Hattrick Insight

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My players never raise their experience, what’s the deal?

Experience in Hattrick exists just like in real football, players gain experience through different types of matches and could to some extent weigh up what they’re lacking in main skill with a high level of experience. Something that often is widely discussed in the conferences is how the rise in experience work, how much experience […]

12Sep2008 | spinsis | 15 comments | Continued
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Stamina Study: What % is needed to retain stamina?

There have been numerous threads the past months regarding the stamina, and above all questions about what percentage that is needed to retain excellent stamina on your players. We can now publish a quite substantial study that has been done by Roquevarela with data added and adjusted by Zeverlap. Full credit to these two managers […]

10Aug2008 | spinsis | 17 comments | Continued
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17 year old youth pulls for €3-4-5-6m, why?

In the past, before the days on players were actually counted, we always saw a significant increase in transfer prices on 17 year old players. This was often referred to as ’sick’ or met with general criticism throughout the community. Since then we’ve had some developments in the game. Players are now ageing in days, […]

29Jul2008 | spinsis | 13 comments | Continued
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Election Turnout: A Measure of Community Spirit?

One of the most common things we read on the conferences in the days after an election is “how come we had such a terrible turnout?”. This is often followed by comparisons to other countries before swiftly moving onto complaints that “our community must be rubbish”. However, these claims and complaints are often […]

27Jun2008 | DogNatural | 10 comments | Continued
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Thoughts and FAQ on Conditional Substitutions

Let me start off by saying that this article is a further build to the Hattrick Announcement to allow conditional substitutions for the youth team. If you haven’t read that Hattrick is opening up for conditional substitutions in the youth team yet, please read that article/announcement first as you are otherwise most likely not to […]

14Jun2008 | spinsis | 7 comments | Continued
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Playing Counter Attack (CA)

There are several reasons for playing counter attack. In many cases the primary reason for a coach thinking about using counter attack in a big game would include his team’s ability to win the midfield. This is of course due to a number of factors such as skill, form and team spirit. It might be […]

7Jun2008 | spinsis | 5 comments | Continued
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Travelling with Hattrick

We’ve been around the world
The last year I’ve been to quite some places; Sweden, Germany, Kuala Lumpur, Thailand, England, and Australia. I haven’t been to any of these places, visiting a university or any random Internet café without meeting a fellow Hattricker. I’ve met so many people sharing the same interest – mostly Swedish because […]

27May2008 | spinsis | 0 comments | Continued
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Random or rounded stamina drops?

A lot of managers seem to think that the new performance and minute based stamina system (e.g. grey vs. yellow stars) is very confusing. Lately, discussions about whether there exists a random or rounded system in the background when it comes to stamina drops (grey stars) has been emerging.
The randomness and such comments about the […]

15May2008 | spinsis | 1 comment | Continued