Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[Magrat Garlick]

Sammy Giles - 18 yo, BT Rating=2,745
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, competent form, Healthy
A defensive player with feeble leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: woeful Concentration: feeble
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: feeble
Fielding: abysmal

 

[Scaly piscine]

Not to mention 'defensive player' and 'Consistency: feeble'

 

[superkingdave]

i think his stamina is too good though.

And Marc it was me that voted for you, couldn't think of anyone else to vote for tbh

 

[brenoevo]

The losing streak of 12 should come to an end for my team this weekend as i finally get to play the only bot in my league. The only way i can go from here is up.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Some new player attributes in Battrick, surprised no-one has commented on them in CW yet:

Today we have introduced you to two new concepts for your players. Each player is now shown to have his own personal fitness level, and two seperate form values: one for bowling and one for batting.

None of these values will have any effect on your players performances this season.

However, they will start to effect their performances from the start of next season, and the values will change this season to show you how they will behave.

The new form values will have a similar effect as the old form, but they will effect only the batting or the bowling side of a players game. There will also be a combined form, made up of the batting and bowling form, that will have an effect for wicketkeepers and fielders. Thats the easy bit!

Now the players personal fitness level will not replace the teams fitness level that you currently see, but compliment it. The team fitness will have a smaller impact on your teams performance than it did previously, with the players fitness having a larger impact on his own performance. When a player plays a game, his fitness level will go down. When he has to do nets, his fitness level will go down, and the harder you train, the further it will fall. Fortunately though, each day of rest that a player gets will see his fitness level rise, as you would expect.This may leave you with some tough decisions to make as to whether you will play your star player in one more match when he is already drained, or one of the other guys who is invigorated and ready for action.

Use the time between now and next season to determine how best to utilise your squad. There will NOT be a reset of a players fitness level at the end of the season.

Good Luck!

I think the level of fitness for each individual player is a big improvement, the form for batting/bowling is a relatively minor thing in comparison - I think it's mainly there for guys who bat each game and occasionally bowl, and so this doesn't make their bowling form better simply because they're batting a lot. It will be interesting to see how this will changes things when it is implemented next season.

 

[Adamc]

Ah, the perks of being NT manager... someone bought three months membership for me.

Re. the new rules, it'll be interesting to see how this affects the development of 'super players' - as players who are getting lots of nets and playing every game will presumably lose fitness very quickly. It'll give an advantage to those teams with a decent reserve bench. I'm thinking that, assuming FC matches are introduced next year, it'll be best to have a core squad of 7 or 8 players who play every match, and a have 3/4 OD specialists and 3/4 FC specialists, who can rest on the alternate matchdays to recover their fitness. It'll be interesting either way, particularly for NT players - before this, I was just telling managers to go all out training their players; once this gets implemented, i'll have to balance it somehow.

Bidding on my 20yo competent/competent batsman with abysmal stamina is up to 71k already... almost paid off the 78k i paid for the respectable/feeble batsman I bought a few days ago.

 

[ash chaulk]

hahah awesdome free membership lol

 

[andyc]

Yes! I beat the only other human team in my league, pretty much guaranteeing me promotion

Magical Ponies (GFI) 4/341
Andrew 135 (144), Drench 54* (45), Kenna 54 (43)
Silk 2/66, Fordham 1/54

Thornton 8/285
Fennell 89 (115), Gibbons 45 (53), Everett 45 (54)
Dunne 3/47, Cave 2/71, Giles 1/40

And I got mediocre for everything except lower order again. Am very happy with that show. Now I just hope my guys aren't too worn out after playing the last match on GFI too.

 

[Adamc]

Just sold Rocastle for a touch over 80k - pretty happy with that, considering I bought him last season for 16k and his stats haven't improved since then. So basically I swapped a competent/competent/abysmal batsman for a (high) respectable/feeble/woeful at a profit of 4k.

International selection is proving to be quite challenging. Annoyingly, a number of very good players are in sides with inactive managers, meaning I can't see their stats.

 

[andyc]

Anyone looking out for a Christmas present for me...


Plays For: Dobcross
Nationality: England
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 4,502
Wages: £427 p/w

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

The hitch being the opening price is 547,000

 

[Scaly piscine]

Giving my promotion rivals a bit of a hammering at the moment, I'm 152-0 off 25 overs. If they haven't GFIed they'll probably get skittled when they bat as their batting is only mediocre, woeful, abysmal and my seam bowling (5 bowlers) will be respectable at least as I have GFIed this game.

 

[Adamc]

BTW, around 1,000 inactives players have just been booted, so there are plenty of new managers about. Ridiculous prices on the transfer market as a result - just saw a 19yo competent/mediocre batsman go for 180k. Pretty good time to sell I'd say.

Edit: actually, I'm not sure about that. The number of active users seems to have returned to normal levels again. Transfer market is still crazy though - possibly related to the rule changes.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Ended up with a bit of a disappointing score of 312-7, only scored 78-7 off the last 10 overs after both my openers got tons. They're 67-1 off 16, so I think they've probably GFIed this game as well.

 

[Jamee999]

I need 8 an over, and it's not even halfway through my innings yet

Ah well, Gowshall, my best batsman has passed 50, which he's only done once this year.

He made 105.

Guy at the other end's got a SR of about 10

EDIT: Mr 10 SR gets out, a bit of slogging and we can up to 250 possibly.

The team we're playing against is unbeaten, so I'm kinda meh about it

As I type, Bradford the new man in, gets out for 5.

120/6 after 28 overs, chasing 320

200 more boys!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Bit annoyed at that game, only won by 91 runs on a green pitch (which usually magnifies any difference in quality) when the ratings were:

Scaly Piscine CC bathfordII
Top Order: strong mediocre
Middle Order: competent woeful
Lower Order: woeful abysmal
Seam Bowling: respectable competent
Spin Bowling: useless mediocre
Fielding: mediocre mediocre


Plus my the overall fitness dropped by 3 levels when every time I play on TIE it goes up by 2 levels and then almost immediately drops back another level. Howlett did get his first 5-fer tho.

 

[superkingdave]

well i play top of the table tomorrow. After starting the league with 2 defeats to the guys in 1st and second now i have the chance to catch them in the next 2 weeks. I'm gonna play this on normal and next week on GFI i think, then at least if i lose tommorow i shoudl win next week.

my ratings from my last league match were;

Top Order: Competent
Middle Order: Mediocre
Lower order: abysmal
Seam bowling: Competent
Spin Bowling: mediocre
Fielding: competent

where as his were
competent
competent
abysmal
respectable
useless
mediocre

so it will be a tough one

the guy next week is

competent
mediocre
worthless
respectable
useless
mediocre

what do you reckon, it might be that if i GFI this week i could win and still sneak a win next week but i don't want to lose both.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Certainly have a decent chance of winning either game on normal, looks like you'll be on hard and fast pitches both games, so that makes the difference in bowling a bit less of a factor. A lot depends on your fitness level, if it's not high it could stuff you up later. I would probably hold the GFI back til next week anyway.

 

[superkingdave]

aye i think that's what ill do

 

[ash chaulk]

hey adam have they updated the bat.bat program for the new additions yet?

 

[Adamc]

I don't think so. There was a new program released yesterday, but I can't get it to work. It connects directly to the battrick site to get the player stats, so it's very slow.