Archived [19/01/09] Battrick

[Spitfires_Fan]

Playing a hastily arranged friendly against Fambridge from my OD league (the bloke with 60+ players in his squad). I'm resting Kepler, Woods and Turner, but Prutton has done the business on attacking, with figures of 10-1-29-6.

End of Over 39: 152-8, runrate=3.90
Hennessy 8-2-27-1
Lonergan* 19 (29 balls)
Faulkner 0 (4 balls)

Last Wicket: Brownfield b. Hennessy 19 (FOW: 152/8)

 

[headhunter]

End of Over 10: 55-1, runrate=5.50, reqrunrate=3.03 (175-10)
Teague 5-0-32-1
Donaghey* 23 (27 balls)
Fordham 10 (7 balls)

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Cup, last 128:

Bill Frindall XI 11 ao (9.1)
Tuck 5/5, Rock 2/6, 3 run out

Dynamo Morpork 13/0 (2)

38,272 supporters felt slightly cheated. Their £185,000 is well received, however.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Finally a home draw.

 

[headhunter]

spunky backpack 175/10 (46.3)
Ross 8.3-1-22-6

BEST Indies 179/2 (30.4)
Fordham 62* off 59

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

Fambridge: 196 (48.1) Prutton 6/29, Westwood 3/44
The Heath CC: 197/1 (32.3) Mclean 95*, Grant 54*

 

[Johnners]

Yessss, Moloto pops to Remarkable batting.

Wayne Moloto - 20 yo, BT Rating=60,171
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, feeble bowling form, energetic fitness.
A destructive player with proficient leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: remarkable
Batting: remarkable Concentration: exceptional
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: woeful

Playing a complete 2nd XI Tomorrow in FC as we've got 2 huge OD matches coming up this weekend in my League & the Cup. I'll possibly be playing GFI on both, so I want my PFLs to be as high as possible.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Sod. Borderliners (Prem) in Cup while still trying to buy a bowler, with an FC game against Mud poodles (Prem) and an OD game against the league leaders two days later.

Seriously tempted to GFI and toss the FC though...

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Jim Keane - 20 yo, BT Rating=35,649
RH Batsman, LM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, lively fitness.
A steady player with respectable leadership skills and feeble experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: wonderful Concentration: strong
Bowling: worthless Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: abysmal

 

[nibbs]

last 512, NZ Cup


Fern Fighters 81 (20.0 overs)
Sidwell 31 (29)
Organ 5/12, Sweeney 2/16, Khulelani 2/7, Winters 1/41

Whenuapai CC 1/82 (11.2 overs)
Duggan 44* (29), Janes 35* (33), Lennon 2 (7)
Waugh 1/45


A wicket in an albeit expensive opening spell for the club from my new 17yo, Winters. Lets hope its up hill from here.

 

[andyc]

Pretty good team up next for the cup, should be a PAN win.

GRCC
Top Order: superb
Middle Order: respectable
Lower Order: abysmal
Seam Bowling: proficient
Spin Bowling: strong
Fielding: woeful

Pops:

Charlie Terry - 21 yo, BT Rating=65,978
RH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, strong bowling form, energetic fitness.
A defensive player with feeble leadership skills and feeble experience.
Stamina: superb Wicket Keeping: remarkable
Batting: wonderful Concentration: remarkable
Bowling: woeful Consistency: competent
Fielding: abysmal

Connor Potgieter - 20 yo, BT Rating=45,384
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, energetic fitness.
A destructive player with superb leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: superb Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: worthless Concentration: abysmal
Bowling: exceptional Consistency: superb
Fielding: feeble

 

[Bobisback]

Gene Brinkhuys - 18 yo, BT Rating=13,596
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, proficient bowling form, energetic fitness.
A steady player with feeble leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: 	mediocre 	Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: 	superb 		Concentration: [B]	respectable[/B]
Bowling: 	worthless 	Consistency: 	worthless
Fielding: 	abysmal

Only pop.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

f00lins, you know what to do.

 

[PY]

Good week for poppage.

Doug Croft - 23 yo, BT Rating=57,772
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, competent batting form, strong bowling form, energetic fitness.
A cautious player with superb leadership skills and mediocre experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: worthless Concentration: abysmal
Bowling: exquisite Consistency: remarkable
Fielding: abysmal

Madhukar Moodley - 23 yo, BT Rating=53,650
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness.
A steady player with woeful leadership skills and competent experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: wonderful Concentration: wonderful
Bowling: worthless Consistency: woeful
Fielding: proficient

Keith Bardle - 22 yo, BT Rating=40,673
RH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness.
A destructive player with superb leadership skills and mediocre experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: worthless Concentration: worthless
Bowling: wonderful Consistency: remarkable
Fielding: abysmal

Ganganath Kahapalaarachchi - 17 yo, BT Rating=11,526
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, fresh fitness.
An attacking player with competent leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: proficient
Batting: proficient Concentration: woeful
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: feeble
Fielding: worthless

 

[chaminda_00]

Sasrutha Muralitharan - 22 yo, BT Rating=64,545  
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, superb bowling form, energetic fitness. 
A defensive player with strong leadership skills and woeful experience. 
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: abysmal 
Batting: [B]wonderful[/B] Concentration: superb 
Bowling: wonderful Consistency: superb 
Fielding: competent

Basically has 18-19 weeks left now until he is finished with primaries atleast. Probably my best batsmen now as well.

 

[alternative]

1. Louis Mclauchlan £4,080,000 (the_yak_pack)
Plays for: Billionaire Boys Club Stamina: strong W/Keeping: worthless
Age: 18 years old Batting: superb Concentration: strong
BT Rating: 25,330 Bowling: worthless Consistency: woeful
Deadline: 18/02/2008 10:00 Fielding: mediocre

2. William Ata £6,000,000 (pap_united)
Plays for: Chelmsford Rangers Stamina: superb W/Keeping: worthless
Age: 20 years old Batting: superb Concentration: quality
BT Rating: 52,363 Bowling: superb Consistency: respectable
Deadline: 19/02/2008 10:31 Fielding: proficient

Thoughts on how much these two players would go for?

 

[Adamc]

Pitch: Green Weather: Partially Cloudy and Humid

Scaly Piscine CC won the toss and elected to field.

Reporter's Summary

Scaly Piscine CC the_yak_pack
Top Order: wonderful remarkable
Middle Order: quality superb
Lower Order: woeful woeful
Seam Bowling: phenomenal superb
Spin Bowling: exceptional feeble
Fielding: competent woeful


How did it even get close against that shower? Got down to my filler batsmen and I needed my spinners to take 7 of the wickets. There's a better engine on a 20 year old Lada than there is on Battrick.

There might finally be some good news re the match engine:

Ok, I have tended to hold back on dev board postings to avoid giving people the idea that I'm disregarding ideas etc by showing favouritism to certain threads however I figured I'd post here.

My personal opinion is that I would like to see the OD match engine improved. Contrary to what JH has said, these days I pretty much look over all code across the board. I believe events such as dropped catches, lbws-not out, misfields/good fielding etc could probably be implemented pretty darn easily - I can see how it can be done; the 'space' in the code is there and its a matter of throwing a few extra calculations in.

Advanced orders would be more difficult due to the way it was designed originally. Having said that, you may all remember a news post about two years ago about being able to tell the keeper to stand up/stand back as well as a few other fancy things - these are things that sort of have the foundations laid but nothing more done with them.

One thing I would love to do - and actually started last night until my computer decided to crash and not save 3 hours of work - is re-code the OD match engine (sort of as a proof of concept for Allan) to split up the logic in terms of data access, object models and the engine. Instead of (for example) the match engine loading up all games for today, updating db flags, processing the matches and updating results, the match engine would be a separate entity that is passed in two teams, runs the game, then gives you the results and it is up to you to determine where you go from there (whether you store these results or just print them to screen for debugging). This would allow a great deal of testing as it is decoupled from the database, and would let us do something which Ashario does at FTP - whenever people whine about results we can run their game with their orders a few thousand times and determine whether they were unlucky or whether the engine would've caused them to lose 75% of the time. It's an exciting prospect.

There are many reasons for the sort of 'frozen' OD engine development, as opposed to games like FTP who's match engine is rocketing along. Essentially though, and I don't think Allan will mind me saying this, not doing things right the first time can lead to problems down the track which require a lot more time to fix later on - let that be a lesson for all budding programmers out there. It's sort of like an exponential ratio of time required early as opposed to time required later on.

Better late than never. I think FTP has given BT a bit of a wake-up call.

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

4. Mathew Kepler - 19 yo, BT Rating=27,499
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, lively fitness.
A destructive player with competent leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: proficient
Batting: strong Concentration: superb
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: woeful

8. Daren Prutton - 17 yo, BT Rating=8,316
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, strong bowling form, invigorated fitness.
An attacking player with competent leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: feeble Concentration: worthless
Bowling: respectable Consistency: competent
Fielding: woeful

Decent week.

 

[bugssy]

no pops for me 2nd week in a row. not happy jan!

 

[NZTailender]

no pops for me 2nd week in a row. not happy jan!

There are times when you'll go weeks on end without popping. It's a matter of patience.