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Psychology
version 2008-07-08

team spirit (in conferences often abbreviated as 'TS' (no, not tomato and salad =)
the team spirit is like a general form of your team. if its low your team (midfield) will perform below its capabilities and the other way round.
having a good team-spirit-strategy is very important in this game !!

apart from playing mots or pic as explained further down the page the team spirit is affected by these things:
• your coach´s leadership
• the team's self-confidence : dropping self confidence could drag your team spirit down a bit
» sport psychologists
• significantly decreasing training intensity can provide a 'one-time' boost to the team spirit of a team
   this would give your team's spirit a one-time boost at the training update
   to trigger this you got to change your training intensity before thursday's daily update. » see this schedule
• transfers can also affect team spirit
    chances of a transfer affecting team spirit negatively
Agreeability
 Buying
 Selling
Popular guy
0%
26%
Sympathetic guy
0%
18%
Pleasant guy
25%
15%
Controversial person
55%
0%
Nasty fellow
79%
0%
source: http://wiki.hattrick.org/Transfers#TS-Drop

- if you put a youth-player onto transfer list within 3 days after pulling him there wont be any effect on the team's spirit.
- firing a player doesnt affect team spirit
- if your team spirit has been affected you will get a message within the "Latest Events" list on "The Club" page.


having a coach with solid leadership + 10 Psychologists is the best state regarding this. meaning that your TS will drop SLOWEST.

Confidence
your self-confidence will raise by winning matches and drop when loosing. it directly affects your attack ratings...
the better confidence the better your players are at converting chances.
sport psychologists raise your team's self confidence and help keeping your teamspirit up longer.

Overconfidence
its a loss of midfield power right at the beginning of a match due to having very high confidence.
when on exxagerated confidences before a match it can happen to a team positioned 1st to 3rd in a league if the difference to the opponents position is 5 places or more (1st vs 8th, 1st vs 7th, 1st vs 6th, 2nd vs 8th, 2nd vs 7th, 3rd vs 8th).
overconfidence won't occur in cup games. it can happen when playing Normal or PIC but not at MOTS. see hattrick rules »

MOTS - match of the season
choosing to play match of the season will make your team's midfield perform better as the team spirit is raised during the game. the negative effect is that your team spirit will be ~halfed after that match. it can be raised again by playing pic:

PIC
- play it cool
choosing this will make your team's midfield perform below the normal level but after the game your team spirit will be raised by ~2 levels.

related stuff
» raise TS by dropping TI