Battrick - possible bargain?

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Luke Ehiogu (449744)  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A cautious player with worthless leadership skills and mediocre experience.

Plays For: Trinity College CC
Nationality: Australia
Age: 27 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 9,492  
Wages: £1,981 p/w

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

He's up for 450k at the moment. This bis is from someone in Australia, so he's probably not going to bid again.


Bidding finishes at 12.16, I can't quite afford him  

 

[MrB]

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Quote[/b] (MrB @ Aug. 16 2006,12:13)]

Would you have spotted him ?

 

[MrB]

Dammit, someone else is bidding. Not sure how far to go. If I buy him I can sell Littler for a lot more.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

About 600t would be my limit, but then he would improve my side a lot

 

[MrB]

Been looking for a strong batsman but hadn't spotted him. Just stuck in my final bid of £540k, not going to go any higher. His average is toilet which isn't encouraging.

 

[MrB]

Selling Littler anyway:

Alan Littler (91637)
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A destructive player with feeble leadership skills and feeble experience.

Plays For: ShrimperZone CC
Nationality: Australia
Age: 25 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 41,032 (+9)
Wages: £5,616 p/w

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

Listed for £1m, slightly hopeful but you never know!

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Averages don't mean eveything.

He's been playing in III, could also have been batting in the wrong position.

Looks like he's outlasted you

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Quote[/b] (MrB @ Aug. 16 2006,12:24)]Selling Littler anyway:

Alan Littler (91637)  
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A destructive player with feeble leadership skills and feeble experience.

Plays For: ShrimperZone CC
Nationality: Australia
Age: 25 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 41,032 (+9)  
Wages: £5,616 p/w

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

Listed for £1m, slightly hopeful but you never know!

I would think he'll go for at least that price, but I do wonder if the TM is slowing up a bit. I picked up a Proficient bat yesterday for 230t, which even though his cons areen't great is still pretty cheap, and that Strong bat has just gone for 550t.

I think you could pick up some bargains on Prof / Strong with poor stamina.

 

[MrB]

I think he would have gone a lot higher so wasn't that worried. I'll try to pick up a couple of repsectable/proficients once Littler has gone, shouldn't need much more. Just means Askew will have to motor his stamina up as he'll now be playing every game with Littler gone!

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Just picked up a Proficient LF bowler for 190t, only Woeful Stam / and Cons but they can soon be changed

Just out of interest, does players indivdual form get reset at the end of the season ?

 

[MrB]

No.

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

I don't think he would be that much of a bargain. He's 27, about to turn 28, so there's little point in training him, but his consistency isn't anywhere near good enough so would have to be trained (probably in fielding), plus his fitness would have to be trained. That's 2 nets which would be better utilised on a younger player. I'd rather a 17 year old with something like compotent stamina, respectable batting and compotent concentration. Stick them on one net and in a season's time he's probably going to be a similar level but with more potential and you've only used one net. A 28 year old will have limited sell on value and the cost of strongs with no secondaries is likely to drop considerably by next season. That makes it a poor investment IMHO.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

That's a bugger, because he's worthless batting form and feeble bowling form. Looks like he'll be playing all my friendlies between now and next season to pick those up

 

[MrB]

I would only have been getting him as a fill in player for games I know I can win enabling me to rest my others. I can't spare the nets so there's no point me buying someone with potential.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Quote[/b] (Hong Kong Blue @ Aug. 16 2006,16:46)]I don't think he would be that much of a bargain. He's 27, about to turn 28, so there's little point in training him, but his consistency isn't anywhere near good enough so would have to be trained (probably in fielding), plus his fitness would have to be trained. That's 2 nets which would be better utilised on a younger player. I'd rather a 17 year old with something like compotent stamina, respectable batting and compotent concentration. Stick them on one net and in a season's time he's probably going to be a similar level but with more potential and you've only used one net. A 28 year old will have limited sell on value and the cost of strongs with no secondaries is likely to drop considerably by next season. That makes it a poor investment IMHO.

But don't cons pop far quicker the older the player, also I would think he's got at least another 2 or 3 years in him, and there's no gurantee that I'll either A) pull a decent YP in the 1st 4 weeks next season  (and if if this years mediocre all rounds are anything to go by, that's what I'll get again) or B) be able to buy someone like that on the TM. Oh and he's better than I've already got  

 

[MrB]

I believe the accepted logic at the moment is half a week less for every year. General guide is 12 weeks for a 17yo so for a 27 year old you're looking at 7 weeks, maybe 4 or 5 if you have fielding as well. That's still a long time for one level of concentration and the net would be better used elsewhere.
However from a non training point of view he still represented value as he could put on useful runs against weak attacks and I should be facing a few of those till I promote to III.

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Quote[/b] (BILLERICAY BLUE @ Aug. 16 2006,16:53)]

Quote[/b] (Hong Kong Blue @ Aug. 16 2006,16:46)]I don't think he would be that much of a bargain. He's 27, about to turn 28, so there's little point in training him, but his consistency isn't anywhere near good enough so would have to be trained (probably in fielding), plus his fitness would have to be trained. That's 2 nets which would be better utilised on a younger player. I'd rather a 17 year old with something like compotent stamina, respectable batting and compotent concentration. Stick them on one net and in a season's time he's probably going to be a similar level but with more potential and you've only used one net. A 28 year old will have limited sell on value and the cost of strongs with no secondaries is likely to drop considerably by next season. That makes it a poor investment IMHO.

But don't cons pop far quicker the older the player, also I would think he's got at least another 2 or 3 years in him, and there's no gurantee that I'll either A) pull a decent YP in the 1st 4 weeks next season  (and if if this years mediocre all rounds are anything to go by, that's what I'll get again) or B) be able to buy someone like that on the TM. Oh and he's better than I've already got  

There is no guarantee when it comes to the transfer market, but I would expect a fair few strongs with no secondaries to be available at the start of next season.

This is particularly likely with the ITS system as people can pull a batsman with 30 ITS 3 times in the first 3 weeks. I therefore would supply for batsman with no secondaries to be relatively high, therefore driving down prices. And as everyone's team improves the standard of the average player increases and demand for below average players will drop meaning the prices tumble. I would expect strong with no secondaries to be average probably in about a season's time. The short term gain wouldn't be worth it IMHO, as the money would be better used gaining interest. With £1.8m in the bank you get £80,000 a week interest which should guarantee you a profit each week which means you can quickly accumulate enough to buy substantially better players.