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Stumped!
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Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
GG have had some thrashings of Mooo recently too. Are the cows allright?
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Things went south for Moooo ever since that awesome tied game on the 5th of this month. We need a bowler who can bowl it above 80 mph.
Former GG player, Roger Attlee is the guy who can do this…he’ll be getting a lot of game time…so let’s see how much this changes up the results.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
214 for Mooo. Feels at least 50 short, no disrespect to Warfield's rebuild.
Schmaltzberg are away to Winton, their bogey team (3-7 record) and have done a good job of restricting so far, but the conditions are excellent for our mainly medium pace attack and only one wicket is not ideal.
Schmaltzberg are away to Winton, their bogey team (3-7 record) and have done a good job of restricting so far, but the conditions are excellent for our mainly medium pace attack and only one wicket is not ideal.
cnerd123
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Managing an International team is so different to club level.
With a club you get to build a team to play the gameplan you want to play. If your new ball bowlers aren't good enough, you replace them, if your allrounder sucks you find another. You set your home pitch so you know you can have a strategy that works 50% of the time, and just recruit a few players to fill the gaps for other conditions.
With the Nat team you're stuck between trying to get the best players you have into the XI while also figuring out a workable strategy that revolves around them. You sometimes have to balance playing weaker players because they fit a role, with the risk being that they might suck anyways because they're just not good enough. Much higher skill levels at Nat cricket too, and no Friendly games to work out strategies in.
The Bangladesh team is an interesting one. Our best batters are all suited to hyper-aggressive roles, our best top-order options have low stamina, we only have 1 good spinner who is already 28, and we've got no quality bowlers who can hold the stick. So we're stuck constructing these very old-school looking XIs with a bits and pieces allrounder at 7 and a long tail. But then we don't quite have the Top 6 to back them up. A lot of the pitches at Nat level are high wear too, since we play on club grounds on the days right after a club match, so that lack of a 2nd spinner and batting depth really hurts us. We've also got three bowlers who are first-XI material who are all LM which is kinda annoying. Lefties aren't hax in this game the way they are IRL.
It's an interesting challenge. Need to figure out how to build a winning strategy with the talent at our disposal somehow. Doesn't help that we have the shallowest talent pool in the game. I think I'm coming close to figuring it out, but really wish I could play a bunch of friendly matches, or simulate some BD vs BD 'A' games to get a better idea.
With a club you get to build a team to play the gameplan you want to play. If your new ball bowlers aren't good enough, you replace them, if your allrounder sucks you find another. You set your home pitch so you know you can have a strategy that works 50% of the time, and just recruit a few players to fill the gaps for other conditions.
With the Nat team you're stuck between trying to get the best players you have into the XI while also figuring out a workable strategy that revolves around them. You sometimes have to balance playing weaker players because they fit a role, with the risk being that they might suck anyways because they're just not good enough. Much higher skill levels at Nat cricket too, and no Friendly games to work out strategies in.
The Bangladesh team is an interesting one. Our best batters are all suited to hyper-aggressive roles, our best top-order options have low stamina, we only have 1 good spinner who is already 28, and we've got no quality bowlers who can hold the stick. So we're stuck constructing these very old-school looking XIs with a bits and pieces allrounder at 7 and a long tail. But then we don't quite have the Top 6 to back them up. A lot of the pitches at Nat level are high wear too, since we play on club grounds on the days right after a club match, so that lack of a 2nd spinner and batting depth really hurts us. We've also got three bowlers who are first-XI material who are all LM which is kinda annoying. Lefties aren't hax in this game the way they are IRL.
It's an interesting challenge. Need to figure out how to build a winning strategy with the talent at our disposal somehow. Doesn't help that we have the shallowest talent pool in the game. I think I'm coming close to figuring it out, but really wish I could play a bunch of friendly matches, or simulate some BD vs BD 'A' games to get a better idea.
cnerd123
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he's back on the TM now. Did you ask the manager to list him, or is this a happy coincidence?Oh, he’s actually going for money and not just 1k
34/39 RM without any batting/fielding/stamina/relevant characteristics selling for 75k was ITSTL
StephenZA
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Unfortunately all of them have terrible fielding. I would need a batsmen to be 45+ to accept a 6 fielding nowadays. The one with decent fielding is Waqar, will probably sell, low starting stats though in batting.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Feels like the demands for a player has gone up recently. People aren't satisfied with low 40s any more. I still got a 44 POT bowler I want to shift!
Also the bad fielding *and* stamina aren't great combos. Put in the 1k on Wadsworth tho
cnerd123
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Feels like we should do a mass CW recruitment drive at the end of CWC4. Get a few more members signing up for CWC5 and then offload our crap players onto them 
But seriously I'm concerned about the number of teams that will be leaving stumped come end of season, between those that have turned bot and affiliates that won't be renewed. Let's see if we can get more CWers playing
But seriously I'm concerned about the number of teams that will be leaving stumped come end of season, between those that have turned bot and affiliates that won't be renewed. Let's see if we can get more CWers playing
StephenZA
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Tried going all aggressive today, not really worked. Oh well! I was completely out rated!
Also not a bad pull again... but a little disappointed as he had a scouting batting avg of 59... was hoping for something truly great!
Uncertain if he will stay or go as of yet...
Also not a bad pull again... but a little disappointed as he had a scouting batting avg of 59... was hoping for something truly great!
Uncertain if he will stay or go as of yet...
cnerd123
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so many of these high 30-low 40 allrounders going around these days. Good for sides that like to bat deep with several bowlers I suppose.
Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Feel like im a microcosm of stumped at large… only two batting trainees who are 41 & 42 POT whilst 4 bowlers 44+
StephenZA
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah, it my general issue with the top players... it is exceptionally difficult to find and/or buy young players that are 45+ batting. And they tend to go for lots of monies that only the best teams can afford creating a bit of a win more feeling long term. I know its been raised on the stumped forums we shall see what happens long term.
cnerd123
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the numbers have been crunched and the number of 40+ pot pulls that skew to batting or bowling are equal apparently. It's just that demand for batters is higher than bowlers. Teams need 6 batters vs 4 bowlers, so if the pulls are split evenly then there will always be a shortage of bats and a surplus of bowlers.
One way to work around this is to always pick the YP with the highest batting average, and to ignore bowing average completely. I've been doing that lately and have had more batting-skewed pulls, it's just my poor luck that none of them have been good lol. FHK have got some decent bats through this method tho.
One way to work around this is to always pick the YP with the highest batting average, and to ignore bowing average completely. I've been doing that lately and have had more batting-skewed pulls, it's just my poor luck that none of them have been good lol. FHK have got some decent bats through this method tho.
cnerd123
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Yea but potentials can't be higher than starting skills, so generally speaking higher starting skills = higher potentials overall.