Sports psychologist
Sports psychologist is a specialist who increases confidence and, to a much smaller degree, team spirit.
Characteristics
Team spirit is driven by the team attitude you set for previous games. Immediately after a game team spirit may get a boost or drop lower, depending on which team attitude was used. But at each daily update the team spirit then tends to normalise, which means if it is high then it will slowly drop and if it is low then it will slowly recover. A Sports Psychologist can help you improve this process by raising the base value toward which your team spirit moves naturally. A higher base value means that high team spirit values will fall slower and low ones will rise faster. The bonus received is one tenth of a level per skill level employed. This means a level 5 Sports Psychologist will increase your team spirit base value by half a level of team spirit.
Your team's confidence is also helped by the Sports Psychologist. Confidence is primarily driven by your team results and how many goals you've scored. But the Sports Psychologist adds a bonus to confidence as well. This bonus equals one full level of confidence for a Level 5 Sports Psychologist, or one fifth of a level of confidence per skill level employed.
| Skill Level | Team spirit | Confidence | Cost/week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | - | No bonus | No bonus | 0 € |
| 1 |
|
+0,1 | +0,2 | 1 500 € |
| 2 |
|
+0,2 | +0,4 | 3 000 € |
| 3 |
|
+0,3 | +0,6 | 6 000 € |
| 4 |
|
+0,4 | +0,8 | 12 000 € |
| 5 |
|
+0,5 | +1 | 24 000 € |
Sports psychologist increases your team confidence and - directly - your attack ratings. He does not help protect you against overconfidence.
HTs on Global
This was explained in a Q&A on Global by HT-Tjecken:
| From: | HT-Tjecken | (6604789.86) as reply to (6604789.65) | |
| To: ELbohh | 10.08.2006 at 11:52 | ||
| 1. So overconfidence can happen more often. To prevent it I should hire the maximum number of psychologist. Not fire them?
Psychologists boost your confidence, they're not at all useful to lower it. So I should sack them in case of overconfidence and not hire more. | |||
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