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Hattrick Season 75

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby ChiliMonster » July 28th, 2020, 2:24 am

Week 8
At home to the best team in the league with 100% record so far. Having lost the away fixture last week, I was hoping this would be more even. I won MF 67% and averaged attack vs defence of 58% while they won attack 65%. Also their stamina was weaker so ratings moved in my favour as it progressed. I won 6-1, which was way better than I could have imagined. I am still third in IV.44, but am really chuffed with this result. Still aiming for second.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Donut102 » July 30th, 2020, 3:58 pm

Bit up of a catch up post for me, as w*rk got in the way.

Div IV

Still top of the league, 3 points clear. The crunch game against 2nd place comes in week 12, so time to prepare.

Also still in the secondary cup, by the skin of my teeth. Playing the 1st team in the league, and reserves in the cup. I should have been knocked out last week - I went 550 long shot, not a tactic my team is particularly skilled in.
Made worst by the fact that I forget to set the tactic and we ended up playing 550 Normal....
However the lads parked the bus, and it went to extra time - where one of my guys scored a SE goal. Phew!

In the last 16 now, and taking it slightly more seriously - which means I'll lose this week.

Div V

A string of wins against poor opposition has promoted me to 4th spot.
Still a training season, and I'd rather drop a couple of points and get a play off game (last season I also ended up 4th). I'm sure I'll find a way to screw up.

Best of luck all!
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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Eastheath » August 3rd, 2020, 10:28 pm

Away to #2....we almost kept the score down, it was 1-1 half time but eventually lost 4-1.
We are in 6th, and next week at home to #1. Meh.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby ChiliMonster » August 4th, 2020, 12:59 pm

Home to 4th. Won 3-1 on a PIC. Up to second now as my main rivals dropped points. Playing them away next week.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Eastheath » August 10th, 2020, 12:08 pm

We are in 6th, and next week at home to #1. Meh.

What was I worried about, we thumped them 4-1. Less meh, more hehe....

That takes us to 5th, still 5 pts short of 4th but maybe a sliver of a chance to catch them. 5 pts clear of relegation too, which I think is where I should be paying more attention....

Next week away to 3rd, we have yet to draw a game and they are draw specialists, although they beat us 0-2 last time round. Time for thinking caps again.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby ChiliMonster » August 10th, 2020, 12:57 pm

I was away to then third, my closest competitor. I put out my strongest team on a PIN, thinking it would be quite evenly matched. I reckon they MOTSed, because their midfield was 13 cf expected 11, meaning I only had 30% of midfield. It was close, though, and they only scored their 2-1 winner in the dying minutes.

Remaining matches are against 5(h), 6(a), 7(h) and 8 who are ownerless (a) and I would hope to win them all. I'm in third now on GD and will need 1 to beat 2 away for me to get second, I reckon.

My wages are getting too high (£280K). I can lose about £12K with planned sales and retirements, but I also need a new keeper who will need that kind of salary.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Donut102 » August 17th, 2020, 12:18 pm

Div IV

Routine 4-1 win at home this week.
Still top of the league, now 7 points clear. 2nd place have managed to lose one and draw one in the last few weeks giving me breathing space.

I play 2nd place next week, away from home. Prior to the summer hols this was going to be a must win MOTS game. As it is, the final two games are nailed on wins, so I can relax.

I'm still in the secondary cup, and have made my way to the semi-final. Facing a monster of a team this week who delivers an exceptional midfield and central attack. I'm going with 442 CA, but knowing I'll not stop any of their chances through the middle. Expecting to lose, but then I've been saying that for the last 4 weeks....

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Meh... in 4th, training. Nothing to see here.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby ChiliMonster » August 17th, 2020, 3:56 pm

Home win 2-0. The score was modest compared to my stats, I think. Leaves me in third with at least a third-place finish now guaranteed. Final games are against 6th (a), 7th(h), 8th (ownerless, a), so I'll probably PIN, MOTS, MOTS.

The most interesting game left is next week's between current first and second. If first win, I have a reasonable chance of taking second spot by the end of the season.


My focus now is on training completion and sales to fund my new keeper purchase (aiming to budget about £5m).

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Eastheath » August 17th, 2020, 7:39 pm

Well, the inevitable happened. In 5th away to the draw specialists in 3rd. Their 5-3-2 CA formation is tough to break down, as everyone keeps finding out.
We went 3-4-3, won midfield 65%, with 8 chances to their 4.
Within 14 minutes we were 2-0 down, but after 50 mins had equalised at 2-2, which is where it stayed.

So they dropped to 4th, we stay in 5th, and are 5 pts adrift of 4th but 6 pts ahead of 7th. Our last three games are home to 7th, away to 3rd and home to 6th. A qualifier slot is the most likely result, so we will do our best to hold on to 5th and hope for a favourable tie.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Donut102 » August 24th, 2020, 11:00 am

Div IV

I play 2nd place next week, away from home. Prior to the summer hols this was going to be a must win MOTS game. As it is, the final two games are nailed on wins, so I can relax.

I relaxed a little, but not much. Went with a PIN instead of MOTS, but full first team.
We won 4-0
Now 9 points clear of 2nd, with two games to go - one of which is a bot. Auto-promotion to III for the first time ever looks to be on the cards.

I'm still in the secondary cup, and have made my way to the semi-final. Facing a monster of a team this week who delivers an exceptional midfield and central attack. I'm going with 442 CA, but knowing I'll not stop any of their chances through the middle. Expecting to lose, but then I've been saying that for the last 4 weeks....


Yeah, I lost. Still, pleased I made it to a semi-final of a secondary cup and in hindsight I could have set my team up better.

I've also made my first purchase since August 2019 - a shiny new winger. Never had a pure winger before, and thought it might help!

Div V

Meh... in 4th, training. Nothing to see here.

Lost 0-1, dropped down to 6th. Auto-demotion mathematically impossible so....meh.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby ChiliMonster » August 24th, 2020, 10:38 pm

A straightforward 3-0 home win for me, but interestingly second beat first meaning that we now have three teams on 27 points occupying the top3 spots, with GDs +27 (Masya), +19 (Barr) and +18 (Kevster's).

My last two matches are guaranteed wins against 7th and 8th. I also expect Masya and Barr to each win their last 2. 8th are ownerless and Barr play them too so we should each knock in 8 or 9 goals, but I should also expect to score more goals against 7th than Barr will against 4th in their other game, so I have a realistic chance of getting second by end of season on GD. I can't see me catching Masya.

I'm trying to get some transfers done in this period where I'm not concerned about TS hits. A trainee listed at about 5% less than transfer compare went unsold today listed at £3.9mill (a winger, Donut, you should have bought him). He's relisted at £3.33mill. If he goes for a low price I'm hoping that I will be able to purchase at similarly depressed values. I hope to complete two other trainee sales and three purchases before pre-season.

This lockdown and working from home has allowed me to sped more time researching transfers and flexibility to bid at various times to allow me to get better value, I hope, in my purchases, rather than just buying the first player I like and getting caught up in a bidding war.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Donut102 » August 25th, 2020, 7:55 am

A trainee listed at about 5% less than transfer compare went unsold today listed at £3.9mill (a winger, Donut, you should have bought him).

I've just taken a look at him - a nice winger with good secondaries. However no specialty kinda rules him out for my squad.

I went for a 19yr old quick titanic winger for £6m. A hefty premium but I'll hold onto him for the next 12-15 seasons, and right now I have more money than sense. Prior to the purchase I had £10m in the bank and another £8m in reserves.
I'll have to get a finance director in to release the reserves, and be ready for the next big buy.

I'm selling my home grown player to make room for the new chap. At 31 I can't develop him any further, but with 297 games under his belt the team just wont feel the same:
Listed for nil: Quick, PM 15, SP 16, Passing 13, Def 9, Winger 9.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Eastheath » August 25th, 2020, 11:57 pm

With a 3-1 win at home to 7th, we confirmed a place in the qualifiers at least, and hold out very slim hopes of even getting 4th. The next game is away to 4th, they are 5 pts ahead and have won 4 and drawn 1 of their last 5 games. We beat them at home 4-1 earlier, but I don't think they were paying attention that week ...

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Bink333 » September 2nd, 2020, 1:00 pm

Hi

Apologies for not posting in awhile. The pandemic has seen me working from home with strained administrative support and more work than I can realistically cope with as well as coping with everything else.

I'm grateful to be in a position where I can continue to work, as many are less fortunate.

Our eldest graduated with a 2:1 (which she's contesting as it should have been a first by her reading of their published marking scheme). Our youngest turned 18 in May having left school in March without any of the usual school leaver things or normal celebration for reaching adulthood. Since then she developed quite severe OCD, requires constant reassurance, and really struggles to touch anything. We've arranged private therapy conducted via zoom type meeting, which she's not always responded well to, and progress in terms of learning to manage her life with the mental illness and anxiety is a gradual path with some days going backwards and some days going forwards.

On the plus side there's always about half a bog roll torn off and left on the radiator next to the loo, which mummy neatly folds into a pre-arranged pile 2-3 sheets at a time.

We took her to the Isle of Wight for an intensive therapy day in July, which helped to set up a framework for her recovery, funded by grandparents thankfully, although the air BnB was my expense. Not quite the family flight to Menorca we'd planned (Last Minute have yet to refund the flight cost after the flights were cancelled at the end of July - they tried to offer vouchers, as did the two airlines involved) and all in all my monthly spend has increased during the pandemic to roughly £750 more than my earnings. As the sole earner that isn't sustainable long term but I regard the situation as an emergency and therefore using savings is appropriate because savings are for emergencies.

My partner stopped drinking at the end of 2018, and had replaced the 'fix' she was addicted to with swimming. When the pandemic and lockdown closed the local pool, she was devastated. As someone who could win gold in complaining at the olympics (if there was such a discipline) this escalated, but I'm incredibly proud of how she's coped. She'd already lost 3 stone and was petrified of putting it back on with her chosen excercise regime curtailed. She has a genetic condition that makes running impossible (plantar facsiitis) so started with Joe Wicks exercises, then hiring a nutritionist for diet advice , then a personal trainer to excercise in the park.

Then Boris announced everything would open (pubs - where you can buy alcohol) but NOT gyms and pools, and the swearing in hour house went off the charts. After a campaign by swim England (which we took part in) the government finally relented, but the already diabolical management of our local leisure facilities meant that that pool was not ready to open, and only opened yesterday (and it's still a farce with time in the pool limited to 40 minutes).

A handful of Spas opened nationwide, one of which was Charlton, 30 minutes drive away, so I paid £10 for an hour swim and drove her there in work hours a few times. That helped. The local David Lloyd then reopened with a discounted trial membership. She's there 5 days out of 7 now and we've agreed to full time membership when that expires. Given the time she uses it, it is probably the most cost efficient solution and her mum has kindly opted to make this an early birthday present.

I've dealt with all of this the only way I know and that's to focus on my daily/weekly routines, primarily geared around the hattrick constants. I became an NT Scout for South Africa, and joined the discord group for U20 England and the Slack group for Oceania and became chairman of the England NT Fed. I also buried myself on non-hattrick England to play WW games, hosting a Star Wars game with a record number of players and QTs which was nothing if not memorable.

At club level, which is what this thread is all about I've had a pretty useful season on all fronts.

In England the highlight of my season was seeing my home grown support player score against India for the U20 team. He's now solid leadership+solid experience and just turned 21. The team was also involved in the 'league battles' in Division IV where we finished 10th (our league is ranked 36/64). Playmaking training ended with my best two PNFs a shade over ET, and my home grown PNF and the Support guy very high titanic, and my quick NT FTW prospect at brilliant. I'm now on passing for a season, before a season of wing, and then scoring through. The training plan works well for all but the support player, who needs high experience and a high level of primary (compared the the opposition average) to make use of the spec.

With one to play I'm 2nd in the league, 2pts behind the leader, who play away to a TS shot 4th this weekend. I'm away to 7th already relegated on 4pts. I'd like to win the league to get the xp from a playoff, but it isn't in my hands so I'm not too concerned. The team was knocked out in R6 of the Cup by a Prem side, Metty's Pine Villa, and Metty is someone I know quite well from the WW. He also had a pizza sent round to me using a spare voucher for Papa Johns (pre lockdown) and I'm friends with him on fb, so it was a good way to get knocked out.

In my youth academy I have a star player in training, Dickerson, who is unpredictable (with excellent wing potential (and inadequte in PM/Ps/Sc). There's been some research don on training efficiency in the YA (see post id = 17350846.1) which I thoroughly recommend to make best use of the training options available. My training plan doesn't really work for him, so I'll have to sell.

I increased stamina for the U20 (a burst of 40% for 2 weeks in week 15/16 last season) followed by 12% to keep him at excellent) but that's now back at 10%.

I increased stadium capacity to 65k using a higher % of seats under roof than the normal recommended % split, and last Sunday it was raining and those seats were sold out, with £362k receipts compared to a maximum capacity £464k.

I'm using a level 3 financial director (£14m) with £13m in the bank, and sold a solid leadership xp trainee as he popped shortly after I switched to 2-5-3 passing training. Both Wb and my GK are solid leaders, and help provide better liquidity than having players that devalue with age or funds tied up above the cap. It is something that may be reviewed soon, as transfer price inflation has not been matched by the bank ceiling being inflated, leading to artificial markets in players.

In Oceania I'm training defending for home-grown and 2xEngland Wb. 23 weeks remaining. Highlight of the season was seeing my Maldives powerful CD (a man marker for club, but useful for CA as well 17D/11Ps/11Wg) also a solid leader, score on his NT debut in a friendly. He's 29 with 8xp. I'm currently selling a 26y/o magical defender with no spec 9PM/8Ps who has a good shot at the NT despite the lack of spec if trained well. It looks like I'll make a loss on training him to magical, because most buyers want specs, (quick and Unpred on defenders).

The team was also involved in the league battles (also IV) finishing 5th (ranked 24/64). I opted at the start of the season to buy a Costa Rican NT GK to help the Cup run. I sold him at quite a big loss when the Cup run ended, offset to an extend by the extra weeks in the Cup which included beating an Oceanian Pac Prem LS side for the first time after losing 8 times to Pac Prem times in the Cup previously. NT standard GK are good at stopping LS conversion, and we were knocked out the foillowing week in R6 by Bodily Harm who won the top division last season.

In the league I'm 2nd on -15GD going into the final week. Counter attack teams don't get big GD but I'm pretty satisfied with the way the season has gone. I'm away to 6th, they are at home to 3rd. Again, I'd be happy with a playoff spot for the extra xp, but it is out of my hands to some extent.

The Oceania forum has some really good competitions. This season I got involved. OCP ~41 requires you to pick a side from each of the top 5 divisions and to guess the number of goals they'll score in the Cup. Bonus points are added if they last longer than any other from their level. I picked the Cup winner along with a lot of other managers, made a hash of the goal predictions but finished a creditable 8th of 24 players.

I also got involved with Talbourne #14. This is a youth pull game for Oceanian teams. You add the HTMS of your best 3 pulls during the season and the player with the most points wins. It is getting to the sharp end, and I have a player whom I can promote with 10 minutes left before the end of the competition who could just about take me above the current leader (their U20 manager as it happens). The HTMS Points prediction tool..

http://www.fantamondi.it/HTMS/index.php?page=htmspoints&lang=en&action=calc says so anyway. If the target gets out of reach I can pull him after the deadline and have him as part of next season's competition. The player in question has no spec 7wg/6ps/5def(maxed)4PM(maxed/and 4of5Sc. He's training Sc+shooting next in line with the link to the Youth Training study above. It's also change-over week for our YA league and hopefully I'll have enough weeks to max wing and passing and scoring before he turns 17.

They keep a list of the best ever HTMS pulls in the competition, and I had one good enough for their top 10 earlier in the season (2138 HTMS), who is getting defender training in my first team. At least until the stamina goes up. He was excellent def, passable PM, inad wing/sc and weak passing.

I increased stadium capacity to 71k (again with a higher seats under roof %) back in February, and had a full house in R5 of the Cup for a shade under £500k.

I've a level 5 FD in place to the end of this season. I wanted to add an unpred Wb but a Czech one with 2300HTMS went for £15m and a Hungarian 2100HTMS went for £12m so I bought a more rounded Norwegian technical with just under 2000HTMS for under £5m. I also bought an unpred FTW for £4m and after the sale of my defender will have just over £12m as we approach end of season for me to buy a GK. I'm using the transfer list prospect tool to help locate the players I'm waiting for at the price I'm happy to pay, but may settle for an interim GK if I can't get what I'm waiting for.

In South Africa I'm training my 2 GK prospects in Defending. It has not escaped my attention that Unpred Wb are selling for as much as NT standard GK, but one of the GK is solid leader Unpred (Nigerian). My plan was to only use African players. This was compromised a bit as the Oceania U20 manager needed a defender trainer for a player to use in Q2 next season, so I've taken that guy on. Oceania look like they're going to qualify as well, so I'll have to do the stamina trick if he's still needed after the injuries he's been having.

I didn't sign up for the league battle as this team is far from being fully competitive.Having said that, this season it made it past R1 for the first time and was knocked out in R3. The high set piece skill and pressing/LS games I'd struggle to win, using CA in others means I've been a bit flukey to get into 4th spot last week (for the first time in this division) with 1 to play. I'm 2pts ahead of 6th who visit me this week, and I'd be happier with a 5th place bot qualification game for xp, but 5th are at home to 3rd, so they'd need to lose and for 6th to win to get that result.

2 youths with no spec and 2000-2100HTMS have joined first team training, along with a quick with 1967HTMS this week, necessitating the sale of the non-home grown guys I'd been training previously.

That promotion this week leaves me with 3xGK prospects all of which are promotable between age 17/45 and 17/68 so I'm hoping to pull a nice new youth soon. I have switched my youth pull day to Thursday mornings, quite some time ago, and am pretty happy with the output from all teams. The thinking behind it is that the pools get refreshed prior to the Thursday morning update. No idea if that's accurate, but the results are ok. In Oceania they have another theory and have all scouts from lots of teams in one region to empty the pool of dross that gets replaced rather than being repeat pulled by several managers. There may be something in that, but I've not joined in, preferring to stick with my lesser used regions (but not with the 3 least number of teams - as that's what I'd expect many others to do) for my scouts.

My stadium is now 66k in III, after another expansion this season, again opting for a higher % of seats under roof than standard. It rained a week last Sunday and those seats sold out for the first time, giving me a £364k receipt compared to a £474k max capacity.

As the team is still relatively new fans have been joining with +212 since the start of the season to get to 2535 compared to 2740 in Oceania (IV) and 2462 (England IV). I guess that's the first time my second/third clubs have both had more fans than my primary team!

I hope all is well with you guys, stay safe and I hope your teams have a good end of season!

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Bink333 » September 2nd, 2020, 1:04 pm

I also omitted to mention that our youngest also passed her driving theory test, and received ABC A-Level results which were upgraded to AAB.

She's undecided on what to do with them, as she had planned to travel abroad & work for a year before starting tertiary education. That was before the mental health issues, and the pandemic leaving travel and work plans in a dishevelled mess...

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby ChiliMonster » September 2nd, 2020, 5:38 pm

Welcome back Bink.

I have a straightforward 5-1 home win against seventh-placed team. Second place won 8-0 against the ownerless team who I play next week. Top team was drawing 2-2 until the final minute when they scored a winner. That leaves three of us in IV.44 on 30 points with GDs: (1) Masya +28 (2) Barr +27 (3) Kevster's +22. We will all win next week, I think. I should win 8 or 9-0. I just need Masya and Barr to win by less than 2- or 3-goal margins and I could steal the league at the last moment. I'd say the odds are against me, but having previously stated I would MOTS the last two matches, I decided PIN this week (midfield prediction ratio was 84% for MOTS and 80% for PIN) and PIC next, on the off-chance I have a playoff to contend.

I've had a few player sales and purchases the last couple of weeks. One more wingback to sell hopefully after this Thursday's training, then I'll see what Keeper I can afford. I had hoped to have £5m to spend, but it might only be £4m (my winger with £4m transfer compare went for £3.26m on the third listing). I'll have a couple of weeks SP training, then back to Winger.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Eastheath » September 7th, 2020, 12:19 am

Yes, welcome back Bink. HT does provide a bit of respite from life's challenges.

With a guaranteed qualifier coming up, the focus this week was on actually having a team available for the final league game. With key players rested (those on two yellow cards) others injured and some on red cards, it wasn't easy to field a competitive team. Those that did turn out did OK, we lost 1-2 at home on a PIC to the team that finished 5th, but 6th place has given us a better draw in the qualifier than the team that finished 5th, which is ironic.

I'm hopeful with the qualifier, and maybe we will get another season in IV.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Donut102 » September 7th, 2020, 9:35 am

Welcome back Bink.

Div IV


Played a bot in the final game of the season, and secured auto-promotion to Div III for the first time.
Not much else to report....

Div V

Meh... in 4th, training. Nothing to see here.

Won the final game of the season, and made it to 3rd place in the league - which is an improvement on 4th last season.
The squad still needs lots of training, and I can't see myself competing for the title next season.

I've also got a star player coming up from the YA who'll promote age 17, 0 days in early November. Maxed out at 7 Scoring, 7 PM, and 6 Winger with Head spec.
I'll keep him as he fits my training plans nicely.

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby ChiliMonster » September 7th, 2020, 2:13 pm

Last update: "That leaves three of us in IV.44 on 30 points with GDs: (1) Masya +28 (2) Barr +27 (3) Kevster's +22. We will all win next week, I think. I should win 8 or 9-0. I just need Masya and Barr to win by less than 2- or 3-goal margins and I could steal the league at the last moment. I'd say the odds are against me..."

Somehow I only managed to score 5 against the bot, so my chances of closing those GDs disappeared, but Masya won 6-0 so I was never going to catch them anyway. The surprise was that Barr conceded a late equaliser so dropped points, allowing me to finish second. Good for the prize money but it means I have five weeks between home league games for revenue purposes and an away opening fixture against Masya or, having just checked their playoff opponents, kickngo who look to be an aging team, so I'd prefer them. I typically struggle with decision of whether to PIC/PIN that first league game.

Two WBs (including the sub) pick up 1-week injuries. Hopefully at least one of them will recover enough by tomorrow to continue some training.

Cheers,

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Re: Hattrick Season 75

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Postby Bink333 » September 8th, 2020, 3:06 pm

In England, we won 2-5 but the leaders won 0-1 so we finished 2nd by 2pts.

I bought a Quick South African mono-defender for passing training (wages are meh but he was cheap to buy). Need to find him a Wing or PM trainer in week 10-11 next season though.

Two injuries, but both went bruised at the first update, so they'll sub for one another mid-week and get 89 minutes each for the week, assuming no extra time.

In Oceania, I decided to buy a 21y/o unpred ET GK with solid leadership. He's a Spanish lad and I can taje his defending from 11 to 16 boost his passing and train his SP at higher stamina as a fit with my current training plan. I'll review the idea for selling him to replace with a fully trained NT GK in a couple of seasons, as my CA team might well need it in order to progress.

He played and contributed an SE for a goal as did my new Unpred forward to help us close out the season with a 0-5 win. The leaders won 2-1 so we finished 2nd on GD.

In South Africa we fielded a unpred defender with no much passing to speak of up front, and he delivered on that potential by scoring an own goal to open the scoring. We lost 0-4, while 5th drew 0-0 so I dropped from 4th to 6th on GD to them. The qualifier to stay in III is against a bot, so the plan worked well for the team to get an experience boost next Sunday.

I spent much of the week chasing managers of high TSI players that I didn't pick up on teh South African NT tracker. Found a few good ones in the age group I'm focused on (24-28), so stage one of the Scouting for this future generation is nearly complete, just need to add a few tot he prospect list, and then monitor progress.


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