Sunday, October 02, 2005
Player generation cycle
Training improves the material. Improved material garners better sales income. This is the basic formula that one must follow as a hattrick manager. Train yourself a better income.
One dilemma in player sales is the timing, because as we sell our valued assets, we take huge leaps backwards in the team quality. Many people solve this by steadily recycling the material they have in the team.
Let me tell you, this is the key to mediocrity. If you handle your team with steady acquisitions and sales, you will manage to keep it in constant flux, and you will never reach your true potential. Set yourself a goal that you must reach and schedule it. This way, you will know what needs to be done to reach that goal. Let me give you and example.
You train several midfielders to be sold in the beginning of the next season. During the current season, games are going better and better. You just might win your division if you would just continue to play your current formation during the next season. But you need the money, for what? New generation of players that you plan to invest in. This new generation will be trained even higher and make even more money for you.
Let me ask you, why are you playing this game? Is it because you want to get into higher divisions and get success and admiration of others or is it because you like this way of spending your free time, making secure money and secure standings in your good old division?
To get promotions you need to drive your players bit longer and you also have to plan the correct timing for promotion. Only if you face diamond hard competition, it might make sense to let go your treasured players and start training young blood. They shine just at the right time for qualifications couple of seasons later.
Go in cycles. This will make sure that you get peak performance at crucial moments of promotion fights and steady low performance on times when you only need to remain in the division.
One dilemma in player sales is the timing, because as we sell our valued assets, we take huge leaps backwards in the team quality. Many people solve this by steadily recycling the material they have in the team.
Let me tell you, this is the key to mediocrity. If you handle your team with steady acquisitions and sales, you will manage to keep it in constant flux, and you will never reach your true potential. Set yourself a goal that you must reach and schedule it. This way, you will know what needs to be done to reach that goal. Let me give you and example.
You train several midfielders to be sold in the beginning of the next season. During the current season, games are going better and better. You just might win your division if you would just continue to play your current formation during the next season. But you need the money, for what? New generation of players that you plan to invest in. This new generation will be trained even higher and make even more money for you.
Let me ask you, why are you playing this game? Is it because you want to get into higher divisions and get success and admiration of others or is it because you like this way of spending your free time, making secure money and secure standings in your good old division?
To get promotions you need to drive your players bit longer and you also have to plan the correct timing for promotion. Only if you face diamond hard competition, it might make sense to let go your treasured players and start training young blood. They shine just at the right time for qualifications couple of seasons later.
Go in cycles. This will make sure that you get peak performance at crucial moments of promotion fights and steady low performance on times when you only need to remain in the division.
