From the Pavilion

[Nails]

It's easy to do the maths Sid seeing as you know it's 3% per level and I'll be 7-8 levels short at his next training you can work out what % training he'll miss each week.

Like this week he'll miss 21% so if a deluxe academy trains 400 fielding he'll lose 84 training points... and that decreases each week so by the end he only misses like less than half a lesson at most.

[AFEV]

It's closer to 450 in a deluxe academy on a week of fielding, 500 with a training talent.
450*.21, almost 100 rating points in the first week.

If you were to train fielding the whole time you're upgrading [you probably would if their fielding is below average]

(450*.21)+(450*.18)+(450+.15)+(450*.12)+(450*.09)+(450*.06)+(450*.03)=760.

Hm, it's a bit more than 1 week of training, it's closer to two. A player such as yours in week 3 is good, but not exceptional, plus over the next two weeks trust that many more players just as good will be pulled, and they'll be straight into deluxe academies.

It'll cost you more than you think.

It's okay, I made shower purchases starting out in youths as well as they can be difficult to value and glamour stats often rope you in to an overpay. Hell, I still make shower purchases 2 seasons later. Often. The learning curve is steep, but this mistake is probably a 7 figure one for you.

[Nails]

TBH he'll still be gun with gifted bowl and OBB. OBB = makes him gun as that talent is rare. Scotland in senior NATs don't have a single OBB off the top of my head.

+ Gifted bowling so he'll beat other similar players that don't have training talents like that.

I spoke with rogue and he thinks train bowling because seeing as you get 10-20% training bonus from it, whatever amount might as well use the talent when you're going to get the biggest bonus from it which is at 16.

[AFEV]

Be careful not to neglect fielding, remember it diminishes more quickly than primaries.

[Nails]

Yeah I was thinking fielding for like entire season @ 19yo or something.

[Nails]

(450*.21)+(450*.18)+(450+.15)+(450*.12)+(450*.09)+(450*.06)+(450*.03)=760.

Oh and your maths is off, I thought it was a bit high.

Do the sums and it's:

94.5 + 81 + 67.5 + 54 + 40.5 + 27 + 13.5 = 378.

Therefore he's not even missing a full week of training. Making him better than players pulled next week anyway :P

[BB67th]

Really stoked to get a win first up today. And quite an upset given those ratings!

Result:   Star Waughs won by 6 wickets
Toss:   All Star Strikers won the toss and elected to bat.
Man of the match:   Marc Sweeney (3 points), Shaun Scaife (2), Kiran Gony (1)


   All Star Strikers   Star Waughs
Batting - Top Order   11,887   9,886
Batting - Middle Order   8,072   6,559
Batting - Tail   3,958   3,094
Bowling - Seam   11,835 (20)   9,295 (30)
Bowling - Spin   10,741 (30)   9,902 (20)
Fielding/Keeping   10,116   11,069
Overall   177,959   155,963

[PowerBug]

It's over. :'(

Everyone deserves to know.

I beat PB by 3 wickets.

Shame this didn't get more attention! Torpy finally breaks the streak you had over him PB! How many did you manage in a row, 23 or around there yeah?

I agree, despite being the loser, this should be getting more attention than Nails' purchase. :)

[AFEV]

(450*.21)+(450*.18)+(450+.15)+(450*.12)+(450*.09)+(450*.06)+(450*.03)=760.

Oh and your maths is off, I thought it was a bit high.

Do the sums and it's:

94.5 + 81 + 67.5 + 54 + 40.5 + 27 + 13.5 = 378.

Therefore he's not even missing a full week of training. Making him better than players pulled next week anyway :P

My bad, had (450+.12) which flowered the whole calculation.
But still, shower buy. :P

[PowerBug]

Match Ratings
rogue traders PowerBugCC
Batting - Top Order 13,571 12,493
Batting - Middle Order 11,778 9,682
Batting - Tail 6,957 4,266
Bowling - Seam 11,846 (20) 12,925 (20)
Bowling - Spin 13,157 (30) 12,885 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 14,280 15,289
Overall 228,275 211,876

Gave rogue a hiding today. Won by 8 wickets with 14 overs left. Rolled him for 152 on a Cloudy/Dry, wickets nicely spread throughout 4 of my bowlers. Wardlaw 73* in reply guided me to the flogging and the perfect start to my seemingly impossible task of staying in Div 1 this season.


Ratings of the Div 1 teams:
rogue traders 228,275
PowerBugCC 211,876
Gaukrodger Academicals 225,074
iuhhui 238,940
Slippery Salamanders 230,161
Risk Factor! 237,104
The Raptors 231,674
Runs Lola Runs 229,388

I am in a lot of trouble.

[PowerBug]

Well my PC match is huge today, but not for the reason you may expect. The plan, was that Douglas Oldfield would be playing his final match for me in this PC match. It's more than a farewell match though, because when you take a look at the state centre:

One Day, Bowling, All time
1st: D. Dorenagama, 216 (37yo, pretty much retired)
2nd: D. Oldfield, 211.
3rd: S. Mukund, 207 (retired)

So 6 wickets for Doug and he'll become the club's all time leading wickettaker. I don't really want him to get it but I've given him the best chance possible of doing so, choosing a Slow deck (Didn't want Green as I needed to play spinners today) and the weather is Cloudy. Despite his OBB talent he's bowling overs early on, to take wickets.

So things were going alright, 7 overs in 19/1. Then I introduced Oldfield for 2 aggro overs:
7.1 W Oldfield to Kekwick : [catch]  Gone! Kekwick falls to a pull shot. It was short, on middle stump and Kekwick pulls it weakly to square leg where Kamungozi takes the catch.
R. Kekwick c I. Kamungozi b. D. Oldfield 7 (17b 0x4 0x6) SR:41.18

7.3 W Oldfield to Klusener : [catch]  There's a noise as that goes through to Maloney and Oldfield turns and appeals. Glove? Bat? Klusener's arthritic wrists playing up? Doesn't matter, umpire says it's out.
N. Klusener c G. Maloney b. D. Oldfield 0 (2b 0x4 0x6) SR:0.00

7.5 W Oldfield to Valentine : [catch]  Valentine is out, slicing Oldfield straight to cover where Rasil takes the simplest of catches.
L. Valentine c F. Rasil b. D. Oldfield 0 (2b 0x4 0x6) SR:0.00

And Kamungozi dropped a catch in Oldfield's 2nd over... Dorenagama's record is in strife, with Oldfield still having 8 overs to bowl, and he'll probably get a crack at the tail...

[KoopKicka]

Thought Id be all out by now honestly.


D. Raffel 4-1-9-0, N. Indrasiri 35 (57b), A. Back 27 (32b)
End of over 28 (3 runs) - Koops Smashers CC(120-3) RR 4.29

Going OK.

[KoopKicka]

Ticking along. :) 


M. Amarasinghe 6-0-29-1, B. Gardiner 4 (3b), A. Back 57 (81b)
End of over 42 (6 runs) - Koops Smashers CC(184-5) RR 4.38

[BB67th]

Solid start to my innings, but it'd be nice if the boys could get a bit of a move on. Still, not terrible on a Slow/Overcast.

A. Arthur 3-0-9-0, T. Watson 12 (34b), H. wa Njonjo 36 (58b)
End of over 15 (6 runs) - Star Waughs(52-0) RR 3.47

[KoopKicka]

H. Ollivierre 8-1-22-0, D. Raffel 36 (55b), K. Jayakody 67 (91b)
End of over 36 (5 runs) - Nondescripts CC(160-3). 66 runs required from 14 overs. RR 4.44 RRR 4.71


Getting really tense :/