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Hattrick Season 78

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Eastheath » June 23rd, 2021, 10:30 am

We expected a tough game at home against the team in 7th, and so it came to pass. With only 3 pts separating 3rd from 7th theres not a lot in it!
We took midfield 60/40 and had 10 chances to 1, but their big defence and big attack was always going to be a concern.
1-1 at half time and then team orders kicked in, which I had forgotten about! A winger was replaced by another midfielder, and so our main wing threat went away, nevertheless two minutes later we got the winner, and it stayed 2-1.
We stay in 3rd but now its a 6 pt gap to 7th. I'd like that to be 9pts after the next game, but thats far easier said than done. They've won their last two home games, and our midfield advantage will disappear playing away, so lets see what happens.....

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Bink333 » June 27th, 2021, 12:57 pm

This season is flying by...

England NT

We were drawn into a very competitive group for the Euro Cup. Some good prep meant that we have a strong pool of players, allowing us to be picky with form and stamina. We got off to a slow start but with 2 to play are top of the group by 2pts, and it would take a mathematical hiccough to fail to qualify for the World Cup. On paper I think we're the 4th strongest team in the group, so I'm very happy with this. It's probably been the toughest test hattrick have thrown my way in 18 years, and that's has made it great fun as well.

England U21

We made it to Q2 of the World Cup with a very nicely controlled top of the group Q1, and pundits considered us to have the easiest Q2 group. The match engine disagreed, and so we now need S Korea to win away to Guam, and for us to beat Morocco in the final game of the group to make Q3. At this level, a bit of bad luck is all you need to get knocked out.

England

III.7 - we sit 3rd at mid-season which is ahead of expectation. My forwards are training wing this season, and I bought a few solid leadership players to help out in midfield. Former Fool Ashfordian is in this league as well, and I'm ahead of them by +GD going into R8 this evening.

I promoted and sold my star YA GK Mallon, who was solid GK passable defending and weak SP, he went for just under £2m which will keep the wolves from the door.

Oceania

III.10

6 of the squad have been selected for National Teams. The Cup run was upended by bad luck much earlier than planned, and I bought an unpred English GK from an absent owner. He popped to divine SP this week, and his stamina will hopefully get to excellent in time for the World Cup, although an 80th minute injury last night didn't help.

We've concede twice, one an unpred own goal, and after 8 games we're 9pts clear at the top. II next season is still on track.

South Africa

We've now switch to GK training for a long stint to get the 2 trainees to NT level. After 8 games we're 3rd 3pts off the top, and had a decent Cup run, and got knocked out at the semi-final stage of the consolation Cup. It's better than I was anticipating this season.

Hope you are all well, and life is getting back to some sort of normal.

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Bink333 » June 27th, 2021, 6:53 pm

Just came up in today's match report that I started playing 18 years ago...

Wow.

Lost, as did Ashfordian, and the teams in 5th & 6th won so that means 1pt covers 3rd to 6th, and we both drop a place.

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby ChiliMonster » June 30th, 2021, 2:53 pm

England Div IV
Away win 1-3 on PIC. Now second in IV.27. While my rebuild is still about 15 weeks away, I'm thinking that I need to sell more of my valuable players to save on wages and reduce depreciation, but I'd like to stay in the top 4 of the league for this season, at least.

England Div V
Lost 0-4 at home, the third of the four consecutive games I expected to lose following my previous MOTS. One to go. I'm still in 5th and hoping to avoid auto-relegation, but I'm only a point above 7th.

Vietnam Div IV
Another 5-0 win over a bot. I promoted my third YA player who I am keeping and will give another 6 or 7 weeks of PM training before promoting the fourth YA player and starting the cycle training on def, which will coincide with my promotion to Div III and a bit of competition. I'm confident enough now to play at least 2 of my recent promotees in the first team midfield for experience and still comfortably win against the bots. I'll even play a third as a stand-in forward for the next 2 or 3 weeks following a forward's injury in my friendly this morning.

It's been a while since I've had an exciting youth pull in any of my three academies. I'm trying to work out if this coincides with me following advice to switch scouts to the regions with the fewest teams (I'm using Herefordshire and Channel Islands in England). How's everyone else doing?

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Bink333 » July 1st, 2021, 12:33 am

With respect to regions I tend to go with the 3rd t- 5th least populated regions for exactly this reason, advice is given to send scouts by many teams to the least populous regions.

The only other tip I have for youth academies is to switch to pulling youth players on Thursday mornings. This is based upon an unsubstantiated theory that the youth pools get refreshed before/at the Thursday morning update. I'm happier with this theory than any others I've heard and although it took awhile to wean myself off Friday and I've forgotten what day of the week it is a couple of times, and pulled absolute dross across all 3 teams on Wednesdays before (as a result), this only served to help underline how much I prefer the Thursday pulls.

Expecting to get something good most weeks has seen me ignore some 'meh' 15 year olds as the first scout call, in the hope for getting something better, which has sometimes left me with a rubbish 16 year old as 3rd pull, and on fewer occasions has resulted in some gold plated pulls.

Great game feature though!

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby ChiliMonster » July 1st, 2021, 5:28 pm

Hi Bink,

I thought the point of using the least populated regions (and this is a rare case of the more people know about it - the better) is that if a disproportionate number of managers do it, then it leads to a thorough churn of the pools in those regions and so long as everyone pulls their third or final offer regardless of their skills, then the dross and aged will get moved out, allowing a reversion to the mean through the replacements. I've read various comments on timing, and can't help feeling that it is all based on unsubstantiated theories, bordering on superstition, which I am inclined to disregard on principle. I'm sure I've read somewhere that pools are refreshed or topped up every 2 hours, which has some verisimilitude as I'm not aware of one ever being empty.

I now try to not to pull on a Friday evening (oo-er), instead leaving it closer to the day of the actual youth league game, but rarely is it later than a Sunday because I can't wait any longer.

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Donut102 » July 5th, 2021, 4:07 pm

Div IV

Start of season: League contention

Bit of a catch up post for me - w*rk got busy I'm afraid.

After a dreadful start to the league campaign, I put all my effort into a cup run. I was dumped out of the main cup in R5, but was making reasonable progress in the consolation cup - until last week.
I had a striker and a playmaker out injured, and another defender sidelined with a red card.
So I was juggling the team, being a little thankful for multi-skilled players.
The reserve GK came in as a central defender, the Wing Back moved up to Winger, and the Winger moved into midfield. I don't really have a back-up striker, so a trainee filled in the best he could.

It was going as well as expected (leading1-0) up until one of my core defenders got injured. With a very depleted bench, it was down to a 44 year old future coach to make up the numbers. Final score 1-2 :(.

In the league I'm in 5th place, 4 points above auto-relegation. Should be safe enough.


Div IV (B)

I'm the league whipping boy.

I had an outstanding first half of the season. At the end of week 5 I was in 2nd place, but have dropped to 3rd since then - but still punching well above my weight.

In 3rd on 12 points (W3, D3, L3), but 7th are on 9 points - it's very close.

By any measure I should be relegated, but if I can on nicking points from draws I have a good chance to secure a play-off.



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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Eastheath » July 5th, 2021, 4:42 pm

series IV

couple of weeks to catch up on.
Week 8 didn't go as hoped, the team in the relegation zone has been buying and improving fast after a bad start, and although we beat them at home 2-1 in week 7, they came good week 8 and beat us 3-1 in the4 return leg. They aced midfield but only got their third goal in ET, which was a bit harsh.

Anyway, week 9 we were at home to the bottom team, whose manager appears to have gone AWOL although their default line up is still no pushover.
We took midfield 63/37, and had 9 chances to 1, however we lost a defender to injury in 21st min (had a decent replacement) and winger in 34th min (replaced by midfielder) which did not help at all, however they had a player red carded so the balance tipped back and we eventually took the game 3-0

We stay 3rd on 15 pts but 7th place (relegation) is too close on 11pts, so there's no slacking at all. Next week we are away to 2nd, who stuffed us 1-4 when we were at home, so we will have to try to get something out of the game, despite the injuries.

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby ChiliMonster » July 9th, 2021, 9:59 pm

England Div IV
I was second home to fourth, and took a rather surprising 3-4 beating. Now in third. Away to top this weekend.

England Div V
The fourth of my expected losses following the previous MOTS. I'm in 6th now and the next 2 games are the targets to win against 5th (home) and 7th (away) so that I can finish 5th or 6th. On paper, I should achieve that.
I've got a player on the transfer list with a transfer compare of about £180-200K who is due to sell in 20 minutes and so far the bids are only at £2,667. I hope there's some activity soon! I'm going to have to bid myself and keep him training another level if it's anything less than, say, £120K. I sold a pretty-much identical player last week for £180K.

Vietnam Div IV
9 games, 27 points. Two new teams have joined the league so I'm not alone. I'm home to one of them this week, who seemed to have achieved an incredible 44.5 stars on their first ever game. I'm going to have to not be too complacent here.

Cheers,

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Donut102 » July 12th, 2021, 10:19 am

Div IV

Start of season: League contention

In the league I'm in 5th place, 4 points above auto-relegation. Should be safe enough.

With a number of injuries I splashed out £7.5m on a new powerful forward. He needs training up in Playmaking to make use of his specialty, and that fits my plans just fine. He also got his first U20 cap this week, which was an unexpected bonus.

This weeks league game was winnable, and went 352 Normal. I was edged out of midfield, but still managed to get 6 chances to opponents 5. Final score 3-3.

Still in 5th, 5 points above auto-relegation, and 4 points shy of 4th. A play-off game beckons.


Div IV (B)

I'm the league whipping boy.

In 3rd on 12 points (W3, D3, L3), but 7th are on 9 points - it's very close.


Played 6th this week. I went 451 Long Shots, and won 1-0.

Still in 3rd on 15 points, 7th still have 9 points.

I could actually avoid auto-relegation, which would be blooming fantastic.
There's no doubt the squad have improved considerably since the start of the season, and I haven't bought any new players. My power rating has gone from 616 at the start of the season to 874 now.
I'm still 8th in the series for Stars, and 7th for ratings, so still punching above my weight.



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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby ChiliMonster » July 12th, 2021, 4:36 pm

England Div IV
I was away to top. I PICed and didn't expect to win. The result was a 1-0 loss. Still in third.

England Div V
The fourth of my expected losses following the previous MOTS. I'm in 6th now and the next 2 games are the targets to win against 5th (home) and 7th (away) so that I can finish 5th or 6th. On paper, I should achieve that.

I managed to come from 0-2 down to draw 2-2. Seemed harsh as I think I should have won clearly on the stats. Leaves me in 6th, 2 points above 7th who I am away to next week. They CA, which I hate playing against, even though I think I should win. It's a must win to stay in playoff places.

I've got a player on the transfer list with a transfer compare of about £180-200K who is due to sell in 20 minutes and so far the bids are only at £2,667. I hope there's some activity soon! I'm going to have to bid myself and keep him training another level if it's anything less than, say, £120K. I sold a pretty-much identical player last week for £180K.


2 mins to go the bidding was still below 10K, so I autobid it up to about 165K against a single bidder, after which I stood back. A third party put one more bid in, but that was about 4 minutes after the original closing time, so I don't know if they would have been around to take it on and my player could have sold for <10K. I got about 175K, which I was happy with.

Vietnam Div IV
Two new teams have joined the league so I'm not alone. I'm home to one of them this week, who seemed to have achieved an incredible 44.5 stars on their first ever game. I'm going to have to not be too complacent here.


Indeed! I played 2 of my brill/mag PMs alongside a YA trainee in midfield, which I thought should be enough at home to a new team playing only their second competitive match. I dominated but they managed to lead 0-3 after 40 minutes! I got it back to 2-3 then my "not in the lead" substitution kicked in after 60 mins to bring on another brill PM. I won 4-3 justifiably, but there is something fishy going on with this new team. 100% record maintained.

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Eastheath » July 12th, 2021, 7:54 pm

In third away to second. They play 5-2-3 CA, big forwards, massive defence. I would have gone 4-3-3 CA myself except one of my 4 defenders was on a +1.
So I looked at a few other permutations and decided 3-5-2 could work. Except we still couldn't get past their defence and their attack would destroy the weakened defence.
In the end I did go 4-3-3 CA, putting a midfielder in defence to keep their percentage advantage down.
It didn't work, we lost 3-0, ratings said they were going to score and we weren't. How true.

So that leaves us in 5th now, equal on pts with 3rd and 4th, and 4 pts ahead of relegation.

Next game is home to 3rd, equal on points and.....oh no another 5-2-3 CA specialist. Their last two league games were 0-0......
There's only one way to beat them, get round the back.....

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Donut102 » July 13th, 2021, 9:44 am

I won 4-3 justifiably, but there is something fishy going on with this new team.


I'm a nosy sod so I took a quick look - it looks like a legitimate newbie team, and they haven't even got their trainees in place yet.
However you did get screwed over by the ME. You had 78% possession, but got 5 chances to opponents 6.

I managed to come from 0-2 down to draw 2-2. Seemed harsh as I think I should have won clearly on the stats.


I'd agree - very harsh.


Have you done something to hack off the HT gods?

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Eastheath » July 19th, 2021, 12:06 pm

This hot weather isn't helping me or my collection of codes......

It was meant to be a (winnable) home game against a 5-2-3 CA team, who went and surprised me by playing 2-5-3 and possibly MOTS as well as they won midfield.
Before you could sit down and take the first bite of a virtual hot dog we were 0-3 down.
Second half clawed it back to 3-3, but then lost a striker to a +2 injury, keeper had also got a plaster, and we went down 3-4 in the end.

Which leaves us in 6th. 4th 5th and 6th are on 15 pts, 7th (and relegation) is on 14 pts. Its very close.
Next game is away to 2nd (not hopeful), then we have 7th and 5th to play, a couple of six pointers/deciders.
I may be in trouble here!
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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby ChiliMonster » July 19th, 2021, 6:31 pm

England Div IV
Opponents surprisingly didn't field a team and I got a 5-0 walkover. I'm glad I PICed! They were online last night, so I'm guessing they haven't given up, though they've missed a few friendlies recently. I'll take it.

England Div V
It's a must win to stay in playoff places.

Actually, more of a must-not-lose, but I lost!
Have you done something to hack off the HT gods?

I reckon so. They usually CA, but this week they pressed. I got 6 chances to their 3, score 3-1 to them. That leaves me in seventh. I can't see me overtaking them as we both get to play the the bottom managerless team in the last few games, but I don't expect to get any points in my other 2 matches. This was not the plan. Barring a fluke, I'm going down to Div VI. I am consoling myself that it will be a a chance to farm money in a stress-free environment, but as I am entering cycles with my two other teams in the next 3 and 11 weeks, I was hoping for a bit of a challenge with this team next season as I sell my first batch of trainees and reinvest to start replacing more of my original players.
Perhaps I should also think about switching my training? What is more lucrative than PM? Wing maybe?

Vietnam Div IV
Again the ME is scaring me. Against a bot, again I went 0-3 down before coming back to win 4-3. 100% record maintained, just.

Cheers,

Kevster

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Donut102 » July 20th, 2021, 9:27 am

Div IV

Start of season: League contention

Still in 5th, 5 points above auto-relegation, and 4 points shy of 4th. A play-off game beckons.

This week I was home to 3rd, but fancied my chances. I got 8 chances to opponents 4, and both teams had attack ratings of 15-20% across the board.
So the ME dumped on me - I scored 1 out of 8 (12.5% return), and opponent scored 2 out of 4 (50%).

Bah!

Still in 5th, now just 2 points above auto-relegation, and 5 points shy of 4th. Next week I play 7th away from home, and it's turned into a must win to avoid auto-relegation.

Div IV (B)

I'm the league whipping boy.

Still in 3rd on 15 points, 7th still have 9 points.


Played 2nd away from home this week, and lost 2-0. No great surprise there.

Dropped to 4th on 15 points, 7th and 8th have 9 points. So 6 points clear with 3 games to go. Next week I play 7th at home, and it's turned into a must win to avoid auto relegation.

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Eastheath » July 26th, 2021, 9:54 am

Hmmmm.... its not a 'funny old game' anymore :o
Week 9 I was in 3rd. End of week 12 and I am in 7th and likelihood is I'm going down.
We lost again, 4-1 away to 2nd, as anticipated. I was hoping other results would go my way, but two other strugglers picked up wins and while there are only 3 pts between 3rd (18 pts) and 7th (15 pts) the last two games are not promising, away to 5th and home to 6th, both of whom are having a good spell. I'm also worse off on goal difference, which could have a bearing in such a tight group.

This is only my second consecutive year in IV, this time around. Normally I last for 3 or 4 before relegating, longest period has been 7 seasons, but there have also been quite a few 1 season sorties. Back to the drawing board!

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Donut102 » July 26th, 2021, 11:54 am

Div IV

Start of season: League contention

Still in 5th, now just 2 points above auto-relegation, and 5 points shy of 4th. Next week I play 7th away from home, and it's turned into a must win to avoid auto-relegation.


A 0-2 win away from home got the job done.

I'm 5 points above 7th, and 5 points shy of 3rd - so all still to play for.
I play 3rd next week, and 1st in the final game. I'll go for the win next week, and then take stock - preferring a qualifier to 4th spot.

Div IV (B)

I'm the league whipping boy.

Dropped to 4th on 15 points, 7th and 8th have 9 points. So 6 points clear with 3 games to go. Next week I play 7th at home, and it's turned into a must win to avoid auto relegation.


Won 3-1 at home. Now up to 3rd, and auto-demotion is no longer possible. I'm expecting to lose the final two weeks, and will most likely end up 4th spot (my least favoured position), but at least I'll have another season in IV.




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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby ChiliMonster » July 26th, 2021, 10:13 pm

England Div IV
1-3 away win against sixth who CA. They took the lead, but I returned to win. I'm still in third and next week I am home to second. If I win I can pass and realistically expect to finish in second, which is as good as I could have expected this season. I have recently sold another couple of first teamers to reduce wages and depreciation before the full sell off and rebuild commencing in about 10 weeks' time. My team is therefore getting thinner and lacking strength in depth.

England Div V
I expected to lose against this strong CA team, but 0-8 was harsh! It means my GD is now so bad that even if I achieve the unlikely and manage to pick up a point in the final game of the season (I will win against the managerless team next week) I will still be autorelegated.

Vietnam Div IV
Back to straightforward 5-0 wins.
As I'm in my final 3 weeks before switching from PM to Def training at the start of my cycle, I've been working out how much training each trainee needs and how I can allocate this through the 100% and 50% slots and careful usage of position swaps and subs to ensure that all the trainees I will be selling will pop a level in the final or penultimate week. It takes a bit of playing around with the training intensity in the sandbox mode of the training estimation tool to find exactly how much trainee needs to pop, but it has worked well to date in predicting when a player in a training slot can be subbed and will still pop to optimise training utilisation. As long as there are no injuries, I will have half a dozen players optimally ready for sale in 2 1/2 weeks.

Cheers,

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Re: Hattrick Season 78

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Postby Donut102 » August 2nd, 2021, 3:10 pm

Div IV

Start of season: League contention

I'm 5 points above 7th, and 5 points shy of 3rd - so all still to play for.
I play 3rd next week, and 1st in the final game. I'll go for the win next week, and then take stock - preferring a qualifier to 4th spot.


I went 451 Long Shot this week, against an opponent who decided to Press. Won 1-0.

Still in 5th spot, safe from auto-relegation and the best I could achieve is 4th.
So I'll field a weak team next Sunday to try and lose in order to get a qualifier match.


Div IV (B)

I'm the league whipping boy.

Now up to 3rd, and auto-demotion is no longer possible. I'm expecting to lose the final two weeks, and will most likely end up 4th spot (my least favoured position), but at least I'll have another season in IV.

I went 550 Long Shots, away from home, against a reasonable 352 team. Hatstats 277 v 374 - I didn't win midfield, my defense was at best level with opponents attack, and I didn't get a single long shot chance.
However, consistent with most of this season, I won 2-1. Go figure.

I'm in 3rd - I can't nick 2nd, nor can I drop to 4th. So next week it's the trainees for experience and a MOTs because why not?




Cheers
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