Mistfit's Marauders (hattrick style)
 

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I received my team today. Thanks for all of the well wishes.

Mistfit's_Marauders (223324)

Country: USA
Region: Michigan
Arena: Mistfit's_Marauders Arena
Language: English
Series: # 3 in VI.180

Matches played
Current Matches: Mistfit's_Marauders
From 2005-05-03 to 2005-06-28



Played Matches
5/9/2005 (League): Highlanders - GuinnessFC 3 - 1
5/26/2005 (Cup): Highlanders - Pac Tigers 1 - 5
5/30/2005 (League): BeerNuts - Highlanders 1 - 3

So I presume I'm 1 and 0 on the new season. I can live with that[:p]

Series: VI.180 (27516)

Country: USA
Level: 6 out of 6

Team
1. Duck Hunters
2. 9ers
3. Mistfit's_Marauders
4. socceraggie07
5. GuinnessFC
6. BeerNuts
7. The ED-Team
8. Penfolds


Upcoming Matches
6/6/2005 (League): Mistfit's_Marauders - socceraggie07
Orders
6/13/2005 (League): GuinnessFC - Mistfit's_Marauders
Orders
6/20/2005 (League): Duck Hunters - Mistfit's_Marauders
Orders
6/27/2005 (League): Mistfit's_Marauders - The ED-Team
Orders


Here's the team line up:

Well here they are: Waddya think?

I think I'll train playmaking but I've got a ways to go to get there

Keepers have significantly higher TSIs. Your coach may have formidable experience but his actually coaching skill is weak so you should generally try to get an inadequate coach.

Nan Ding-Bong is a very good starter player as he should make a great IM.
Jorge Hawk is another nice IM although you may want to train stamina for 2 weeks to get him up to solid stamina.
Huey Pearce could be a wingback for some time and the player above him isn't terrible.
Kevin Ventura is a good defender since he is powerful so would be good for pressing.
Edwin Ricketts probably a decent winger with the head skill.
Dwayne Whittington seems to be your best striker.

There are a few other players that could play a role like Terrance Tapia although I would be tempted to sell him as he is an allrounder who isn't neccessarily that useful but someone may overpay for him. Quintin Mercado has solid passing and may sell but he is basically useless.

I think I would try and get a solid or passable IM without stamina cheaply and train stamina for the first 2 weeks to get a decent midfield. Then you could probably start training wingers, strikers or goalkeepers and you will need to buy some young players to train as you don't really have any decent trainable players. Playmaking and defence training could be avoided since they are both strong areas in your team already.

Thanks Dell! BTW I really like your .gif in hattrick :D

Mistfit sings a really bad 1970's song : "At the car wash, baby"

OK I'll stop singing now...

Is anyone on line that can walk me through getting my team to show up on "HO!" ?

I have MSN Messenger if you are nchtc3 AT chartermi DOT net

Ok, just going to give a quick review on what i think of your players, looking pretty good I ahve to say!

He is the coach indeed, but his exp won't help much, all teams start with the same coach, which is a weak one.

A half decent wingback, but has no experience and is old, so not very useful.

Decent scorer, keep him around for now.
Another useful player, can act as winger or wingback, keep him around too.

Correct, goalies have standard high TSI, inadequate is okay to start with except that he has no experience. Still, I'd keep him too, unless you'd start training goalies.

Decent defender with good set pieces, nice player.

Good wingback or winger, seems defense won't be much of an issue so far. :)

Half decent forward, playable but not that great I think.

:(, too bad he is the one to receive a solid on set pieces. Since set pieces are an extra on good players, I'm afraid this one is wasted..
Superb Midfielder, too bad he is 28 already, but with a little stamina trainign this one is going to give you lots of fun!

Another decent defender.

And yet another half decent defender/winger... [crazyeye]

Useless player I think, not worth anything on the market either.

[eek], even better midfielder, this one does not even require stamina training, is only 25, and with good secondaries. Your midfield will rock Mistift!

Next to useless, but KingReno seems to know how to sell players with solid passing, ask him whether transferlisting him could be worth it. :)

Another solid skill wasted, this player just doesn't have it...

...and this one doesn't have it either, I'm afraid, pretty useless.

Good alrounder, very handy to have as he can play virtually everywhere, but is especially a good forward. However, important here whether he is popular guy, or nasty fellow or something in between. Since he is a solid leader, if he is a nice guy that's good, but if not he has a negative impact on your team's performance.

Seems you already can field a very decent team, Lombardi, Grant and Ventura are good defenders, and there are plenty of stand-ins too. I don't think you need to worry on defense for a while.

As for the Midfield, Hawk and especially Bong totally rock! No Midfield problems at all it seems. Since they are so good already, it hink it would be kind of a waste to train PM, as they, because of their age, will not be worth that much on the market anymore I fear, and ýou're not able to afford trainable substitutes for these guys yet.
Finally, your scorers look okay as well, Tapia and Whittington look pretty okay up front, and there are a few subs available too such as Grant and Reeder.

So that brings me to the only mildly weak line of the squad, the goalie. First of all, for any good training program you will need a solid coach with poor leadership, to train the players a lot faster than a weak trainer will ever do. He will cost a hefty 278K though, leaving you only little cash to play with. Since keepers only require 2 trainees, it is the least cash-intensive training form, and it is also the quickest one to add to that, meaning you will get profits sooner.

2 passable 19 year olds with about 2500 tsi should cost you about 100K, meaning you'll go about 80K in debt... however, at the end of the season these guys will be near formidable, and sell for about 600-700K each, after which you will be out of debt easily, and start setting up more profitable training programs. If need be, you could even sell a few passable defender for 10K each to reduce debt a bit, since your midfield will mean you won't be getting much chances against you anyway, and you already have a good goalie if you train goaltending.

Finally, try to get a passable midfielder as well with inadequate stamina. Your team will need to train stamina in the first few weeks anyway, and you still need one other midfielder for your lineup, if you play 3-5-2. That should cost you no more than 5K, and in the end I think you can manage a poor midfield this way, very high for a starting team, and should win you games quickly.

Hope this helps a bit, but then again, other here will probably recommend a totally different strat. ;)

Your best players are IMs, so I'd say train playmaking, because there you can make the most profit out of your starting team.
But since no one of them is really young enough you would have to buy trainees.
Normally 3-5-2 is the strongest line-up which you wouldn't want to play as a scorer or defence trainer.
But keeper and winger are also ok with 3-5-2.

EDIT: Your team is not that bad as a new team...

Theres nothing wrong with 3-4-3 and 4-5-1 etc as long as you have the players to suit it. Generally premiership sides will play 3-4-3 because the loss of a winger can be made up for by having a stronger central and one side attack. I agree with Kemal and my first post that training playmaking would not make much sense because they are not trainable players so to train playmaking he would either have to sell them both or waste training slots.

Winger training could be nice since its almost as quick as goalkeeping and you train twice as many players plus 4 more at 50% which could be your current wingbacks. The drawback is that other teams only need 2 wingers and scoring trainers will probaly only use one. I would vaguely avoid scoring training as it seems to be too popular at the moment so prices could collapse.

Nan Ding-Bong (66250599)
25 years, weak form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is calm and righteous.
Has poor experience and wretched leadership abilities.


Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: USA
Total Skill Index (TSI): 1 520
Wage: 800 US$/week
Owner: Mistfit's_Marauders
Warnings: 0
Injuries: Healthy


Stamina: solid Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: inadequate
Winger: inadequate Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

That's one righteous dude :D

Mistfit has good wingers so it would be a waste if one would play towards middle or as extra def/IM/att.
I have made good experiences with PM training and I guess one can't do much wrong with it. But, ok, other training types can give higher profits (but especially for training defense you give up some of your chances in your league)

Terrance Tapia (66250606)
28 years, weak form, healthy
A controversial person who is temperamental and honest.
Has wretched experience and solid leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Total Skill Index (TSI): 1 690
Wage: 780 US$/week
Owner: Mistfit's_Marauders
Warnings: 0
Injuries: Healthy


Stamina: solid Goaltending: wretched
Playmaking: poor Passing: passable
Winger: inadequate Defending: passable
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: inadequate

Career Goals: 0
Career Hattricks: 0
League goals this season: 0
Cup goals this season: 0

This is cool Mistfit. I will be watching your progress.