lytic
06-23-2003, 10:07 PM
3-5-2
4-4-2
5-4-1
3-4-3
5-3-2
4-5-1
are the formations you can run *legally* and learn formation experience from as long as you don't have more than 3 in one central position, I.E. 4 Inner Middies or 4 Central Defenders.
2-5-3
5-5-0
5-2-3
are the *legal* formations that you use without losing training, but you will not learn formation experience from. You must follow the rules about... no more than 3 in one central position!
You will lose a week of training if you put 4 OR MORE in one central located position!!! In one of my games when I was a newbie, I put 4 IMs in a game. It was a friendly, but my ENTIRE team lost training. I'd get the match ID later if someone really wants to see it. It's probably be deleted by hattrick by now to save space since it was summer last year.
This week, the South Korean U20 team will run a 3-5-2 with 4 IMs. Why? Because we don't lose training when we stupid things like that and we need the extra midfield; hence the ever so popular 0-8-2 formation that had a big underdog pulling a divine mid to beat the other team despite no defenders other than the keeper. They had amazing possesion... like 85% or something like that. Their keeper was good enough to only allow 1 goal. He posted passable defences all the way around if I remember correctly.
Don't get confused about where to pull the players from, it's all about not having too many in the middle... I hope that clears up some of the confusion about formations.
4-4-2
5-4-1
3-4-3
5-3-2
4-5-1
are the formations you can run *legally* and learn formation experience from as long as you don't have more than 3 in one central position, I.E. 4 Inner Middies or 4 Central Defenders.
2-5-3
5-5-0
5-2-3
are the *legal* formations that you use without losing training, but you will not learn formation experience from. You must follow the rules about... no more than 3 in one central position!
You will lose a week of training if you put 4 OR MORE in one central located position!!! In one of my games when I was a newbie, I put 4 IMs in a game. It was a friendly, but my ENTIRE team lost training. I'd get the match ID later if someone really wants to see it. It's probably be deleted by hattrick by now to save space since it was summer last year.
This week, the South Korean U20 team will run a 3-5-2 with 4 IMs. Why? Because we don't lose training when we stupid things like that and we need the extra midfield; hence the ever so popular 0-8-2 formation that had a big underdog pulling a divine mid to beat the other team despite no defenders other than the keeper. They had amazing possesion... like 85% or something like that. Their keeper was good enough to only allow 1 goal. He posted passable defences all the way around if I remember correctly.
Don't get confused about where to pull the players from, it's all about not having too many in the middle... I hope that clears up some of the confusion about formations.