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What was your Enthusiasm for the two games?

7 and 8, I think.

Mutual PIC / normal wouldn't really work because you just cant trust the other manager incase they decide to jib you & go harder than agreed - although that would be to their disadvantage long term because of the effects on enthus.

you couldn't plan to do this either way as it wouldn't be avail. I've mutual PIC'd many matches in hattrick. I don't doubt it will happen in BB also.

I was at 2 and 4 for the two games...that's a significant difference but in the end the only numbers that matter are my score and your score.

I think the away CT is marginally stronger, but I'm not really adept at reading ratings yet and determining the strength of teams.

I think that is a good goal to set, so long as the home TIE is calibrated to the away normal.

1) Based on just the Salisbury - Bulls playoff, which was a match-up of two similarly close teams, seems like the balance is off (CT over emphasized)

2) That's seems like a fair goal. Higher ranked teams should generally be stronger teams, so even lower seed w/ ct on the road against a normal higher seed should still have the home team with the higher odds to win. IE, the CT would make it like the game is at a neutral venue, but not make up for being a weaker team overall.

Now that I'm thinking about this and reading through this discussion enthusiasm overall seems to make less sense. In playoffs, if a team came out and just put everything on the line, the opposing team would adjust and step up their intensity, if not voluntarily, a good halftime "talking" from the coach would do it.

Enthusiasm might be improved if it was looked at like team confidence in hattrick, something that is the result of how the team is winning or losing. Not something a coach or manager can just turn on or off.