The Original 8shes, Nails vs PB. Series 3 over.

[PowerBug]

HAHAHA You little beauty!!! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo What a win!

Match Ratings
The Nailers PowerBugCC
Batting - Top Order 12,121 10,661
Batting - Middle Order 8,874 11,216
Batting - Tail 4,109 4,918
Bowling - Seam 10,855 (40) 12,292 (30)
Bowling - Spin 12,362 (10) 11,311 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 13,909 13,529
Overall 193,822 202,355

PowerBugCC won by 4 wickets, 362/6 off 49.4 (Aronstam 118, Craig 63, Horton 49*, Shah 2/71)


PowerBugCC leads the 8 match series 5-1 after 6.

[PowerBug]

Batting
1. Paul Aronstam, PowerBugCC, 362
2. Sadique Watson, PowerBugCC, 266
3. Albert Gogler, The Nailers, 238
4. Martin Young, The Nailers, 233
5. Stuart Craig, PowerBugCC, 200

Bowling
=1 Douglas Oldfield, PowerBugCC, 10
=1 Vinay Shah, The Nailers, 10
=1 Shukla Mukund, PowerBugCC, 10
4. Michael Bryce, The Nailers, 9

Fielding
1. Sadique Watson, PowerBugCC, 15
2. Kwasi Bulinya, The Nailers, 8
3. Fayyaz Butt, PoweBugCC, 3

Man of the series
=1 Sadique Watson, PowerBugCC, 5
=1 Paul Aronstam, PowerBugCC, 5
=1 Albert Gogler, The Nailers, 5
=4 William Campbell, PowerBugCC, 3
=4 Douglas Oldfield, PowerBugCC, 3
=4 Martin Young, The Nailers, 3
=4 Shukla Mukund, PowerBugCC, 3

Average Ages
1. The Nailers, Match 5,6, 24.27
2. The Nailers, Matches 1,2,3: 24.55
3. The Nailers, Match 4: 24.64
4. PowerBugCC, Match 3: 25.82
5. PowerBugCC, Match 1,2,5,6: 26.45
6. PowerBugCC, Match 4: 26.82

Interesting stats, the bowling will go to the wire.


Cost of Nails' 12 players: $5,363,844
Cost of my 14 players: $2,464,520

Imagine if i didn't pay $1,080,500 for Zahra. Those figures are embarrasing for Nails. And the best player this series (Aronstam) i didn't even pay a single cent for, he was an average/dreadful YP of mine. :)

[Master Q]

You are forgetting the most important stat PB...

Average Age of XI and Squad. I am confident Nails' XI is a lot younger than yours...

[PowerBug]

Yeah it is, i have that stat there at the bottom of the quote. :) Today it was 24.27 vs 26.45 so a 2 year difference. And overall it looks like it is about a 2.3 year difference. Is it worth paying twice as much, for 2 less players, for a younger squad, even though it still loses to mine? :\ I'd rather win and save money. :P

[Cookie311993]

Yeah it is, i have that stat there at the bottom of the quote. :) Today it was 24.27 vs 26.45 so a 2 year difference. And overall it looks like it is about a 2.3 year difference. Is it worth paying twice as much, for 2 less players, for a younger squad, even though it still loses to mine? :\ I'd rather win and save money. :P

Nails hasn't considered a youth system either.

[Master Q]

Yeah it is, i have that stat there at the bottom of the quote. :) Today it was 24.27 vs 26.45 so a 2 year difference. And overall it looks like it is about a 2.3 year difference. Is it worth paying twice as much, for 2 less players, for a younger squad, even though it still loses to mine? :\ I'd rather win and save money. :P

Yeah but you'll be spending more money in the long run and won't rate anywhere near as high as he will.

[Cookie311993]

Yeah it is, i have that stat there at the bottom of the quote. :) Today it was 24.27 vs 26.45 so a 2 year difference. And overall it looks like it is about a 2.3 year difference. Is it worth paying twice as much, for 2 less players, for a younger squad, even though it still loses to mine? :\ I'd rather win and save money. :P

Yeah but you'll be spending more money in the long run and won't rate anywhere near as high as he will.

How do you get that?

[Nails]

Well PB is 2 years older than me and rating within 5K

I should be like 220-225K once I get some power into my boys. Could be the difference between being competitive Div 1 and bottom div 1/top div 2

[PowerBug]

You should be, I'm not doubting that. However I think you've wasted money as i'll be gaining more sponsorship, getting players for cheaper (Youth Pulls, e.g. Aronstam) whilst only being 10k below your senior squad. Did i mention that i've payed less to get players.

Also, I'm on track to promote to Div 1 SOD, if that becomes a reailty, i'll probably throw out everything i've said and do everything possible not to demote ;D

[Nails]

My players at their peak will be a showerload better than yours imo

and If I sell mine at like 28-29yo I'll get like half of it back as they'll still be guns.

[PowerBug]

You'll have to sell your side eventually, and will have a massive drop off, because they'll peak at the same time then you'll be stuffed. Mine will not have any drop off, and i'll make sure that every inclusion is a little better than the exclusion. :)

I still think you should start a youth squad, slowly. :)

[Cookie311993]

My players at their peak will be a showerload better than yours imo

and If I sell mine at like 28-29yo I'll get like half of it back as they'll still be guns.

A lot of them aren't guns to start with

[PowerBug]

Aronstam out early in the 7th game, it's over already. :( I can't win without Aronstam.

End of over 8 (1 run) - PowerBugCC(29-1) RR 3.62
M. Bryce 4-0-17-0, F. Butt 6 (9b), W. Wardlaw 9 (27b)

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End of over 47 (maiden) - PowerBugCC(158-10) RR 3.36
M. Bryce 8.2-0-34-3, A. Zahra 7 (15b)

After scoring a disgusting 158, yeah it's a tough pitch to score on, but that's still not good enough, Nails seemed to be cruising at 104/3, however two quick wickets sees him now 110/5 after 31, Zahra has 3 wickets and has 3 overs to come.

[AFEV]

A. Zahra 9-2-30-5, V. Shah 2 (4b), M. Nyongai 0 (0b)
End of over 39 (maiden) - The Nailers(145-8). 14 runs required from 11 overs. RR 3.72 RRR 1.27

If Nails loses we'll have to put somebody on nails watch for the night, lost his WXV prelim too.