Stumped!

[cnerd123]

Planning for next season + CWC3, and I think ZCC will need to offload two or three of our six 17 YOs and sign on some 16 or 18 year olds instead.

Right now we have 6 17 YOs, 4 19 YOs and 1 20 YO. We're setting ourselves up for another painful transition period unless we can ensure we have kids over all age groups coming through the ranks.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Most of us probably have 16yos that you might be interested in (although maybe a bit low POT for ZCC)

Got this 18yo bowler too if your team needs a stopgap

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[cnerd123]

Lickley could do a job

I need to figure out which of the 17 YOs I'm more willing to get rid of. I think one out of Tudor/Halliday will have to go (both hyper aggressive batters) and one of Livpreet/Chester (both spinners). The tougher one is picking between 46 pot seamer Bashir and 45 pot bat/38 pot bowl spin allrounder Younis.

 

[StephenZA]

@cnerd123 @Magrat Garlick So what size squad do you find best? I am bare bones at the moment, with obvious financial constrictions. Long term I though somewhere between 25 and 30 players was probably what you would aim for, then you can cover age ranges for development? Is that financially viable? Is it difficult to hold onto talent that you don't know if you have time to develop, but can sell now for decent monies?

 

[cnerd123]

So usually I want to maintain 11 Dev players and a maximum of 8 Senior players, with all Senior XIs comprised of at least 3 kids from my Dev team. Ideally those kids are 20/21 and on their way out to join the senior squad anyways, so you have steady influx of new talent to replace the older one on a season to season basis. This means a maximum squad size of 19 to remain competitive in all 3 formats. I know some clubs manage with smaller squads, but personally I find it hard to remain competitive in senior cricket with that many youngsters playing. Maybe if you have really good young talent you can make it work.

My squad usually gets a bit bloated as the season wears on. I tend to carry the larger squad through the start of the new season while I'm still in the Cup. Having 20/21 players means I can field reasonably strong teams in all formats, and a longer cup run = more money and IGT, so there is no reason not to give it a go. But as soon as I get eliminated from the Cup I start making cuts again.

Right now I'm likely to cut 27-year old opening bowler Bikswing Nouding, as 19 YO Sampath Ramalingam seems ready to step into his shoes. But that will still leave me with 9 senior players and a 20 man squad. I'm in this situation because I didn't future plan well enough, and my next gen of Dev talent just isn't good enough to play senior cricket yet. Also Luke Giddings aside all my senior squad at 25 or younger, so they're not really at the age where I want to get rid of them. I think I'll be playing with the 20 man squad for all of next season, and can only trim it further in Season 29.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Lickley could do a job

I need to figure out which of the 17 YOs I'm more willing to get rid of. I think one out of Tudor/Halliday will have to go (both hyper aggressive batters) and one of Livpreet/Chester (both spinners). The tougher one is picking between 46 pot seamer Bashir and 45 pot bat/38 pot bowl spin allrounder Younis.

I'd be happy to buy back Tudor, probably wouldn't open the bidding tho but see what the market price would be

@cnerd123 @Magrat Garlick So what size squad do you find best? I am bare bones at the moment, with obvious financial constrictions. Long term I though somewhere between 25 and 30 players was probably what you would aim for, then you can cover age ranges for development? Is that financially viable? Is it difficult to hold onto talent that you don't know if you have time to develop, but can sell now for decent monies?

I think the best size squad is about 25 players, with 2-3 in each DEV age range (so a total of 15-16 DEV aged players) and a core senior XI of 8-9 players that is augmented by your best DEVs and some horses for courses options. My affiliate has 29 players but it's not in financial strife - i guess your coaches are drawing a bit of money given you've sunk money and coaching courses into training them. Once you start winning a bit and expanding your stadium then you should have very little problem funding a squad of 20+ players imo.

 

[ataraxia]

Well I just did the stupidest thing and accidentally played injured Ludlow in my final (bot) match of the season. The hope is that he doesn't bowl any more overs as the bot side is collapsing very quickly.

 

[StephenZA]

I am not in any financial problems just trying to be cautious and save as much money as I can, rather than spend money on players and wages that are not needed. I did waste a little bit of money in the beginning while I was learning, but hey that's the way it goes. I started sinking money into youngish coaches (32) because long term player prospects I only have 3 top quality players. And I want to get my coaches ready for anything that I scout and can buy from now on. Similar with groundman. I want to also increase my stadium size as soon as I can make it financially viable. But only when my team starts winning consistently. In the end I need the players and that's down to a little bit of luck and savings!

As my board gaming friends say... I'm trying to min/max all my long term play decisions (But I'm having lots of fun doing this!)

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Well I just did the stupidest thing and accidentally played injured Ludlow in my final (bot) match of the season. The hope is that he doesn't bowl any more overs as the bot side is collapsing very quickly.

please report what happens, for science

 

[cnerd123]

7 overs, ouch. Batted 3 balls too. Still showing me as 7 days recovery time

Helps if you put him on recuperation with a coach that has good physiotherapy skill.

 

[ataraxia]

Knocked 24% off condition, nothing else.

Does recuperation increase condition? I've got a 5 physio coach.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Does recuperation increase condition? I've got a 5 physio coach.

Yes, but it only works on the Thursday the training runs, I think

 

[cnerd123]

Worth putting him on it IMO, have him close to 100% for the start of next season

 

[JOJOXI]

A good game @Magrat Garlick - happy to see Latif economical with new ball and Fletcher with a good 50 at the end - 2 useful things to come out of that friendly. Top order set a decent platform for you and bowling outside Owen putting up a strong fight for your side

 

[StephenZA]

12 000 rating ahead of my bot-opponent today... but still well behind in the fielding! Seriously need to do something about that one! With Mthombeni 100 % increase in wk skill (1->2) see how many he drops today or if he has some renewed confidence!

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Full crowd for Dynamo Morpork (2nd) vs Springproteas (3rd) today. The first XI is out today for Dynamo, Springproteas are rebuilding and have a weakness in the new ball bowling - they're a team built around a couple of stars, and are in the process of a rebuild.

An early run out of the captain and most proven batsman Hamilton has been followed by a flurry of boundaries, 27/1 after 4.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Got them five down after 22 overs...Fox has been given orders to take wickets and it's worked well for them. However they've got still got batting to No. 8 (George Hook is probably in the WI eyes as a potential future batsman for them) so need the spinners and reverse swingers to keep on plugging

Neither ZCC nor MTO seem to be finding batting very easy, either. Yattack and Furqan at least trying to recover in what seems to be good conditions for the away attack of three pacemen, a seamer and a poor spinner that's there to fluke a wicket or two.

 

[cnerd123]

'runs on the board' is how I'd describe that batting performance. If we don't get new ball wickets we'll lose. 30/0 in 9 overs, I'd like to have them 5 down in the first 25 overs at least.

Normally we'd opt to bowl first in conditions like these, but since we're safe from relegation we decided to try something different. It's good that everyone got to bat, and now hopefully we can bowl enough overs to give everyone a decent bit of IGT.

Morpork crushing the Springproteas now. Good stuff. Anthony McGrath's fourth 40+ score in a row, what a run he's having.

TMO's bot bashing going swimmingly. Everyone till 10 got to bat (Vilojen is surprisingly good for a player batting that low), and Zach Burger has nipped out 3 wickets in no time. Hopefully Waltonshire can hang around long enough for the Orangutans to get overs into their legs.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Yeah rn I'd be surprised if ZCC get back up, 219 seems way too low for D1 cricket.

Meanwhile I've just realized my opponent has given his batting star Hook the job as early game spinner, which unsurprisingly isn't going well for him.

If he logs on to reset the orders ahead of next season I'll have more troubles, as it stands happy McGrath gets another nice innings of 43 (which he's just thrown away oh well).

Mthombeni holds a catch!

 

[cnerd123]

0.3

W

Burger to Dennis

118 kph

9/10​

channel

attack

thick edge

easy close CATCH for Tyagi.

4.4

W

Burger to Farley

108 kph

9/10​

off stump

attack

thin edge

dolly CATCH by the keeper.

8.4

W

Kock to Werrell

113 kph

9/10​

missing off

attack

skewed

dolly infield CATCH for Katz.

9.1

W

Samaranayake to Ray

122 kph

9/10​

missing off

push

thick edge

easy close CATCH for Farhat.

Catching on the money today @StephenZA