aweseome! reminds me of my team 2 years back.

eh, mai tua chi peng kong hokkien uah. chi peng si hor HATTRICK only.

anyway, the game being slow means more people can play! meaning it doesn't eat much into your schedule unless you decide to.

this is unlike many other game that requires constant monitoring.

wah you full of dedication to the academy.

i'm using old-style YP.

wrenwin is wrenwin is lady GM.

btw why restart la?

a few things about youth la
1. if you go the detailed management way, be patient!
2. if you go the lucky draw way (the one i'm using), be extremely patient!

i haven't got any player who could be sold for 20mil. some of my friends did........... but you can use most of them on 2ndary squad.

as for coach, defensive coach contributes more than offensive coach. this means the gains on your defensive rating boost with defensive coach is more than that of offensive coach.

i think for starters, go for defensive coach (likely you don't have midfield, defense is important).

would aim for 3 passable defenders and 1 passable GK. for starters. in short, aim for the whole team being passable level on the primary stats.

if you can go all SOLID, of course even better la.

then again it's best if you could study your opponents, or if not we can help you study them.

you can ask vergas who who's the 1st legendary Counter-Attack team. LOL. ok well not sure la but i think i'm the first team using 4-4-2 CA PIC almost all the way and got decently far in cup and even got promoted.

not sure if recently got anyone outdone me cos i haven't been pushing my team for past 2 years.

that 4-4-2 CA PIC days, everything was planned. players were carefully chosen and spent on, defenders had high passing. wingers had playmaking. GK was divine++.

it was my most memorable time in HT as i was playing most games with around 33% midfield and still won, due to defence + CA. offensive coach was used because my defence ratings were already very high.

my point? it takes time, it takes planning.

even my current team may seem like unplanned - don't be fooled la. i play 352 no defence but i channel the $$$ mostly towards midfield + attack.

at this point of time, my wingers are at outstanding and have formidable PM skill.

my team only did well with CA due to the keeper la.

seriously, playing anything less than midfield and having not-so-impressive defense rating is suicidal.

and the thing about defense rating is that ideally it should be around 2x your opponent's attack ratings in order to have good chance of surviving lesser midfield.

looks good so far. IM training can be done a few ways.

ideally it's good to have

3 + 3

say you train everyone up to outstanding, then you sell off 3. get $$$. buy new trainees. the other 3 outstanding you use as main team. train until 2nd batch reach outstanding already, sell off the senior (would be magnificent or higher by then).

then get new ones again.

or you can go 2+2+2

or you can go 1+1+1+1+1+1 like take turn. again up to you la how.

i think 3+3 is good because you still get 1 main team.

and don't be shy to use the best 3 for both league and cup games, sacrificing some training.

i know there are a lot of HT players who aren't willing to sacrifice trainings. I'm not one of them.

that's how i win my games, because the rest of the players out there are so predictable. if 1 game they're strong, you can be almost certain the next game their midfield will be weak.

how i play (last time in Div II / III) is involvement of deception and randomness. eg, i could show you a strong team on league, so you thought my cup game would be easy la......... base on my past weeks. suddenly that day itself i field my main team..........AGAIN!

doesn't make sense for training but makes a lot of sense in advancing cup to get $$$.

in cases where my attacks / defense ratings are uneven, i switch positions so the opponent hit the wrong stuff. or if i feel like it, i play WTM + AIM.

save it la.

the change training part is up to you. the reason people change to SP is that there will be a point where there's no league games, only friendly. so those weeks people use for SP.

1st week is the qualification week. those not in #1 or #5 or #6 spot, they won't have games. (that's why some people purposely lose to stay at #5 to get extra training).

2nd week is where everyone has a break, on that week. no league game but have 1st cup game.

of course, theoretically not that week la. since Week starts on Monday. hence after 1st cup game only 1st league game. so the Sunday before the 1st cup game is a rest day.

eh i used to have a hatstats calculator.

it's

left attack + center attack + right attack + (midfield x 3) + left defence + center defence + right defence.

brb i go upload the file, i abandoned one of my HT domains already. now HTmy is under me sponsorship but the community damn slow.

i donno how else to make it better already. done what i can.

http://www.htmy.org/hatstats.php hatsats calculator for you guys!

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Added on August 8, 2009, 3:51 amoh btw, i added the CA calculator too!

This post has been edited by goldfries: Aug 8 2009, 03:51 AM

it just tells you your ratings.

how good is it also depends on the series you're in.

generally i think you have quite balanced attack and defence BUT you lack midfield.

neither does mine.

wah, your central attack is WC already. darn........... but i think i won't be facing you anymore.

btw, guys - i think it would be helpful if you state your formation as well because some stats may seem OFF but it's actually alright for certain formation.

anyway, assuming you're not demoting yourself - you should know that 3rd week to 6th week is usually when my team is weakest in league.

that's when i usually put the stronger people in cup games.

if you think you can't handle, then just play BUT don't ever give walk-over. purposely set to lose is fine in my POV but some people say it's a disrespectful act.

crazy25kid, your 343 sucks la.

i look at your match Plue 1 - 2 Greatest

clearly you don't even study your opponent.

there's no reason to use 3 Central Defenders when your opponent is clearly a WING attack team. some more 1 wing only.

your winger towards middle is pointless either, unless he's your 4th best IM and can work it really well, you might as well set him to attack.

what's the point of pushing midfield and ultra strong central when you lose out on attack and defence? it just doesn't work well.

some more you using Counter-attacks while SOLID is fine but your attack and defence ratings are horrible for CAing. you're better of ATTACK IN THE MIDDLE.

why? because your CA is damn strong already. some more you play 3CD, so AIM would make not much difference on your wing defence.

me and vergas, experienced studying opponent.

basically 352 no fixed way of placing defender.

you want 3CD, 2CD 1CD also can.

and you want WB to be offensive, defensive or WBTM also can. depends on what you want to achieve.

as you can see from my team, it's CD offensive and WB offensive. it boost midfield and wing attacks.

nah, where did you get that idea from?

WB only need DEFENDING skills when playing defensive.

WB only need WINGER skills when playing offensive, DEFENDING skills will contribute little so it's basically pointless. PLAYMAKING skills will boost MIDFIELD a little, every bit helps on that though.

you haven't been looking at M'sian teams a lot huh?

in Div II / III that time, my average player main skill also comes to World Class.



DIVINE + + + or something. i think cost me more than half a million a week just to maintain the fella.

the manual is FAR from being painting a complete picture.

i have no idea where you got that 50% from but bear in mind that you need to play them OFFENSIVE in order to see an actual contribution from their winger skills, but the problem is that by playing offensive - the DEFENDING part is going to be almost non-existent. and if the winger skill is low, you're losing a whole lot of defense rating just to gain very little boost on wing attack.

if you play defensive, then you focus on defending skills, winger skills, no matter how high, will contribute negligible value.

and no point playing NORMAL.

so if you want to play offensive, you're better off using wingers than players with defending skills.

btw, if here's an example - MYSELF.

i play 352 with offensive wingbacks, and offensive CD. i totally ignore defence.

i use offensive coach. magnificent keeper. my players occupying the defender slots have average defending skill of poor. (remember, i play them offensive, so it comes to almost like disastrous)

my defence rating of 3.8 average (around that la) comes from the GK itself.

the magnificent GKs are useless actually BUT i'm keeping them because it's part of my training plan (new NT player in the making, hopefully............)

i would've held #2 spot if last week match wasn't so unlucky.......... anyway that also i cincai play for 1st half when i focus on cup. anyway, as you can see the more experienced teams usually have most things planned out for current and future, utilizing all available contribution from players, coach and even down to possibly weather and other factors such as team spirit (very important to play competitively).

just want to add - passing will contribute but the amount of contribution also depends on individual orders.

yes. that is correct.

never seen such report but looks like a walk-over.

eh, how is that possible?

k i go make v4.