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Youth Squad (YS) Invest in your YS. Start with 5.000€ until your YS is weak, change to 10.000€ until YS is inadequate, then change to 20.000€ and keep it there for the rest of your HT-career. This is the minimum requirements; if you have enough money, invest more. Make a youth pull (YP) every week. Even with bad YS the chance of a valuable pull is always present. Player purchasing This is one area where many newbies makes big mistakes. All players in hattrick have a TSI (Total Skill Index). This is the value that is registered under the player's details. This is calculated based on the skills of the player. It has nothing to do with a player's market value. Some players (especially young players) are very expensive compared with their assessed value; some players are cheaper (especially keepers under passable). Some of the assistent manager programs (e.g. HAM) uses the Transfer Price Evaluation-program (TPE). This returns a estimated market value. The TPE can also be found here: TPE Therefore, it is important to look at the market before purchasing is started. Choose a training strategy before purchasing is started, i.e. choose a chain to train, buy youngsters for this chain, and cheaper, more experienced players for the other chains. Before you buy players, it is also important to make sure what type of players you need. If you need a wing back, e.g., do some research and find out what skills a wing back need. One example is passing: A lot of newbies (well, me when I started) buys players with high passing skill, which is completely useless; unless it is combined with a main skill The best advice on player purchasing: Wait! At least a couple of week before buying anything at all. Economy Economy is half of the game of Hattrick (the other half of course being the football game), so pay attention to your economy. Every time you expand your stadium it will cost you a starting amount of 60.000€, so do not expand a little at a time. From next season (26) It will only cost 10.000€ in starting expenses. Whether or not it could now be beneficial to expand in smaller portion is yet to be seen. Expand when you have sold out 3 or 4 times. Multiply the number of people in your fan club with 25 or 35 (depending on your financial situation) and you will get the capacity you should expand to. The division of the different seat types can be found by using this tool:Arenasizer. For the more experienced, there are more accurate numbers here: Arena numbers Do not hire or fire specialist before you know exactly what they do. For starters begin with assistant coaches (8 coaches and 2 goalkeeper coaches, less if you do not have the money) and some spokespersons, they are beneficial in the long run. Make sure you only have 10 of each type. Be careful not to go into minus. It is hard for newly started teams to reach plus accounts again, and it limits your freedom. Misc. Read the rules and learn them. Read some help-pages: Hattrix and Hottrick are good English pages. Hottrick has among other things a more detailed beginners guide. Use the different conferences. Ask your questions. Hire an assistent, i.e. one of the help programs, that helps you keep track of your players. E.g. HAM, HT-Poli, HT-buddy, HT-Ratings. Links to these is found under the menu point ’Community’ --> 'Programs'. Most important of all: Have fun! A large part of the charm of Hattrick is the social enactment between the managers. So use your divisional conference. Become supporter, so you can join some federation that fit your interests (e.g. many RL-football clubs have a federation in HT), you get the oppurtunit to have a logo in your clubhouse, write press announcements to create a story surrounding your club. Don't feel bad for making rookie mistakes, we have all made some. When you can no longer consider yourself as a newbie, mistakes are not easily forgiven by yourself. I hope that I by this guide have guided some newbies away from the most common newbie mistakes. Purposely I have not mentioned an aspect as what formation/tactic to play, due to it's complexity for one, but also because in this area I feel it is important to be learning-by-doing. Here: Formations, is a copy/pasted article regarding the different formations which might help you in the beginning.
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