Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[ash chaulk]

I just registered for Batrick.

In the South African league because 0 waiting list and a 10-7/8 working hour means I can catch some of the action of the South African games towards the end of their matches.

Now waiting. Email said I would be in within 2 days.

Also, it would be a good idea to have UEFA Cup and Champions league formats in Batrick if not incorporated already. Certainly would make things more interesting.

there is a cup for you country but its in round 4 i think now

 

[ash chaulk]

check these dudes out


Karl Lovatt - 18 yo, BT Rating=20,187
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A cautious player with strong leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: strong Concentration: superb
Bowling: worthless Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: feeble

Nicky Baldwin - 18 yo, BT Rating=23,269
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, respectable form, Healthy
A defensive player with competent leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: proficient Wicket Keeping: feeble
Batting: quality Concentration: proficient
Bowling: woeful Consistency: respectable
Fielding: mediocre

Alan Anderson - 20 yo, BT Rating=20,418
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A destructive player with proficient leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: superb Concentration: competent
Bowling: competent Consistency: proficient
Fielding: feeble

Doug Gurney (65666) -19 Years Old BT Rating= 24,044
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, proficient form, Healthy
A cautious player with proficient leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: quality Concentration: respectable
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: respectable
Fielding: feeble

Stephen Brooker - 19 yo, BT Rating=24,395
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, strong form, Healthy
A cautious player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: strong Concentration: strong
Bowling: superb Consistency: competent
Fielding: feeble

Seamus Lymbury - 21 yo, BT Rating=24,025
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, proficient form, Healthy
A defensive player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: respectable
Batting: strong Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: superb Consistency: respectable
Fielding: woeful

Fred Lucas - 18 yo, BT Rating=18,817
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, competent form, Healthy
A defensive player with competent leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: competent
Batting: competent Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: quality Consistency: respectable
Fielding: woeful

Howard Moore (73681) Age: 18 Years Old Battrick Rating: 23,468
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: remarkable
Batting: competent Concentration: proficient
Bowling: feeble Consistency: feeble
Fielding: mediocre

Eric Spillane (42120)
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, competent form, Healthy
A cautious player with competent leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: proficient Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: feeble Concentration: feeble
Bowling: quality Consistency: proficient
Fielding: woeful

10. Tel Lee - 20 yo, BT Rating=20,209
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, strong form, Healthy
A destructive player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: abysmal Concentration: woeful
Bowling: remarkable Consistency: woeful
Fielding: respectable

Graham Apted - 18 yo, BT Rating=18,733
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A defensive player with abysmal leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: feeble Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: quality Consistency: competent
Fielding: woeful

Zat Browne - 18 yo, BT Rating=19,658
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, strong form, Healthy
A defensive player with competent leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: proficient Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: superb Concentration: competent
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: feeble
Fielding: proficient

 

[GotSpin]

Kicking the Bots but in my league match

Saunders made 106 off 68
Holmes made 103
Thompson 60 odd
Makel 11
Holmes 38 off 30

 

[Pratters]

They have put my team through!



The team: The Green Horns

Playing in the south african league!

What should I do next? Advice would be highly appreciated.

 

[brenoevo]

Hey ne one wanna challenge me my team is College Dropouts. Hopefully my losing streak of 4 in a row will end this round!

 

[cameeel]

South Murchison CC v Kipper XI

South Murchison: 7-241 (50)

Gilligan 87
Davies 5-22 (10)

Kipper XI: 1-242 (36.1)

Dove 111*
Brydon 90*

 

[andyc]

Blimey that was a close match...

Magical Ponies 9/298
Williamson 89 (85), Kenna 58 (54), Andrew 42 (66)
North 4/41, Holloway 3/42

Wonga park CC 8/294
Mccafferty 144* (128), Mullis 40 (47)
Heard 3/49, Cave 3/55

Their keeper Mccafferty came in at 4/36, and it was basically him that took it so close, but we got there in the end

 

[Adamc]

Where did you find that list ash? Howard Moore is an interesting one - competent batting and remarkable 'keeping, wages 9,801 per week. Wicketkeepers aren't worth that much IMO unless they have really good batting - I've found that even feeble keepers do a decent job of keeping byes down to less than 10. I wouldn't mind a couple of those strong/superb allrounders though...

I'm seriously contemplating selling my captain in the near future. He's a 23yo strong/competent allrounder, but he has worthless consistency so I don't like bowling him too much, though at the moment I'm getting away with bowling him in most matches. I'd want to replace him with a 17yo respectable/mediocre, or proficient/feeble or something - someone with potential to be better than him, basically. He'd have to sell for over 500-600k for it to be worthwhile though, given the cost of 17yo's. Only problem is I don't have anyone else with leadership better than respectable, apart from a 29yo bowler who I'm trying to sell.

My other transfer prospect is Bridge - 21yo respectable batsman with mediocre WK and decent secondaries, though I've never used him as a WK. Might stick him on the market at an inflated price (say 200k) to see if anyone bites, then replace him with a younger specialist bat with similar skill. Or my youth academy could give me someone decent, I live in hope...

 

[andyc]

Can you guys get onto Battrick right now? It's coming up with some thing telling me to put my password in, but it doesn't work...

 

[cameeel]

Can you guys get onto Battrick right now? It's coming up with some thing telling me to put my password in, but it doesn't work...

I'm getting onto it fine...

 

[Adamc]

Can you guys get onto Battrick right now? It's coming up with some thing telling me to put my password in, but it doesn't work...

Apparently there's a problem with the HT server (which hosts BT... or something) and other people have been affected by it. No problems for me though...

 

[Adamc]

Use this link: http://195.149.144.130/nl/main.htm instead of http://www.battrick.org.uk and it should work.

 

[Robertinho]

Could someone check my score for me? Robertinho Select XI..

 

[cameeel]

Could someone check my score for me? Robertinho Select XI..

Robertinho Select XI v Willaston CC

Willaston CC: 9-164 (50)

Melton 40
Payton 5-24 (10)

Robertinho Select XI: 2-165 (29)

Wolfenden 80*
Biggins 64

 

[Adamc]

Full scorecard:

Robertinho Select XI v Willaston CC (140818) 

Date: 	20/10/2005 	Ground: 	Robertinho Select XI CG
Pitch: 	Slow 	Weather: 	[partially cloud]
 
Willaston CC won the toss and elected to bat.
First Innings of:   Willaston CC
Name 	  	  	Runs 	Balls 	4s 	6s
Mccabrey (*) 	 c. Scowcroft 	 b. Payton 	0 	1 	0 	0
Tillen 	  	 b. Payton 	2 	7 	0 	0
Laird 	 c. Chambers. 	 b. Payton 	0 	1 	0 	0
Melton 	 c. Chambers. 	 b. Mills 	40 	121 	3 	0
Holt 	  	 b. Payton 	8 	15 	0 	0
Apted (+) 	hit wicket  	 b. Hignett 	4 	14 	0 	0
Mellor 	 c. Arnison 	 b. Hignett 	15 	18 	1 	1
Flinders 	 c. Chambers. 	 b. Payton 	28 	58 	2 	0
Thatcher 	  	 b. Knight 	16 	27 	2 	0
Parnell 	not  	 out 	18 	22 	1 	0
Murphy 	not  	 out 	9 	19 	0 	0
Extras (8b, 13lb, 1w, 2nb) 	24 	 
Total (50.0 overs, 9 wickets) 	164 	 
 
FOW 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10
Total 	0 	0 	5 	23 	34 	55 	110 	136 	138 	
Batsman Out 	1 	3 	2 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	4 	
 
Name 	O 	M 	R 	W 	nb 	wd
Payton 	10 	3 	24 	5 	1 	0
Hignett 	10 	1 	42 	2 	0 	0
Mills 	10 	2 	32 	1 	0 	0
Bunn 	10 	1 	23 	0 	1 	1
Knight 	10 	3 	22 	1 	0 	0

First Innings of:   Robertinho Select XI
Name 	  	  	Runs 	Balls 	4s 	6s
Arnison 	 c. Thatcher 	 b. Murphy 	1 	4 	0 	0
Biggins 	 c. Parnell 	 b. Mellor 	64 	98 	7 	0
Wolfenden 	not  	 out 	80 	70 	9 	0
Knight 	not  	 out 	7 	4 	1 	0
Houlihan 	  	  	  	  	  	 
Chambers. (+) 	  	  	  	  	  	 
Scowcroft 	  	  	  	  	  	 
Bunn 	  	  	  	  	  	 
Payton (*) 	  	  	  	  	  	 
Mills 	  	  	  	  	  	 
Hignett 	  	  	  	  	  	 
Extras (7b, 4lb, 1w, 1nb) 	13 	 
Total (29.0 overs, 2 wickets) 	165 	 
 
FOW 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10
Total 	6 	156 								
Batsman Out 	1 	2 								
 
Name 	O 	M 	R 	W 	nb 	wd
Murphy 	7 	0 	39 	1 	0 	1
Parnell 	5 	0 	31 	0 	0 	0
Thatcher 	5 	0 	20 	0 	1 	0
Flinders 	8 	0 	48 	0 	0 	0
Mellor 	4 	0 	16 	1 	0 	0

 

[Scaly piscine]

Having my opening bowlers bowl through now, a team decided to bat first at on my green pitch... 60 all out. I've played 2nd and 4th in the league already (they're 2-1, I gave 'em the 1) - this team is third... Looks like my debutant isn't going to do anything at all in this game.

 

[Adamc]

Having my opening bowlers bowl through now, a team decided to bat first at on my green pitch... 60 all out. I've played 2nd and 4th in the league already (they're 2-1, I gave 'em the 1) - this team is third... Looks like my debutant isn't going to do anything at all in this game.

What's Emmanuel's bowling skill? Must be around strong with wages like that?

 

[andyc]

Thanks for that link Adam, it's working for me while battrick.org.uk isn't

I just got this guy:
Earl Whibread (317103)
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, respectable form, Healthy
A cautious player with superb leadership skills and abysmal experience.

Plays For: Magical Ponies
Nationality: England
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 3,926
Wages: £267 p/w

Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: abysmal Concentration: competent
Bowling: feeble Consistency: feeble
Fielding: woeful

I have no real young bowlers, so hopefully this guy can do something for me after some training. Was only 1,000 pounds.

 

[Scaly piscine]

What's Emmanuel's bowling skill? Must be around strong with wages like that?

Yea, his other attributes are crap, but I get the impression he could get virtually anyone out (it's a massive bonus to get those 100+ averaging players out cheaply). This is also why I'm loathed to get rid of respectable fielders - it seems to me they're another prime source in getting the 100+ players out, amongst other wickets (Packer for instance got a few catches in that game).

 

[Adamc]

Yea, his other attributes are crap, but I get the impression he could get virtually anyone out (it's a massive bonus to get those 100+ averaging players out cheaply). This is also why I'm loathed to get rid of respectable fielders - it seems to me they're another prime source in getting the 100+ players out, amongst other wickets (Packer for instance got a few catches in that game).

Interesting - I haven't really paid much attention to fielding ratings as none of my players are better than competent, but checking over the stats just now seems to suggest that there is a noticeable correlation between fielding ratings and catches taken.

That player with a BT rating of over 6 million that someone mentioned earlier apparently had the following ratings:

Stamina: superb Wicket Keeping: superb
Batting: woeful Concentration: elite
Bowling: remarkable Consistency: elite
Fielding: elite

Was a bug though, so he's been killed, or at least regenerated as a relatively crap youth pull. Would be interesting to see if a woeful/elite batsman is any good though.