How to get my team to improve.

[sledge4]

I've been in Hattrick for about 12 seasons, but the highest star rating I can get is 4.5 stars.

What am I missing? Do I not sell enough tickets? Too few/many Specialists? Use to high of a % when training during the season?

I'd just like to know what the preferred steps are to improve. It's really becoming boring after all these seasons to see my guys not imrprove and lose, then get dropped a division, then win that division, get moved up and get spanked all over again.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,
Will

Team Name = Watervliet Alleycats

[Masked]

Based on a max star rating of 4.5, I suspect that you are not training effectively.

What are you training? Do you have young trainees (17-19)?

You should pick one area - scoring, playmaking, defense, keeper, or wingers - and train it every week.

Since you have no young or really good players, I would just start a fresh training program. For example if you pick scoring, sell all your current forwards, and buy 6 17 year old passable scorers (passing of weak or better). If you can't afford 17yos buy a few 18 yos. Just play 3 in league and the other 3 in your friendly. Once they reach outstanding which will take about 2 seasons, start selling them off to improve other areas. Eventually you will want to train them to higher levels.

Also, you need a new coach. Buy a solid trainer with poor leadership for about 270K. That will be okay for a few seasons. Your goal should not be to win now, but to build a foundation to enable you to win in a few seasons.

[MikeVick7]

:::What Masked said:::

You sound like the guy that's in my Div V league right now. He's been in Hattrick for 10 seasons now and doesn't seem to have any kind of training program in effect. He's been bouncing between Div V and Div VI the entire time he has been playing and his team has never improved. I'm sure he's feeling the same frustrations that you are.

But just follow the basic guide that Masked has laid out above or do a search on any training thread on how to get your training program up and running.

[Mr. Wednesday]

I've been in Hattrick for about 12 seasons, but the highest star rating I can get is 4.5 stars.

What am I missing? Do I not sell enough tickets? Too few/many Specialists? Use to high of a % when training during the season?

I'd just like to know what the preferred steps are to improve. It's really becoming boring after all these seasons to see my guys not imrprove and lose, then get dropped a division, then win that division, get moved up and get spanked all over again.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,
Will

Team Name = Watervliet AlleycatsTwo things drive your team's improvement.

The first is income, from sponsorships and ticket sales; your team should be reasonably profitable on a biweekly basis.

The second is training. Training improves your team in two ways. First is the most obvious, improvement of the players you are training. The second is via barter -- because of how training works, you have excess training capacity, in that you can train twice as many people as you need in a position. When you sell those trainees, you are effectively trading training at that position for training at another position in the improved player that you buy.

If your team has been around for ten seasons, between attendance and sponsorship, biweekly profitability should not be a problem unless you have a ridiculous salary for your league level. You should be able to carry ten spokespersons, a total of ten assistants (with the exact mix driven by your training program), ten physiotherapists (you can get away with fewer here if you're not comfortable with the expense of ten), and if you have outstanding injuries ten doctors. Your stadium capacity should be at least 30,000, and the seating ratio should be in the ballpark of 62.5% terraces, 25% basic seating, 10% seats under roof, and 2.5% VIP boxes -- it doesn't have to be exactly at those percentages, but it should be close.

For training, what Masked said. I don't know what you have for a coach right now, but you need a passable coach at least. A solid coach (externally recruited as he suggested) is better, but if you can't afford that and trainees, a passable trainer with poor leadership costs $80k and is an adequate stopgap.