Archived [19/01/09] Battrick

[trevor_vayro]

Some people are f**king mad!!! 34YO Resp/Sup, Strong/Prof Steve Cash sold to NZ numpty Pentone Riverside for £900,932!! A cool £45K more than I paid for him as a 28YO!

I can see how he's extremely cheap compared to similarly skilled players, but his Stam is crashing faster than American house-prices. I thought someone, especially a newbie, would get two decent seasons out of him, and he'd therefore represent good value for money at £200/£300K, but £900K is crazy!

Later:-) Trev

 

[Dead Badger]

Set an underwhelming total in an unexpected BT20 match (unexpected because I came third in my group, and seem to have got through to make up the numbers). Since I was unlucky enough to draw the Tykes, though, I'm happy enough just to have made it past 100.

End of Over 20: 130-5, runrate=6.50
Cairns 4-0-17-2
Janes* 20 (19 balls)
Oleary 2 (2 balls)
Last Wicket: Ganfield b. Cairns 6 (FOW: 128/5)

Edit: so unexpected was this match, in fact, that I played and won a match yesterday without noticing at all. Well I never. I wondered why my players were so pooped this morning.

Edit edit: actually came reasonably close to winning it, but for a couple of disastrously profligate overs at the death. No complaints here, then.

And that's the end of the match. The Tykes won by 4 wickets.
Beard XI 130-5
The Tykes 132-6


End of Over 19: 132-6, runrate=6.95
Oleary 3-1-27-1
Shafqatullah* 13 (9 balls)
Hook 18 (6 balls)

 

[andruid]

End of Over 9: 76-3, runrate=8.44, reqrunrate=12.82 (216-4)
Butts 1-0-13-0
Bissmire* 23 (19 balls)
Browne 18 (9 balls)
Last Wicket: Cooper Run Out 18 (FOW: 50/3)

Set to bow out of the cup here...

 

[Mahindinho]

It is possible that he is the best keeper prospect in NZ, but i wouldnt waste that many nets on him.

Ditto. There's absolutely no point triple-netting unless you're trying desperately to get someone into the U19 squad. In the long run, it's actually less efficient to triple net than it is to just double-net then drop to a single when the player's a bit older.

Less efficient, as in it'd take more unit nets to get to a particular skill level. As long as we're dealing in Remarkable+, anyway.

I'd be tempted to use 2x batting, 2x WK and 1x fielding for now, then replace one of the primary nets with a stamina one when he hits 19.

 

[Kweek]

can someone kick start my tranfers later tonight or tomorrow ?
becuase they should go for a fair bit...not 8k:')

 

[PY]

Not big on friendlies tbh. But with two likely GFI coming up in the next two days. My players will be knacked come Sunday. So next week is more likely. Play Hak IMO.

Got one with Morkles anyway, should be a cracker. Will take you on next week then if that's OK.

 

[headhunter]

Danny Lay - 17 yo, BT Rating=5,730  
LH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A destructive player with abysmal leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: respectable 
Bowling: worthless Consistency: worthless 
Fielding: woeful 

Kim Khotso - 23 yo, BT Rating=5,234  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. 
An attacking player with proficient leadership skills and woeful experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: respectable Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: woeful Consistency: feeble 
Fielding: mediocre 

Raymond Fordham - 20 yo, BT Rating=22,667  
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A defensive player with competent leadership skills and feeble experience. 
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: woeful 
Batting: superb Concentration: strong 
Bowling: worthless Consistency: woeful 
Fielding: woeful 

Zat Oakes - 25 yo, BT Rating=4,148  
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, superb batting form, strong bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A cautious player with worthless leadership skills and feeble experience. 
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: respectable Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: feeble 
Fielding: abysmal 

Daren Donaghey - 19 yo, BT Rating=4,241  
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A destructive player with worthless leadership skills and woeful experience. 
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: mediocre 
Bowling: worthless Consistency: worthless 
Fielding: abysmal 

Rod Britton - 17 yo, BT Rating=17,003  
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, proficient batting form, superb bowling form, invigorated fitness. 
A cautious player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: respectable 
Batting: respectable Concentration: strong 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: woeful 
Fielding: worthless 

Rob Impey - 26 yo, BT Rating=3,350  
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, mediocre batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. 
An attacking player with competent leadership skills and feeble experience. 
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: woeful 
Bowling: competent Consistency: feeble 
Fielding: woeful 

Stephen Ross - 19 yo, BT Rating=30,476  
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, superb batting form, strong bowling form, energetic fitness. 
A destructive player with mediocre leadership skills and woeful experience. 
Stamina: strong Wicket Keeping: abysmal 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: competent 
Bowling: strong Consistency: quality 
Fielding: competent 

Mukesh Patton - 19 yo, BT Rating=35,122  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. 
An attacking player with respectable leadership skills and feeble experience. 
Stamina: strong Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: worthless Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: superb Consistency: quality 
Fielding: respectable 

Nick Caldwell - 22 yo, BT Rating=4,542  
RH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A defensive player with proficient leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: competent Consistency: feeble 
Fielding: mediocre 

Jon Hawes - 26 yo, BT Rating=8,028  
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A steady player with feeble leadership skills and feeble experience. 
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: abysmal 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: respectable 
Bowling: respectable Consistency: mediocre 
Fielding: woeful

Nets:
Patton 2 Bow and 1 Field
Ross 2 Bowl and 1 Field (shall be taking these 2 off nets come the turn of the season)
Britton 2 Bat, 1 W/K and 1 Stamina

That's my 1st XI atm, I have 80 ITS and £759,454 in the bank.
Any advice on how best to go forward from here?

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Just bought this player:

11. Bryan Bond - 18 yo, BT Rating=30,626
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, proficient batting form, superb bowling form, moderate fitness.
A defensive player with worthless leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: strong Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: quality Consistency: respectable
Fielding: competent

Not cheap.

I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers on how to accelerate the development of his secondaries.

He's obviously going to need one bat and one bowling net, but does he need a WK net to enhance those secondaries? Does WK only enhance 'Consistency'? Any recommendations??

 

[PY]

1 bat, 1 bowl and 1 fielding net I reckon. That should train all the necessary faculties. Maybe a stamina net at some point in the future.

WK would just add unnecessary wages without ever being useful, unless you needed to super accelerate his secondaries.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

1 bat, 1 bowl and 1 fielding net I reckon. That should train all the necessary faculties. Maybe a stamina net at some point in the future.

WK would just add unnecessary wages without ever being useful, unless you needed to super accelerate his secondaries.

Does a fielding net improve secondaries as well??

 

[headhunter]

That it does.

 

[NZTailender]

Playing Cameron in a BT20 friendly. We're bowling all worthless bowlers.

End of Over 2: 27-0, runrate=13.50
Wilberforce 1-0-6-0
Terry* 12 (7 balls)
Burger 15 (5 balls)

First over went for 21.

 

[andyc]

Playing Cameron in a BT20 friendly. We're bowling all worthless bowlers.

End of Over 2: 27-0, runrate=13.50
Wilberforce 1-0-6-0
Terry* 12 (7 balls)
Burger 15 (5 balls)

First over went for 21.

End of Over 20: 263-1, runrate=13.15
Wilberforce 4-0-44-0
Burger* 145 (62 balls)
Canning 8 (3 balls)
Last Wicket: Terry Run Out 109 (FOW: 255/1)

Decent effort there from the boys

 

[mikeW]

Victoria Panthers
Top Order: masterful
Middle Order: respectable
Lower Order: worthless
Seam Bowling: quality
Spin Bowling: quality
Fielding: mediocre

My ratings are slowly on the improve...

 

[NZTailender]

End of Over 20: 263-1, runrate=13.15
Wilberforce 4-0-44-0
Burger* 145 (62 balls)
Canning 8 (3 balls)
Last Wicket: Terry Run Out 109 (FOW: 255/1)

Decent effort there from the boys

Ended up getting useless seam rating for that match. Gun.

 

[chaminda_00]

Brought Nick Hodge, Matharu better sell or I could be ****ed. Will make his debut in T20.

Need a wicket here in my playoff match:

End of Over 24: 113-2, runrate=4.71 
Matharu 2-0-14-0 
Bakmeewewa* 48 (76 balls) 
Duragajaweera 39 (41 balls)
 
Last Wicket: Pillai Run Out 21 (FOW: 29/2)

 

[chaminda_00]

Got one with Mørkles anyway, should be a cracker. Will take you on next week then if that's OK.

Got a couple other managers that want to be play me as well, for some reason. I guess my big mouth thas found it way onto the sledging as well. Your on top of list, but I'm going away for work next week and I'm not going to arrange friendlies until I'm got of BT20. Could be tomorrow or maybe mid next week. Will play it by ear.

 

[Bobisback]

Someone challenge me for tomorrow.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Brought Nick Hodge, Matharu better sell or I could be ****ed. Will make his debut in T20.

Glad to see he went to a good home. He was my favourite BT player ever, but it was time for him to push on before he was too old for me to get good money for him. Will forever love him.

He managed a perfect farewell as well, taking 5-fer in my playoff to lead me to victory. What a star.

And that's the end of the match. Central Districts won by 8 wickets.
Enfield Farmers 114-10
Central Districts 115-2

Hodge 10-2-22-5
Lambert 7-1-20-3

Very very happy for Hodgey. Deserved to be carried off for his performance. Dylan also steadied the ship with 66* (53) after we lost Conn and Keane early for not much.

 

[Kweek]

Ashley Cresswell (1372437)


LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, competent batting form, strong bowling form, sublime fitness.  
A steady player with strong leadership skills and abysmal experience. 

Plays For: VCC 
Nationality: Australia 
Age: 19 Years Old 
Battrick Rating: 37,314 
Wages: £6,824 p/w 
 
Stamina: proficient Wicket Keeping: abysmal 
Batting: strong Concentration: strong 
Bowling: quality Consistency: proficient 
Fielding: competent

bought this guy for 7milion