First steps

So you have a team - now what? First of all, click on everything you can, get comfortable with the design and see what you have got. Notice, that in the top right corner there is a ?! button. There you can get a lot of useful advice, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Now - these are the steps you should follow after getting a new team:

1. Go to "Sponsors" -> "Offers".

Every day (while there is free space of advertisement) you will get offers from sponsors. Before you sign a contract consider what opportunities you have, because usually your popularity will grow, and therefore in the future you can expect better offers (maybe it is worth to sign a contract for shorter period). You can decide to accept an offer or wait for better one. Next day not accepted offers will be deleted and new ones will be offered instead. It is your choice - when and what offer to accept.

2. Players - see what you have got. Pay attention to skills that they are good at and keep that in mind. Strength rate (RT) is a good way to compare players. Strength rate is evaluation of all player's skills. The bigger the RT, the better the player is.

3. League -> press on "Team" -> "Rosters" (or "Exchanges", under the name of the team - you will be able to see the salaries here). See what your opponents have - that is, if your players are good in comparison with them, or only average.

4. Tactics - try and make a tactic for your players for the next match. There is no best tactics – it is more of a try and fail process.

5. Finances - look at your finances. Maybe you need to exchange your very expensive players with cheaper ones, or maybe you need to buy some new players, or exchange them. Read the finance help section - there you will find how to plan and use your budget.

6. Player exchange - there are a few ways to get better players. The main one is to buy them in the market. However you will probably spend a week until you get a new player. Therefore you can try and exchange your leader into two good players, or by looking at all the teams, try and exchange a player that is totally unnecessary to your team (with a cheap contract) to a better and more expensive player, who would be useful for your team (e.g. the unnecessary player is always sitting on a bench and never plays, and he gets paid for it).

However you need to be careful. You should rather ask others if the person exchanging his player is not trying to cheat you. When you get an offer of exchange, do not reject it straight away - see if the exchange is useful for you:

A) You might save some money

B) Your team might get stronger

7. Market - sort the players by term. These players are the players that you can get quickest (you already need new players as a match is coming up). However, do not make decisions too fast, so that you do not need to fire players from the team. You might be able to win with the players that you have already - or you might let yourself loose 2-3 matches, and then get a good team.

Sort the players by the RT (strength rating - what value the player has for a team). Do not take too much notice of what position the player is written to play, because you can change that. Look at the RT, Height, and a little to the previous Statistics of the player. Still the most important factor is the RT. Choose the players that you like, and offer them some money. Firstly we would recommend buying players that do not interest others very much, so they would not want a lot of money. You can be lucky and buy these players for few hundreds. In the mean time, the price of the players with a lot of interest by others is usually blown up because of the competition to get it. Therefore usually (mostly in the beginning) it is better to buy a couple of average players for a low salary than 1 really good for a huge salary.

8. Help - if you have any questions how to do one thing or the other, you should use help. Notice that in the top right corner of mostly every page there is an icon (?!). Click on it will display a lot of useful information about the page ant availabale actions in it ((quick help)). If you did not find the answer in quick help and in help, look for answers in forum. If you could not find answers anywhere, ask yourself in forum.