Battrick

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Quite pleased with mine, wanted a WK/Bat so I have to be happy  

(Must have been a reasonable bat pre ITS).

Phillip Evelyn (924822)  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
A cautious player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience.

Plays For: BATTY SHRIMPERS
Nationality: England
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 3,409  
Wages: £726 p/w

Stamina: feeble (8) Wicket Keeping: feeble (8)
Batting: respectable (12) Concentration: feeble (7)
Bowling: worthless Consistency: worthless
Fielding: worthless


He starts my training plan, and halfway through his 20th year he should end up at the following with 1 Batting, 1 W/K and 1 Stamina

Stamina - Superb (by the time he's 19)
Batting - Remarkable
Conc - Wonderful
W/K - Remarkable

 

[mcrabb]

I decided to do a similar thing and get myself (hopefully) a half decent back-up WK to train. Didn't do quite so well - should have put the ITS on bowling instead

Jlloyd Atkinson - 17 yo, BT Rating=2,787
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
A defensive player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: woeful (5) Wicket Keeping: mediocre (12)
Batting: mediocre (12) Concentration: woeful (6)
Bowling: feeble Consistency: worthless
Fielding: worthless

Listed for £0 if anyone's interested.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Quote[/b] (mcrabb @ Sep. 05 2006,08:49)]I decided to do a similar thing and get myself (hopefully) a half decent back-up WK to train. Didn't do quite so well - should have put the ITS on bowling instead  

Jlloyd Atkinson - 17 yo, BT Rating=2,787  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
A defensive player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: woeful (5) Wicket Keeping: mediocre (12)
Batting: mediocre (12) Concentration: woeful (6)
Bowling: feeble Consistency: worthless
Fielding: worthless

Listed for £0 if anyone's interested.

But if you train him on 1 x bat, 1 x Stamina and 1 x W/K, by the times he's 21 he'll be

Superb Batting
Remarkable Conc
Wonderful W/K
Superb Stamina (by the time he's 19 1/2)

and he'll have cost you 335,000 (65,000 for the ITS, 270,000 for the training)

 

[mcrabb]

True but I don't really want to spare 3 training nets. I was thinking I could just about manage 2 (1 bat and 1 WK) but I reckon I could pull something better than him. I know it means I've wasted £65K on ITS etc. but he's one of the worst pulls (with ITS) that I've had. Tend to work on the rule that anything below respectable in one of the primaries and they're not worth training.

 

[MrB]

Paul I'd give him a fielding net as well if you can. That will help his consistency which WK's also need.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Not sure I'm going to be able to spare that at the moment, have to see how it pans out

 

[The General]

Pete Kola (924961)
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
An attacking player with competent leadership skills and abysmal experience.

Plays For: General Stars
Nationality: England
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 3,500
Wages: £404 p/w

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

Up for sale and can currently be purchased for 2,000!

 

[Grayson]

Christian Mcdonnell (926169)
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
An attacking player with superb leadership skills and abysmal experience.

Plays For: Southend
Nationality: England
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 2,782
Wages: £386 p/w

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

FFS...

 

[blues_r_best]

Can't afford ITS but pulled a double respectable

Not really, woeful batting, and fired

 

[Grayson]

I've got about 5 med/med in my squad from ITS pulls, gone for batting every time too so the law of averages would surely suggest one would be good?! Have invested max since day 1, too.

Ah well.

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Got a competent-competent spinner with mediocre stamina.

In two minds whether to train or sale. My spinner is only superb, so will need replacing in the long term, but I'd rather a third fast or fast-medium bowler to train up to spearhead my attack long term.

The recent wage increases weren't as substantial as I had feared, meaning that I've had to revise upwards my calculations as to what is the optimum level is train to. My remarkable-remarkable is on £11,000 a week, 11 remarkables would therefore only cost £121,000 a week, and interest can account for £80,000 of that.

Anyone know the wages for the next levels up from remarkable?

 

[MrB]

Difficult to say as so many of the upper level players have freakishly high secondaries due to the old training system.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Quote[/b] (Hong Kong Blue @ Sep. 06 2006,11:32)]Got a competent-competent spinner with mediocre stamina.

In two minds whether to train or sale. My spinner is only superb, so will need replacing in the long term, but I'd rather a third fast or fast-medium bowler to train up to spearhead my attack long term.

The recent wage increases weren't as substantial as I had feared, meaning that I've had to revise upwards my calculations as to what is the optimum level is train to. My remarkable-remarkable is on £11,000 a week, 11 remarkables would therefore only cost £121,000 a week, and interest can account for £80,000 of that.

Anyone know the wages for the next levels up from remarkable?

See what you pull on Saturday, and then make a choice between those 2. You never know, they might pop 1st week and then you would be looking at a totally different proposition

 

[MrB]

Cousin Weir/BB, what would you do with Sajjad:

Adeem Sajjad - 19 yo, BT Rating=24,056
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, energetic
An attacking player with abysmal leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: proficient Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: strong Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: strong Consistency: respectable
Fielding: feeble

He's been on one bat, bowl, field & stamina for most of his career. If that continues and based on my forecasts he'll get to this by the end of the season:

Stamina: superb Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: quality Concentration: respectable
Bowling: quality Consistency: superb
Fielding: respectable

The bowling wil continue. I'm in a bit of a quandry about how far to take his batting though. Due to only ever having one net on a skill and there being no World Cup at the end of this season he's missed his chances of getting into the Pakistani U19 team. As he'll probably bowl a lot in FC games he's unlikely to be a front line batsman in one day games to save PFL. Is it worth taking him beyond superb/competent? Or would you take him through to remarkable/superb?

I'm thinking that superb will be enough for a 5/6 for some seasons to come and that amount of nets on a new respectable batsman would probably benefit me more as I'd have a 17yo pushing strong by the end of the season.

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Very nice.

I'd probably drop the stamina training during the season and only train stamina off-season.

Definitely keep training bowling. Batting wise I'd probably take him to superb/competent, possibly even quality/respectable, depending how PFL are affected by the 3 day game. I'd be wary of training his fielding for too much longer for fear of sending his wages too high, so would probably drop his fielding training midseason or maybe when you drop the batting net.

So at the end of the season I'd be looking at having him something like:

Stamina: strong Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: superb Concentration: competent
Bowling: quality Consistency: superb
Fielding: competent

I'd then train his bowling up to at least remarkable, and give him the occasional stamina net to take him eventually up to superb stamina.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

I'd be inclined to keep him going as you are for a while. His stamina will be superb in a minimum of 12 weeks (less if he hasn't popped for a while), so you'll be able to swap that net to your 17 yo trainee. Then pretty much as HKB says, train batting to Superb / Comp, and bowling to as high as you can on one net. He'll then do wonders for you in the FC games.

 

[MrB]

I'm keeping the fielding net going purely to boost the secondaries, I like them to be as near to the primary as possible.

However, if I did stop batting at superb I could stop that as well and concentrate purely on bowling. 2 free nets from Week 5, hmmm, might have to go shopping for a new batsman now!

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Quote[/b] (MrB @ Sep. 06 2006,14:34)]I'm keeping the fielding net going purely to boost the secondaries, I like them to be as near to the primary as possible.

However, if I did stop batting at superb I could stop that as well and concentrate purely on bowling.  2 free nets from Week 5, hmmm, might have to go shopping for a new batsman now!

If you do that, then I would definitely keep the Stamina net going and just clear that out of the way as well. However, where would that leave your Consistency?

 

[MrB]

I've identified my target player already....

He'll go to strong stamina and I can add the rest at a later date. Mediocre fielding pop due this week, if I take it to competent he'll have proficient consistancy at week 4 and strong at week 11. This would probably make him a remarkable/quality bowler by the end of next season.

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Its going to be very interesting to see how players with multiple nets fare with games played straight after training.

I suspect players being trained on a single net will be fine and probably players with two nets will get by, but players training on 3 or more nets will surely struggle to play in the first class game as their fitness will really take a pounding.