Team Spirit

What Affects Team Spirit

• Leadership of the Coach.
• Transfers.
  • Buying a player with low agreeability.
  • Selling a player with high agreeability.
• Agreeability of the Team leader, see also clown.
• Changing intensity of training.
• Team Attitude in matches.
  • Setting PIC will result in a bump in team spirit.
  • Playing normal will not affect team spirit.
  • Setting MOTS will reduce team spirit by half its value.
• Over time the team spirit will always converge to composed.
• Hiring too many assistant coaches will cause a tremendous drop of the team spirit.
• Exceeding the maximum squad size of 50 may cause a drop of the team spirit.
• In national teams changing the coach also may have negative or positive effect on the team spirit.

What Team Spirit Affects

Midfield ratings are affected by several factors. One of these factors is team spirit. The higher the team spirit, the better the midfield performs. And conversely, if team spirit is low, midfield ratings will lower. Team spirit also affects other parts of the field, although to a far lesser extent. A successful Hattrick manager will regulate his/her team spirit to get the best results for the team, as midfield is a very important factor in many matches.

In real life football the atmosphere around a team is of great influence on it's performance. If there is bad management or an incompetent coach this will have a negative effect on the way players feel and act on the pitch. In Hattrick this effect is represented by the Team Spirit.

The Team Spirit has a direct effect on the midfield strength of a team. The actual midfield strength based on players abilities is increased or decreased according to the Team Spirit. The midfield strength of both teams determines the distribution of chances, so a high Team Spirit will boost your midfield and deliver you more regular chances.

At the start of each season the Team Spirit is reset to a default level (composed). From then the actions of your club and your coach influence the rise and fall of the Team Spirit. Whatever you do Team Spirit is always trying to change back to composed. The leadership factor of your coach determines how fast it will change in that direction. A coach with high leadership will speed up the rate Team Spirit rises when below composed and slow down decrease in Team Spirit when above composed. The agreeability of the team leader also has an influence on the team spirit, a so called Clown has the highest possible influence. This influence is however only a small fraction of the influence of the coach.

See Also

• Confidence
• Clown