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[Bobisback]

23 Jun 2008 John Gehrs Batting average reasonable
23 Jun 2008 Mahmood Ameen Batting reasonable capable
23 Jun 2008 Drsadvata Kuruvilla Technique reasonable capable
23 Jun 2008 Tilan Baddewithana Technique ordinary average

Kuruvilla's pop is so gun. Reliable-Capable Gehrs i bought this week, so thats also a gun pop. Ameen joins my other two 17yr old Capable bats.

Youth pull is gun, too bad i just missed with the talent though.

Arawinda Bandara >> Details
Player Details
Team (Youth) Zero Pillars and Hero Fillers Talents Gifted (Batting)
Bats Right hand batsman Bowls Right arm Medium
Wage $1,226 Rating 22,255
Nationality Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Age 16
Form reasonable Fatigue energetic
Experience dreadful Captaincy capable
Endurance poor Training Bowling
Batting dreadful Bowling reasonable
Technique ordinary Power poor
Keeping ordinary Fielding average

If he was Gifted (Bowling) I would hit it.

 

[chaminda_00]

23 Jun 2008 Padman Weerapuna Technique dreadful poor
23 Jun 2008 Dharmapala Sanjayan Endurance poor ordinary
23 Jun 2008 Hetuhamy Gunarathnam Technique poor ordinary
23 Jun 2008 Sugath Samarakoon Endurance dreadful poor
23 Jun 2008 Lanka Kanapathipillai Batting reasonable capable
23 Jun 2008 Chandra Gamaarachchi Technique poor ordinary

Apart from Weerapuna's pop they are all fairly important for me. Sanjayan can open the batting now. Samarakoon should be able to play Youths and T20 next season. Gamaarachchi can play 1st XI now. Kanapathipillai my main finisher in both squads so it good to see him develop. Gunarathnam only go straight onto a normal bowling net, no more time wasted on technique net.

Jaffna Jets >> Pramodya Nadeeka >> Details
Player Details
Team (Youth) Jaffna Jets Talents Gifted (Bowling), Opener
Bats Left hand batsman Bowls Right arm Finger spin
Wage $1,538 Rating 22,606
Nationality Sri Lanka Age 17
Form average Fatigue energetic
Experience dreadful Captaincy outstanding
Endurance poor Training Bowling Technique
Batting reasonable Bowling average
Technique dreadful Power poor
Keeping atrocious Fielding average

Need an opener bad, but he has gifted bowling as well. **** what to do?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

23 Jun 2008 Herman de Groot Endurance dreadful poor
23 Jun 2008 Arthur Wiersma Technique ordinary average
23 Jun 2008 Frans Aduard Batting poor ordinary
23 Jun 2008 Mark Carlton Technique ordinary average
23 Jun 2008 Frans Aduard Technique poor ordinary
23 Jun 2008 Herman de Groot Batting poor ordinary
23 Jun 2008 Pieter Hertoghs Batting poor ordinary

Aduard doing his best not to get the sack. Will sell him soon regardless.

YP itstl.

Tafadzwa Hlongwane >> Details
Player Details
Team (Youth) Dynamo Morpork Talents Skilled (Power)
Bats Left hand batsman Bowls Left arm Medium
Wage $884 Rating 20,253
Nationality Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Age 16
Form reasonable Fatigue energetic
Experience dreadful Captaincy average
Endurance poor Training Batting
Batting poor Bowling poor
Technique average Power ordinary
Keeping poor Fielding poor
Notes

If I train allrounder he'll be reas bat, reas bowl, reas tech by age 19...worth considering?

 

[EARLOBE]

23 Jun 2008 Padman Weerapuna Technique dreadful poor
23 Jun 2008 Dharmapala Sanjayan Endurance poor ordinary
23 Jun 2008 Hetuhamy Gunarathnam Technique poor ordinary
23 Jun 2008 Sugath Samarakoon Endurance dreadful poor
23 Jun 2008 Lanka Kanapathipillai Batting reasonable capable
23 Jun 2008 Chandra Gamaarachchi Technique poor ordinary

Apart from Weerapuna's pop they are all fairly important for me. Sanjayan can open the batting now. Samarakoon should be able to play Youths and T20 next season. Gamaarachchi can play 1st XI now. Kanapathipillai my main finisher in both squads so it good to see him develop. Gunarathnam only go straight onto a normal bowling net, no more time wasted on technique net.

Jaffna Jets >> Pramodya Nadeeka >> Details
Player Details
Team (Youth) Jaffna Jets Talents Gifted (Bowling), Opener
Bats Left hand batsman Bowls Right arm Finger spin
Wage $1,538 Rating 22,606
Nationality Sri Lanka Age 17
Form average Fatigue energetic
Experience dreadful Captaincy outstanding
Endurance poor Training Bowling Technique
Batting reasonable Bowling average
Technique dreadful Power poor
Keeping atrocious Fielding average

Need an opener bad, but he has gifted bowling as well. **** what to do?

I'd train his bowling to reasonable and sell him. His technique would take too long to get up to a decent level and you'd make a fair bit off him. His captaincy is nice though.

 

[Scaly piscine]

These two are doing my head in, can't decide which one I want as my eventual full time first XI keeper.

06. Ernest Alexander >> Details
Player Details
Team (Youth) Scaly Piscine CC Talents New Ball Bowler, Safe Hands
Bats Right hand batsman Bowls Right arm Medium
Wage $1,768 Rating 26,294
Nationality England Age 17
Form average Fatigue rested
Experience poor Captaincy reasonable
Endurance ordinary Training Keeping
Batting reasonable Bowling ordinary
Technique poor Power poor
Keeping reasonable Fielding average


Ashley Fitzpatrick >> Details
Player Details
Team (Youth) Scaly Piscine CC Talents Gifted (Keeping), Natural Leader
Bats Right hand batsman Bowls Right arm Medium
Wage $2,054 Rating 28,106
Nationality England Age 18
Form average Fatigue rested
Experience dreadful Captaincy ordinary
Endurance ordinary Training Keeper-Batsman
Batting average Bowling dreadful
Technique average Power poor
Keeping accomplished Fielding poor


A lot hinges on how good the safe hands talent is. Alexander is roughly about as good as Fitzpatrick is - *if* they happened to be the same age. Fitzpatrick should pop in batting in 3-4 weeks tops whereas Alexander's pops are unknown because he was only pulled last week. What to do...


Oh and here's my YP and no I didn't rename him.

John Power >> Details
Player Details
Team (Youth) Scaly Piscine CC Talents Skilled (Power), Boundary Hitter
Bats Right hand batsman Bowls Left arm Medium
Wage $916 Rating 19,489
Nationality England Age 17
Form reasonable Fatigue energetic
Experience atrocious Captaincy dreadful
Endurance ordinary Training Strength
Batting ordinary Bowling dreadful
Technique poor Power dreadful
Keeping ordinary Fielding ordinary

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Close elections for both me and andruid, apparently.

Geez, accomplished keeper and you don't know what to do with him Would perhaps depend on whether you'll get the gunnest bowling attack in the world or not.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Alexander will be accomplished keeping this time next season tho, it pops super fast.

 

[chaminda_00]

Would go with Ashley Fitzpatrick personally. Mainly due to Alexander's technique. It will take a while to improve. Due that fact that Fitzpatrick has gifted keeping you can focus on his batting a bit more as keeping will still pop at decent rate.

 

[NZTailender]

Fitzpatrick.

 

[chaminda_00]

I'd train his bowling to reasonable and sell him. His technique would take too long to get up to a decent level and you'd make a fair bit off him. His captaincy is nice though.

You will lose to much money off him long term if you sell him straight away. Players with poor technique and endurance go for next to nothing, even with good talents. Also none of my spinners in my squad can bat, so it will be handy to have one spin bowling all rounder. Also my current 16yo & 17yo don't have an all rounder.

Will train him on bowling technique for a couple seasons until he has decent technique. Should only take a season really, so it not that long considering he doesn't need to play for a couple season. Basically can train him however I want till he is 19 and re-assess his role in the side.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Technique should pop reasonably quickly while he's on keeping training. Again should be no more than about half a level behind Fitzpatrick at his age.

Anyway I guess I don't need to make a real decision til next season when one of them will be playing for the seniors.

 

[Majin]

FTP starting to fully piss me off with youth pulls, as I mentioned before I joined this game with a friend who is in all the same leagues as me and was assigned literally a day after I was. As far as I know we've both put similar amounts of money into our academy investment as well. However as far as YP's go, every time he's pulled a 16 year old of a decent level, including a Reasonable batsman with boundary hitter talent. Whereas i've pulled all 17 year olds, with one being passable and the rest being utter ****, and this one today just took the ****ing piss:

Team (Youth) Dai-Gurren Brigade Talents Seam Specialist
Bats Right hand batsman Bowls Right arm Medium
Wage $506 Rating 8,531
Nationality West Indies West Indies Age 17
Form reasonable Fatigue energetic
Experience dreadful Captaincy ordinary
Endurance poor Training Fielding
Batting atrocious Bowling atrocious
Technique dreadful Power atrocious
Keeping atrocious Fielding dreadful
Notes

dunno if it's some sort of game mechanic that not all teams are the same and some produce better than others or if I've just been having horrible horrible luck but whatever it is it's properly getting on my nerves.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Hah that's the worst YP/rating I've ever seen.

But yea just bad luck, I've had some I've just fired along with some awesome pulls this season. YPs are a very volatile event, so you'll get some huge short term differentials and you'll just have to ride them out and wait for it to balance out.

 

[headhunter]

Team (Youth) BEST Indies Talents Gifted (Bowling)
Bats Right hand batsman Bowls Right arm Medium
Wage $662 Rating 14,499
Nationality Ireland Ireland Age 16
Form average Fatigue energetic
Experience dreadful Captaincy average
Endurance dreadful Training Bowling
Batting atrocious Bowling ordinary
Technique poor Power poor
Keeping dreadful Fielding ordinary

I really don't need another medium pacer.

23 Jun 2008 Leon Foley Bowling poor ordinary
23 Jun 2008 William Trotman Endurance ordinary average
23 Jun 2008 Leon Foley Technique dreadful poor

Another 100K into the YA and it pops this week (Y)

 

[EARLOBE]

Won by 1 run on the last ball, yet my ratings were 35k better. Ridiculous.

Match Ratings
Mt Bulla Devils Male Models
Batting - Top Order: 3,043 5,341
Batting - Middle Order: 2,896 4,480
Batting - Tail: 1,703 2,677
Bowling - Seam: 2,601 (7) 4,528 (8)
Bowling - Spin: 2,516 (3) 4,509 (2)
Fielding/Keeping: 3,458 5,733
Overall: 52,116 87,135

A couple of people here got U19 manager jobs, congrats.

 

[Bobisback]

A couple of people here got U19 manager jobs, congrats.

Only me i think. Fair gun though.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Only me i think. Fair gun though.

Congrats

 

[Bobisback]

Congrats

Unlucky on yours, you should have really gotten the CW votes, as mine was a free walk basically.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Yeah, think the winner in Netherlands had another forum behind him. Tricky.

 

[Bobisback]

Yeah, think the winner in Netherlands had another forum behind him. Tricky.

Thought maybe that would be the case with the two people running against me. Glad it wasnt.