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man, you've gotta have balls to play normal after losing the first game.. :)
also, i'm not sure if your enthusiasm will be higher after game-2..
after TIE in game-1, enthusiasm will tend to decrease to 5, there are five daily updates between game-1 and game-3..

his entusiasm would be much higher on game 3 because you CTed game 1. I am assuming here that both teams arrive at the finals with high enthusiasm. Cause if you arrive with enthusiasm 5, dont even bother thinking of strategies...

normal- normal- CT is best strategy in my opinion
1st game if CT you lose
2nd game it shoul be TIE you win
3th game if you same or strong you win ( for your enthuasism)
or
1st game if TIE you win
2nd game if normal (you are same) you will win ( because top enthuasism is 5)
3th game CT -CT if you are strong you win
or
opposite normal normal CT it same
then now we think our tactics :)

Edited by eaglesight (2008/01/20 10:16:33 CET)

Last edited by aquila at 1/20/2008 10:16:33 AM

play normal in your first game... you may lose, but there's a greater chance that you'll win against the crunching opponent when playing normal than playing TIE in the first game...

I'm a risker, i get more excited with this scenario....

if i Lose, I'm sure i'll play normal next time, 'cuz my opponents' players are all beat up.

if i win, i'll comfortably play normal still, or even CT him so bad, he'll remember it 'till next season....

i don't take a 3game strategy, i'd like to win unmercifully... go, 2-0!!

oh yeah.... are the home matches alternate? cuz i think i'm gonna be the host on the first game...

in the first post there is asumed the opponent will play a certain order of normal and CTs.
What makes us think everyone will follow that strategy?

I think there will be a large variety of paterns managers might follow. Heck, I even changed mine for only 1 game more than 3 times in the last day before the game was played!

If for instance your opponent had to CT in his previous round to be sure to win (and that's lickely if it took 3 games!), you should NEVER CT in your first game if you have high enthousiasm.
This is why:

If he CT -ed his last game his max enthousiasm will be 6 (or maybe 7). If yours is 10, then you should have enough with normal, and even with TIE you make good chance of winning. Why should one waste his high level with CT in a situation like this?

In the scenario the first poster said it will be the best way, but fact is there is no way every opponent is going to follow this pattern. It's much more complicated than to say there is 1 winning theory.
In a way most managers will have to gamble, and if one gambles wrong....

yes, I can follow your theory.
What I don't understand is why one would be eager to get his enthousiasm below 5...

Say you have enthousiasm 9, and you TIE, then you go to 11, by the time the next game starts you probably have 9 again.
IF you CT, you will get down to 5, or 4, and by your next game you wil have enthusiasm of 5.

Now, in the case you CT we asume you win, otherwise it would have been hopeless all along. So next game you TIE to go back up to 7, which will probably make your enthousiasm 6 right before the final game, since you are almost sure you will need a final game if you TIE with enthousiasm 5.
So for your final game you can crunch with enthousiasm 6. This is not bad, but also not very good.

In the first case you might win, if you are lucky, since your enthusiasm is high, and your opponent might have played CT in the previous game, maybe even in both previous games... In this case you have won, since you can CT next game with enthousiasm 9 for an almost sure win... He will never get his enthousiasm as high as yours, not even if he TIE-ed his first game. Should you have CT-ed, and he TIE-ed, you will be quite even for the second game, maybe he will even be a little better, you CT-ed for nothing, since you didn't need it at all.
But let's say you loose. This will mean he either has a better team, or played normal or CT, in the first case you would have few chances of winning anyway, unless he makes mistakes. In the 2 last cases you don't need CT in your 2nd game to win, since his enthusiasm will have dropped below yours, so you play normal and you should win, your enthousiasm will get down to 8 by your next and final game.
You now have enthusiasm 8 and can crunch for your final game.

If you play this tactic and get unlucky, you loose, true. But with your tactic you are almost sure for game 1 and 2, but you start game 3 with conditions that could have been better... So it's not that simple to determine what is best.
It all depends on your enthusiasm, and your opponents, and what he chooses to do himself, and also that your opponent is slightly better, or you are slightly better, or about equal,...

you are missing stg too
your opponent have daily uptades too then he can so like you
if you talk about this season your opponent is not as good as you
then think this
you_ CT-TIE-CT
opponent TIE- normal-CT and he have luck
or if he doesnt afraid and he do TIE-TIE-CT he have big luck


Edited by eaglesight (2008/01/20 07:24:16 nm CET)

Last edited by aquila at 1/20/2008 7:24:16 PM

What mean TB ???

Can you know if a team has played CT comparing its qualifications and/or stats with previous matches? It will really help to choose the tactic :)