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The importance to be...trained!

Written by RavenJ_BSHI

How long do you play Hattrick?
1 season, 1 years, 10 years or 1 week?
It's not so important, because all managers playing Hattrick can simply notice how Hattrick is changing.

As a worm can suddenly become a marvellous batterfly, Hattrick started to be simply a normal game with just a few but good ideas, and season by season, thanks to the help of all of us, it's the actual hard game to play.

During this long evolution period, just a few things never changed, at least in the concept of what you need to do and not as you need to do it: you always have to train your players.

Training. Let's speak together how important is to make this, and just a few tips about this needed feature.

As i wrote in the summary, training is something that changed in the concept of what you need to do and not as you need to do it.

In the last seasons, 3 important things changed in Hattrick about training:

1)Ratings are more affected by secondaries, to force managers to train multiskill players and not only monoskills with divine (or more) primary skill.
2)You are able to train quickly your players, above all younger and low starting skill players.
3)Last but not the least, loyalty bonus and mother club bonus.

Do you think that training is simple? You are wrong.
When you take your decision about the training you want to start, you have to make a long term project about it.

Goalkeepers:
Goalkeeping is needless to say important for goalkeepers. They also make use out of being good defenders, whilst set pieces helps to defend against free kicks and penalties.

Central defenders:
Defenders should naturally have a lot of defending. Playmaking is also beneficial, and their passing skill really makes a difference when counter-attacking.

Wing backs:
Defending is most important, but they also benefit a lot from being good wingers. They contribute a little with their playmaking skill, and passing helps when counter-attacking.

Inner Midfielders:
Having good playmakers in the inner midfield positions is a key ingredient for most successful teams. They also use their passing and defending skills a lot.

Wingers:
Naturally profit from being good wingers, but playmaking is also important. In addition, they also use both their passing and defending skill.

Forwards:
Their number one task is to score goals, making scoring their number one skill. Passing is also valuable, and so is winger.

What you read above is a copy/paste from the manual, now here to you some interesting tips:

1) Training %
You always have to set in your team 100% of intensity level, you always need to have 10 assistant coaches(for newbies it's better to make a few money in you cash fund before have an high staff cost, pay attention), at least a solid coach and a correct stamina level compared to your average team age.
Look at this table to have a little idea:
S% 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
5% 4,20 4,70 5,10 5,40 5,60 5,70 5,55 5,40 5,25
6% 4,57 5,07 5,47 5,77 5,97 6,07 5,92 5,77 5,62
7% 4,92 5,42 5,82 6,12 6,32 6,42 6,27 6,12 5,97
8% 5,24 5,74 6,14 6,44 6,64 6,74 6,59 6,44 6,29
9% 5,53 6,03 6,43 6,73 6,93 7,03 6,88 6,73 6,58
10% 5,81 6,31 6,71 7,01 7,21 7,31 7,16 7,01 6,86
11% 6,06 6,56 6,96 7,26 7,46 7,56 7,41 7,26 7,11
12% 6,30 6,80 7,20 7,50 7,70 7,80 7,65 7,50 7,35
13% 6,52 7,02 7,42 7,72 7,92 8,02 7,87 7,72 7,57
14% 6,72 7,22 7,62 7,92 8,12 8,22 8,07 7,92 7,77
15% 6,91 7,41 7,81 8,11 8,31 8,41 8,26 8,11 7,96

It means that:
5% is ok, but you'll never have a passable stamina level.
8% is good, because you'll have your players with at least a passable stamina level when 19 yo.
10% is very good, because you'll have players with solid stamina level when 20 yo.
15% is perfect, because you'll have players with excellent stamina level also when they'll be 24 yo.
Do you understand the difference? You have to increase your stamina level season by season, considering your starting average team age from the beginning to the end of your training plan.
This let you have the faster your training, the higher your player's skill, the better his stamina level.

2) Skill decrease and training plan
As you know, when a player gets closer to the age of 30, he loses a little of his skills each week. How big the decrease is depends on how old the player is and the level of skill he is at. The higher level of skill the player is at, the bigger decrease. Older players also suffer from bigger decreases than younger ones.
Players at the higher skill levels (above titanic) may experience decreases even when they are younger, making further training on that particular skill less appealing. Note that the higher the skill, the faster the decrease.
So, how can you optimize your training, if you want to create a multiskill player?

Here to you the answer: train your player till titanic primary skill, then change to train the best secondary skill for some seasons, then change back to primary skill. This is the non-written rule of the perfect bi-skills training, but you can apply this also for tri-skills players.
Read above to remember the best secondary skills for every player you have in your team.

3) Off-season training.
When the season ends, you often are in doubt about which players need to be still trained and which players can be sacrified without playing.
This is not the perfect thing to do.
You always need to consider that if one player is sacrified for about 3 or 4 off season matches(it means 8 matches), he lost the potential of 1 skill level. Do you think it's good? I think it's not.

So here to you some little suggests about off season training for the most important trainings:

-Keeper: train set pieces and alternate your 2 keepers one time as keeper and one time as another role, setting him as set pieces taker. Set pieces is always needed for a keeper, and always remember that a player take a 25% of training bonus if plays as a keeper and if set as set pieces taker.

-Defence: train defencive positions, so you'll train all your 10 defensors, slowly but without stopping nobody

-Winger: you can decide to train short passes (a very good secondary skill), to play 2-5-3 so you can train all your wingers and wing-backs that will play your 2 matches as wingers, IMs and forwards.

-PM: The same of wingers, you'll sacrifice 2 of your 10 trainees, it's better to sacrifice 2 of your 50% trainees (players that plays as wingers your matches)

-Scoring: as winger and PM (passing is THE secondary skill for a forward), but you can also decide to train shooting. making so, all your players on the field will take a little amount of scoring training and a few of set pieces training, always good to be taken in consideration.

4) Mother club players.

This new feature start to be absolutely important since the beginning of this season.
Obviously, it's fundamental to have a youth academy or the old youth system active.
If you are not happy about your actual team, if you are thinking to sold all your players and to start again with a new team, this is the time to make this step.
If you make a refoundation, avoid to buy players from the market. Start to make a new training plan promoting all your young players week by week from your youth academy (don't care about skill level, you can start your project also if you have a 17 years old player with a weak primary skill). They will increase quickly their skill, but making so you'll have players both with loyalty bonus and mother club bonus). You don't know what thery are? Please, read the editorial:[EditorialID=4941].

5) The time to stop your training.

It's always difficult to understand when it's time to stop your training(i mean a training plan of a lot of seasons as i suggested you before) and to start a new one.
To decide this, you always need to consider 4 things: your team average age, your salaries level, your team aims and your youth level.
If you notice that you are no more able to play salaries, if your team is getting old, if you are non-competive for your actual league, and if you have very good young players in your YA, if all this 4 situations are verified, so it's time to think for a refoundation.

Just a few thing it's correct to add you about the last point: the U20 and NT staff always work day by day to let Malta be a winning team on Hattrick.
So, before putting your player in TL, taking the risk to lose a potential player for national teams, you should always sent a message to the national coach.
Coaches can stop you by making an error (you could sell a player that is close to be a national player and you don't know this), and coaches can help you to find a trusted manager available to keep training your player for the future.

Please, remember that National Coaches works not for the glory, but works for you. Always take them as an example of dedication, because it's only passion that move a manager to candidate for being it. I don't say this because i'm your NT-Coach, but i say this because this is my point of view, and i'm glad to share it with you, as i made with the 5 points of this article. You can consider it as the 6th point.

/RavenJ_BSHI(6045317), NT-Coach of Malta since 07-12-2010.