gah i got the shittiest pull yesterday!!!!
was very very frustrating...

I don't really know my objectives, i'll keep training playmaking until i see some skill levels. Because they really all suck at the moment, and i don't want to fork out that much money.

After that i'm not so sure.
I aim to not finish last hehehehe

what else should i be aiming for??

It would be good if we start a friendly game OX, I haven't bothered Hattrick for somewhile, and now I'm drunk. Not like that matters anyway.

Sure am!
I'm yet to pull passable's yet, i'll probably have to wait for the next level (still on passable).
But I usually pull at least one inadequate skill every week. This week it was a 17 year old inadequate playmaker

I think i'm going to have to sell a few of my older good players soon, i'm almost in the negatives after buying that passable coach, but it was worth it because i'm starting to see the first of my playmaking skill increases!

Tnx guys! You'll prolly start seeing improvements soon enough Suga, if you've done nothing but train playmaking since you started!


There's kind of an inaccurate (but helpful) way of knowing about how long it takes for a player to advance in a skill. You take the "official" rate, that's based in a player of 19 or younger being trained 100% by a solid coach. For defending, the rate of advancement is 8 weeks, for example.

Then, you add a week extra for every lvl your coach's skill is lower than solid. Then, you add a week for every year older than 20 that a player is.

So; in my case, a 23-yr old trained by my weak coach, would take about 8+3 (lvls lower than solid)+3 (years older than 20)= 14

As you can see, a player of 28 or older is barely worth training most of the time, takes ages.

Btw; keep in account though: every skill has a different advancement rate, AND, the player you have might be "high-inadequate", as in, almost passable, or "low-inadequate", as in, almost weak. So you could have a player advance in a skill after one week only, if you get lucky. 17-yr olds with an excellent skill (max on pull) that are high-excellent are worth fortunes lol.

The only way you can tell just how "high" or "low" he's in a certain skill is:
a)he already had an increase in skill when he was on your team, allowing you to monitor his next increase a bit.
b)his performances during the games, his amount of stars. 2 players might be passable, but one might get 1.5 stars and the other 2.5, that's usually a sign.