For those that want to know a more in depth idea of what the game is, here's the guide that you can read. If you decide to join the game I highly advise you to read the guide before making decisions for your team.
Powerplay Hockey Manager Guide
Welcome to Powerplay Hockey Manager.
In Powerplay Hockey Manager, you run your own team. You can buy or sell players or staff on the market. Build up your arena and teams facilities, and train your players into superstars.
Facilities
When you first begin your best bet would be to spend your money improving your arena to increase your revenue from attendance and your facilities to improve your team in the future.
A quick explanation of what each Facility is for:
1) Training Facility - Training facility provides conditions where players can train and practice to improve as effectively as possible. You can hire a staff member - coach to increase the influence of the training facility.
2) Regeneration Facility - Games and practices are tiresome for players, so they are unable to train efficiently and the risk of injury increases. By building the regeneration facility you can avoid this problem. You can hire a staff member - physiotherapist to increase the influence of the regeneration facility.
3) Human Resources and Economic Department - Easier negotiations with the sponsor, better souvenir sale, employing better staff members or cheaper and more accurate scouting of your own players as well as the players of your opponents will be facilitated by this department. You can hire a staff member - manager to increase the influence of the human resources and economic department.
4) Maintenance Center - Every arena in the world is subject to wear and tear over time. To minimize your maintenance costs and to avoid greater damage by the fans, you need to build up a maintenance center. You can hire a staff member - arena custodian to increase the influence of the maintenance center.
5) Education Center - If you would like your staff to continue in their improvement and training, you need to invest into the education center. You can hire a staff member - lecturer to increase the influence of the education center.
6) Sports Academy - The level of your sports academy determines how your club brings up juniors. The higher the level, the more juniors will be coming out and the better prepared they will be. Your senior players also go to the sports academy for camps where they improve their skills faster. You can hire a staff member - sporting director to increase the influence of the sports academy.
7) Medical Center - Injuries are a disaster for any team. To decrease the probability of injuries and to speed up the recovery of players after injuries you can build a medical center. You can hire a staff member - physician to increase the influence of the medical center.
As you can tell there are a few that are more helpful to get you on your way. Such as the Sports Academy to improve players that come to your team and the Training Facility to help improve players that you have on your roster.
As for the Staff Pulls/Youth Pulls. They take place on Thursdays. They alternate every other week. So one week it will be new players available for you, the next Thursday it will be new staff members.
Staff
There are 7 different types of staff members available to your team. You can get staff through your staff pulls, or on the staff market. (I would not recommend spending much for staff on the market, especially early on). As for the 7 different types of staff. Here is each type with a short explanation as to what they will do to help your team.
1) Coach is a staff member that works in the training facility. His attributes are:
* Defence coaching – this attribute indicates the ability to train the defensive attributes of players (goaltending, defence, aggressiveness, technique)
* Offence coaching – this attribute indicates the ability to train the offensive attributes of players (offence, shooting, passing)
If your player is assigned to practise offence, for example, then the improvement rate will increase with the rising efficiency of offence coaching of your coaches. The efficiency of an attribute is a percentage of influence that your staff have on their facility. The maximum efficiency is therefore 100%. This efficiency depends on the value of the respective attribute of your head staff member and his assistant. The maximum attribute value of a staff member is 100, which means that the best possible staff member can have 200 points in attributes.
2) Physiotherapist is a staff member working in the regeneration facility. His attributes are:
* Defence regeneration – this attribute indicates the ability to regenerate players, who practise defensive attributes (goaltending, defence, aggressiveness, technique)
* Offence regeneration – this attribute indicates the ability to regenerate players, who practise offensive attributes (offence, shooting, passing)
3) Manager is a staff member working in the human resources and economic department. His attributes are:
* Scouting - this attribute indicates the ability to make precise estimates on the quality of players and staff and it also influences the speed of scouting of people in the scouting queue. The attribute also indicates the ability to provide more job applicants.
* Marketing - this attribute indicates the ability to negotiate with sponsors and TV companies in order to get the best contract possible.
4) Arena custodian is a staff member working in the maintenance center. His attributes are:
* Security service - this attribute indicates the ability to eliminate vandalism in the arena and thus lower the expenses on maintenance of the stands and their accessories.
* Maintenance - this attribute indicates the ability to fix the glitches that occur in the facilities and therefore lower the expenses on the maintenance of the facilities.
5) Lecturer is a staff member working in the education center. His attributes are:
* Management training - this attribute indicates the ability to train the following staff members: manager, sporting director and arena custodian.
* Practical training - this attribute indicates the ability to train the following staff members: coach, physiotherapist and physician.
Lecturers train themselves and both of their attributes are applied during their training!
6) Sporting Director is a staff member working in the sports academy. His attributes are:
* Youth training - this attribute indicates the ability to provide more juniors coming from the sports academy. The attribute also influences the overall rating of the young prospects coming to your team for a trial.
* Player training - this attribute indicates the ability to organize training camps for more players while ensuring a higher training bonus of the camp.
7) Physician is a staff member working in the medical center. His attributes are:
* Prevention - this attribute indicates the ability to minimize the number of injuries to your players.
* Treatment - this attribute indicates the ability to speed up the recovery time of the injured players.
Facts about Staff Members:
- if you have a facility at a higher level, the applicants for a job at this facility will likely have higher attributes
- You may have two staff members of each type (one head, and one assistant for each type)
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