Battrick - Season 11 Chat

[Ballhitter]

I just got my team for battrick.
Looks cool.

[Bluto11]

It's is tons of fun. I've been around since season 1 and was hooked right away. I didn't know much about cricket when I started either. I'm glad it isn't blocked at work, gives me something to follow during the day

Got a tricky ODer tomorrow. We are pretty evenly matched and he just played a bot in his FC match, so he rested most of his good guys.

[mas cambios]

Originally Posted by Ballhitter

I just got my team for battrick.
Looks cool.

If you need any advice, just ask and I'm sure one of us will be able to help!

[Ballhitter]

Ok give me all the advice you can.

[Ballhitter]

Here is my squad what should i do with it.

Ricky Attwood - 30 yo, BT Rating=3,842  
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A defensive player with abysmal leadership skills and mediocre experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: woeful 
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: mediocre 
Fielding: woeful     

Tristan Beckwith - 30 yo, BT Rating=6,650  
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, energetic fitness. 
A steady player with worthless leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: mediocre 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: mediocre 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: woeful 
Fielding: competent     

Brendan Burch - 23 yo, BT Rating=2,138  
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, strong batting form, strong bowling form, sublime fitness. 
An attacking player with worthless leadership skills and worthless experience. 
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: woeful Concentration: abysmal 
Bowling: woeful Consistency: abysmal 
Fielding: abysmal     

Jim Burns - 30 yo, BT Rating=4,113  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, energetic fitness. 
A destructive player with abysmal leadership skills and mediocre experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: mediocre 
Fielding: woeful     

Daren Carter-harris - 30 yo, BT Rating=3,936  
RH Batsman, LM Bowler, strong batting form, respectable bowling form, energetic fitness. 
An attacking player with abysmal leadership skills and mediocre experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: woeful Concentration: abysmal 
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: mediocre 
Fielding: woeful     

Martin Clark - 17 yo, BT Rating=3,811  
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, energetic fitness. 
A cautious player with respectable leadership skills and worthless experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: woeful 
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: mediocre 
Fielding: woeful     

Kyle Hayes - 24 yo, BT Rating=1,360  
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A steady player with proficient leadership skills and woeful experience. 
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: woeful 
Bowling: woeful Consistency: woeful 
Fielding: feeble     

Matt Leonard - 30 yo, BT Rating=4,848  
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, competent batting form, competent bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A cautious player with mediocre leadership skills and competent experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: mediocre 
Batting: feeble Concentration: mediocre 
Bowling: woeful Consistency: abysmal 
Fielding: competent     

Karl Longthorn - 30 yo, BT Rating=4,372  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, energetic fitness. 
A steady player with woeful leadership skills and mediocre experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: abysmal 
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: mediocre 
Fielding: mediocre     

Greg Muwalo - 30 yo, BT Rating=7,593  
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, strong batting form, strong bowling form, energetic fitness. 
A defensive player with mediocre leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: woeful 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: mediocre 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: competent 
Fielding: competent     

Ian Nevin - 26 yo, BT Rating=2,054  
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A defensive player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: feeble Concentration: woeful 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: abysmal 
Fielding: feeble     

Phil Newton - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,314  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, lively fitness. 
A destructive player with abysmal leadership skills and worthless experience. 
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: worthless 
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: competent 
Fielding: competent     

Alex Pickford - 30 yo, BT Rating=6,081  
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, strong batting form, respectable bowling form, invigorated fitness. 
A steady player with feeble leadership skills and feeble experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: abysmal 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: mediocre 
Bowling: worthless Consistency: mediocre 
Fielding: competent     

Nicolas Pierce - 19 yo, BT Rating=986  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A cautious player with competent leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: abysmal Concentration: woeful 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: feeble 
Fielding: abysmal     

Seamus Shoeshoe - 22 yo, BT Rating=8,626  
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A cautious player with abysmal leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: respectable Concentration: abysmal 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: woeful 
Fielding: respectable     

Bobby Solkhorn - 18 yo, BT Rating=2,228  
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, strong batting form, competent bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A destructive player with competent leadership skills and worthless experience. 
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: feeble Concentration: mediocre 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: woeful 
Fielding: abysmal     

Rick Sutherland - 30 yo, BT Rating=4,171  
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, invigorated fitness. 
An attacking player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: abysmal 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: mediocre 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: feeble 
Fielding: abysmal     

Liam Tunnicliffe - 17 yo, BT Rating=3,840  
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, proficient batting form, proficient bowling form, energetic fitness. 
A steady player with worthless leadership skills and worthless experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: abysmal 
Batting: mediocre Concentration: mediocre 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: woeful 
Fielding: woeful     

Duncan Vines - 25 yo, BT Rating=1,662  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, strong bowling form, sublime fitness. 
A steady player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: feeble Concentration: woeful 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: mediocre 
Fielding: abysmal

[Jonesy]

Ballhitter -

First thing you will need to look at is buying trainees. This will be what makes your club better in the long term. In the first season it is going to be about building a core to your team.

Trainees

First thing to remember is that you only have a limited amount of money, and money will be very scarce in your first season, so we will need to buy cheap trainees (less than $20K, hopefully more like $5-10K).

I would suggest looking at getting 3 batting trainees.

You need to look at guys 17-19yrs olds with feeble + stamina as we will not train that on batting trainees.

Medicore/Competent Batting and woeful+ concentration is recommended.

I would put each of these trainees on 1 batting net. This should hopefully allow you to have possibly 3 respectable batsmen by the end of the season. Guys that will around your team for a while.

As for bowlers, these guys need higher stamina, but that costs a lot more money, so we have to use our nets a bit more wisely. We will be looking once again to pick up 3 trainees to build our core team.

Once again we are looking at Medicore/Competent Bowling and woeful+ consistency.

Try and buy 3 different types of bowlers to give your bowling attack some variation and be able to take advantage of all types of pitches. I would suggest looking for 2 Fast, Fast Medium or Medium bowler and 1 spinner.

Try and get at least one of the trainees with competent stamina as we will not have enough nets to train stamina properly for all your trainees, but stamina is more important for bowlers than it is for batsmen as they always have to bowl their 10 overs.

Your nets should be bought like this. 2 stamina, 2 fielding, 3 bowling.

You can rotate the 2 stamina and 2 fielding nets between these 3 players so they all improve at a similar rate (though focus on getting the lowest stamina players up to the same level as the others first).

This means that all 10 net sessions you have are now occupied. At this point all you can do is wait till the end of season and then revaulate the training program then.

Staff

As far as staff goes, if you follow the stratergy above these are the staff numbers you shoud be employing.

3 Batting Coaches
3 Bowling Coaches
2 Stamina Coaches
2 Fielding Coaches

As well you will need to employee some other staff members to help with training of secondaries and increasing sponorship monies.

I would employee to start with...

4 or 5 Sports Pysc's - These help increase the secondaries (concentration/consistency) of players.

3 PR officers - These will help increase the sponsorship money you get each week.

As far as staff goes these are all we will employee at the start.


]Stadium

When you get your stadium, it is unfortuantely not in the correct configuration to maximise your income. To fix this a small upgrade is need almost immediately (well straight after buying your trainees)


These is the what I suggest you upgrade to almost immediately. You won't have much money to go any higher intially, and if you are filling in constantly, you can always upgrade it again (look under battrick resources section of this site for the stadium calculator)

Standing room: 0

Uncovered seating: 1,400

Covered seating: 770

Members seats: 180

Total: 2,350

The total cost of the upgrade will be £96,100.00 and the maintenance cost will be £10,724.00 per week.

You will also make a total of £51,450.00 when your stadium is full, as opposed to the £28,750.00 you would currently make.

Youth Squad

As far as the youth squad goes, I would suggest you not invest in this for the first season at all. It is better to save your money and buy the players/trainees you want than invest in the Youth squad lottery.

By the second season I would suggest you start investing as much as you can afford (which means whatever doesn't put you at a loss each week), so that by the 3rd season you can start pulling youths out of your squad. You will need about $240K to upgrade your youth squad to superb, and their are no guarentees you will get someone good, so do think long and hard before deciding to jump in early and invest.

Courtesy of Spin from another site.

[mas cambios]

Bear in mind that the above has changed slightly. Stadiums are now in correct proportions, or at least better than before, so I'd leave that for now.

As for squad, you should have 2 or 3 potentially trainable players (17 year olds). In your case Clarke, Newton and Tunnicliffe. However, spend a little bit of time on the transfer market and you may pick up some 17 year players with comp/comp/comp.

I'll explain in more detail when I have a bit more time.

[Ballhitter]

Thank you very much guys for your advise.
This should help me alot.

[breeno]

How do we play and where do I sign up?

[Bluto11]

Originally Posted by breeno

How do we play and where do I sign up?

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