First Game

[Gwalyn]

Well guys I won my first game 4-2 and of course I have my first injury. Woohoo. I am curious since you guys have played this game for awhile, it seems my starting team is pretty good. Here is the list of my players, give me your opinion.



Your 18 players

Anthony Benedict
57 000 US$, 27 years, weak form
Has weak experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: solid
Winger: weak Defending: wretched
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: disastrous

Benjamin Krebs
36 000 US$, 24 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Technical]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: weak Passing: passable
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: weak

Chance Snowden
0 US$, 51 years, inadequate form
Has brilliant experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: disastrous Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: wretched
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: poor

Edgar Gagne
22 000 US$, 27 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: weak
Winger: passable Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: solid

Gilberto Martínez
39 000 US$, 20 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities [Technical]

Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: disastrous
Winger: solid Defending: disastrous
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: disastrous

Jamey Waldron
63 000 US$, 19 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and disastrous leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: passable Passing: wretched
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: solid

Jeffry Anderson
20 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: inadequate
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: wretched

Joe Patten
59 000 US$, 25 years, weak form
Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

Stamina: wretched Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: passable
Winger: poor Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

Josep Tejeiro
71 000 US$, 21 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: passable
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: poor

Noel Bates
11 000 US$, 22 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: disastrous Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: weak Defending: wretched
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: weak

Patrick Oakland
27 000 US$, 26 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: poor
Winger: solid Defending: poor
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: wretched

Reg Murphy
14 000 US$, 30 years, inadequate form
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: weak Passing: inadequate
Winger: wretched Defending: weak
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: disastrous

Rich Rossi
166 000 US$, 23 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and solid leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: passable
Playmaking: wretched Passing: wretched
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: passable

Ron Lutz
34 000 US$, 25 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Technical]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: poor
Winger: weak Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

Ronny Moore
123 000 US$, 24 years, solid form
Has poor experience and passable leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: weak
Scoring: solid Set Pieces: disastrous

Ross Peralta 5
46 000 US$, 26 years, passable form
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: poor
Winger: solid Defending: disastrous
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

Tony Clay
1 000 US$, 26 years, inadequate form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: disastrous
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: solid

Troy Sams
18 000 US$, 24 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: passable

I am currently playing a 3-5-2. Thoughts? Opinions?

[Aesyrqwe]

Get some stamina training quick..

-Aes-

[dacman]

Originally posted by Aesyrqwe
Get some stamina training quick..

-Aes-

I agree -- seems it needs to be SOP for new teams.

[damnMikeBrown]

You were blessed with some wings, weren't ya.

[daedalus]

As Aes and dacman said, I'd say train stamina until all your midfielders and defenders have reached passable+. Maybe identify your team's strength (have enough wingers?) and decide on your training plan. Keep an eye on the transfer wire at what your team might need. Check it out and get a feel on what you might want to go for and the price range you should be shelling out for before actually buying.

Oh, and read rules a few times.

Chance Snowden
0 US$, 51 years, inadequate form
Has brilliant experience and weak leadership abilities [Quick]

Does this mean he doesn't coach as well in sunny and rainy games?

[TargetPractice6]

I think it means he's quick to get fired... He's only poor.

[illinifan999]

Still has a great name.

[sterlingice]

1. What's up with your form? Lots of low form guys and I thought you started with passable form for everyone.

2. Unfortunately, you also need stamina training but let's wait on that: no use training stamina if you don't have all of your players in order.

3. Sell Patrick Oakland since you have 3 veteran wingers and none can play wingback (and he's the worst). However, you'll have to wait until Perault is healthy again.

4. You have a good mix of strikers: one solid passer and one solid scorer.

5. You need wingbacks. As middle defender, you might want to try Patten at offensive and see how his ratings go.

Here's the rest of your lineup
Keeper: Rossi
Wingbacks: Lutz
Middle Defender: Patten (offensive)
Wingers: Martínez, Oakland
Middies: Tejeiro, Waldron
Forwards: Moore, Benedict
Sell/Fire: Sams, Clay, Murphy, Bates, Anderson, Gagne , Krebs

Shopping list:
(NOTE: Wait a day to buy stuff- there isn't much out on the market until tomorrow when the youth pulls start hitting the market)
Great news: you have a pretty young passable keeper so you don't need to drop the $80K most people do. You might want to spend $10-$15K on a backup inad keeper, but no more. You have little cash to spend and lots to spend it on. You definately need another wingback. Try to look for a pass/inad (def/wing) wingback who is in his mid 20s for less than $20K- you won't be able to find these prices for about a day, tho, when all the youth pulls glut the market and drive prices down.

Then you need to get a better coach- but this can be an expesive endeavor. I would say fire away until you run across a passable or solid coach. But this might cost you a fortune- it's a delicate balance: don't put yourself in the poorhouse if you can't get a pass/solid one.

Next comes the difficult part: you need 4 middies (I'll try to address this in the next message).

Once you have the shopping taken care of, then you can worry about stamina training (so you might be able to start as early as this week).

Also, don't overkill on the staff early or you will kill your money. But make sure you have what you need: 5:2 goaltending:assistant coaches, 1 physiotherapist (set training to 95%), 2 doctors (to help your winger back) and 3-5 spokespersons to bulk up that supporter crew and make them happy (your future income depends on keeping these people).

SI

[sterlingice]

After you've got your coach, wingback, and keeper, see how much you have left. I suppose the easiest thing to say is: "look for 17yo inad or 18yo passable playmakers which cost less than $30-$50K depending on secondary skills". But getting a grasp on the market is difficult: look a lot before buying. Otherwise you will get the same buyers remorse we all get. You need one more starter on the midfield so you might want to try and find a 19yo solid PM with good stamina for under $100K and then get cheaper trainees like those I pointed out above.

Two things are certain:
1. You will see a player and think "I may never see a bargain like this again" and thusly get in a bidding war
2. Then you will get overzealous and overspend
This is the way of things in Hattrick

Also, eventually try to scrap together some sort of a B team with subs at defenders and strikers for friendlies so your starters don't get injured. This is not as big a deal as making sure you have your midfield trainees.

Speaking of eventually, you will eventually sell Tejeiro, Waldron in a season or two once their PM abilities rise. People will overpay for them because they have good secondary skills and you will then be able to buy some players you really want.

Oh, and I forgot: keep your youth pull contribution at $20K no matter what. Pull keepers until your squad is up to about inad because you might get some cheap cash from selling inad keepers (keepers because you only need one good stat as opposed to more than one typically for outfielders).

SI