Training 9/8 - Run, Run Run!!!

[Stogey23]

Hoping for one of my magnificent IMs to pop to excellent stamina, and a whole bunch of "double pops" - especially my wingers.

[CrewDust]

No updates yet. Of course I screwed up my lineup this week, although I am training stamima.

Crap no training this week for me. O'well guess no set pieces for me next week. :mad:

[CharlesS]

What's the best way to check who popped for me?

I noticed some of them, but I can't seem to find it in Hattrick Forever.

[Kermmy803]

Form +4/-9 with 2 double level drops. :mad:

One passing pop to another of my trainees. :cool:

That makes 3 pops to trainees during my split 2 weeks of passing training.

Stamina next week. :(

[GROVESHSCOACH]

+4/-3 on form and 17 stamina pops. :)

[Stogey23]

12 stamina pops, including one defender to formidable and a winger "double pop" to excellent. That mag IM popped to excellent too, which accounts for a half a star in passable form. Wow!

My top 3 trainees are all over 20,000 TSI, which is amazing to me. I remember being thrilled when my 1st guy broke the 1,000 TSI mark!

Form was +3, -10.

[Helghallen]

Danish mid to supernatural. Form was +6/-2

[Ikari]

Edgar Jones popped to BRILLIANT!, and it appears he's ended the season as the top 17yo GK for the US.

[PirateJohn]

Finally got another pop -- I now have a second solid scorer to go along with my formidable scorer.

[kuhnscoot]

18 yo Belgian to brilliant PM

+2/-6

[fox point fury]

21 stamina pops; we're ignoring form this week, right?

[MLS SupaStr3]

form sucked but i got one passing pop. i guess i wasn't hoping for much anyway

[CharlesS]

Found it. 21 players training stamina with an inadequate coach (meaning I should pop stamina 5/6 of the time according to HTF and meaning I should get hurt in form (if only I had any to speak of to begin with).

In fact, though, I got the following results:
Stamina:
Double pops: 2
Single pops: 11 (two injured, one exc->form)
No change: 6 (two injured, three exc)

Somehow one 18yo double popped from weak to passable but a 17yo (and my 17yo excellent scorer at that!) had no change. So does this not work the way I thought it did? I thought training was predicatable in that there was a formula where each week a set number of levels were added based on age and coach skill, and that the game then truncated or rounded or something to produce a skill. Which would imply that it's impossible for an 18yo to double pop during a week where a 17yo does not pop at all, right?

Also, I assume it's harder to pop from excellent to formidable than the others? Or was it just bad luck that only one of my four excellents popped?

Form:
+1: 1 (started out disastrous)
0: 12 (four injured)
-1: 5
-2: 1

I now have my team stamina at 9, 4x8, 2x7, 8x6, 2x5, 4, 2x3 where the midfieders are 4x8, 2x7, 3 (and the 3 is injured). My form is 2x7, 3x6, 5x5, 5x4, 4x2. Given this, does it make sense to train stamina for one more week? I'm actually tempted to train general, but it's really wasting a week. How much does general help form, anyway? I'm just worried that the only staminas going up will be ones for players who don't matter but I'll lose form for everybody (for example, my excellent form keeper became solid this week and his stamina did go up, but that didn't matter did it). And my form is pretty awful, I think (is it? Or does everybody's look this bad?).

Oh, and one perhaps overriding concern. I am not in the Cup, and I have not yet been able to find a friendly for the week. Is there a good way to do this? If not, which types of training work without any matches being played?

[Qamle]

Probably got some passing pops, not really too sure.

Gotta solid experience pop in my first star player. Also has passable leadership :)

It's coach time, baby!

[NoodlesMacintosh]

Form +3/-6. No pops. Two guys are at 122 and 124%.

Oh, and my coach's leadership fell a level, at the end of his first season.

Frustrating.

[Qamle]

Damn I just spent over $700,000 to recruit my solid coach. I'm still very proud though... he was my first team captain... basically my best player at the beginning. Now he's my first player/coach. I just hope he earns his high price tag

[Stogey23]

Passable leadership is quite nice!

[romagol10]

Stamina was +9/-2 (wing to passable finally and trainee to solid, GK and defender dropped from formidable). Form was a disaster: +0/-12. Next week I'm training PM or set pieces.

[AAGunner3]

Hoping for one of my magnificent IMs to pop to excellent stamina, and a whole bunch of "double pops" - especially my wingers.

11 stamina pops - including one starting IM to formid
-9 form overall

[AAGunner3]

Found it. 21 players training stamina with an inadequate coach (meaning I should pop stamina 5/6 of the time according to HTF and meaning I should get hurt in form (if only I had any to speak of to begin with).

In fact, though, I got the following results:
Stamina:
Double pops: 2
Single pops: 11 (two injured, one exc->form)
No change: 6 (two injured, three exc)

Somehow one 18yo double popped from weak to passable but a 17yo (and my 17yo excellent scorer at that!) had no change. So does this not work the way I thought it did? I thought training was predicatable in that there was a formula where each week a set number of levels were added based on age and coach skill, and that the game then truncated or rounded or something to produce a skill. Which would imply that it's impossible for an 18yo to double pop during a week where a 17yo does not pop at all, right?

Also, I assume it's harder to pop from excellent to formidable than the others? Or was it just bad luck that only one of my four excellents popped?

Form:
+1: 1 (started out disastrous)
0: 12 (four injured)
-1: 5
-2: 1

I now have my team stamina at 9, 4x8, 2x7, 8x6, 2x5, 4, 2x3 where the midfieders are 4x8, 2x7, 3 (and the 3 is injured). My form is 2x7, 3x6, 5x5, 5x4, 4x2. Given this, does it make sense to train stamina for one more week? I'm actually tempted to train general, but it's really wasting a week. How much does general help form, anyway? I'm just worried that the only staminas going up will be ones for players who don't matter but I'll lose form for everybody (for example, my excellent form keeper became solid this week and his stamina did go up, but that didn't matter did it). And my form is pretty awful, I think (is it? Or does everybody's look this bad?).

Oh, and one perhaps overriding concern. I am not in the Cup, and I have not yet been able to find a friendly for the week. Is there a good way to do this? If not, which types of training work without any matches being played?


It's rare to pop to formid stamina...

though I just had one

Stamina and set pieces require no game to be played. EVERYONE gets training.

Also, the guy who popped from weak to passable, was a very HIGH weak and got enough training to take him to low passable. It happens every now and then. Just consider it a bit of randomness that he popped and another guy didn't.

If your Mids are not solid or better, train stamina again. Don't train general if you don't do this. Just go back to your regular training regimen and get a friendly scheduled. If you're really that concerned, train Set Pieces.