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He's a batsman.... why would his style of bowling matter? Unless I'm missing something.GoT_SpIn said:
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Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick
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Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I might sell them later when they pop to proficient, if I can buy a player like this:
Tristan Sullivan (451042)
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, fatigued
A destructive player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience.
Plays For: Sydney_Swans
Nationality: Australia
Age: 18 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 22,971
Wages: £4,329 p/w
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: strong
Batting: superb Concentration: respectable
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: competent
Fielding: woeful
I reckon if I get my player to proficient I could almost do a swap (with different teams) without losing much money. I'm still curious as to how useful the cons are going to be in FC cricket tho.
Tristan Sullivan (451042)
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, fatigued
A destructive player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience.
Plays For: Sydney_Swans
Nationality: Australia
Age: 18 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 22,971
Wages: £4,329 p/w
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: strong
Batting: superb Concentration: respectable
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: competent
Fielding: woeful
I reckon if I get my player to proficient I could almost do a swap (with different teams) without losing much money. I'm still curious as to how useful the cons are going to be in FC cricket tho.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Armstrong's wage is £6019, that was when they were high exceptional - the projected wage at the end of last season was going up over £100 each week with one batting net.
AussieDominance
Banned
thats def a nice player!!
trevor_vayro
U19 Vice-Captain
Back in the sanctuary of my office, after what has been a bank holiday here in the UK, and another bloody school half-term! What do we pay our taxes for? I ask, if it's not to employ teachers to peace-keep our offspring while we're in work or otherwise occupied with Battrick-related duties? My mate is a teacher, and literally dissolved into a gibbering puddle of nervous tension before my very eyes in my livingroom last night, because of the stress of exams! I did remind him that it was meant to be the kids sitting them, but my sage observation appeared to fall on deaf ears. Well, if you can't handle the pressure, then move over and let me have your frigging fourteen weeks of holidays each year, I'm sure I could cope with that kind'a stress! Teachers! - They should all be hung in the streets and horse-whipped until their coffee-breath is fresh and their Guardians fall out of their briefcases!
Oh, and one more point before I move on to something which actually has anything to do with Battrick, but Andy, I doubt you realise just how funny your YP's name, Greg Dyke, is for me. Not only does he contain a passing reference to lesbianism, which has got to be a good thing, it is also the name of the erstwhile Director General of the BBC - and therefore, very indirectly my former boss! I have half a mind to buy him just so I can give him ten stamina nets a week for a while!
Right, I digress! Paddy, I'm ninety percent on your offer of a Friendly in NZ this weekend, my friendly cup doesn't start until the week after, but my only concern is how much it's going to cost me to fly my team half way around the world, does anyone know? I wouldn't normally be such a penny-pincher, it's just that I haven't received the cash for my Cup match on Sunday - Cash which I'd already spent on Saturday, in improving my academy from Resp to Sup. So unfortunately I find myself in a financial predicament somewhat akin to Vodafone!
And what a waste of time the Academy improvements were in any case! After the builders had shipped out, I found myself able to unleash 35 ITS on a youth of my choice, except the one I chose appears to have been in a persistent vegetative state! After receiving 12 Bowling, 12 Cons, 3 Batting, 4 Stam and 4 Fielding, he ended up as:
CODE
Ryan Rogers (817305)
gfx/sc
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler,
respectable
batting form,
competent
bowling form,
fresh
A
steady
player with
superb
leadership skills and
abysmal
experience.
Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
18 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
3,520 (+146)
Wages:
£411 p/w
*
table end
Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
woeful
Wicket Keeping:
feeble
Batting:
woeful
Concentration:
feeble
Bowling:
mediocre
Consistency:
mediocre
Fielding:
Woeful
/CODE
And I've just realised that allowing my fiancé to administer the ITS was a bad idea, as it appears that he's 18yo rather than 17yo, so I could actually have used another 4/5 ITS on him if I'd realised - Not that they'd have made a great deal of difference! Listed anyway for £20K if anyone's interested.
Had a good stab at my Div III Cup opponents on Sunday, but eventually went down in a blaze of glory. Won the toss and restricted Yorkshire For Ever to 287/2 - Not the most penetrative display, with Edworthy the only bowler to claim a wicket, but at least everyone was economic enough to give me a fighting chance of chasing it down. The bowling figures were quite strange actually. Despite the fact that my attack contained a Strong, a Prof, a Resp a Comp and a Med, four of them returned stats within seven runs of each other, ranging from 1/54 to 0/61 - Bridges M being the only stand-out contributor, with 10/0/35/0.
Should have been within my grasp, but Staveley was the only person who ever got to grips with the chase, as he was last man out for 125 (137). Greening threatened to help Staveley in a trouble-free pursuit, as the opening pair added 76 in 14 overs, before a rush of blood saw him snared on the mid-wicket boundary for 27. Noon showed glimpses that one day he may be able to compete on this stage, but not yet. Although his scratchy 29 (46) did at least keep The Gurs in the hunt, sharing in a 69 run stand for the second wicket. But the wheels began to come off around half way through the innings, just when Staveley had brought his side up with the rate. Patel went for 9, and Carless 1, (which may hasten his departure from the side*), so it was left to a star of the future to give the home side hope. The much maligned Jordan Bennett has taken a while to settle in the first team, but is to-date, still the only long-term prospect to emerge from the academy under the new system, and he has seized with both hands the opportunity created by Dunfield's departure. With Staveley beginning to flag, Bennett not only stemmed the haemorrhage of wickets, he also took up the mantle of Aggressor-In-Chief, lambasting 38 from just 30 deliveries, and guided The Gurs from a precarious 168/4 after 37 to a promising 238/5, only five overs from home. But alas, there was to be no repeat of the previous week's lower-order heroics, as Bennett's demise proved the catalyst for a Indonesian-style collapse of 5 wickets for 12 runs in 15 balls, to leave us shell-shocked and eventually well beaten on 250 A/O in 47.3.
I was reasonably pleased with that effort, until that is, I realised that GFIing had munched three levels out of my team fitness, despite TIEing on Friday only raising it one level! But I was even more aggrieved when I saw the ratings, I was robbed!!!
CODE
Reporter's Summary
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Cymru Gurgitaters
Yorkshire Forever!
Top Order:
respectable
proficient
Middle Order:
competent
mediocre
Lower Order:
abysmal
abysmal
Seam Bowling:
competent
competent
Spin Bowling:
strong
respectable
Fielding:
feeble
abysmal
/Code
And finally your homework! The final bowling position in my team is being contested by two Comps, an RF and a LH spinner. Both have Feeb Stam, and the RF has Med Cons, as opposed to the spinner's Woe. My match on Friday is on a Green pitch, so not much contest there, Crick the RF gets the nod every time. But at home I have a Dusty pitch, so my question is, does the advantage a Dusty pitch will give the spinner, outweigh the inferior Cons? Plus I'm guessing that Feeb Stam goes a lot further on a spinner than it does on an RF? Once my fitness is a bit higher than Low I'll probably play the pair of them and rest Bewers or Bridges M, but for the time being I need to resolve this dilemma.
Later, Trev
Oh, and one more point before I move on to something which actually has anything to do with Battrick, but Andy, I doubt you realise just how funny your YP's name, Greg Dyke, is for me. Not only does he contain a passing reference to lesbianism, which has got to be a good thing, it is also the name of the erstwhile Director General of the BBC - and therefore, very indirectly my former boss! I have half a mind to buy him just so I can give him ten stamina nets a week for a while!
Right, I digress! Paddy, I'm ninety percent on your offer of a Friendly in NZ this weekend, my friendly cup doesn't start until the week after, but my only concern is how much it's going to cost me to fly my team half way around the world, does anyone know? I wouldn't normally be such a penny-pincher, it's just that I haven't received the cash for my Cup match on Sunday - Cash which I'd already spent on Saturday, in improving my academy from Resp to Sup. So unfortunately I find myself in a financial predicament somewhat akin to Vodafone!
And what a waste of time the Academy improvements were in any case! After the builders had shipped out, I found myself able to unleash 35 ITS on a youth of my choice, except the one I chose appears to have been in a persistent vegetative state! After receiving 12 Bowling, 12 Cons, 3 Batting, 4 Stam and 4 Fielding, he ended up as:
CODE
Ryan Rogers (817305)
gfx/sc
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler,
respectable
batting form,
competent
bowling form,
fresh
A
steady
player with
superb
leadership skills and
abysmal
experience.
Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
18 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
3,520 (+146)
Wages:
£411 p/w
*
table end
Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
woeful
Wicket Keeping:
feeble
Batting:
woeful
Concentration:
feeble
Bowling:
mediocre
Consistency:
mediocre
Fielding:
Woeful
/CODE
And I've just realised that allowing my fiancé to administer the ITS was a bad idea, as it appears that he's 18yo rather than 17yo, so I could actually have used another 4/5 ITS on him if I'd realised - Not that they'd have made a great deal of difference! Listed anyway for £20K if anyone's interested.
Had a good stab at my Div III Cup opponents on Sunday, but eventually went down in a blaze of glory. Won the toss and restricted Yorkshire For Ever to 287/2 - Not the most penetrative display, with Edworthy the only bowler to claim a wicket, but at least everyone was economic enough to give me a fighting chance of chasing it down. The bowling figures were quite strange actually. Despite the fact that my attack contained a Strong, a Prof, a Resp a Comp and a Med, four of them returned stats within seven runs of each other, ranging from 1/54 to 0/61 - Bridges M being the only stand-out contributor, with 10/0/35/0.
Should have been within my grasp, but Staveley was the only person who ever got to grips with the chase, as he was last man out for 125 (137). Greening threatened to help Staveley in a trouble-free pursuit, as the opening pair added 76 in 14 overs, before a rush of blood saw him snared on the mid-wicket boundary for 27. Noon showed glimpses that one day he may be able to compete on this stage, but not yet. Although his scratchy 29 (46) did at least keep The Gurs in the hunt, sharing in a 69 run stand for the second wicket. But the wheels began to come off around half way through the innings, just when Staveley had brought his side up with the rate. Patel went for 9, and Carless 1, (which may hasten his departure from the side*), so it was left to a star of the future to give the home side hope. The much maligned Jordan Bennett has taken a while to settle in the first team, but is to-date, still the only long-term prospect to emerge from the academy under the new system, and he has seized with both hands the opportunity created by Dunfield's departure. With Staveley beginning to flag, Bennett not only stemmed the haemorrhage of wickets, he also took up the mantle of Aggressor-In-Chief, lambasting 38 from just 30 deliveries, and guided The Gurs from a precarious 168/4 after 37 to a promising 238/5, only five overs from home. But alas, there was to be no repeat of the previous week's lower-order heroics, as Bennett's demise proved the catalyst for a Indonesian-style collapse of 5 wickets for 12 runs in 15 balls, to leave us shell-shocked and eventually well beaten on 250 A/O in 47.3.
I was reasonably pleased with that effort, until that is, I realised that GFIing had munched three levels out of my team fitness, despite TIEing on Friday only raising it one level! But I was even more aggrieved when I saw the ratings, I was robbed!!!
CODE
Reporter's Summary
*
Cymru Gurgitaters
Yorkshire Forever!
Top Order:
respectable
proficient
Middle Order:
competent
mediocre
Lower Order:
abysmal
abysmal
Seam Bowling:
competent
competent
Spin Bowling:
strong
respectable
Fielding:
feeble
abysmal
/Code
And finally your homework! The final bowling position in my team is being contested by two Comps, an RF and a LH spinner. Both have Feeb Stam, and the RF has Med Cons, as opposed to the spinner's Woe. My match on Friday is on a Green pitch, so not much contest there, Crick the RF gets the nod every time. But at home I have a Dusty pitch, so my question is, does the advantage a Dusty pitch will give the spinner, outweigh the inferior Cons? Plus I'm guessing that Feeb Stam goes a lot further on a spinner than it does on an RF? Once my fitness is a bit higher than Low I'll probably play the pair of them and rest Bewers or Bridges M, but for the time being I need to resolve this dilemma.
Later, Trev
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Always good for an interesting Read Trev.
Easier to read if you post the players info like it is on battrick though, same for the reporters summary.
As for your question i would think woeful consistency would be a tad too low but im not a expert
Edit: Your youthpull wasnt to bad. Though would have been better as a 17yr old but im sure someone will bid
Easier to read if you post the players info like it is on battrick though, same for the reporters summary.
As for your question i would think woeful consistency would be a tad too low but im not a expert
Edit: Your youthpull wasnt to bad. Though would have been better as a 17yr old but im sure someone will bid
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Robertinho
Cricketer Of The Year
Trev, if you'd like, I'm up for a friendly. Team name is Robertinho Select XI.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's not my fault his wages are disproportionately high - that was a Allan's choice. Hopefully their performance in FC cricket will be worth the wage. The secondary part of the wage hasn't got out of range yet however and I avoided secondary training a month or thereabouts before the training time chances were brought in. They've only had a season or so worth of batting + W/Keeping training, so I've not trained them excessively or anything.GoT_SpIn said:
trevor_vayro
U19 Vice-Captain
Sorry guys again about the layout issues, not being able to see what it looks like, I'm kind'a in the dark about how it's going to come out up here. But I did cut and paste it directly from BT, so I'm not sure what happened? Am I doing the CODE /CODE business right? I typed it at the top and bottom of the stuff I'd copied?
Rob, Paddy asked me for a friendly first, so it's only fair if I give him first dibs, but if he's arranged a match in the meantime then I'll be up for a trip to Aus. But as I say, it all depends how much it costs, as I'm currently around £100K overdrawn!
Got Spin, Are you Rob too? How confusing is that? Anyway, Greening has just turned Sup Bat, with Med Stam and Feeb Conc, (two pops in all three since I bought him for £265K in February). Staveley has been with me since emerging from the old academy in my first season, as a middling Resp with Woe Stam and Conc - He's now three or four weeks off Sup Bat, with Med Stam and Comp Conc.
I've just upgraded my stadium to 16K capacity, which I sold out on Friday, netting me a tad over £117K. On Sunday there must have been some stewarding issues, as apparently I was 843 over capacity, although, having received no gate receipts as yet, I've got no idea how many of those were paying punters. It's actually pretty annoying, as whilst I'll probably eventually get my money, I bet you I still have to pay interest on the time I'm overdrawn, which is totally BT's fault! Unfortunately a ****** letter to the bank isn't going to have much effect!
Those two, along with Strong RHS Bridges M and Strong LM Bewers are my four stars. Bewers eventually popped to Strong Bowl yesterday, after twelve weeks on two nets! Hopefully he can reach Sup by the end of this season, and go on to just make it to Rem after two more seasons of one net. I now only have three glaring weaknesses in my team, preventing me from being a real force. Carless, Woe Stam, Comp/Resp Bat, Low Comp WK isn't good enough! Although in two or three weeks time Noon will overtake him with the gloves, at which point I'll try and flog Carless for around £125K and put the readies towards getting an older Prof batsman to bat at No.6/7. Crick, Feeb Stam, Low Comp/Med RF, is a bit of a joke in a side with serious aspirations, but he has been forced back into the team so I could sell Burke in order to free up enough cash to buy Bridges M. That's why I'm sinking ITS into Bowling and Cons, rather than batting, because Crick needs to go as a matter of urgency. I agree that my YP wasn't too bad, it's just that he can't replace Crick instantly, so he's no use to me, as I've already got my nets full of Resp or better players. Mullins, Med Stam, Low Resp/Feeb Bat, Mid Med/Prof Bowl isn't really a good enough all-rounder either, although he constantly punches above his weight, especially with the ball. He's the least urgent of the weaknesses, but I'm hoping that at some stage I'll pull an YP with Comp/Resp or Resp/Comp, who I can throw nets at whilst having the luxury of keeping Mullins on to warm his seat for him.
Hope this helps.
Scaly, I think Armstrong is probably quite an expensive luxury. I may be wrong, but I think I remember reading somewhere that, as a rule of thumb, three levels of Conc is roughly worth one level of batting. So Armstrong's wages are £6K plus, whereas the wages of a Sup/Comp Bat with Resp WK, would only be around £4K? Besides, in my experience at least, WK skill doesn't make *as* much difference as other primary skills, as they're dependant on the skill of the bowlers they're keeping to. Again, I'm not saying it makes no difference, but Low Comp WK Carless, has a record which compares more favourably to say a Sup WK, than Low Comp RF Crick's does to a Sup RF, or Low Comp Bat Wynne-Willson's does to say Sup Bat Greening. I hope that makes sense? I'd say, that unless you really have a mint bowling attack to create the additional chances for your Gun WK to pouch, I'd opt for a solid batsman with a starting point of Med/Comp WK from which to train them. For the vast wages they command, I really don't think a great WK makes enough of a difference to the game.
Later, Trev
Rob, Paddy asked me for a friendly first, so it's only fair if I give him first dibs, but if he's arranged a match in the meantime then I'll be up for a trip to Aus. But as I say, it all depends how much it costs, as I'm currently around £100K overdrawn!
Got Spin, Are you Rob too? How confusing is that? Anyway, Greening has just turned Sup Bat, with Med Stam and Feeb Conc, (two pops in all three since I bought him for £265K in February). Staveley has been with me since emerging from the old academy in my first season, as a middling Resp with Woe Stam and Conc - He's now three or four weeks off Sup Bat, with Med Stam and Comp Conc.
I've just upgraded my stadium to 16K capacity, which I sold out on Friday, netting me a tad over £117K. On Sunday there must have been some stewarding issues, as apparently I was 843 over capacity, although, having received no gate receipts as yet, I've got no idea how many of those were paying punters. It's actually pretty annoying, as whilst I'll probably eventually get my money, I bet you I still have to pay interest on the time I'm overdrawn, which is totally BT's fault! Unfortunately a ****** letter to the bank isn't going to have much effect!
Those two, along with Strong RHS Bridges M and Strong LM Bewers are my four stars. Bewers eventually popped to Strong Bowl yesterday, after twelve weeks on two nets! Hopefully he can reach Sup by the end of this season, and go on to just make it to Rem after two more seasons of one net. I now only have three glaring weaknesses in my team, preventing me from being a real force. Carless, Woe Stam, Comp/Resp Bat, Low Comp WK isn't good enough! Although in two or three weeks time Noon will overtake him with the gloves, at which point I'll try and flog Carless for around £125K and put the readies towards getting an older Prof batsman to bat at No.6/7. Crick, Feeb Stam, Low Comp/Med RF, is a bit of a joke in a side with serious aspirations, but he has been forced back into the team so I could sell Burke in order to free up enough cash to buy Bridges M. That's why I'm sinking ITS into Bowling and Cons, rather than batting, because Crick needs to go as a matter of urgency. I agree that my YP wasn't too bad, it's just that he can't replace Crick instantly, so he's no use to me, as I've already got my nets full of Resp or better players. Mullins, Med Stam, Low Resp/Feeb Bat, Mid Med/Prof Bowl isn't really a good enough all-rounder either, although he constantly punches above his weight, especially with the ball. He's the least urgent of the weaknesses, but I'm hoping that at some stage I'll pull an YP with Comp/Resp or Resp/Comp, who I can throw nets at whilst having the luxury of keeping Mullins on to warm his seat for him.
Hope this helps.
Scaly, I think Armstrong is probably quite an expensive luxury. I may be wrong, but I think I remember reading somewhere that, as a rule of thumb, three levels of Conc is roughly worth one level of batting. So Armstrong's wages are £6K plus, whereas the wages of a Sup/Comp Bat with Resp WK, would only be around £4K? Besides, in my experience at least, WK skill doesn't make *as* much difference as other primary skills, as they're dependant on the skill of the bowlers they're keeping to. Again, I'm not saying it makes no difference, but Low Comp WK Carless, has a record which compares more favourably to say a Sup WK, than Low Comp RF Crick's does to a Sup RF, or Low Comp Bat Wynne-Willson's does to say Sup Bat Greening. I hope that makes sense? I'd say, that unless you really have a mint bowling attack to create the additional chances for your Gun WK to pouch, I'd opt for a solid batsman with a starting point of Med/Comp WK from which to train them. For the vast wages they command, I really don't think a great WK makes enough of a difference to the game.
Later, Trev
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
a weekend away, and all was not well in the BT world for Lancashire
won my league match easily enough on Friday, bowled them out for 154, wickets shared around then Magloire and Webster knocked off the runs without loss.
Unfortunately i was bowled out for 243 chasing 290 in the cup. At 215-3 in the 41st over we had a chance, but Challinor's dismissal sounded the bell. Lawrence scored 100 though.
Then we got no pops on Monday, no gate receipts from the cup and YP was a stinker.
won my league match easily enough on Friday, bowled them out for 154, wickets shared around then Magloire and Webster knocked off the runs without loss.
Unfortunately i was bowled out for 243 chasing 290 in the cup. At 215-3 in the 41st over we had a chance, but Challinor's dismissal sounded the bell. Lawrence scored 100 though.
Then we got no pops on Monday, no gate receipts from the cup and YP was a stinker.
Robertinho
Cricketer Of The Year
Hmm I'm not sure, I tried usingtrevor_vayro said:
Code:
, [php] tags around your text and it still didn't create tables. Not sure if there's an HTML thing allowed on these forums? Edit - I see that it's not allowed, ah well.
Either way, it's a bit different to BT, and Got Spin reads at a 3rd grade level, so that's what's causing the problems. Don't worry about it :p33/3from3.3
International Vice-Captain
I'm not sure it takes any money to play international friendliestrevor_vayro said:
but it can't be heaps
Robertinho
Cricketer Of The Year
It doesn't cost anything...
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