Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[GotSpin]

This is really annoying, been waiting seven hours..in my head

 

[kears_falcon_9]

yer mine not wokrin either.. must be errors.

 

[cameeel]

Still not working...

 

[Adamc]

Still not working...

Don't hold your breath. We had a similar problem in WI a few weeks ago and cup matches were delayed one week. As long as it only affects div V teams I don't care.

Just saw a 19yo respectable spinner go for 43k - all his other attributes were worthless/abysmal/woeful, but still good value, might have considered buying him if I had nets available. Transfer market seems to have stagnated a bit, so I'm not sure whether to sell my players now or wait a bit. Though I don't see how waiting will force the prices up...

 

[nibbs]

oh gosh. last night i payed just over 400k for this 19yo proficient bowler with mediorce consistency and concentration to go with his feeble stamina. good buy in my opinion

 

[Adamc]

oh gosh. last night i payed just over 400k for this 19yo proficient bowler with mediorce consistency and concentration to go with his feeble stamina. good buy in my opinion

Big spender. I paid 147k for a 19yo proficient bowler with feeble consistency and woeful stamina last season, thought it was a lot at the time but prices are crazy these days. Still thinking of selling my captain and replacing him with a 17yo batsman proficient early next season. What would you pay for this?

Reon Berry - 23 yo, BT Rating=10,711
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A cautious player with strong leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	feeble 	Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: 	strong 	Concentration: 	woeful
Bowling: 	competent Consistency: worthless
Fielding: 	mediocre

I don't need his bowling or leadership anymore which is why I want to sell him, and get a trainee who will be a better batsman within 7 weeks or so.

 

[Hoggy31]

My Updated Squad:
William Barlow - 19 yo, BT Rating=4,683
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, mediocre form, Healthy
A defensive player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: abysmal Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: competent
Fielding: feeble

Andrew Benjamin - 18 yo, BT Rating=3,007
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, competent form, Healthy
A destructive player with feeble leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: feeble
Batting: feeble Concentration: feeble
Bowling: feeble Consistency: feeble
Fielding: feeble

Keith Bentley - 19 yo, BT Rating=1,930
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, competent form, Healthy
An attacking player with woeful leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: abysmal Concentration: abysmal
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: feeble
Fielding: woeful

Bruce Binns - 21 yo, BT Rating=11,071
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, superb form, Healthy
An attacking player with mediocre leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: competent Concentration: competent
Bowling: proficient Consistency: feeble
Fielding: mediocre

Edward Colley - 21 yo, BT Rating=17,600
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, superb form, Healthy
An attacking player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: strong
Batting: competent Concentration: competent
Bowling: respectable Consistency: feeble
Fielding: woeful

Paul Flowers - 23 yo, BT Rating=4,590
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A steady player with proficient leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: mediocre Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: woeful

Richard Gillan - 19 yo, BT Rating=7,948
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, respectable form, Healthy
A steady player with respectable leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: respectable
Batting: worthless Concentration: woeful
Bowling: competent Consistency: competent
Fielding: feeble

Steve Haughton - 23 yo, BT Rating=10,799
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A defensive player with proficient leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: proficient
Batting: proficient Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: worthless Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: feeble

Duncan Isherwood - 17 yo, BT Rating=2,642
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, strong form, Healthy
An attacking player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: abysmal Wicket Keeping: feeble
Batting: feeble Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: woeful Consistency: feeble
Fielding: woeful

Barry Longrigg - 20 yo, BT Rating=5,762
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, respectable form, Healthy
A destructive player with mediocre leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: mediocre Concentration: abysmal
Bowling: proficient Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: woeful

John Nile - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,043
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A steady player with strong leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: mediocre Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: woeful Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: feeble

Andy Purkiss - 17 yo, BT Rating=2,071
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, proficient form, Healthy
A cautious player with superb leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: mediocre Concentration: feeble
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: woeful
Fielding: feeble

Ben Rowe - 18 yo, BT Rating=5,422
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, respectable form, Healthy
A defensive player with abysmal leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: respectable Concentration: abysmal
Bowling: feeble Consistency: feeble
Fielding: mediocre

Jimmy Street - 22 yo, BT Rating=5,158
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A destructive player with woeful leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: respectable Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: worthless Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: feeble

Eddie Stubbs - 24 yo, BT Rating=5,234
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, strong form, Healthy
A destructive player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: worthless Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: competent Concentration: respectable
Bowling: worthless Consistency: woeful
Fielding: woeful

Delbert Sykes - 20 yo, BT Rating=6,698
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, superb form, Healthy
A destructive player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: proficient Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: abysmal Concentration: woeful
Bowling: competent Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: feeble

Changed the team around a fair bit for tomorrows game:
1. E. Stubbs
2. +E. Colley
3. *S. Haughton
4. J. Street
5. B. Rowe
6. B. Binns(1b)
7. P. Flowers(5b)
8. J. Nile
9. B. Longrigg(3b)
10. W. Barlow(4b)
11. R. Gillan(2b)

 

[Adamc]

Made a few changes since the start of the season, this is my current lineup (ignoring my crap secondaries and stamina):

	[B]Name	        Age	BTR	Bat	      Bowl	    WK[/B]
1	Cuss	        20	15,446	quality		
2	Gillete (+)	21	8,854	competent		    proficient
3	Berry (LF)	23	10,711	strong	      competent (R)	
4	Gillespie (RFM)	24	14,976	proficient    strong (b1)	
5	Bridge	        21	4,886	respectable		    mediocre (R)
6	Rocastle	20	4,454	competent		
7	Begg	        20	4,239	respectable		
8	Malik (LHS)	18	5,514	mediocre      competent (b4)	
9	Pollock (RM)	19	6,520	abysmal	      respectable (b2)	
10	Male (RM)	20	6,369	abysmal	      proficient (b5)	
11	Badley (LF)	18	5,593	abysmal       proficient (b3)	
						
12	Barrett	        24	2,939	competent

If I'm against a weak batting lineup or a strong bowling lineup I'd take out Pollock for Barrett and make Berry bowl. With my current training regime, Badley, Pollock and Malik will pop in bowling again before the end of the season, and Malik will pop in batting. Possibly Cuss as well, but I'm taking him off training as soon as I get a YP or transfer batsman. Looking for two batsmen to replace Rocastle and Begg soonish, youth academy...

 

[andyc]

The front page tells me this..

Unforunately there was a bug that crept in to the match engine that caused the games not to run today. The bug has now been found, and the games will be run shortly.

And it says my match is in progress but when I click on it all I get is

error '80020009'

/nl/showScorecard.asp, line 64

 

[Scaly piscine]

Wow, thought Gillespie would have been more than strong bowling. Here's the guy I bought for 15.5K yesterday with worthless form:

8. Andres Cooper - 28 yo, BT Rating=2,559
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, worthless form, Healthy
A steady player with strong leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: feeble Concentration: woeful
Bowling: competent Consistency: feeble
Fielding: abysmal

Makes a pretty good captain and I'll just sell him on next season when something better comes along. The age doesn't bother me... 21 or 28 it doesn't really matter when they're just gonna be around for a season. He has 3.4-1-5-1 at the moment.

 

[Adamc]

Wow, thought Gillespie would have been more than strong bowling.

Yeah, he definitely performs a lot better than his actual ability, and his secondaries aren't flash either. He's only just strong as well, I trained him early last season and stopped as soon as he popped. The main reason he's so successful is because my other bowlers aren't good enough to get many wickets in overs 10-40, so he just cleans up in the last ten, helped a bit by bowling orders and his destructive temperament.

Now that the importance of secondaries has been made obvious to me by Badley's repeatedly crap performances I've hired fielding coaches and whatnot, so Badley should be better (in theory) than Gillespie by next season.

 

[Adamc]

Just put two 20-something competent 'bowlers' on the market for 5k apiece, come and get 'em while they're still hot:

Mick Holt - 29 yo, BT Rating=1,630
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, woeful form, Healthy
A destructive player with strong leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: 	abysmal 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	woeful 	Concentration: 	abysmal
Bowling: 	competent 	Consistency: 	woeful
Fielding: 	woeful

Samudra Singh lali - 26 yo, BT Rating=1,447
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, abysmal form, Healthy
A steady player with competent leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: 	abysmal 	Wicket Keeping: 	worthless
Batting: 	worthless 	Concentration: 	woeful
Bowling: 	competent 	Consistency: 	woeful
Fielding: 	abysmal

The best I can say about them is that Holt took 4-0 against Steds, and Singh Iali is a useful fourth-reserve drinks-carrier.

 

[andyc]

Wow I just kicked some behind in my league match against my first human team

Magical Ponies 3/342
Kenna 186* (146), Williamson 81 (111), Sutton 52 (34)

Spaz 10/179 (40.4 overs)
Heard 2/19 (7), Andrew 2/22 (8), Cave 2/24 (5.4)

Kenna continues to impress, with that being his 5th hundred of the season.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Finally bowled the opposition out for 120... off 43.5 overs.

I have a feeling extras could well have been their top score.

 

[Adamc]

Finally bowled the opposition out for 120... off 43.5 overs.

I have a feeling extras could well have been their top score.

Seems your batsmen are enjoying themselves:

15.6 	4	Mullins to Shields
 	 	Too wide and cut away for four.
15.5 	4	Mullins to Shields
 	 	wider delivery, picked up over cover for the boundary
15.4 	4	Mullins to Shields
 	 	Short and on his hips, worked away to the boundary.
15.3 	4	Mullins to Shields
 	 	Cuts away to deep backward point.
15.2 	1	Mullins to Packer
 	 	Cut away beautifully off the back foot, but a great stop at backward point keeps it to one run.
15.1 	4	Mullins to Packer
 	 	full delivery, cut to deep bwd point, Stewart diving to stop the ball, in the process touches the rope

 

[Scaly piscine]

Seems your batsmen are enjoying themselves:

15.6 	4	Mullins to Shields
 	 	Too wide and cut away for four.
15.5 	4	Mullins to Shields
 	 	wider delivery, picked up over cover for the boundary
15.4 	4	Mullins to Shields
 	 	Short and on his hips, worked away to the boundary.
15.3 	4	Mullins to Shields
 	 	Cuts away to deep backward point.
15.2 	1	Mullins to Packer
 	 	Cut away beautifully off the back foot, but a great stop at backward point keeps it to one run.
15.1 	4	Mullins to Packer
 	 	full delivery, cut to deep bwd point, Stewart diving to stop the ball, in the process touches the rope

Yea gotta love those Kabir Ali specials, hardly ever see them in the last 10 overs an innings tho.

 

[andyc]

Wow I had some really good ratings for that match
Magical Ponies
Top Order: competent
Middle Order: competent
Lower Order: woeful
Seam Bowling: competent
Spin Bowling: competent
Fielding: mediocre

Best I've ever done.

 

[cameeel]

Charlotte Crusaders v Kipper XI @ Trentington Oval

Charlotte Crusaders: 2-302 (50)

Wilding 111*
McConnell 76*

Kipper XI (Play as Normal) 4-292 (50)

Dove 132
Waterhouse 63

RESULT: Charlotte Crusaders win by 10 runs

MOTM: Wilding

 

[nibbs]

	Name		Age	BTR	Bat	  Bowl		WK
1	Hamshaw	(LFM)	20	9,204	strong	  mediorce(b4)
2	Fry 		20	6,183	respectable		    
3	Lennon 		19	4,896	proficient	      	
4	Duggan		17	7,173	proficient    	
5	Cuss	 	21	3,589	competent		   
6	Willets		20	3,797	competent		
7	Wheat (+)	20	13,332	mediorce		strong
8	Holmes (RF)	25	9,756	feeble    surperb (b1)	
9	Henshaw (LF)	27	7,133	abysmal	  respectable (b3)	
10	Mutasa (RF)	19	6,293	abysmal	  proficient (b2)	
11     Sheffield (RS)	20	7,119	abysmal   competent (b5)

that would be my team tbh. still got a fair bit of work to do, but we're coming together quite nicely imho

 

[Hoggy31]

Some stats from my team:
Average BT Rating: 6166.125
Average Age: 21.06