Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[Robertinho]

... Why didn't they reverse training after the other bug, that was obviously much worse? Tact is all too often forgotten when making executive decisions by the BT-negroes..

 

[andyc]

Yeah, Canning's fitness went down to competent, which sucks cause I'd already fired his fitness coach and hired a fielding coach to take its place.

 

[cricketboy29]

Yeah, Canning's fitness went down to competent, which sucks cause I'd already fired his fitness coach and hired a fielding coach to take its place.

sorry this post just made me go lol.

 

[Scaly piscine]

As Boycott said after a no-ball bowled Vaughan (I think) "Hard luck you Aussies"

Nice one BT staff, by the way anyone wanting to hire/fire coaches remember to fire before the financial update and hire after the financial update, saves 2.5k I think per coach.

 

[Robertinho]

Scaly, would you like to enlighten everyone as to when before and after is? See, right now, I could fire someone now, and it would be before the update coming up, but after the previous update.

 

[GotSpin]

As Boycott said after a no-ball bowled Vaughan (I think) "Hard luck you Aussies"

Nice one BT staff, by the way anyone wanting to hire/fire coaches remember to fire before the financial update and hire after the financial update, saves 2.5k I think per coach.

And then works how...Which week do i hire

 

[Scaly piscine]

Well basically if you fire someone today (or whenever from Monday afternoon through to Saturday morning) and you then hired someone straight away you'd pay for the new coach's wages for this financial week (which runs from Saturday to Saturday) without them actually doing anything until AFTER Saturday (Monday morning to be precise - when the training updates are) so if you hire them after the update on Saturday and before the training updates occur on Monday morning you're not paying for one week where they do nothing (there's still the usual extra bit of expenditure for hiring/firing staff which is unavoidable).

 

[marc71178]

... Why didn't they reverse training after the other bug, that was obviously much worse? Tact is all too often forgotten when making executive decisions by the BT-negroes..

Maybe the previous problem has caused them to introduce a back-up system?

 

[Robertinho]

I'm pretty sure they would've had back-ups since the start. Most websites do incase of a crash.

Edit - either way, let's hope they continue reversing any training bugs, as those 2 training sessions earlier in the season that were bugged have given such an unfair advantage to certain teams..

 

[trevor_vayro]

Quite a week of upheaval for The Gurs, and for Battrick in general. All of which I've been unable to post about since last Wednesday, owing to a mixture of work commitments, family commitments and a puking guide-dog. Though spookily enough, I can exclusively reveal that a Labrador with a double-ended gastric explosion is a useful tool when selling your house. After nearly a year of no takers, I daub the place in Lab excretions and all of a sudden someone wants to buy it!!

Well, where to start?...The wage recalculations are giving me a bit of a cold sweat, with Greening rocketing from £940 to £3163 and counting, Staveley not far behind, more or less doubling his money, jumping from £1128 to £2204, Bewers, £749 to £1724, and a rather more modest leap for Patel, from £888 to £1231.

I guess it's going to make people think a lot harder about whether they really need to train players, and if so, how much - as it wouldn't take too much for your wage-bill to spiral out of control without you realising. Though having said that, my overall player salaries have only risen from £11.5K to around £16.5K - And even presuming that reaches £20K by the end of the season, that's only the same as I'm pumping in each week for the dross I get from my Academy, and it's half as much as I pay in wages to my backroom staff. Even so, I think I might start saving up for another ground expansion to try and boost my future revenue.

What next?...Oh yes, do you know what they say about waiting your whole life for a bus/woman/decent job, (delete as appropriate), and two turn up at once? Well that happened to me last week. I was having an idle peruse of the transfer market, with no real intention of buying anyone, just to get an idea of what stuff was going for really, when I came across this little beauty! He was going for just £108K, with five mins left on the auction, and no bidders on line. So I scooped him up and took him home with me!

Joe Noon (444923)
gfx/sc

RH Batsman, RM Bowler,
superb
batting form,
superb
bowling form,
sublime

A
steady
player with
respectable
leadership skills and
abysmal
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
18 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
5,779
Wages:
£563 p/w (£823)
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
mediocre
Wicket Keeping:
mediocre
Batting:
respectable
Concentration:
feeble
Bowling:
worthless
Consistency:
woeful
Fielding:
worthless
table end

I bought him mainly as an FC opener, as he has a relatively high starting point from which to train his stamina. But also, Carless my current WK is only Comp Bat/Comp WK, with Woe Stam, so he's going to be pretty useless next season. Judging from his projected wages, I know that Noon is pretty low Med WK and Low Resp bat - But if I can get him up to say Resp WK, Strong Bat and Resp Stam, he'll still be a pretty useful player, and much better than anything I already have. Plus WK training will hopefully jack up his Conc as Well - Though unfortunately WK and Fielding will have the unwelcome effect of also boosting the redundant secondary, in this case Cons, so I'll end up paying for a skill I'll never use.

But anyway, having laid out £108K on Noon, come Monday I'm just about to order up a no ITS YP, when I get this strange kind'a feeling that this guy could be good, and a voice telling me to sink my 28 available ITS into him. I know it sounds like hocus-pocus horse crap, but honest, I really did get a premonition. However, at this stage I feel it's only right and proper to add that I have had these premonitions before, but seeing as they've previously resulted in Feeb/Med humiliation, I never bothered posting about them:-) Although this time, with 12 Batting ITS, 12 Stam and 4 Conc, I turned up:

Jordan Bennett (521631)
gfx/sc

LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler,
respectable
batting form,
respectable
bowling form,
fresh

A
cautious
player with
strong
leadership skills and
worthless
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
17 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
4,322
Wages:
£651 p/w (£696)
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
mediocre
Wicket Keeping:
worthless
Batting:
respectable
Concentration:
woeful
Bowling:
worthless
Consistency:
mediocre
Fielding:
worthless
table end

Bog standard bottom-of-the-range Resp I know, but Med Stam is a big big plus again, and he still has the potential to reach Strong-plus with the bat, so all-in-all by far the best YP I've had under the new system.

Though it does leave me with a real fix training wise, perhaps some of you might be able to offer me some suggestions as to who I should be training, and how much. As well as the two above, I have, in what I perceive to be order of priority: Greening, Bewers, Staveley, Patel, Mullins and Atherton-Ham. I'll post them below for you.

CODE.
Doug Greening (334385)
gfx/sc

RH Batsman, RF Bowler,
superb
batting form,
proficient
bowling form,
invigorated

A
steady
player with
feeble
leadership skills and
abysmal
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
18 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
13,139
Wages:
£940 p/w (£3,163)
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
feeble
Wicket Keeping:
abysmal
Batting:
strong
Concentration:
woeful
Bowling:
abysmal
Consistency:
woeful
Fielding:
proficient

Gene Bewers (326242)
gfx/sc

LH Batsman, LM Bowler,
superb
batting form,
superb
bowling form,
sublime

A
cautious
player with
strong
leadership skills and
worthless
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
Australia
Age:
18 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
9,469
Wages:
£749 p/w (£1,724)
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
feeble
Wicket Keeping:
abysmal
Batting:
feeble
Concentration:
feeble
Bowling:
proficient
Consistency:
competent
Fielding:
mediocre

Alton Staveley (374819)
gfx/sc

LH Batsman, LM Bowler,
superb
batting form,
superb
bowling form,
sublime

A
cautious
player with
mediocre
leadership skills and
woeful
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
19 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
10,256
Wages:
£1,128 p/w (£2,204)
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
feeble
Wicket Keeping:
abysmal
Batting:
strong
Concentration:
competent
Bowling:
abysmal
Consistency:
mediocre
Fielding:
feeble

Neale Patel (314162)
gfx/sc

RH Batsman, RM Bowler,
superb
batting form,
superb
bowling form,
sublime

A
steady
player with
superb
leadership skills and
woeful
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
Australia
Age:
19 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
9,227
Wages:
£888 p/w (£1,231)
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
woeful
Wicket Keeping:
woeful
Batting:
proficient
Concentration:
competent
Bowling:
abysmal
Consistency:
mediocre
Fielding:
competent

Thomas Mullins (351920)
gfx/sc

LH Batsman, LFM Bowler,
superb
batting form,
superb
bowling form,
sublime

A
cautious
player with
competent
leadership skills and
abysmal
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
19 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
11,616
Wages:
£511 p/w (£1,053)
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
feeble
Wicket Keeping:
abysmal
Batting:
respectable
Concentration:
feeble
Bowling:
mediocre
Consistency:
proficient
Fielding:
mediocre
/CODE.

Actually, forget Atherton-Ham, I won't even bother including him, as he's got Abs Stam, way way too low to even think about training up, don’t even know what was going through my head when I bought him. So the plan is to flog him and Burke to try and get enough readies to buy a tidy bowler with decent Stam.

As I say, any suggestions on my nets situation would be most welcome, although in the short term I think I'm going to sack all my coaches and hire ten fitness coaches, to try and get as many people as possible up to Comp Stam by next season. I'll start with the nearest first, as Noon and Bennett are both Med, so hopefully won't take more than a couple of weeks on two nets each, then I've got a whole host of Feeb Stams, including Greening, Staveley, Bewers, Mullins and Edworthy - With any luck most of them should be there or thereabouts in five or six weeks time. Don't know what to do with Patel? Really, with Woe Stam, he's coming from too far back to be much use, but his Prof Bat, Comp fielding and Sup/Woe Captaincy are real pluses, so I'd be loathed to sell him.

Finally, before I go, as I realise I've banged on for far too long already, but I won my gi'me match on TIE last Friday, resting Greening and Bewers, though it was embarrassingly close. Hobbits 239 A/O - Mullins 4/45 MOTM, Burke 2/37, Crick 2/30, Atherton-Ham 1/57. Cymru Gurgitaters 240/4, (42) - Noon 57 (80) kicking things off on Debut, Dunfield doing the donkey work with 66 (90), and Carless taking it home with 69* (60).

It's now mathematically impossible for me to finish fourth, but, barring a truly bizarre set of circumstances, I'm almost guaranteed a playoff. I'm definitely TIEing against league-leaders Crawley Rovers this week, but I'm undecided as to what's best for Urwenda in my final game. On the one hand I want to keep conserving energy for the playoff, but on the other hand the match is almost certainly going to be a 5th/6th place decider, carrying with it the theoretical prize of an easier playoff. Although part of me thinks that in a twisted kind'a way I might actually get an easier, or certainly no harder, playoff from 6th as I would from 5th. Think about it, the higher ranking of the opponents might be an indication of the fact that they're a better team for sure, (In which case I'm sunk), or it might be a sign that they've been ripping it up against Bots all season and haven't really been tested. A lower-ranked Div V winner has probably come out of a tougher division, and must therefore be pretty shithot to have won the league in the first place.

Right, I'm off to clutch my straw some more. Later, Trev

 

[brenoevo]

Jus bought my gun opening bat Zat Kennedy's younger overweight brother Tony Kennedy for 104,039.

Tony Kennedy (519111)
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, feeble batting form, proficient bowling form, fresh
A destructive player with worthless leadership skills and worthless experience.

Plays For: College Dropouts
Nationality: Australia
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 5,749
Wages: £724 p/w (£858)

Stamina: worthless Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: respectable Concentration: respectable
Bowling: worthless Consistency: worthless
Fielding: worthless

He'll be getting 1 bat 1 stamina n 1 field until his fielding reaches abysmal--feeble. Also once Jayasuriya and Zat Kennedy reach superb bat i might take off there nets aswell n put them on him. Do use think i should stop training Jayasuriya and Kennedy when they get to superb cause how well do u think they would go in Div 4 next season?

 

[Robertinho]

I'd keep giving Jayasuriya and Kennedy 1 batting net. After all, they're still fairly young and in 1-2 seasons you could have a Remarkable opening pair

With only 3 nets available I'd say that is about right, though it'd help if you want to use him sometime soon to give him 2-3 fitness nets - its about 5-6 weeks for one pop with 1 net, 2-3 with 3 nets. Long term - 1 fitness net. Short term - 2-3 fitness nets. Even then, the extra 1-2 fitness nets would probably be better put on batting. Not sure, tbh.

 

[brenoevo]

ye im planning him for long term training does ne one know the training times for fielding?

 

[GotSpin]

Wohoo sold morgan for a touch over 408k

How many financial advisors should i have for £434,328

 

[Adamc]

@brenoevo - I'd definitely keep them both on one primary net; if you think about it, training an 20/21yo with a single primary net is far more economical then giving a young player a second or third net. I'm sure you'll find that they'll do well in div IV anyway, but if you want them to be long-term prospects I think you need to get them to quality/remarkable at least.

 

[brenoevo]

ok adam if i did stop training them then eventually most people will catch up to their level if they havnt already, so its a good idea to keep them going.

 

[andyc]

What next?...Oh yes, do you know what they say about waiting your whole life for a bus/woman/decent job, (delete as appropriate), and two turn up at once? Well that happened to me last week. I was having an idle peruse of the transfer market, with no real intention of buying anyone, just to get an idea of what stuff was going for really, when I came across this little beauty! He was going for just £108K, with five mins left on the auction, and no bidders on line. So I scooped him up and took him home with me!

Joe Noon (444923)
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime

A steady player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience.

Plays For: Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality: England
Age: 18 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 5,779
Wages: £563 p/w (£823)

Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: mediocre
Batting: respectable Concentration: feeble
Bowling: worthless Consistency: woeful
Fielding: worthless

I bought him mainly as an FC opener, as he has a relatively high starting point from which to train his stamina. But also, Carless my current WK is only Comp Bat/Comp WK, with Woe Stam, so he's going to be pretty useless next season. Judging from his projected wages, I know that Noon is pretty low Med WK and Low Resp bat - But if I can get him up to say Resp WK, Strong Bat and Resp Stam, he'll still be a pretty useful player, and much better than anything I already have. Plus WK training will hopefully jack up his Conc as Well - Though unfortunately WK and Fielding will have the unwelcome effect of also boosting the redundant secondary, in this case Cons, so I'll end up paying for a skill I'll never use.

....


But anyway, having laid out £108K on Noon, come Monday I'm just about to order up a no ITS YP, when I get this strange kind'a feeling that this guy could be good, and a voice telling me to sink my 28 available ITS into him. I know it sounds like hocus-pocus horse crap, but honest, I really did get a premonition. However, at this stage I feel it's only right and proper to add that I have had these premonitions before, but seeing as they've previously resulted in Feeb/Med humiliation, I never bothered posting about them:-) Although this time, with 12 Batting ITS, 12 Stam and 4 Conc, I turned up:

Jordan Bennett (521631)
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
A cautious player with strong leadership skills and worthless experience.

Plays For: Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality: England
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 4,322
Wages: £651 p/w (£696)

Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: respectable Concentration: woeful
Bowling: worthless Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: worthless


Bog standard bottom-of-the-range Resp I know, but Med Stam is a big big plus again, and he still has the potential to reach Strong-plus with the bat, so all-in-all by far the best YP I've had under the new system.

(hope you don't mind me rearranging the tables, just so it was easier for me to read)

That's quite a nice buy there Trev. I'm not sure if you should bother training him in his wicketkeeping, however. Given that he'll age to 19 in four or so weeks, I think it'd be better just to look on the market for a 20 odd year old proficient plus keeper. I play an 18 year old proficient keeper and I could notice the difference when I switched to him, in that my bowlers started getting caught behind and stumped wickets. Or maybe next you time you make a pull you could pump 12 into wicketkeeping and hope for the best.

As for your YP, I wish I had done the same thing. I thought I was going to get a good one this week, but I put in no ITS, only to get a respectable bat with woeful stamina . It's a pity he's going to age soon cause otherwise you could get him up quite high by the time he's 20 or so (he still could be, mind you). I'd like to help you in your training problem, but I'm always experiencing the same thing (I have 8 17 year olds, all of whom are at least respectable in one primary, or close enough to it), and I've no real idea.

 

[Scaly piscine]

There's no point having 8 17yos, unless they've all got decent stamina to start with and so only need one net each and you've got no other players worth training.

Personally I'd sell almost any trainee at the moment unless they're an absolute gun. I'm just concentrating on my core players (Packer, Armstrong, Dillon, Cahalane, Pace) keep giving them each the odd net and getting their stamina up (without it I won't be able to give them much training anyway).

 

[cricketboy29]

After you pay for Battrick, how long is it before you get the memebership privileges?,

 

[Scaly piscine]

Usually within a couple of days, if you're unlucky a bit longer. They activate it manually I believe - so that's why it varies a bit.