
10	Rehabilitation day	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/10-rehabilitat....html)
11	Elections day (2p)	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/05/11-elections-day...)
12	New Youth Academy	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/13-new-youth-a....html)
13	Living the dream!	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/04/14-living-dream....)
14	Fan travels (+blooper)	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/05/14-fan-travels.html)
15	Rebuilding the arena	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/06/15-rebuilding-....html)
16	Summer	(http://www.htholic.com/2009/08/16-summer.html)

New story (August 15th)

17. Back to school. (http://www.htholic.com/2009/08/17-back-to-sch....html)