Team Confidence

[robbgmaier]

I've been carrying 5 psychologists for the last half of the season, and it has been wonderful for awhile. Coupled with a decent streak of results, I'm a little worried about being overconfident for the qualifier. So, my question is, if I fire 4 (or all 5) of these psychos, am I going to take a confidence hit from that? Anyone have any idea what the chance of an overconfidence is?

[vex]

Look at it this way, if the team you are playing is obviously in 1st place, they're probably overconfident as well.

[robbgmaier]

and vex wins the award for worst ever reply to a question

[Eilim]

I highly doubt you'll get an overconfidence hit in a qualifier, but I could be wrong. I've generally never had to worry about OC hitting with 2 shrinks and being at "wonderful" as long as I'm playing a team within 4 ranking slots of me within the division.

Having said that, and never have played a qual. match other than for promotion.. Who the heck knows what will happen?

In regards to the confidence hit from firing shrinks, not 100% sure, but in my case of firing (at most I carry 2, when playing a team out of the 4 rank range I fire them both if at wonderful) I've never seen a confidence drop because of the firings, but I'm not sure if like other ratings there are multiple levels of "wonderful" and if so I was well into it before the firings.

One thing to note though is early this season *alot* of people were complaining of wacky overconfidence events when well below wonderful and with no shrinks. So who knows if they have tinkered with how confidence works this season.

-Eilim

[vex]

Originally posted by robbgmaier
and vex wins the award for worst ever reply to a question

No more PICs for you

[robbgmaier]

Originally posted by vexroid
No more PICs for you

I'm already trying decide whether or not to PIC at your place to start next season

[vex]

Originally posted by robbgmaier
I'm already trying decide whether or not to PIC at your place to start next season

Is that code for, "MOTS" again?

[vex]

Dola

You might check out AS Baconfats team, it's kinda interesting to see the players we were playing against seeing as how he's on a selling spree.

[robbgmaier]

For what it's worth, I fired all 5 of my psychos, and after the update, my confidence fell to strong. I'm guessing strong is better than overconfident, so I'm not going to complain.

[cheetum]

the difference between strong and wonderful isnt that huge.

I experienced over-confidence only once, when i was destroying an all bot series. (I went undefeated and scored almost 100 goals.) I didnt even have psychologists but i was just raping the teams so badly my teams confidence went through the roof. I won that game anyway so it really didnt matter. :P

I usually start a season with at least 3 pyschologists to boost my confidence quickly. If i expect to do well and win all/most of my games i will fire them once my confidence has reached wonderful. If I expect to struggle, I will keep them all season and even hire extra temporarily if I forsee a particularly heavy loss. This method has been very effective for me so far at keeping confidence high and other then that one time i have never had issues with being over-confident.