Hattrick ! blog by Bobymoore

Hattrick Hub is an interesting initiative which “is primarily directed at collecting and archiving ideas, suggestions and feature requests that would otherwise be lost between the vast amount of other forum messages.”

In that web site you’ll discover a lot of ideas that have been developed by hattrick managers in the whole worls, you’ll be able to comment on them and rank them. Although the web site is not run by the HTs, its structure and collaborative approach make it a very efficient lobby in the hattrick community. Add your voice there will help improving hattrick in the way you would like to see it!

Beltrick made an interesting ineterview of HT-Jonas in this article. Various subjects are covered in this interview, from the evolution of hattrick both as a game and a company, to the team of HTs.

As I mentioned in my post on the hattrick managers i had bookmarked for their quality posting in conferences , it turns out that Ratsia (FC Vompatti) is the most bookmarked manager outside of the HT- team. This is indeed a sign of the quality of his posts.

I also found an interview of Ratsia in this entry of Hattrick Monitor, which means I was not the first to think to do an interview of him!

If you are a hattrick supporter you might not really know what to do with the user conference bookmark that is offered to you. I’ll share with you the users that I have bookmarked as well as the reasons why I find their posts so interesting.

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Racing Trieux Pays Haut (since 2004, France, V.109 - Claudio_canigia) - Colleague of mine, doing well in France, started with defending training and skill trading, has now established himself in one of the top french 5th divisions

Max Pils United (since 2004, France, V.17 - Brianmolko76) - Doing quite well, he chose offensive tactics as his trademark but it is difficult to settle at the top of his division, but i am sure that with patience he will succeed in there.

Lux Allstars (since 2005, Lëtzebuerg, III.3 - TopChris) - A friend of mine who is battling his way up with an offensive team

Avenir Mamer (since 2005, Denmark, V.156 - Ostekiks) - I remember our first contact on IRC i was really wondering who this danish guy was. It turned out to be a great guy ready to serve our country and buying luxembourgish players for insane prices. He is our well known current U20 coach and trainer of various national players (Robi Kirsch, Carlo Drescher, Valery Morain, Josy Eiffes, Chris Miller…), sacrificing part of his team success for the country he used to live in, before settling in his home country

Yateley Warriors (since 2006, England, VI.540 - Speightmeister) - I am eager to see how this ex colleague of mine will be doing in the next seasons as he is a football expert and routined manager

FightClub Football Club (since 2006, Lëtzebuerg, Nationaldivisioun - DurdenTyler) - Ex-U20 coach, Tyler has been a hard worker for both the national teams and his own team. I expect that he will gain some national titles in the very next seasons

Scarpone Squadron (since 2006, France, II.3 - kaius) - An IRL sport freak, who also happens to be what I believe is the brain that helped zuzut’s success. His recipe consists in first having good midfield / attack, reducing wages with national players, and then concentrating on the additional aspects a player can bring (specialties, secondaries, xp)

BMC (since 2006, Lëtzebuerg, III.8 - hassoun) - my boss, and i am not kidding

FC Vompatti (since 2006, Suomi, Mestaruussarja, Ratsia) - not only do I share most of his views on the game of Hattrick, but he is also an incredible good poster on the conferences. His posts are clear and full of great information. His success is of course very impressive, and based on some principles like: strict wage control, players with high secondaries and of course the adequate mix of specialties and experience in local players when possible. I also share is view on the fact that secondaries are highly underrated by most managers and thus not trained enough.

A special comment to Morsure who introduced me to the game and who i really miss in there, but i can understand that he left after playing such a long time

As Hattrick is evolving, the way I play the game is evolving and therefore the tools i use are also evolving.

As i dont do skill trading anymore, i use far less PSICOTSI that i used a lot to check the main-skill sub-level of many players, I also stopped using an offline tool that allowed mass checking of main-skill sub-level for transfer listed players.

I still use HAM which is not perfect and especially lacks new developments. It has basic features for reviewing the team training progress, match analysis and economical situation.

I use htratings, to help preparing the tactics for the next games and has also some interesting tools to review special events, chances of getting a red card.

Using firefox for web surfing, foxtrick is an obvious choice to have an improved view of data which i really lack when i am browsing through hattrick pages when i dont have it.

If you believe some superior tools exist, please dont hesitate to comments this post!