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    Battrick

    Yeah, by this Sunday I won't have any players unfortunately, so a friendly seems a bit pointless. Lost to Central Districts yesterday (forgot to play my new batsman, doh), so I think that's it for the Beards. Oleary is a destroyer of legends, an annihilatory force of nature. His military-medium...
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    Battrick

    Okay, BeardBargainBasement time; all my best players have been listed for nowt. So check it out - I'll be much happier if Oleary in particular goes to a team I know. Liam Bromby, 24, 128k, wond/phen bat, rem w/k Colin Janes, 24, 94k, exq/exq bat Carl Oleary, 24, 93k, exq/exq bowl Darren Piercy...
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    Battrick

    Cheers dude, feeling's mutual - have challenged you at mine (figure I should really watch the game :)). Good work on winning your league; crazily close, don't think I've ever seen one won with a 9-0-5 record. Think battrick might really be evening out in the top few divisions; great for the...
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    CW Batstats Rankings

    Everything must go blowout sale ratings; still didn't *quite* break 200: Top Order: elite = 60 Middle Order: quality = 44 Lower Order: abysmal = 8 Seam Bowling: masterful (3) = 51 Spin Bowling: exquisite (2) = 32 Fielding: feeble = 4 For a total of 199, unless I'm much mistaken. Should've...
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    Battrick

    Lost what I've decided is my last Battrick match today, in rather disappointing fashion. Spent my £5m cash pile on a batsman this morning for a final ratings boost, but it turns out I should've bought a bowler, as my attack managed just two wickets on a green pitch (sunny, mind you). Crap end to...
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    Battrick

    Gruesome and vexatious loss to second-worst team in league. Not amused. Dusty/slow pitches = my team's nemesis. And that's the end of the match. Shepshed Dynamo won by 132 runs. Shepshed Dynamo 263-5 Beard XI 131-10 Actually looking at the ratings it appears they've decided to "start trying"...
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    Battrick

    He is exquisite, though, isn't he? Sometimes when I gaze at him running in, I lose all sense of- oh wait, you meant the stat. Right.
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    Battrick

    Heh, yeah, saw you in the promotion table. Nice going. :) Amid all this talk of training the elderly, Oleary pops to exquisite: Carl Oleary - 24 yo, BT Rating=88,672 RH Batsman, RM Bowler. He is an attacking player with respectable leadership skills and sensational experience. He currently...
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    Battrick

    Bloody hell, I just beat current Championship and former I.1 side Geoff_Boycotts_Grandmother XI by 7 wickets, chasing 290 on a green pitch. Unexpected, to say the very least. Add in a ludicrous ratings upset elsewhere in the league, and I'm second on NRR with the top three equal on points...
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    CW Batstats Rankings

    First full-fitness match in quite some time: Top Order: exquisite = 3*16 = 48 Middle Order: quality = 4*11 = 44 Lower Order: abysmal = 4*2 = 8 Seam Bowling: masterful = 3*17 = 51 Spin Bowling: sensational = 2*15 = 30 Fielding: feeble = 4 For a total of 185 and 11th spot. Can't see me going...
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    CW Batstats Rankings

    Slowly climbing. I imagine getting shot of my worst filler bowler would help boost these a few points as well... Beard XI Top Order: exquisite Middle Order: quality Lower Order: abysmal Seam Bowling: exquisite x 3 Spin Bowling: sensational x 2 Fielding: feeble = 182 1. Asterix XI (287) 2...
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    Battrick

    Not a huge amount, I suspect - his wage is a lot higher than it should be, given his batting, that's going to put a few people off. £4m maybe? Hard to tell, some people like a high wicketkeeper stat, but I don't think I'd go beyond 4 for him. Take this with a pinch of salt of course, the last...
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    Battrick

    Humph. I think if you're going to chuck a match, the polite thing to do is not to put the opposition in, thus knackering their decent bats as they flay your bowlers to all corners. Also, if you've been playing battrick for three entire years, your stadium really ought to pull in more than £150k...
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    Battrick

    Got absolutely bum-raped by Geoff Boycott's grandmother today. In an unrelated incident, I also lost at Battrick to Geoff_Boycotts_Grandmothers XI.
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    Battrick

    Had the weirdest FC match. Opponent got to 478-2, at which point a PFL-sapping draw was obviously the only result. He then lost his next 18 wickets for 165 runs. Somewhere in the middle of all that madness I declared on 455, and chased the target easily, getting a phenomenal top order along...
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    CW Battrick Cup (Season 11)

    Ouch. Still, just 129 runs more to do better than the last schmuck to take on Adam... :)
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    Battrick

    Both of the top two teams in my league chucked today's matches so they wouldn't possibly auto-promote. Why on earth do people like that bother playing? That their capitulation pushed me down to fourth place has nothing to do with my ire, of course.
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    Archived [19/01/09] Battrick

    Huh. At 8 down still 28 short of my target, I'd written today's match off as a dead loss. I come back to discover the tail has wagged, and that I've made it home by one wicket thanks to a personal best score of 12 from my number 10. They really did tweak the death overs code, eh. No way that...
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    Archived [19/01/09] Battrick

    Unexpected nailbiter in my FC match, after a sporting declaration by my opponent sets me 226 to win. I'm 42 from the target, but it's just Janes and the tail... End of Over 52 (4 runs). Beard XI: 184-5, runrate=3.54 (1st Inn: 319-10) Trail by 41 runs. (All Black and Blues 390-10 & 154-2 dec)...
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    Archived [19/01/09] Battrick

    Some not-very-exciting pops this week, but Bromby became my first 100k BTR player, which is a nice milestone. And yes, he is the wicket keeper. Liam Bromby - 23 yo, BT Rating=101,960 RH Batsman, RM Bowler, strong batting form, superb bowling form, sublime fitness. A cautious player with woeful...

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