Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[NZTailender]

Crusaders XI with those 3 new players look something like this:


1. John Koos
2. Andy Chadwick
3. Pete Drummond +
4. Daniel Armstrong
5. Kevin Roach
6. Patrick Dancy
7. Doug Hogg
8. Edwin Illett
9. Kevin Xingwana
10. Keith Oshea
11. Andrew Sabata *

 

[cricketboy29]

Wouldn't they all make your side?

Ok i got a quick question. When you spend $2000 on the academy you get 1 ITS, so if you spend $10000 do you get 5 ITS per week?

Yeah, I think thats right tharmi

 

[33/3from3.3]

Drunk XI has put Roger Gradley (med/med bat) on the market for 5K
Greg go ahead

 

[Jamee999]

Wouldn't they all make your side?

Ok i got a quick question. When you spend $2000 on the academy you get 1 ITS, so if you spend $10000 do you get 5 ITS per week?

Yeah, 1 ITS costs 2K, and you can buy up to 10 ITS a week.

 

[marc71178]

Alrighty. Marc & Jamee, I bid on some of your players to use as a temporary solution until seasons end. Hmm.

Glad to be of help, but suprised neither of my keepers were bid on.

 

[NZTailender]

Yeah, I'm going to see how Drummond goes as a keeper batsman, but I may bid on one of your chaps to maintian the status quo.

 

[chaminda_00]

Just brought this guys, got him for a bit more then i wanted cus some dumbarse bid for him one hour before the bidding finished, i paid 11k:

Ron Hazell (503021) 
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, mediocre batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh 
A destructive player with abysmal leadership skills and abysmal experience. 

Plays For: Jaffna Jets 
Nationality: South Africa 
Age: 17 Years Old 
Battrick Rating: 2,504 
Wages: £452 p/w 
 
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: worthless

Gives me a 2nd spinner and another all rounder option. Hopefully with a bit of training he will become a decent player.

BTW Hakon you want to play a firendy with my team.

 

[Robertinho]

I wouldn't bother training him, mediocre is quite a low starting point, and look at those secondaries.

 

[trevor_vayro]

Cheers Andyc, for suggesting this. It's worth doing the ratings thing from time to time, just as a litmus test of whether you are actually progressing or not. I feel as though the team is going backwards compared with last season, but when I compare my results with those from last December, I realise that the team is improving, just not enough to compete in my league, and maybe not as fast as other people's teams.

Rob, get a nappy handy, cos I don't think you're going to like my excuse for a table.

SKILL:
DEC:
MAR:
INCREASE/DECREASE:

BATTING:
52
64
+12

BOWLING:
29
34
+5

STAMINA:
29
37
+8

SECONDARIES:
83
94
+11

Fielding:
27
47
+20

The only problem I can see with this system is that it gives you no credit for your WK, perhaps in future comparisons we should count the WK skill of the designated keeper in with the general fielding figure? Plus my secondaries are a bit misleading, as quite a lot of them are meaningless, Cons for a batsman etc etc.

Looking at my figures, they seem to compare reasonably with the other teams posted up here - Guess that drained fitness and pessimistic morale are really caning my match ratings.

I suspect that I have partially benefited from the training bug, with Greening popping to Strong last week, about four weeks ahead of time, but I can't see anything else too out of the ordinary. This Week Staveley also popped to Strong Bat, bang on schedule, with the added bonus of a Conc pop to Comp thrown in free of charge. Greening having only gone up around 200 BT points when he went to Strong Bat last week, somehow leapt about 1500 points this week, as he reached Prof fielding?

And blew another 32 ITS on a pointless trainee with Med Stam, Med/Med Bat and Med/Wor bowl. Agree with Scaly that the YP system does shaft the better clubs, as once you reach a certain level in Battrick there's no point in piddling around with Meds and Comps, the only possible use for them is a bit of cash! - Except, with the plethora of Med and Comp allrounders on the market, you'd be hard pushed to make a profit. I've listed the above YP for £60K, a cool twenty grand less than it cost me to develop him, and I doubt I'll get that, seeing as someone on here…I can't find it now, but trust me, someone on here paid £11k this week for an almost identical player.

I'm not saying that there's some grand conspiracy, but I do think that there are a few issues in BT which need to be ironed out at the end of the season, in order to transform it from a V. Good game to a great game! - I.E. I don't think it's particularly fair that teams with lesser players than mine can rack up stupidful ratings simply because they're in a league which allows them to rip up trees against Bots and Numnuts on TIE, while I get ratings somewhere between dog pwp and flashers' spunk, because I've got to fight for my life in a competitive league, admittedly against better sides than me.

Later, Trev

 

[Magrat Garlick]

BTW Hakon you want to play a firendy with my team.

A bit busy with pwning the Norwegian Championship at present, but next season I'll try to remember.

 

[Adamc]

A bit busy with pwning the Norwegian Championship at present, but next season I'll try to remember.

You certainly gave NorCricket a bit of a thrashing. Not sure why he rested his stars against you though, it's not like he's needs to play them in the league for the next few weeks...

 

[Magrat Garlick]

You certainly gave NorCricket a bit of a thrashing. Not sure why he rested his stars against you though, it's not like he's needs to play them in the league for the next few weeks...

Form issues, I suppose.

Besides, he told me he thought the league would be decided on NRR - wasn't too pleased with it either.

 

[Adamc]

He's ahead of #2 on NRR by almost 9 - 29.72 v 20.88, so he'll have to do something silly to lose it from here. Like lose to me, heh.

 

[Scaly piscine]

And blew another 32 ITS on a pointless trainee with Med Stam, Med/Med Bat and Med/Wor bowl. Agree with Scaly that the YP system does shaft the better clubs, as once you reach a certain level in Battrick there's no point in piddling around with Meds and Comps, the only possible use for them is a bit of cash! - Except, with the plethora of Med and Comp allrounders on the market, you'd be hard pushed to make a profit. I've listed the above YP for £60K, a cool twenty grand less than it cost me to develop him, and I doubt I'll get that, seeing as someone on here…I can't find it now, but trust me, someone on here paid £11k this week for an almost identical player.

I was referring to last season with regards to the YP system shafting better clubs. Someone on here got 3 uber pulls in their first month of Battrick, whereas me and many others invested the maximum in their YP system and got nothing all season (I got a bottom respectable 18yo right at the end of season so they were practically 19yo already).

 

[Jamee999]

I was referring to last season with regards to the YP system shafting better clubs. Someone on here got 3 uber pulls in their first month of Battrick, whereas me and many others invested the maximum in their YP system and got nothing all season (I got a bottom respectable 18yo right at the end of season so they were practically 19yo already).

Oh, boo hoo for you.

Go play some Scrabble.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Oh, boo hoo for you.

Go play some Scrabble.

Think I'll hang around on here a bit longer and bask in your wit instead.

 

[cricketboy29]

I wouldn't bother training him, mediocre is quite a low starting point, and look at those secondaries.

Thats what I was thinking as well, Rob, Ive got a good player for you, tharmi, his primaries are crap, but his secondaries are comp/resp. He's 17 years old though. Interested?

 

[roseboy64]

This is my squad atm. My eleven's highlighted.

[B]Shaka Crowe[/B] - 19 yo, BT Rating=4,780
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, proficient batting form, superb bowling form, invigorated
A defensive player with worthless leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	woeful 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	respectable 	Concentration: 	feeble
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	woeful
Fielding: 	woeful 	  	 

[B]Wolde Wilmers[/B] - 19 yo, BT Rating=9,412
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A defensive player with proficient leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	mediocre 	Wicket Keeping: 	woeful
Batting: 	mediocre 	Concentration: 	proficient
Bowling: 	abysmal 	Consistency: 	feeble
Fielding: 	competent 	  	 

[B]Thom Elton[/B] - 24 yo, BT Rating=4,790
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, competent batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
An attacking player with proficient leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: 	feeble 	Wicket Keeping: 	feeble
Batting: 	competent 	Concentration: 	feeble
Bowling: 	abysmal 	Consistency: 	feeble
Fielding: 	mediocre 	

[B]Avery Elsegood [/B]- 19 yo, BT Rating=15,703
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, energetic
A steady player with mediocre leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	competent 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	respectable 	Concentration: 	respectable
Bowling: 	respectable 	Consistency: 	respectable
Fielding: 	feeble 	  

[B]Jerome Patterson[/B] - 28 yo, BT Rating=3,165
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, superb batting form, mediocre bowling form, sublime
A steady player with feeble leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: 	mediocre 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	mediocre 	Concentration: 	mediocre
Bowling: 	abysmal 	Consistency: 	abysmal
Fielding: 	woeful 	  	

[B]Floyd Gammon[/B] - 17 yo, BT Rating=3,915
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, respectable batting form, proficient bowling form, invigorated
An attacking player with mediocre leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	worthless 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	mediocre 	Concentration: 	competent
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	abysmal
Fielding: 	worthless

[B]Hendy Chorley[/B] - 18 yo, BT Rating=8,289
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
An attacking player with strong leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	feeble 	Wicket Keeping: 	mediocre
Batting: 	woeful 	Concentration: 	mediocre
Bowling: 	worthless 	Consistency: 	respectable
Fielding: 	mediocre 

[B]Ken Lake[/B] - 22 yo, BT Rating=5,891
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
An attacking player with strong leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: 	woeful 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	abysmal 	Concentration: 	competent
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	competent
Fielding: 	mediocre 	

[B]Kenny Weekes[/B] - 22 yo, BT Rating=7,152 [B](c)[/B]
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, strong batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A defensive player with strong leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	respectable 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	abysmal 	Concentration: 	feeble
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	mediocre
Fielding: 	competent 	  	 

[B]Carlton Groves[/B] - 25 yo, BT Rating=8,316
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A steady player with competent leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: 	mediocre 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	abysmal 	Concentration: 	woeful
Bowling: 	competent 	Consistency: 	proficient
Fielding: 	feeble 	  	 
	  	 
[B]Christian Butcher[/B] - 26 yo, BT Rating=7,343
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, proficient batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A destructive player with respectable leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: 	respectable 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	abysmal 	Concentration: 	woeful
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	respectable
Fielding: 	woeful 	  	 

Robert Drayton - 25 yo, BT Rating=4,556
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, strong batting form, worthless bowling form, sublime
A destructive player with abysmal leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: 	mediocre 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	abysmal 	Concentration: 	mediocre
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	feeble
Fielding: 	competent 	  	 

Ryan Bent - 19 yo, BT Rating=3,926 [transfer listed]
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, strong batting form, mediocre bowling form, sublime
A cautious player with competent leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: 	competent 	Wicket Keeping: 	woeful
Batting: 	worthless 	Concentration: 	feeble
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	feeble
Fielding: 	woeful 	  	 

Keith Regan - 28 yo, BT Rating=3,779 [transfer listed]
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, woeful batting form, strong bowling form, sublime
A cautious player with woeful leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: 	mediocre 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	abysmal 	Concentration: 	woeful
Bowling: 	competent 	Consistency: 	mediocre
Fielding: 	abysmal 	  	 

Pat Wellens - 23 yo, BT Rating=3,768
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A destructive player with abysmal leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	woeful 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	competent 	Concentration: 	feeble
Bowling: 	abysmal 	Consistency: 	mediocre
Fielding: 	feeble 	  	 

Keith Stanton - 17 yo, BT Rating=3,564
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, mediocre batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A destructive player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: 	woeful 	Wicket Keeping: 	feeble
Batting: 	competent 	Concentration: 	woeful
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	woeful
Fielding: 	abysmal 	  	 

 

Pete Willingham - 28 yo, BT Rating=3,160
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, proficient batting form, respectable bowling form, sublime
An attacking player with worthless leadership skills and feeble experience.
Stamina: 	feeble 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	abysmal 	Concentration: 	mediocre
Bowling: 	mediocre 	Consistency: 	mediocre
Fielding: 	abysmal 	  	 

Tom Lauren - 25 yo, BT Rating=2,239 [transfer listed]
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, respectable batting form, woeful bowling form, sublime
A cautious player with proficient leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: 	woeful 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	mediocre 	Concentration: 	abysmal
Bowling: 	feeble 	Consistency: 	woeful
Fielding: 	abysmal 	  	 

Jerrell Hamilton - 23 yo, BT Rating=1,482 [transfer listed]
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, worthless batting form, worthless bowling form, sublime
An attacking player with worthless leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	worthless 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	mediocre 	Concentration: 	abysmal
Bowling: 	abysmal 	Consistency: 	mediocre
Fielding: 	abysmal

 

[trevor_vayro]

Can't work out Nottinghamshire, the team I'm playing against on Friday. They're well established, as their team ID is No.25! They have some really good players, a lowish and a highish strong opening the batting, and all the rest at least mid-range Resps or better. Their bowling doesn't look too shabby, their WK's got wages of eight and a half grand and a BT rating of over 36K - Yet they've done utter crap this season, winning two from ten, and their ratings aren't anything to write home about either?

I guess they're in the same boat as me in that they'll have been massacred on morale and fitness, but I just can't understand how they got in this mess in the first place! It's Spooky! It's almost as though the team has been abandoned, as the same eleven players have played in the same order all season, and their ratings have barely fluctuated, so it doesn't look as though they've TIEd or GFId at all. All their most likely candidates for training have Sublime fitness, so it doesn't look as though anyone's getting any training! And yet they've been having friendlies every Sunday, oddly, mostly away to Sri Lankan sides - So they must have a manager somewhere, just not a very good one perhaps?

And they must have millions in the bank, as they've sold a few players for £600K plus, so they could easily have tried to buy their way out of trouble, but they haven't bought a single person since last September! In fact they've hardly bought anyone ever, all their good players have been promoted out of their academy under the old system - Which must have been hotter than Charlotte Church, coated in KFC Original Recipe, wearing nowt but stockings, heals and a Swansea City shirt!

I digress! Anyway, it's probably a good job they haven't had too many dalliances with the transfer market, as from what I can make out, on the two occasions they have dipped their toe in, nasty transfer sharks have bitten it right off! Around the New Year they paid £459K for a Resp seamer with moderate secondaries, who turned 18yo, about a week after they bought him! And on the previous occasion, last June, they paid Ladbroke Rovers £189K for the aforementioned BTR 36K 20yo keeper, a month after Ladbroke signed him for £6K!!! - But here's the real choker, in that month, his BTR actually went down!!!

Anyway, running out of time before I go home, so here's my plan to conquer them. Hope to bat first if I win the toss. Comps Wynne-Willson and Carless are set to V.Attacking to try and fill their boots, and take advantage of a H+F pitch, the fielding restrictions and their Med rated seam attack. I want them to get as many as possible obviously, but hopefully they won't hang around too long, as then I have the two Strongs, Staveley and Greening rocking up at No.3 and 4 - Followed by Resps Patel, Dunfield and Mullins, and Feebs Atherton-Ham and Bewers.

They've got a Resp top order and Med middle order, so once again I've got Edworthy (Normal) and Mullins, (V.Defensive) opening the bowling, to try and bottle the Strong openers up, leaving Bewers to attack from B4. I kind'a opted on this strategy because their openers' conversion rate is hopeless, I think one of them has something like 27 career 50s, and only four centuries. That would suggest to me that there's something seriously amiss with either their Stamina or their Conc - Either way, there's no point in wasting Bewers on them while they're fresh, I'll try and do a containing job on them, and pick them off once they start flagging. That'll hopefully leave Bewers some overs to go at their weaker middle order. Plus I've moved Burke to B5, in the desperate hope that he'll come up against some weaker opposition and his bullying Destructive temperament will finally lead him to take some chuffing wickets!!!

Out'a here, later, Trev!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Roseboy I'd have Wellens ahead of Gammon - stamina doesn't play much of a part at number 6 except if it's really bad, such as worthless also Wellens has better fielding (apart from being a slightly better bat in all probability, destructive temperament also helps batsmen likely to come in during the slog overs I think).

Speaking of worthless stamina it looks like Emblen in the side you're playing Trev has awful stamina and/or awful consistency.