Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[Scaly piscine]

Got this guy for 20k

Gary Callery (350414)
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, competent form, fresh
(respectable batting form, mediocre bowling form)
A destructive player with respectable leadership skills and worthless experience.

Plays For: Mildert Warriors
Nationality: England
Age: 18 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 4,666
Wages: £379 p/w

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


I just wanted a good fielder mostly, my current number 7 is mediocre-mediocre bat (who hardly ever gets a bat anyway) but has woeful fielding - which is a bit of a pain. The fact this guy is 18 is just a bonus really, I'd have gone for them if they were 28.

Which attributes count towards wages again - Adamc - anyone?

 

[ash chaulk]

i bought this guy the first week of battrick for 151000

Glen Garrick (54255)
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb form, fresh
(superb batting form, strong bowling form)
A steady player with strong leadership skills and woeful experience.

Plays For: Viveash
Nationality: New Zealand
Age: 28 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 16,441
Wages: £2,754 p/w

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

hes like 28 but i rekin if i didnt have him i wouldnt be in div2 so old players can help for short term success where everyone looks for the youth.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Yea I think a lot of players just look for 17 year olds, so many mediocre 17 year olds are going for 100,000+ at the moment - madness.

 

[GotSpin]

So close... I'll have to search on Battrick to see if there are any namesakes on there.

?? explain...

 

[andyc]

Ratings from first match:

Woeful
Abysmal
Worthless
Woeful
Useless
Mediocre

From last league match:
Mediocre
Mediocre
Abysmal
Mediocre
Mediocre
Mediocre

My best ever ratings:
Competent
Competent
Woeful
Competent
Competent
Mediocre

 

[Adamc]

Scaly Piscine - only primaries (batting/bowling/WK) count towards wages. There were four youth pull bugs who had remarkable batting, bowling and wicketkeeping, and all had wages of £25,639 (three of them were in the same team).

Some of the internationals are underway now. Australia thumped Pakistan, made 247 then bowled them out for 60. Like IRL, Pakistan are having the worst administrative problems at the moment (e.g. the u19 manager calling up all the best u19 players without telling the NT manager, resulting in public argument etc.). Playing NZ in about 18 hours, should be a close match.

 

[GotSpin]

Thought i would show my sides minimal improvment over 6 or so weeks i have been playing:


First game: 13/10/2005

Top Order: woeful
Middle Order: woeful
Lower Order: abysmal
Seam Bowling: woeful
Spin Bowling: useless
Fielding: woeful

Last game played: 20/11/2005 on low fitness

Top Order: competent
Middle Order: feeble
Lower Order: abysmal
Seam Bowling: mediocre
Spin Bowling: useless
Fielding: feeble

 

[Scaly piscine]

?? explain...

lucky_eddie = eddie sanders

highlighted name = eddie saunders


I noticed someone had a player with my surname (Beevers), but no players with any of the first names in my family.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Scaly Piscine - only primaries (batting/bowling/WK) count towards wages. There were four youth pull bugs who had remarkable batting, bowling and wicketkeeping, and all had wages of £25,639 (three of them were in the same team).

Some of the internationals are underway now. Australia thumped Pakistan, made 247 then bowled them out for 60. Like IRL, Pakistan are having the worst administrative problems at the moment (e.g. the u19 manager calling up all the best u19 players without telling the NT manager, resulting in public argument etc.). Playing NZ in about 18 hours, should be a close match.

Yea that's what I was hoping regarding the wages, so the 20k guy isn't just a bottom-of-the-level mediocre bat with his £379 a week wages.

Will have to follow some of the internationals, should be interesting. It's always interesting when someone gives away a players attributes (some guy with woeful batting and competent bowling with huge secondaries) and then see how average that players career stats are.

 

[Adamc]

Some interesting results in the ODIs. India beat the Saffies by six wickets, which was a bit surprising considering India has the weakest national squad IMO. They seem to have decided to give all their best 18yo players to the u19s, which makes it more surprising that their national team won and their u19s got thrashed.

Sri Lanka (the smallest country) did well to make 243-9 against England (nearly 15 times as many users), especially considering SL played on TIE (though England probably did too). England u19s are pretty much dominating SL u19s though.

England's best batsman just got out first ball...could be an upset here.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Good start for the WI team, 51-0 after 9 overs on a dusty pitch, although they've now just lost a wicket. Will be interesting to see how Cuss does...

 

[Adamc]

Yeah, not too bad despite losing probably our best batsman. Two spinners operating at the moment, so I'm just hoping they'll survive and keep the RR above 4.5 as I've got a few sloggers lined up for later.

Cuss got done in by their gun spinner so we're struggling a bit now at 82-2. Summers and Fuller are both set to normal, so things should be going pretty slowly for a while, but as long as we can see off their spinners I don't mind.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I'm surprised by how many 'dusty' pitches there have been so far and also how relatively low fielding ratings have been, I'd have thought they'd be quite decent because of the high rate at which secondaries improve under fielding training, so I'd have expected nearly all of the players to have received fielding training.

Were there many near specialist fielder type batsmen available?

 

[Adamc]

I'm surprised by how many 'dusty' pitches there have been so far and also how relatively low fielding ratings have been, I'd have thought they'd be quite decent because of the high rate at which secondaries improve under fielding training, so I'd have expected nearly all of the players to have received fielding training.

Were there many near specialist fielder type batsmen available?

Yeah, after seeing that three of the four ODIs in the first round were on dusty pitches, I dropped an allrounder (who can bowl spin a bit) and brought in a second specialist spinner. I was hoping that it would be a while before we came across a dusty pitch so I would only have to use the allrounder sparingly, but didn't quite work out that way.

Not sure why the fielding ratings are so low, but looking at my squad, there aren't really any players with outstanding fielding. None of the players that missed out have better fielding though. Probably will go up quickly over the next season or two as most managers are being encouraged to train fielding.

 

[ash chaulk]

lucky_eddie = eddie sanders

highlighted name = eddie saunders


I noticed someone had a player with my surname (Beevers), but no players with any of the first names in my family.

yeah i got beevers

Wayne Beevers (70229)
RH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, proficient form, fresh
(proficient batting form, proficient bowling form)
A steady player with woeful leadership skills and worthless experience.

Plays For: Viveash
Nationality: Australia
Age: 23 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 7,917
Wages: £1,006 p/w

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

Batting Stats:
M I R n.o. Ave SR HS C st 50s 100s
Season 12 9 19 0 2.11 65.52 5 2 0 0 0
Career 31 14 42 3 3.82 56.00 12 9 0 0 0

Bowling Stats:
O M R W Ave SR Econ Best 5wi
Season 106 4 521 15 34.73 42.40 4.92 4-30 0
Career 269 21 1156 53 21.81 30.45 4.30 6-39 2

 

[Scaly piscine]

yeah i got beevers

Wayne Beevers (70229)
RH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, proficient form, fresh
(proficient batting form, proficient bowling form)
A steady player with woeful leadership skills and worthless experience.

Plays For: Viveash
Nationality: Australia
Age: 23 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 7,917
Wages: £1,006 p/w

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

Batting Stats:
M I R n.o. Ave SR HS C st 50s 100s
Season 12 9 19 0 2.11 65.52 5 2 0 0 0
Career 31 14 42 3 3.82 56.00 12 9 0 0 0

Bowling Stats:
O M R W Ave SR Econ Best 5wi
Season 106 4 521 15 34.73 42.40 4.92 4-30 0
Career 269 21 1156 53 21.81 30.45 4.30 6-39 2

Yea, not too many similarities, I bat and bowl right handed, bowl fast medium and very occasionally I bowl off spin - which is effective against people who can't bat (got a hattrick in the nets once against some big guy who kept playing across the line to straight deliveries, ball didn't spin one iota). My batting varies from respectable for full deliveries to useless for short stuff.

 

[Adamc]

Argh, this is bloody ridiculous. If only they would either: a) stop meandering at 4 an over, and giving up maidens; or b) get out and let someone else score the runs - the next guy in is a destructive player set to v attacking.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Argh, this is bloody ridiculous. If only they would either: a) stop meandering at 4 an over, and giving up maidens; or b) get out and let someone else score the runs - the next guy in is a destructive player set to v attacking.

Yea, although you're looking at 240 or so, which is a pretty decent score looking at the other games.

 

[Adamc]

Should be able to get 240 from here, 17 off the last over. Etherington is really annoying me though, as is Summers. I wanted him to anchor the innings, so I set him to normal, should've set him to attacking since he's naturally defensive.

 

[Adamc]

Gotta love the 'batsmen go crazy in the last ten overs' feature...