Mentoring
Mentoring is a entirely voluntary Hattrick program for managers officially launched during season 61 (February 2016). As declared by HTs, the mentorship system has shown tremendous efficiency in keeping new users engaged in Hattrick and more motivated to be involved.
There is also a national ranking for mentors, with average rating and an hattrick score.
It can be accessed from Community page in website.
Program
In order to give our rookie managers the best possible start, we want to help them connect with more experienced Hattrick users that are willing to become their mentors.
The program needs also new user which are looking to be mentored by an experienced user. As the game roll out the mentoring system, it will invite the most recent new users first. With enough mentors more users can be given this possibility over time.
A mentor operates to avoid making the same (costly) mistakes that a user did when we first started out. Every new users is sent a message offering them a mentor if they wish to help them out in the first few weeks. The aim is not to create or impart tactical knowledge but to focus on the basics such as setting up a training scheme or pulling a new youth player each week. If you have problems with your economy, tactics or with the transfers, your mentor will help you.
Mentor behaviour must be OK with the Hattrick rules. For example:
- It is not allowed to log into someone else's team,
- It is not allowed to have your "mentee" bid on your players for above market prices,
- It would be appreciated if you could teach your pupils the rules of the forum as well as the in game intricacies,
- It is OK to talk tactics and devise the "in game" downfall of other users.
Unofficial schemes
Mentoring exist unofficially since the beginning of the game, although without a real program and supported only by the good will of the users.
Over the years it has been expressed in the form of:
- national programs based on original Scotland's scheme and HT-Mails (i.e. Oceania Mentors or Malta Hattrick Federation),
- private federations (i.e. Alltid & HatStat Federation, Hattrick Support Federatie),
- dedicated forum topics.
