What's a clown?

[finkenst]

As requested by KevinNU7.

[saintjo]

In order to know what a clown is you first have to understand that each team has a Team Leader

The Team Leader is the player on your team that has the highest leadership value. If 2 or more players all have the highest leadership level, only 1 will still be the team leader. It is decided by the exact decimal leadership value that is not visible to the player. So it can appear basically random to the users since we can never see this value.
The Team Leader's agreeability affects your team's Team Spirit. The higher that players agreeability, the slower your Team Spirity falls when above composed and the faster it will rise when below composed.
Think of it like this. A players Leadership helps choose who your Team Leader is, while that player's Agreeability decides the affect he will have on your Team Spirit

A Clown is just the best possible player to be your Team Leader. They have a Leadership value of Solid AND an Agreeability of Popular. This allows you buy the largest majority of players (passable leadership and below) so you do not have multiple Solid Leadership players and has the best effect on your Team Spirit because he has the highest possible Agreeability. With only 1 solid leadership player, you know he is your Team Leader.

Remember, just because you do not have a clown, it does not mean you do not have a Team Leader.

An Anti-Clown is the worst possible player to be your Team Leader.They have a Leadership value of Solid AND an Agreeability of Nasty. If the Anti-clown is your Team Leader, then your Team Spirit will fall the fastest when above composed and rise the slowest when below composed.

Semi-Clown are also mentioned occaionally. This is a player who has a Leadership value of Passable AND an Agreeability value of Popular. If all of your team's player have a lower Leadership value than Passable, a Semi-clown will have the same effect as a true Clown.
I have also heard of Semi-clown's being referred to as players with a Leadership value of Solid and an Agreeability value of Sympathic. This player gives you the same benefit of allowing you to purchase passable and lower Leadership valued players without affecting who your Team Leader is, while giving you the second best possible affect on your Team Spirit

[saintjo]

How to buy a clown for 10k USD:

The easiest way to get a clown is to keep an eye on the Transfer Ads pages. However the price of a clown can be pretty expensive 60k-80k generally. You cannot search for a clown since users are not allowed to search the transfer wire by agreeability and leadership of players.
If you want to save some money, here is a way to get a clown for 10k. Basically look for youth pull players that have junk skills.

1. Wait until the economic update time for any country when players are allowed to do their new youth pulls for that week.

2. Do a search every few minutes in that country for a player...
Under 20 years old.
A TSI of 0
and Sort by newest players added to Transfer Wire.

3. Click on each player added to the Transfer Wire since the Economic Update. Look for a player with an agreeability of Popular AND a leadership of Solid.

4. Once you find a player, bid 10k USD on him. This is the maximum bid allowed for a player with a 0 TSI.

5. Congrats, you just locked in this player. No one can outbid you since you are already at the maximum bid allowed for this player Just wait 3 days and the clown is all yours for the price of 10k.

Note: This technique takes time. Dont expect to be successful on the first try. It took me a few weeks of search at the economic update times.

[Qwikshot]

Originally Posted by saintjo

How to buy a clown for 10k USD:

The easiest way to get a clown is to keep an eye on the Transfer Ads pages. However the price of a clown can be pretty expensive 60k-80k generally. You cannot search for a clown since users are not allowed to search the transfer wire by agreeability and leadership of players.
If you want to save some money, here is a way to get a clown for 10k. Basically look for youth pull players that have junk skills.

1. Wait until the economic update time for any country when players are allowed to do their new youth pulls for that week.

2. Do a search every few minutes in that country for a player...
Under 20 years old.
A TSI of 0
and Sort by newest players added to Transfer Wire.

3. Click on each player added to the Transfer Wire since the Economic Update. Look for a player with an agreeability of Popular AND a leadership of Solid.

4. Once you find a player, bid 10k USD on him. This is the maximum bid allowed for a player with a 0 TSI.

5. Congrats, you just locked in this player. No one can outbid you since you are already at the maximum bid allowed for this player Just wait 3 days and the clown is all yours for the price of 10k.

Note: This technique takes time. Dont expect to be successful on the first try. It took me a few weeks of search at the economic update times.

Bloody brilliant!

[Mr. Wednesday]

I think part of the problem with getting these players is believed to be managers running illegal transfer market scanners, but maybe that's just on clowns with a TSI.

[Raven Hawk]

Easy way to find a clown for under $80,000 . . .

Search the transfer markets in Europe for players whose bid is exactly $79,500. That is code for a clown.

[saintjo]

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