Subject: II.1

"Defensive: With defensive style of play, your players think defense first. This kind of tactic is useful when you play a stronger opponent or if your defensemen are better than your forwards. This style of play produces fewer shots for both teams and therefore also fewer goals."
- from game guide


Defensive tactic doesn't mean you don't want to win. It will increase your chances of winning, a) against a stronger appointment, b) if your defensive players are stronger than your offensive players, or c) if you choose it as the correct counter-tactic.

Yeah, I don't think he lost because of tactics. I think his goalie just fell apart at the end of the game. He outshot me by a ton, so it didn't reduce the number of shots overall (though my team was shackled for most of the game).

Alright. We finally have the team strengths for this season. Every time I tried to do this, some jerk would start a training camp=) This is a few days out of date. I've also included the team strengths from last season. That's only for the teams who were in II.1 of course. I got them from DA's post on 2/21, page 51.

Goal-Def-Off-Shot Total (Last season)
Goldfish 88-106-89-61 T86 (69)
Boilermakers 84-78-77-51 T73 (51)
Flatulant 68-87-79-50 T71 (56)
Brooklyn 68-76-81-46 T68 (55)

Bombsville 70-58-68-62 T65 (49)
Northcutt 71-71-70-45 T64 (48)
Draco 69-65-70-40 T61 (na)
Slatington 65-70-63-45 T61 (45)
Pittsburgh 57-73-69-42 T60 (50)

Saratoga 53-69-61-42 T56 (40)
DHC Corsairs 60-62-59-41 T56 (41)
Michalovce 33-47-70-72 T56 (na)
HK XIVAM 30-63--57-49 T50 (29)
Crash Test 49-49-57-38 T48 (34)

Wranglers 67-42-45-30 T46 (na)
Raleigh 31-55-53-29 T42 (na)
Red Headed 36-42-42-28 T37 (na)
Lunatics 41-36-40-30 T37 (na)

Miami Rage† 32-29-30-39 T33 (na)
Skavenblight† 29-18-25-35 T27 (na)

14-16 seems to be the average team growth. Boilermakers and XIVAM were the biggest improvements with +22 & +21, respectively.

Nice work. Hmm. I wonder what cause my OTS to jump so high.... (Probably tujague's favorite Brazilian goalie)

Dang, DA. Yesterday was a bit of a surprise. I thought it would be much closer than that. Didn't you hit on tactics as well? I'm not sure. I lost the wheel. I started JC just in case you tried something funny=)

I just sold a staff member for $1M. That's only the second time in my career. And it was a lecturer at that!

Yeah no idea what happened there. The wheels certainly fell off. Guess it was too much of a letdown after the NC cup win in footy. Oh well.

I've played everyone else very solidly up to this point, so yeah was a bit of a shock result, but we'll take it in stride.

Second place? Yeah, baby. How did that happen?

Boilermakers rebound with a big win over Northcutt, while the Purple Cows get slaughtered by the Hornets. That's an interesting result. Did shortkickr use the wrong line-up or something?

ahhhh there we go

Haha. That too. The Fish are back where they belong.

No he didn't. This is when you get sting by a hornet

Had my first 4* pull in anything the other day, a coach. Scouted his attribute qualities are 65/90. Not too shabby. Pulled absolute buns for players today however.

Why are players coming with CL 5/6? 15 years old and they already know a lot

I pulled a good looking defender

Yeah pulling young players with CL 5/6 is always annoying. I have an 18yo with 4/6 already, which sucks, cause hes one of the best players I've ever pulled.

I have a question. You guy training shooting to goalies? In the guide says no effect on goalie, but I seem to realize that goalies with higher shooting are better. And I am playing Hattrick, where the keepers shooting ability helps them to detect where the player will shoot. Or is it just me? Thinking too much?