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I'm looking through my players right now and am not sure which players to keep, which ones to sell, and which ones to fire. Are there some guidelines that I can use in this? I thought I read somewhere about players under $3000 salaries are not worth keeping around...

Most of them aren't, but if your only player with respectable JS and JR is a $2800 SG, I wouldn't get rid of him. You can't replace all of them right away, so I would try to figure out if any of them could have a use in your team as second or even third player on a position. For that you'll have to figure out what skills are needed for each position...

my advice is check what the player is currently valued at .if no more than a few thousand dollars and over the age of 20 fire!.keep players under 19 they can be trained.I lot of it though is common sense but really just check values of players .when i first joined i fired 4 players as they just wont sell and their salaries cost you each week.why try to sell a player for $1000 and wait two weeks to do it and his salary is costing you $3000 its just wasting money.

Just a note. After play offs and before draft and new season markets values are pretty low right now. It should taken into consideration. He can sell garbage players, sometimes someone is willing to pay 1-2K. He should do it the way he could still fire them before the financial update if nobody would want them.

Then, once I've gotten my trainees, then I should improve my trainer, and as finance allows upgrade the other positions. Does this sound about right?

It does....I would go for at least a level 3 trainer. 4 or 5 if you can find one that is not too expensive. Go for one with no speciality....they are much cheaper.

Good post,

I too have played HT for many years now, but was never a huge soccer fan to begin with so it took me a while just to get the actual 'soccer' aspect of the game. I know BB much better so I am excited about this game. If I may add a few questions to this post-

1> How often do you switch training type? 5-6 weeks or do you wait for a specific guy to pop. I am sure there are variables but just in general or some scenarios?

2> How do I get a scrim? do i go to random team pages and challenge?

3> Do the # of televised games fluctuate in any way? more if you are good or just a set # per season? Is it more important to win those games for attendance or PR or anything?

4> I chose to use the depth chart until 4th then coach decide. I wanted to see how different the coach thinks from myself in regards to talent. How accurate is the coach in putting the best options on the floor?

Thanks :)

2) There is a thread dedicated to getting scrimmages at the Global board. And in most national boards there are similar threads.

You can go to "World>Countries aqnd choose a country - you will see online users (and if you are supporter, those without a SC are highlighted).

3) i think it is set. Play off are televised too. There is question about -TV games in fan survey. So it is important but few could tell how much important it actually is.

1> How often do you switch training type? 5-6 weeks or do you wait for a specific guy to pop. I am sure there are variables but just in general or some scenarios?

When I started out, I was training inside guys - PF/C primarily. I would rotate between inside shot, inside defense, rebounding, and shotblocking. Pretty much two weeks of each.

For those weeks where you just have two games (which happens during the all-star break if you're not in the cup and at the end of the season if you're not in the finals), a some stamina or free throw training fits nicely.

sorry for this silly question, but which gets used first, backups or reserves? I did a word search in the rules and couldn't find which one it is :(

Backups.

For what it's worth, I quite often have my starting five, five more guys as backups, and then two guys cover the reserve spots. When I do that, the reserves almost always get zero playing time.

thanks, I figured it was about something like that.

couple more questions for you:

1) I sold out my arena tonight on the first match of the season. I don't want to spend money building the arena bigger quite yet, so I was thinking about raising the cost of tickets. how much do you think I could raise them by? I stomped on my opponent's in the match by 40 points so I'm hoping that the fans will be happy, plus next match I'm playing a team that is really weak and hasn't been logged in for a few weeks.

2) What do you tend to tell your coach as to the depth chart? I've been keeping mine around 'coach picks from depth chart'. What are the advantages/disadvantages to having strict/liberal coach orders?

3) How important is it for teams to 'take it easy'? What impacts the rate of enthusiasm declining? In hattrick the coach's leadership dictates how quickly team spirit will drop over the course of the week.

After winning my first match and (hopefully) getting some good trainees and a better trainer, I'm feeling like I understand the game a bit better and am enjoying it. I'll just need to remember to keep setting orders since there are so many more matches each week compared to HT!