From the Pavilion

[Son Of Coco]

Two decent picks in one week. One more in the next 14 weeks for each team, and I have doubled my output compared to the past couple of seasons.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Got a pretty wow youth pull this week. Best in ages. With him being RF, sturdy and already having decent power, I'll be training him up to be a bowling all-rounder I reckon. RFs are massively valuable. I'll train fielding until Tech pops to Average and then onto Bowling to start with.

Bernardo Garner
Player Info
16y0w | 30,804 rating | $1,345 wage (5% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Fast

Talents	Gifted (Fielding), Sturdy
Nationality
Form	reasonable
Fatigue	rested
Experience	poor
Captaincy	reasonable

Skills Summary

Batsman	average
Bowler	ordinary
Keeper	ordinary
Allrounder	average

Notes


Skills

Batting	reasonable	Endurance	reasonable
Bowling	average	Technique	ordinary
Keeping	ordinary	Power	reasonable
Fielding	ordinary

 

[NZTailender]

Got a pretty wow youth pull this week. Best in ages. With him being RF, sturdy and already having decent power, I'll be training him up to be a bowling all-rounder I reckon. RFs are massively valuable. I'll train fielding until Tech pops to Average and then onto Bowling to start with.

Bernardo Garner
Player Info
16y0w | 30,804 rating | $1,345 wage (5% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Fast

Talents	Gifted (Fielding), Sturdy
Nationality
Form	reasonable
Fatigue	rested
Experience	poor
Captaincy	reasonable

Skills Summary

Batsman	average
Bowler	ordinary
Keeper	ordinary
Allrounder	average

Notes


Skills

Batting	reasonable	Endurance	reasonable
Bowling	average	Technique	ordinary
Keeping	ordinary	Power	reasonable
Fielding	ordinary

Will you train his batting at all, or leave as is?

I had a spinner who was an ordinary bat and as an experiment once he hit exceptional bowling I put him on batting training until he popped to average, and batted him at 7 (where he always batted tbf). Probably wasn't worth it, and his average of 14 doesn't sound like much but there were a few games where his extra runs really made the difference, including one of his two 50s that got us over the line in a game we had no right winning iirc.

 

[NZTailender]

actually I had a very similar player a long while ago. As a YP he was very similar to your player, I think I gave him A/R training until hitting capable batting then focused on bowling. https://www.fromthepavilion.org/player.htm?playerId=1315283

I know stats in this game don't mean much as it's all based on where you are in leagues and opposition quality, but low 20s average for bowling and batting made him a solid performer.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Will you train his batting at all, or leave as is?

I had a spinner who was an ordinary bat and as an experiment once he hit exceptional bowling I put him on batting training until he popped to average, and batted him at 7 (where he always batted tbf). Probably wasn't worth it, and his average of 14 doesn't sound like much but there were a few games where his extra runs really made the difference, including one of his two 50s that got us over the line in a game we had no right winning iirc.

I might give a batting boost as some point to even up a technique shortfall or something. Generally though with the fasties or wrist-spinners, I tend to focus on making them bowlers first as they have some advantages over mediums or finger spinners. I might train a RM or RFS differently - more as an all-rounder, but with the RF and already having really good power, I think in this case it's best to focus on the bowling. I reckon I could get a sub-20 bowling average out of him and with reasonable batting already he should average 10-15 with the bat when matured. Experience starting at poor is decent too - really no downsides to this chap. The talents could be better, but having two and both of them being useful. Well, I'm not gonna complain. Possibly my best YP ever.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Got another decent youth recruit, but the talents don't match the skills. Any suggestions on training? I was thinking of hitting up the bowling and getting an all-rounder out of him. Or perhaps just selling, but not sure how much $ he'd make

Adan Schmitt
16y0w | 25,948 rating | $1,071 wage (5% discount)

Left hand batsman | Right arm Fast medium

Talents Skilled (Bowling)
Nationality Canada Canada
Form reasonable
Fatigue rested
Experience poor
Captaincy capable
Skills Summary
Batsman average
Bowler poor
Keeper ordinary
Allrounder ordinary
Notes

Skills
Batting reasonable Endurance ordinary
Bowling poor Technique ordinary
Keeping ordinary Power poor
Fielding average

 

[Number 11]

Has to be a bat IMO.

 

[NZTailender]

Yeah don't worry about the skill. If he was gifted bowling (that would train him up from poor quicker) with another bowling skill like NBB or OBB then maybe.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Yeah, I reckon he's too low in bowling to be a genuine all-rounder, especially given the time it takes to get them to a decent level in both main skills plus technique.

It depends on what level you need his skills at to be useful in the Youth league you are in though. I aim for accomplished across all main skills and technique by the time they are 20 as the minimum for an all-rounder to be useful in 1.1. If they have been reliable for a while then they can still do a job until that next pop.

My academy is at a pretty high level, and I get about one pop a season across all skills and technique on all-rounders.

 

[NZTailender]

Similar to Heef's dilemma, needed a seam bowler to replace those who will be graduating to senior this season, and I get this:

Otago >> Jirani Kabatesi >> Details
Player Info
16y0w | 22,892 rating | $908 wage (5% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Fast

Talents	Seam Specialist
Nationality	Kenya
Form	reasonable
Fatigue	rested
Experience	poor
Captaincy	average

Skills Summary

Batsman	ordinary
Bowler	ordinary
Keeper	dreadful
Allrounder	ordinary

Skills

Batting	average	Endurance	poor
Bowling	ordinary	Technique	average
Keeping	poor	Power	ordinary
Fielding	ordinary

No bowling skill but a batting one, but RF is always good to have. Decent secondaries to boot so training bowling from ordinary isn't too much of an impact.

Also part of me wants him to sell as now we're out of the cup we'll be operating at a 35k loss weekly (at best) for the rest of the season, and having buffer funds for now and into next season as we continue the long term building plan would be handy - if I could sell him for at least 250k but I don't know if he'd be worth that on the market

 

[NZTailender]

Lost to a team rating 40k~ below. They also beat a team 40k higher than them last week. Impressive, but also massively frustrating

 

[Son Of Coco]

Lost to a team rating 40k~ below. They also beat a team 40k higher than them last week. Impressive, but also massively frustrating

Haha, yeah it's ****ing annoying isn't it!?

 

[Son Of Coco]

Struggled to 109 all out batting first away on a sticky vs the team ahead of me in 1st today. Thought we'd ****ed our chances only to roll them for 100.

What a game! There were 3 of us tied for 1st, with them ahead on NRR. After this game there will be 2 of us tied at the top, so hopefully we can get a couple of decent wins up to get the trophy. They are playing each other next, but there's always the chance we **** it up.

 

[NZTailender]

I know I'm bad at this game but things like attendance still baffle me. I'm 2nd in sod, my supporters club is "blowing me kisses" and yet I cannot sell out my 18000 capacity ground.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Struggled to 109 all out batting first away on a sticky vs the team ahead of me in 1st today. Thought we'd ****ed our chances only to roll them for 100.

What a game! There were 3 of us tied for 1st, with them ahead on NRR. After this game there will be 2 of us tied at the top, so hopefully we can get a couple of decent wins up to get the trophy. They are playing each other next, but there's always the chance we **** it up.

So...we play a team this week that we outrate by 16k (I think we all know where this is going), and despite the fact we outrate them in 5 of 6 criteria, we lose by 6 wickets at home.

I knew it was a danger game because for the past few seasons it seems that it's much harder to win against teams you outrate than against those that outrate you, but for the 2nd week in a row we got reduced to 4 for not many. This time by a team that has a handful of decent players.

Our only real crime was to lose the toss and have to bat first on a crumbing deck. From there it went downhill very quickly.

We can only hope that the team in first loses to them next week and we somehow manage to overcome a team we'll probably outrate by 20k.

 

[kaetor]

Managed to take out div 1 before my team moves to England (so I stop staying up at night watching my virtual cricket game play out...)

 

[NZTailender]

What sort of ratings were being put up in Div 1?

We finished 2nd in SOD 3 and we should be putting up better performances this year. But whether or not the current crop of players (who will probably peak this season) can get us to Div 1 remains to be seen.

 

[kaetor]

What sort of ratings were being put up in Div 1?

We finished 2nd in SOD 3 and we should be putting up better performances this year. But whether or not the current crop of players (who will probably peak this season) can get us to Div 1 remains to be seen.

Between 240-260k. I'm pretty exhausted trying to buy TM players to keep up though so will be moving to slightly more homegrown in my new adopted country.
Good luck this season!

 

[NZTailender]

Between 240-260k. I'm pretty exhausted trying to buy TM players to keep up though so will be moving to slightly more homegrown in my new adopted country.
Good luck this season!

oooh cool, great to know thanks! Was pulling 230 and I've tried to buy some short term 29/30/31 year olds to boost my team this year....hopefully we take out division 3 otherwise this whole cycle of players will be done

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Screwed my finances, so this useful player is up for sale for Zero.

Alexander Tapia
Player Info
26y11w | 71,164 rating | $18,673 wage (9.5% discount)
Left hand batsman | Right arm Medium

Talents	Prodigy, Accumulator
Nationality	Canada
Form	capable
Fatigue	revived
Experience	spectacular
Captaincy	average

Skills Summary

Batsman	exceptional
Bowler	ordinary
Keeper	exceptional
Allrounder	average

Skills

Batting	exceptional	Endurance	spectacular
Bowling	poor	Technique	exceptional
Keeping	exceptional	Power	outstanding
Fielding	spectacular