Transfers in year 1
 

I really would like to go out and buy a player or two in my first year but I'm wondering how cautious I should be in going after anyone. It's week 1 for me and I don't know how much money I'll be bringing in every week...etc. And I'm not too sure how much to pay for a real solid player in the transfer market.

Any quick tips?

when i first started i bought guys 29+ to save money. they are a ton cheaper and you get the experience bonuses. plus most of the guys you buy now will be gone in a season or two anyway as you quickly upgrade.
i would focus on putting money into trainees, but thats me. but it definately is a good idea to get an idea of your bi-weekly income before you get into debt.

Do you mean the youth program? Or going out and getting some decent young guys?

i mean going out and buying some 17-18 year old passables in whatever you plan on training.

i suggest scoring by the way, they are too expensive and the more trainers will bring the price down ;)

I would suggest training midfield for a beginner. It's nice to have a great attack, but you won't get anywhere without a decent midfield in the lower levels.

So did I luck out in pulling this trainee from my youth program with Passable form in my first week then?

Robert Darden
TSI = 0 , 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities


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

Or is this guy nothing to speak of?

all youth pulls have passable form when they get to your team, so no you didn't luck out. :)

You got the typical crappy first youth pull that we all got :)

FM

yeah, i mean passable or solid in their primary skill that they train, not form.

Not at all:( His form is just really his gameday status.

Ahh...got it. I thought that may have been a bit too easy. :D

See my newbie guide (mostly updated for the current state of the game), which includes some advice about where to spend your money right now.

Dola, the only thing the guide doesn't cover right now is the doubling of stadium expansion price at the end of this season. Therefore, I'd recommend planning for an expansion by the end of the season, even if you're not getting the attendance to support it. Just be careful with your economy.

Hey thanks! This helps out tremendously.

Dola ~

Mr. Wednesday...great guide...I've already gone out and got a new coach. One question that I have is on the trainees. So are you really suggesting that I go out and buy 20 something 17-18 yr olds on top of the players that I already have? What's the average cost of one and how long does it take usually to assemble a full squad of trainees?

Heh. I'm slowly taking over hattrick terminology!

It just seemed the best way to explain it, even if it came from your game;)

No, I'm not suggesting you buy 20 of them. :eek:

I'm suggesting you make sure that at whatever position you're training, you get a full set of trainees, preferably 17 to 18 with passable skill in whatever it is that's getting trained. At that position, you shouldn't really have anybody else besides your trainees (unless you want to hold onto a guy to play when somebody's injured who will get occasional training).

17 to 18 year old passables should be under $50k, I would think. If 17's are running too high (as they might be at this point in the season), get 18's.

not at all. you only need the number of trainees that you can possibly train in 1 week. for instance, PM can train 3 guys 100% and 2 guys at 50% per game. you have 2 games per week. so you would want 10 trainees.

"Full set of trainees" means starters plus backups. e.g. two keepers, six IMs (plus four wingers at half training, the half trainees are a lower priority), four wingers (plus four wingbacks at half training), six forwards, or nine or ten defenders. But you only need a set of trainees in whatever you're training. If you're not training PM, for example, you don't need the six IMs plus four half-training wingers.

Ahh ok...so a "trainee" in essence is just a player on your team then. Well that seems a bit more feasible. :D Ok...well I've already picked up one 17 yr old this afternoon for $6,000 and am in line for another hopefully also around the same amount.

So show us who you got already :) (that way we can give you some hints on if you're getting players who will be good for your program)

SI

Ok...well here are the three trainees I picked up yesterday. All are IM's and none of which were more than $10,000. Any input is welcome.

Carl Thomas
TSI = 290 , 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities

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

Nikolaj Rohde-Larsen
TSI = 280 , 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities [Powerful]

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

Sigi Cecarroni
TSI = 230 , 18 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

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

Another question I have is that being that my team is up in Seattle...would it benefit me to go after guys who are "Powerful" or will the weather not have that much effect during my games.

Weather doesn't reflect real life weather. In the hattrick world, it's just as likely to rain in Seattle as it is in Nevada.

and it's a darn good thing or else my Quebec region would have games played under snow about 75% or the season :D

FM

I thought that when they meant to go out and buy trainees they meant all of them...now i have to either fire or sell them....i bout a ton of 18 , 19 yo and thus my team sucks no experience and I am sucking arse. So...i finally have my defense in shape and will switch to keeper training because people that are stupid should only train keepers.

I trained keeper for quite a few seasons... are you calling me stupid :P

my, YoSoy, I think he just did...

:D

FM

No i am not saying you are stupid...i am saying that stupid people should only be allowed to train keepers and nothing else ;)

Woohoo, YSS, you and me both!
Oh wait, I trained GK and had a nats teamer. THAT was kinda stupid. ;)

~tk

I trained GK and had a FOREIGN U-20 player. I win!


Hey now. I didn't get out of IV until my 7th full season.

Not her fault that her extra IM Meador-ed.

Well shawn you crossed the line. I was willing to keep this remotely civil and private but you had to post here. [deleted]

First off, I never said you were stupid IN THIS THREAD (despite what your HT-mail says). As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure I've only called you stupid in IRC and that's because there you were being a moron, I'm the only one who detests stupidity enough to call you out on it.

So now let's get to the real heart of the matter. "Stupid."
Obviously I must be stupid because I am in V after 5 full HT seasons despite promoting to IV twice. Do you REALLY want to open this can of worms? If you BOTHERED to look at the history of this fed and particularly this board you would see what my history has been like.
Promoted too early when I did at first because my V series wasn't very good. I was training GK's at the time and had just pulled Jonathan Dixon, who eventually made the u20 as a GK. If you would BOTHER to read the history here or even at my HT-Arena site, you'd see that having a nats teamer GK...or even a GK who has a CHANCE at a national team slot...is a very demanding task. Particularly for a team that has advanced too quickly and is short on money to begin with.
I promoted into one of the hardest IV series at the time. I won a few games. I lost a bunch. I tied a couple. I auto-demoted, sure, but I learned a ton. Went back to V, dominated, and then was back in IV.
Now if you ask anybody who was following my matches last season ([deleted]) you'll know that quite often, I was just unlucky. More than a few times I outrated a team across the board and lost. 2/3 of the way through last season haing Dixon on my squad was too much..so I sold him and started a new training plan.
Admittedly it would have been better to wait for a new season to start a new training program. But I really didn't have that luxury. Do I admit to making a few bad decisions? Absolutely. To err is human, and I think 99% of the people here will admit to making a bad choice or two in their HT career.
As for going out in round 4 each year..well, once I was robbed and the others have been about injury, red cards, and this new training plan.

[deleted]


~tk
edited to remove profanity and return a civil tone to the thread. i believe this matter has been resolved

uhh
 

sean.. first of all that was pretty rude and uncalled for.

I wouldn't start trashing other teams that could kick your ass before you go out and prove that you some Godlike manager. I've been in IV for tons of seasons.. since season 19 i believe and do I suck? I think most would say no.

A few words of advice.. don't come to a new place and make enemies right away.. FOFC has a lotta nice people..

my thoughts,
-Hobbes

Sean, I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish here, but I don't think it's a good idea to make enemies in a place you are new too especially when you are new to HT. Be careful with your words next time.

Thank you...i shall.

I was hasty and as terpkristin so aptly put it...ignorant...I am sorry terpkristin...I am the stupid one.

Look shawn, I said it in HT-mail and I'll say it here so it's clear.
I'm certainly not God's gift to HT.
Just watch how you post things, tone is important and online it can be easy to over inflate your opinions.
I see NO point to furthering this thread.
Nor to extending animosity, just try to think about your tone when posting.
Apology accepted, let's move on to what's really important...HT!

~tk

YEAH!!! HT

Okay, I just read the whole outburst, that was probably started by my own self with a witty little comment made among friends, to YoSoySean. And by "whole" I mean deleted messages included because I can do that.

Shawn, we're a pretty close knit group of friends around here. Meanwhile, you are fairly new first to HT, then to this group. Nobody's saying they know everything about HT, but most of us have been playing in average for over a year and a half, in calendar time, so about 5 seasons. Unless you've had a team before, you still have some things to learn about HT, things I'm sure many people around here will be happy to tell you, if you ask them kindly.

As mrkilla pointed out, the tone and wording of a post can lead people in taking your comment in very different ways. In the future, please make sure you can discuss matters with all the facts, without saying all kinds of rumours or false affirmations about someone.

Finally, I'll do what I've never done before in the HT forum, other than for transfer market ads, and it's that I'll close this thread.

Thanks for listening.

Steve, aka FrogMan.