blonde poker forum

http://www.fromthepavilion.org

I've just signed up to try it out.

The first season started a few days ago so it's a good time to join!

Signed up awaiting a team.

same here

same here

would do if the link for my activation was working.. would quite like to have a look at my team BEFORE the 20/20 games start tomorrow

Same here

activation puts you in the waiting list for a team, they're then manually activated.

I seem to have a couple of decent players:
reasonable bat
capable keeper

Same league as Ramshire and Tractor...

I've got a decent all rounder and some bloody good youth prospects by the looks of things..

staples will get his revenge here very poor team

Mine's not much cop either..

Just signed up, waiting on a team

monkey no good at multi tasking so is sticking to just the one game (and besides i dont do enough work as it is!! :D)

me in

i am awaiting activation

notice bongo gets a leap on us all again

while we are all without PCs at the blonde Bash

I have problems in that my best bowlers are also my best batsmen!  I havn't managed to luckbox anyone of any quality though, no ratings higher than average.

In the same One Day as Ramshire and Tractor.

Any other Blondes in this league?

BTW: I'm Gwent Mustangs

yeah you're playing me 20/20 and youth game ;)

Better have a quick look, are we the only players?

just had a quick look...My brother BVCC is also in the same league.

This could be a most interesting battle then

My team is garbage!

So are everyone's it seems..

mones crap but i will still beat bongo

I've joined....

What do you do with 14 crap wicketkeeper/bowlers?

team are good playing staples and a 20/20 at the same time

I had a bad start, then I took a wicket, then another 5, and now they are scoring at an acceptable rate.

I have no idea if my team can bat though!

111-3 off 14 overs................no idea if this is good or bad

well it's a nice run rate!

My team are somehow playing 2 games at once :s

In a OD friendly ramshire are 215-3 from 37 overs.. ouch

In the 20/20 game playing the Mustangs I'm batting 155-4 from 18 overs

End of over 20 (3 runs) - Balders Boys(96-7) RR 4.80 - Happy Days.

End of over 20 (7 runs) - norfolkngood(166-4) RR 8.30

End of over 5 (4 runs) - KBOTW(35-1). 146 runs required from 15 overs. RR 7.00 RRR 9.73

I suspect I will lose

Bigglesthwaite CC defeated Balders Boys by 6 wickets

Go me!

Wimbish defeated KBOTW by 42 runs

Never looked like winning

norfolkngood defeated jarv1 by 57 runs

go me too

tied 1st 2020 game

Won 1st 20/20 game easily enough

lost by ONE run to ram in a friendly :(

anybody else unable to connect today?

Fine for me, but a touch slow.

My youth team is going to lose, heavily!

My youth team despite being absolutely useless (numbers 10 and 11 are in there to make up the numbers as neither can bat nor bowl) appear to be going well.  I'm chasing 161 against the side Booder beat yesterday.

End of over 7 (5 runs) - KBOTW(47-1). 115 runs required from 33 overs. RR 6.71 RRR 3.48
McKone 25 (24b), Pritchard 8 (13b), Berry 4-0-27-0

damn.........unable to connect at all

youth team won convincingly

scored 262-5 from my 40 then restricted to 221-7

The only star in my youth team is a bowler ( better than any of my senior squad) took 3-29.. inc 3 no balls and 1 wide!!

 ;grr; ;grr; ;frustrated; ;technophobe; ;technophobe;   still unable to connect

I'm getting a hammering today

61-3 vs BVCC after being 30-3.. 16 overs gone.. need a great partnership!

252-8 with a couple of overs to go.

Certainly a defendable score!

could somebody tell me how norfolkngood are doing please

I'm playing Booder today.  He made 334  :o

I've just got my team - Beloved Ltd.

They've done alright in the few matches I missed before taking over, so I'll it be interesting to see just how quickly I can completely ruin a potentially good side. :)

wow   i seem to perform well when i am unable to connect to the site

I'm 94-3 from 22 overs in reply.

I suspect I will lose

Oppos 100/7 off 26

I should win from here!

i am still trying to work the game out lost my first match forgot to set up for today better go check the score

maybe i shopuld pay more attetion

they scored 355-8

i am at 125-5

did i win ?             :dontask:

I didn't 

;frustrated; They needed 20 runs from the last 2 overs and made it with 3 balls to spare ;frustrated;

yeah by 97 runs

yay  go me

Well I was well and truly smashed by BVCC today

Made 244ao in the last over, with the last 2 wickets putting on 70 at a fantastic rate!!

however BVCC smashed 246-3 in the 43rd over!

have i won any more games?

 
23 Oct 07 04:00 Twenty20 norfolkngood v mathsisfun norfolkngood defeated mathsisfun by 8 wickets

awesome...............thank you

I won my game, batsman hit a ton too!

2 games again for me today

friendly vs the tractor boys I scored 337-7 and restricted to 260-8.. no major batting scores, my main bowler taking 2-33 always good

20/20 game vs Ominous tinge, they batted 1st and scored 127-5, with 3 of my bowlers under the run a ball ( 1-15 being the best) and scored 131-2 off 16 overs in reply with my opener scoring 66no from 56 deliveries

Which leaves me top of the 20/20 league on NRR

My YP this week is having a good game - 4 overs, 3 wickets, 13 runs so far.

He looks to be a good bowler!

wish i could see mine

They're actually looking for new hosting mate, so you should be OK in the near future!

My youth team had an unlikely last ball win

KBOTW defeated norfolkngood by 4 wickets

End of over 40 (12 runs) - KBOTW(223-6) RR 5.58
Marshall 5 (6b), Pritchard 78 (75b), Templeton 8-0-59-2
39.6 2 Templeton to Marshall : A lovely on-drive pierces the infield and the batsmen cross for 2.
39.5 3 Templeton to Pritchard : Played forward of square leg and they'll come back for 3.
39.4 4 Templeton to Pritchard : Streaky! Templeton pitches it up, Pritchard waits for movement but there isn't any and the ball takes the thick outside edge and screams away down to third man.
39.3 1 Templeton to Marshall : Hit wide of cover for a single.
39.2 1 Templeton to Pritchard : Nicely played behind square leg for a single.
39.1 1 Templeton to Marshall : Nicely played forward of square leg for one.



End of over 39 (3 runs) - KBOTW(211-6). 12 runs required from 1 overs. RR 5.41 RRR 12.00
Pritchard 70 (72b), Marshall 1 (3b), Barber 8-1-35-1

Mine lost.

Need more batsmen - that's what next weeks YP will be.

Seems a little easy this - good YP every week and every can be trained!

My youth team lost - by such a large margin, that it's just plain embarrassing.

We lost 10 wickets to reach our paltry total of 139, and the oppo. beat it in less than 20 overs without losing a wicket  ;ashamed;

I think upping the training investment is in order.

Do you play battrick Jon?

i won my first game today

makes up for all the loses so far

after a great start vs the tractor BOYS.. having them 9-3 they recovered to score 220-8 from their 40 overs.. with an unbroken 76 9th wicket partnership

in reply it was close but just made it.. 226-5 off the 1st ball in the 40th over

No I was trying to resist the temptation of adding too many games to distract me from work, but when a second cricket game came up I knew I had to add one of them (it'd have been rude not to, when they go to so much effort to create the websites :) )

I'm doing ok in my game - one guy just out for 78, another has an unbeaten ton.

The game is moving server this weekend, so hopefully you'll be able to get on to play then booder.

You're currently bowling in your match:   (3 wickets, 28 overs)     141

 ;yippee; ;yippee;

End of over 50 (10 runs) - Bigglesthwaite CC(405-3) RR 8.10

Nice!

End of over 50 (3 runs) - mathsisfun(298-3) RR 5.96

not looking too bad there booder!

Well my team have a target of 300.

Not the best of starts - lost a wicket first ball.

After being 9-3 in the 2nd over... my team recovered well to finish on 269-7 from 50

They are currently 54-1 from 13 overs... my best bowler due on any minute..( spinner on a dry pitch)

Ripped them apart

End of over 36 (1 runs) - Ominous Tinge(167-7). 103 runs required from 14 overs. RR 4.64 RRR 7.36
Duncan 30 (22b), Keogh 5 (11b), Gentle 8-0-29-3

Best win from here

Mine is very much in the balance - a good or bad couple of overs could swing it either way

Bowled them out for 223 in the 48th over

Saving grace for me was the 99 unbeaten 8th wicket partnership between by keeper and star spin bowler

decent bowling performances all round with none going for more than a run a ball

2 close games in the one day series for me - both of them I've just lost.

:(

did i win?

no idea but i tied

    mathsisfun defeated norfolkngood by 10 runs

298-3 vs 288-2... your opener made 100no off 150 deliveries

FFS

I lost....again.  My senior team remain winless.

norfolkngood defeated Chingford Warriors by 6 runs ............its so much more fun being able to actually watch the commentary............................go me

I lost by a run... got a nice batting pop though!

Mine won a couple of games - just before I took over.

20/20 win again

restricted oppo to 127-5 ( openers 1-15 and 2-20) and took 16.4 overs in reply to reach 131-2

My senior team got a win against the only other winless side in the league.

 ;yippee;

We're going to win as well :)

my oppos need 93 from 16 with 5 wickets remaining..........could be close

forgot about todays game

Had them all on aggressive and it shows

237 AO in the 44th over

They are 226-5 after 44

norfolkngood defeated Chingford Warriors by 7 runs


yay   go team booder

I won by 79 runs :)

ship holla               norfolkngood defeated The Free Design by 55 runs

Another won for me too!

and me

Back to back wins - things are on the up :)

beat Ramshire fairly comfortable today

Doing ok in the youth game too - this weeks YP has hit a ton!

norfolkngood defeated mathsisfun by 9 wickets                yay

Lost by 12 runs :(

Bigglesthwaite CC defeated Quatt Boys by 182 runs

wow!

boys are on a roll...............norfolkngood defeated Masonic Handshake CC by 7 wickets

Bigglesthwaite CC defeated Woodys WOWers by 6 wickets

Chased down 310.

Happy days!

scored 297 and won by 4 runs...

KBOTW defeated jarv1 by 102 runs

Looks like I have found a bit of form.  Made 364 from my 50overs.

Back to winning ways. :)

I'm reasonably confident that my senior side are on the right track now, I just need to work out what to do with the idle youth.

won a tight 20/20 match v Booder today.  My side seem to be improving.

My match ended as a tie.

Decided to alter my pitch to finally suit my spinners

I made what looked a disappointing 145-7

My bowlers showed how much they enjoyed the pitch, bowling out the opposition for just 90, with my new youth team promoted player taking 2-17

my youth team got kinda smashed about the park

conceded 271-4 from the 40 overs, despite one taking 1-21 from their 8 overs

In reply a valiant effort, scoring 247 AO with 13 deliveries left.

Guess thats what happens when I promote the best youth bowler I had to the senior squad ( and possibly the next best too)

I'm on a roll.  chased down 330 to win with the second last ball.

Yowser, I just made me an uber youth pull!

16yo Reasonable bowler!

I had one of those when we first started. already playing in the first team. gets smashed a bit but should improve his experience! gets more games that way too

They get more training in the youth team though ;)

very true. however I have bowlers I'm more interested in developing in my youth squad ;)

convincing win in my youth game today.. after scoring 303 from 40 overs I wasn't particularly worried. Won by 64 runs

Won my 20/20 yesterday by just 2 runs.

Oh my God my youth team won.

This was a pleasant surprise - hopefully it's the start of a good run to bring us back into contention.

He popped in Tech today!

Another 16yo popped to reasonable bowling too.

I won as well, my youth team is improving!

Quite simply an astonishing game between myself and Ramshire.

I set my guys to aggressive, forgetting to check the pitch, which was green.

Went to work with the score at 64-6 and in all sorts of trouble.

staples finished on 305-9!!! my keeper scored 99 from 129 deliveries, and my no 10 and 11 scored at more than a run a ball with the no 10 scoring 47no.

In reply I think Ramshire were demoralised and were all out for 117.

Just pulled a reasonable bat for the youth squad. YAY.

my youth team have finally won another game!!

Playing tractorXI.. conceded 249-5 from the 40 overs, however they knocked it off for the loss of just the 1 wicket, with Philpott making a century!

The prize money is now up.

Class                      1st                   2nd                3rd
Senior One Day   $200,000   $170,000   $150,000
Senior Twenty20   $133,000   $113,000   $100,000
Youth One Day   $100,000   $85,000            $75,000

Worth going for!! Esp as i'm 2nd in the top 2 and 4th in the youth OD. 

Already have my youth academy status at satisfactory, so getting the prize money would mean THROWING money into it

For those who haven't noticed:

You can, this week only, pull a second YP if you've already pulled one, due to changes in the timing!

Also new bowling orders!

my 16yo bowler popped to capable today :)

24 yo all rounder popped to capable bowling today :)

2 already and a 3rd on the way. Also looking like 2 2nd place finishes which means good prize money without getting promoted :)

finished 2nd in the 20/20, 3rd in the youth league and a guaranteed 2nd in the OD league. means just under 400k for my coffers and not getting promoted. probably the best result for my team.

Esp as my 16yo is looking totally awesome and my all rounders are starting to improve rapidly. Liking the new talents too :)

Senior One Day:     #4 in One Day 4.5
Ranking:    Country: 35 / 226. World: 177 / 866
Senior Twenty20:    #8 in Twenty20 3.3
Ranking:    Country: 30 / 226. World: 123 / 866
Youth One Day:    #1 in Youth One Day 4.7
Ranking:    Country: 2 / 226. World: 9 / 866

Pretty sweet!

How long does it take to recieve an email from this. Signed up earlier today but haven't had an email from em yet

Sometimes they can take a few days.

ok cheers

A good start for my lot in the 20/20.

Bowling first, bowled out the opposition for 69. Playing 4 spinners on a crumbling pitch is always good :)

R. Peterson     2     0     5     1     2.50     0     0
T. McBeath    2    0    2    0    1.00    0    1
B. Hogan    2.1    1    4    4    1.85    0    0
B. Lamb    2    0    4    1    2.00    0    1

And Hogan is the worst of my spinners!

In reply, knocked off the runs in 10 overs without losing a wicket :)

It was my first game in this too. Good batting performance, then my bowlers pulled out cracking economy rates.
If only 'twas as easy on battrick...lol

Again, a great day today in my youth game!

hit 275-5 after being 106-5. A nice unbeaten century from my talented 20k rated 17yo, and my all rounder ( bowling all rounder) hit 81no from 68 balls

In reply battered them out for 123.

And a nice rating of over 57k for the youth team!!

Good win for my youths too. scored 307.
Toyed with the oppo before letting em score 247

Easy win for me, youths rated at over 60k ;)

If it weren't for my sillyly promoting my 16yo last year, I think I'd be over 60k too!!

I just had to promote 2 decent 19yos :(

What rank is your youth team?

39th in youth, 8th in 20/20 and 9th in OD. So not too bad. I only have 2 19yo youths and they're both up for sale.

Got a 22k rated 17yo in the youth team, and one 22k in the senior team!

I've got a 25k 17yo in the youth squad, and about 5-6 on 22k or there abouts!

My youth team is ranked 8 in the world... my senior squad less so - although I think if I could expand it slightly it would be ok!

cool.. sounds like you've a good future!

Are you pushing primary skills or balanced with technique, stamina etc?

How much r u spending on youth and first team?

I've set the training and forgotten about it...

I look at the spend every so often and make sure it's more than average!

I don't actually spend too much time playing ftp!

fair enough haha

I'm only going to do well in the OD on battrick this season, havent a prayer in FC so not even trying in it lol!

So only have to focus one day a week on it so have more time for the rest

I've started pushing on all fronts on FTP with the extra finance I got for my finishing positions last year

Currently spending approx 30k on the youth team, and looking to be moving on from a good academy in the next week or so. 18k on the senior squad and again looking to have a good first team within a few weeks!

Another strong performance in the OD match today

Bowling 1st had them 155-8 till they recovered to reach 212-8

Result never in doubt in spite of a wobble in the 170s, and won by 5 wickets

A VERY nice rating of over 75k too ;)

Good performance from my team too. Bowled oppo out for 190 before winning by 6wks with 15 overs to spare.

completely forgot to set any orders so lost.

Rating of > 80k though

another good popping day today

my 1st capable tech ( this bloke is gonna be a stunning allrounder)

getting 5/6 pops a week in my youth team :)

I got a 17yo capable bowler :D

so have I.. though he's in the 1st team and taking wickets a plenty ( considering he's  a FM bowler playing primarily on spinner's pitches)

I'm keeping mine hidden in the youth team for quicker pops ;)

That and he only popped today...

On second thoughts, I've just noticed I have another 17yo capable bowler in the youth team.

Sweet!

lol did u forget about the other one??

I have more reasonable bats in my youth team than in my senior haha!!  In fact I pretty much have a better batting line up in my youth team! scary!

So far so good this season - 4 games in (for all teams) - and my side has won all 4.

i've played 4 competitive and 2 friendlies and won them all so far

Sneaked a 20/20 win by 3 wickets with 2 balls remaining today against my closest rivals for the title :)

I've got a good feeling this season - I think we're probably all going to win our leagues  ;D

Cough!

oops.. won 1 friendly and lost 1 ( had it in my mind I won for some reason)

haha

won my game by 6 wickets today. Got a 51k rating

Youth team won again :)

My star all rounder is coming to the fore nicely. 3-22 from 8 today

strong opening partnership ( another one over 100) saw me win comfortably

56k rating for my youths :)

62k rating and an easy win for me.

do you wait for me to post so u can brag ;)

lol, you remind me to check out the results and ratings! ;)

haha fair enough

we'll have to arrange a friendly at the end of the season, as everything's reset so we can play strongest teams etc... now i'd play my weakest 11 lol

I thought friendlies in ftp ignore fitness etc? they are there for fun - which is why you get no cash from them.

yeah true.. might have to have a few on a Thursday then... play sundays in a league this season.

Might have to play home/away on alternate weeks on differing pitches???

why is from the pavilion so easy compared to battrick? I haven't done anything bar pick a team and give a couple of orders, yet i've won all my games easyish and balance sheets goes up every week..............lol

its only in its 2nd season and there's still loads of BOTs, even the newest teams ( like Bongo's and mine) would be catchable in the right circumstances.

a bloody good popping day

both of my keepers popped in batting, one to average, one to ordinary.

my star no 2 all rounder popped in tech to average

my 17yo star bowler popped in endurance to ordinary

And lastly by star batsman popped to capable ( my 1st batting capable!)

I had a pretty good day...

1x bat to reasonable
1x bowl to reasonable
1x tech to average

Endurance to poor on an all rounder (capable batting/reasonable bowling/reasonable tech/ordinary power). He's gifted in endurance so hopefully will pop a few levels quickly then I can get him back on the all rounder training (will train power when he's a bit older and it goes up quicker!)

Big game today

whoever won the toss and bowled 1st were going to win

he won the toss, bowled and won

:(

got my 1st capable batsman in the youth team :) and a pop to average tech on a reasonable bat :)

and in today's 20/20 restricted ramshire to 68/8 and knocked them off in 11 overs. happy days

a great day for my youth team

bowled 1st and bowled the opp out for just 93. knocked it off in 14 overs lol

Lost my first game in the seniors this week( didn't put any effort into it, just used last weeks orders...lol). However my youth team claimed another easy win

another win for my youth team. 4/4 so far.

Have put up my capable 18yo bat for sale. Looking for 400k. If I get that, I'll be throwing money at my academy!!

Playing Bongo tomorrow in a youth friendly.. regularly on Thursday if you want?

Won my youth team game by 10 wickets. And I forgot to pick a team...lol
Am 1st in one league, 2nd in another and 2nd in youth league

I'm 1st in youth and 20/20 but 4th in OD thanks to my only competitive loss this season.

Sold my capable bat 18yo for 400k, tho got better ones coming through!!

popped to an excellent youth academy today as well!!

BIG game on Friday vs top of the table team so have rested my all rounders in the 20/20.

  Team (Senior)   Staples015     Talents   Gifted (Endurance)
Bats   Right hand batsman    Bowls   Right arm Fast medium
Wage   $1,774    Rating   23,720
Nationality   England    Age   17
Form   reasonable    Fatigue   rested
Experience   poor    Captaincy   ordinary
Endurance   ordinary    Training   Bowling
Batting   dreadful    Bowling   RELIABLE
Technique   average    Power   ordinary
Keeping   poor    Fielding   dreadful

shippppppppppp!!

TEN pops for the youth team and a reasonable pull. Thats why I put 70k a week into my youth team!

I had a pop to reasonable batting and reasonable bowling in the youth team, 6 tech pops and an ok bowling pull (skilled in batting... *sigh*).

Now have 2 capable and 4 reasonable bowlers and 3 reasonable batters in my youth setup.

All 3 of my teams are in the top 10 in the world too! ;)

excellent! Mine have dropped a fair bit due to rotation.. still 13th in OD and 20/20.

Putting full strength side out in 20/20, playing 1st. Should win.

Do u want to play youth friendlies every week? on Thursdays? Alternate grounds with differing wickets??

I don't mind mate, I only ever log in when you make me check it... lol

Was just thinking that surely it would give them more experience playing 2 matches a week instead of one, as well as experiencing different pitches??

I don't think friendlies count for anything in ftp, aside from fun.

Fair enough... well it'll give me more ideas about the pitch types as I dont play on too many different ones with 7 spinners out of 10 in my senior squad!

happy days

totally smashed the league leaders in the 20/20 today

top of the league!

Still unbeaten: top of the league in every league :)

There's only one other team who are any threat to me, they've only been beaten by me. But it's looking promising.

awesome!!

I lost once in OD, and once in 20/20. Both games I dropped my all rounders to rest them, still expected to win both. Didn't lol

Stll 1st/1st and 3rd in OD. Expect to be 2nd once I get my run rate up in OD, then will be going all out to SMASH the league leaders when I play them next time

Another great week, 3 straight wins, am now 1/1/2 in the leagues

17yo bowler from last weeks YP popped to capable :)  Might sell him as his secondaries aren't that good!

I now have a 17yo capable keeper, with reasonable batting to boot!

Won a tight game today!

An awesome bowling performance saw us bowl out the oppo for 132. One bowler taking 2-9 from his 8 overs, my new capable bowler also getting a cpl of wickets

In reply crusing at 104-2  when we got the wobbles, but won by 2 wickets in the end!!

NO O O O O O O O O O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




My first lost game of the season  :'(

Ouch. Mine could have easily gone that way today too

Thankfully even in youth I bat to 8 at least ( and thats with today having dropped 2 all rounders!)

I managed to win yesterday and today.

My team must be pretty good:

Senior One Day:     #3 in One Day 4.5
Ranking:    Country: 2 / 249. World: 3 / 968
Senior Twenty20:    #3 in Twenty20 3.3
Ranking:    Country: 2 / 243. World: 2 / 948
Youth One Day:    #1 in Youth One Day 4.7
Ranking:    Country: 3 / 245. World: 9 / 954

Staples015 defeated Bigglesthwaite CC by 1 wickets

Awesome youth team game today. Swung both ways so many times

Match Ratings
     Staples015    Bigglesthwaite CC
Batting - Top Order:    3,717    3,734
Batting - Middle Order:    3,097    3,271
Batting - Tail:    1,882    2,137
Bowling - Seam:    3,780 (8)    4,304 (6)
Bowling - Spin:    3,193 (2)    4,480 (4)
Fielding/Keeping:    3,564    3,950
Overall:    61,907    68,153

Some great ratings there Bongo... would be better than most senior teams!

When I get some time I may sort my teams out... ;)

had a player pop to accomplished today, only in keeping mind!

I've been invited to join some comp as one of the strongest teams in the country too... no idea how! ;)

Nice one ;)

there's an inter-country challenge thread.. I'd think you'd be wanted being ranked no 2 in the UK..

Great minds think alike!!

I've been invited too!

Is there any formula for ground size?

Wondering if I should expand...

I think they're better than my senior team too...

Youth bowlers - 2 x capable, 4 x reasonable + a few average etc
Senior - 3 x reasonable (1 of which is an allrounder (my best bat) who hasn't been bowling while I up his endurance), 2 x average.

Still, should be good for the future!

Muchos nice!!

Bowlers:

1 capable in my juniors ( tho I'm selling him as his secondaries are poor!)
2 reasonables and 5 average ( nice mix of them too)

Batters:

2 reasonable and 4 average ( pulling batters at the mo!)

Senior team

Batters:  1 capable, 2 reasonble, loads of average
Bowlers:  1 reliable, 1 capable, 1 reasonable, lots of average

Good all rounders mixed in too!!

Batting wise I have:
Youth: 3 x reasonable, 5 x average (1 all rounder)
Senior: 1 x capable, 5 x reasonable, 7 x average, 1 x ordinary (and none worse!)

And as the strength is in my bowling, its why I play on bowling pitches all the time!!

lost my 20/20 game by 1 run on the last ball of the over.
My youths are still winning easily

BOT bashed my way to a 10 wicket win :)

I got an easy win too...

Wonder what ratings I'll get when I don't have to rest one of my best bowlers every game ;)

I just found a reasonable bat in my squad that wasn't in my team for some reason... oops!

Anyone fancy a senior one day friendly next week? I fancy seeing what ratings I can get with my full team ;)

edit: make that 2 reasonable bats...

edit 2: seems I'm already the #1 team without them. Maybe I should spend more time on this game...

another win for me, still unbeaten in my (admittedly poor) league

in the cup today. Playing a dam good team..check out the figures!!

T. Driver     10     0     44     0     4.40     2     1
R. Pamenter    9    2    19    2    2.11    0    0
B. Lamb    10    1    14    1    1.40    0    0
T. McBeath    9.1    1    17    5    1.85    0    0
R. Peterson    10    3    15    0    1.50    0    0

IF I can get myself another opener...

I seem to have taken a beating in the cup, despite being #1 in the world  :'(

Oh dear!!

I sneaked through by 2 wickets.

if I can find a couple of batters ( thinking in my youth team) and an opening bowler ( typically I've got old ball bowlers and spinners) then my team is going to look fairly awesome!

Got ratings of 85,870 today. I was resting people too...

I'll play you on Thurs if this Pavilion Cup hasn't started..

lol, wish i'd realised that fatigue didn't count in the cup, would have played my full first team  ;frustrated;

Another comfortable 20/20 win, despite dropping my best 5 players :)

I was resting people and won easy too. Looking forward to seeing what ratings i get on thurs too!

indeed will be interesting..

have played 10 out of my 11 strongest players.. if I'd played all 11, I'd be playing too many spinners!!

My batting ratings are what I'm looking forward to most!

bongo u checked the FTP forums?? you've been chosen as one of the 3 top UK teams!

Yeah, not surprising as i'm #1 in the world (how?!) opposition has friendlies organised for next 2 weeks though!

you're a lucky sod???

how much u spending on your academies?

12k and 25k... losing money each week, hoping that will stop now i've expanded the ground.

Still got > 500k in the bank though ;)

that all??

you've obv got VERY lucky with your teams!!

i'm spending approx 35k and 50k on mine.. trying to build my youth up!!

You must be losing a fortune every week, and I bet there are diminishing returns from investing so much ;)

I still have over 500k, losing a bit, but selling the bit part players help ;)

I have one more player in my senior squad, and the same in my youth squad (with one for sale...)

I think the player you sold for > 400k was more than a bit part player!

true.. but I sold him cos a) he don't perform and b) I have better coming through ;)

I just realised how good some of my youths are...

all these are 17yo:

Capable bat/Capable WK
Capable bowler w/ gifted bowling and bouncer ability
Capable bowler w/ gifted endurance (not so sweet but better than nowt)
Reasonable bat/Reasonable bowler with gifted bowling and finisher ability
Reasonable bowler w/ prodigy
And another reasonable 17yo bowler too.

What have you got?

Err can I just say SWEET JESUS.. no wonder people are jealous of your squad!!

I've got 2 capable bowlers, neither with any decent talent worse luck ( BUT both 17yo!)
1 reasonable bowler with gifted tech
1 reasonable bat with reasonable tech ( skilled tech)

however I think my best player is an ordinary bat, average bowl who is a finisher with capable technique ( always performs!)

I've just promoted an 18yo reasonable bat ( as I'm short on batting in my seniors), and obv already have my 17yo reliable bowler in my seniors ( didn't read up on training properly did I lol)

The 1 thing my seniors do have going for them is that I have a v v young squad. Best current player is 25, with 2 fairly decent 22yo's as well as a good few 19yo's

I promoted 2 18yr old reasonable bowlers, and 1 18yo reasonable bat, should help boost my ratings tomorrow, along with the 2 19yo reasonable bats i promoted and forgot about.

Still have 5 reasonable+ bowlers in the youth squad.

I'm a huge luck box, lol.

Hopefully I can help England in the PCC now :)

Indeed.. I reckon you're looking approx 90k?? If I hit 82/83k i'll be fairly happy!

The one advantage if I play on a spinning pitch especially, is I have 4 bloody good senior spinners. They've not let me down.. so far

Should be an interesting game!

We'll see tomorrow!

I'd like to get some huge number just to wind up Eggy, and that aussie dude.

I'm glad everyone seems to think I am a tactical fuckwit, despite the fact I just set a default team with everyone on normal many moons ago ;)

Yeah tell me about it, the only thing I've been annoyed about this season is that I'm in div V with my sillyly good team.

My main priorities are to a) get THE best player in the game and b) to have a better team than those 2 lol

There's a div 5?  :o

Do you mean knights or spadge? I'm on about the dude who wasn't happy that he was no longer #1 in the world ;)

I think you'll need to be very lucky/rich to have the best player in the world due to training!

yeah there is believe it or not. Where I got bloody stuck. Div IV after this season for sure.

thats Scaly Piscine if memory serves.. naaa don't care about him.. Knights is actually ok, Spadge and Eggy are the 2 I want..

hopefully I'll get to play Eggy in a cpl of rounds time in the cup.. soooo praying for a home match!!

he's just a moaner, on battrick too. Don't think it was him though!

I'm not too fussed at the mo. Its a new game and its going to take a few seasons for me to get to Div 1 ( min 4, giving myself 6)

I want a POB style dominance lol

Good luck with that, i'll settle for kev style luckboxing! ;)

you've got that sussed already it seems!

Think its going to be a fairly close game at this point

Tho would be happier if my spinners didn't bowl a no ball an over!!

Oh dear, I forgot I picked an uneven pitch and set my orders for a flat one - so mostly attacking bats. Lucky I bat down to 9 then!

Happy days - the youth i promoted on tuesday (after youth training) has popped in senior training!

Only a tech pop, but still a bonus! ;)

Another capable bowler for me today .. 1 reliable & 2 capables in the seniors..2 capables in the youths.. think I'm a bowling side..

its nearly all over...

End of over 42 (2 runs) - Bigglesthwaite CC(175-9). 58 runs required from 8 overs. RR 4.17 RRR 7.25
Barstow 0 (1b) , Peters 13 (17b) , McBeath 6-0-29-3

Think you dropped a bit in the ratings!

       Bigglesthwaite CC     Staples015
Batting - Top Order:    4,962    3,859
Batting - Middle Order:    4,170    4,382
Batting - Tail:    2,579    3,228
Bowling - Seam:    4,637 (8)    4,419 (4)
Bowling - Spin:    4,947 (2)    4,933 (6)
Fielding/Keeping:    5,095    4,831
Overall:    83,045    80,778

Staples015 won by 50 runs

Well played sir!

I want a rematch though, when I don't misread the pitch type and set dumb orders, the exact opposite of what I should set.  ;ashamed;

I had a suspiscion my ratings may drop - 10 and 11 can't bat as well now, so although I think the team is stronger the ratings do suffer a bit.

Also need to round off some players with a bit of technique and fielding (and maybe some power, but waiting for them to get older for that really).

I'll get there eventually... ;)

 Next job - win the crunch od game tomorrow!

Anytime.. any pitch ;)

I went for my usual batting orders, 1 on normal, remainder on aggressive. The normal guy did get 114 no tho!!

bowling I mixed up, put my best bowler on attacking 0-60, my worst bowler on defensive, 2-28 inc 4 maidens and left my spinners too it.

I did also leave my better ( av wise anyway) batters at 8 and 9 to see what the others would do.

Also my youth promote did well ( 27 off 30) before being run out.

I had seamer on attacking - he got 1-20, the rest were defensive aside from the spinner i set as attacking (thought the wind might help). I'd set them all more attacking and a defensive spinner if I were to do it again. Less attacking batting orders and try to bat out 50.

Weird ain't it. My reliable bowler getting tonked. Think I might set him more normal/defensive till I get his tech up ( 3 levels behind his primary)

Whoosh, all that over my head. haven't read anything about this one, just pick a team and see the results. Have a poor league though

That was enough to get me to #1 in the world rotflmfao

Asa - need to check what's going on with the PCC thing before accepting your challenge.

No worries at all, have every Thurs free for a challenge.. or for me to win again???

won by 97 runs today on a flat pitch.

Nearest 2 competitors both lost :)

means I'm no 1 in all 3 leagues, and only in 20/20 is someone level in points ( my NRR is way superior)

Now for the cup match 2moro!!

now into the 3rd round of the cup, won by 7 wickets with 11 overs remaining today :)

will be playing the reagers in the next round so need to punch above my weight!!!

Promoted a cpl of 18yo's after popping today, as they won't pop again b4 they are 18, plus they boost my batting quite a bit!

Just waiting for my ord/ave all rounder to double pop b4 promoting him too ( with capable tech) as he'll perform well.

My pops:
16yo to dreadful bowling :?: I must have forgotten to fire him!
17yo to reasonable batting.
17yo to average bowling
16yo to ordinary tech
17yo to reliable bowling and ordinary endurance
17yo to reasonable bowling (this one is a prodigy)
17yo all rounder to poor endurance (plan on training this up in the senior squad when he is older)
16yo to poor tech.

I don't think it matters that they won't pop again before the end of the season - they'll still take the extra training with them to the senior academy. I'm planning on promoting my 18yos just after the last youth training of the season so they get a bonus senior training ;)

nice 17yo bowler it seems

very true about that, but my seniors definitely need a batting boost.. and 2 reasonable bats ain't a bad way to go!

Also helps me take some of the heat out of some of my batters and gives them a rest!

The 17yo reliable bowler is gifted in bowling and has the "bouncer" skill, so is rather nice. Shame he's only a medium pacer!

very nice. think it'll come in quite handy for you. good thing I suppose is that you can play him on pretty much any surface and he'll be fairly consistent.

I have found that the bouncer works in 2 ways.. either you get a wicket, or more likely ( esp amongst slower bowlers) it gets bashed to the boundary.

I've got a big game 2moro.. still top but only on NRR. Playing a decent team in 4th.. hoping that 2nd loses!

stunning performance by my youth team today.

Hit 335-1 with both openers hitting 150. In reply bowled them out for 82!!

Another couple of wins should see me wrap the division up!

MAJOR game on Friday vs 2nd in the league. Should help decide promotion, so have rested a few of my top players in training this week.

Eggy thinks my reliable youth bowler is a bug... despite you having one ages ago.

Do you think he'll be happy when I have another in the coming weeks?  ;hide;

or that by this time next year I should have 2 accomplished bowlers in my youth team??

expecting one of them to be reliable in 5 weeks or so... I need batters next... hoping for an excellent senior academy this coming week too

I should have 2 accomplished bowlers by then as well then ;)

Might take a bit longer for an accomplished bat, mine only turned capable last week - but he was capable w/k a while ago! ;)

yeah thats where I'm struggling.

Think I'll be pulling batters till the end of the season as I've got loads of bowlers coming through!

I don't have so many decent bats in my youth team, plenty of reasonable+ in my seniors though.

My problem is a lack of a quick bowler or wrist spinner, and only a couple of fast mediums.

I don't know whether to pull batsmen and boost that side, or pull bowlers and hope to get a decent strike bowler!

easy... got at least 5 weeks left this season.. try and get both!!

Another easy win for my youths. Think they are better than my seniors..lol

Now up to a superior youth academy.. and my YP's get worse each week, with lower pop amounts too!

3 games I SHOULD win this week!

I pulled a seam bowler this week and got a 16yo average bat with skilled batting  :dontask:

I see you've left it to me to avoid a whitewash against the windies too!

you do seem to be fairly lucky with the pulls lol.

Yeah this cup game. Still annoyed by it. Had the best batter and the best bowler, as well as probably the 2 better all rounders. had them in all sorts of trouble at 91-4, with 5 overs of reasonable, 10 overs of capable and 5 overs of reliable left, and they scored at pretty much a run a ball for the last 25 overs. batting wise, only really had 2 out of my TEN average+ batters perform. Highly annoyed

Another convincing 20/20 win

Bowled out the opposition for 62 in the 15th over, my only spinner ( my 4th best) took 4-7!

Knocked them off for the loss of 1 wicket in the 8th.

Still lead all 3 leagues, but the 20/20 will be defined by one match, 1st v 2nd as we're level on points ( tho I'm ahead on NRR) which is the 2nd last fixture of the season at their place.

I won my 20:20 too. Div 2 awaits I think!  ;D

Bloody luckboxes getting in early. I'll be in div 2.. might take 3 seasons or so but I'll be there!

lost on 2nd last delivery

Managed a decent win today - thought I was going to lose for 90% of the match but a 150 run unbeaten partnership got me over the line!

Think I managed the 3rd highest youth ratings in the world this week. I'm hopeful I can get #1 in the world at some point next season, as all my players are 16/17 and all the players above me have some players that will either be promoted or stop improving next season...

Didn't realise it till the match had finished ( damn moving), that it was a BOT bash.

Hit 311-4 in my 40 overs, bowled them out for 125. Still top by 8 points :)


Nice one.. still luckboxing it seems ;)

I need some prime luck boxing tomorrow, need to stop the windies whitewash you got me into :P

As punishment, I dropped my players who didnt perform for the 20/20 and making them play a friendly on a sticky :)

As punishment I give my players rubbish orders and expect them to win anyway!

I've enlisted help for tomorrow though ;)

haha fair enough

got a random challenge n thought sod it lol

Gives me an idea about my other players too

Think I've found someone who might be a semi decent player

16yo with ordinary batting, average tech, average power, and ordinary fielding.. poor bowling poor endurance.. plus he's a boundary hitter...

without that talent activating today, he hit 54no from 23 deliveries!

Looks like he could be a decent batter chap!

Indeed.. think he'll be trained on batting for the next 2 years, his endurance will go up at some stage, he's also a semi decent captain too!

Job done... 90k rating too.

I am a luck box.

Now have 7 reasonable + bowlers in my youth team. No idea what to do with them all!

yep you're definitely a luckbox!!

2 capable ( both 17) 1 reasonable ( also 17) with 1 17yo reliable in the 1st team, with 2 more capables and 2 more reasonables ( all but one under 22)

Have a 24 match winning streak with my senior team so have jumped to supporters blowing kisses :)

new team in 20/20 2moro, by worst 11 players more than doubles his ratings :)

I think I have 28 reasonable+ primaries (bat/bowl/wk) across both of my squads.

Only 5 of those are over 21.

Thats too many, stop being greedy and give me 1 for next season :)up :)up :)up

I sold a 17yo average bowler for £5k last week. He'd be reasonable next season!

My problem is they are all medium pacers. Except the finger spinner!  ;frustrated;

I'm starting to get a good mix

top 5 in the seniors are 2 fast mediums, 1 medium, and 2 finger spinners

in my youth its mainly mediums too.. praying for a lovely fasy bowler!!

I have 2 reasonable FMs in my seniors, and an average 16yo FM in my youth (with old ball talent). Still need a quick or two and a wristy though!

not too worried about wristys... I have 5 finger spinners in my senior squad, and all take more than enough wickets ;)

I'm more concerned with my batting..2 capables 3 reasonables in my senior squad, just the 4 reasonables in my youths... so pulling batters every week at the mo!

My senior batting is pretty strong, less so in my youths but it isn't spectacularly weak, or a real cause for concern.

I would be pulling batters though, if I wasn't in the hunt for a decent fast bowler!

105 run win today with an 81k rating

opener got 107no from 61 deliveries, and is in red hot form (143no in last OD, think I'm being told not to rest him again haha) with 39no from 19 deliveries for my recent youth promotee

Only disappointments when bowling was not to bowl them out ( tho did get 9 wickets) and my spinner bowling consecutive no balls :s

Still top all 3 leagues.

Only have 2 games left to worry about. A 20/20 game which will decide the title, and a OD game vs 2nd ( tho I'm 4 points clear he has a better NRR)

4 wicket maiden!  ;nana;

yeah wasn't a bad over was it?

Think I need to get the tech up on some of my youths. And stamina. be interesting to see how quick endurance pops..

From my point of view it was a very good over!

Really dented your chances.

My reliable bowler did pretty poor considering the favourable conditions.

Have a bot bash tomorrow, i'm in a 3 way NRR race for first. Luckily my 4 games are against 3 bots and 5th place, whereas their run ins are harder (and they have to play each other... would love that to be a tie!)

Of course!! Its strange.. my 1st team is full of spinners, my youth isn't.. as I don't particularly NEED one I ain't looking either ( at least for another season or 2)

These are my capable's figures

D. McMenamin (lm)     8     0     49     2     6.12     2     0

which is a lil disappointing. He can probably be sold next year as my other capable is a much better prospect ( also faster which helps)

Well my reliable had the same figures and 2 less wickets!

My capable spinner didn't too much good either...

The reasonable one with the lowest tech did fine though  :dontask:

A win today.. quite exciting too

hit 216-3 in my 50, doesn't sound much, but on my crumbling pitch, its worth 300 or more on most pitches. My best bat scored 92no.

They reached 131-3 at half way, but managed to rip through them to bowl them out in the next 7 overs..

       Staples015     Hawkinge Express
Batting - Top Order:    4,426    4,090
Batting - Middle Order:    4,377    3,822
Batting - Tail:    2,494    3,224
Bowling - Seam:    4,893 (4)    3,279 (6)
Bowling - Spin:    5,283 (6)    4,444 (4)
Fielding/Keeping:    5,092    4,619
Overall:    83,605    73,902

Happy with the ratings too..1st v 2nd next week to decide the title...

had a friendly today vs no 1 ranked in the country. Lost by just 3 wickets with 11 deliveries to go. if my star bowler and best 2 bats had performed, I would've sneaked it!

Only because I rested players in a bot bash! ;)

Dropped 10k in ratings :(

fair enough.. I was 6k below in ratings..

      Yorkshire Puddings     Staples015
Batting - Top Order:    4,583    4,504
Batting - Middle Order:    4,845    4,490
Batting - Tail:    4,176    2,736
Bowling - Seam:    4,594 (8)    4,806 (4)
Bowling - Spin:    5,319 (2)    5,358 (6)
Fielding/Keeping:    5,558    4,746
Overall:    90,609    84,108

i'm not too fussed about the lack of the tail..am focusing on my bowling and my top/middle order batting.. and just hoping I pull a keeper at some point.. but my current best batter in the youths ( at 17) is a skilled keeper and he's not too bad already so he might well be the answer in the future..

I have a capable bat/capable keeper in my youth team ;)

I think the ratings are skewed somewhat by the tail - it gets 60% of the points of the entire bowling line up!

At the moment I can bat to 11, and have another all rounder in my youth team. Will be interesting to sort that lot next season!

The Twenty20 title for my division is mine now.

My only rivals were Hungryasthesea, and I convincingly beat them today:

Beloved Ltd:         142 runs for 5 wickets off 20 overs
Hungryas the sea:  98  runs all out off 18.4 overs



I think they're going to take the youth title, which only leaves the decider for the one day to decide which of us gets the majority.

n1 Jon

I SHOULD win the OD league, I'm 4 points clear, play 2nd this week. Even if I lose, I have 2 very new teams to smash the following 2 weeks, and he has a hard game vs 3rd week after playing me

The 20/20 is going to be decided next week, 1st v 2nd

League promotion position1     Staples015     12     10     2     0     40     +1.9629     1326 / 192.4     1161 / 236.0
   2    Podges piglets    12    10    2    0    40    +1.7845    1611 / 223.2    1293 / 238.1

Youth league I should win 2moro, as I've got a huge NRR advantage over 2nd, with an 8 point lead.

nice easy win for my youth team today.

means barring miracles ( I'm up 8 points with 2 games left with a massive NRR advantage) I've won that league

Same for me, I have better NRR but if that comes into play I doubt it will stay better (as i'll have lost 2 games and oppo will have won 2).

Similar in 20 20, I'm 8 points clear of third (top 2 go up), 2 points behind 1st. Play 1st and 3rd in last 2 matches.

In 3 way tie on points in OD me ahead on NRR, but I have the easiest run in, 2 bots and the worst human team to play. 2nd and 3rd play each other last game of the season too, but again think it will be academic!

Trying out a strong team in 20:20 friendly tomorrow as I want to see what ratings I can get in that format. Thinking of trying a quick charge up to #1 in the world if poss ;)

yeah it should be a good game.

obv strongest team out for me too, with some tweaks to the team, adding batting and changing my batting and bowling orders.

need to find some working orders for my best bowler, as I've tried loads without success.

shiiipppp the OD title...

played my nearest competitors today, and handed them a smashing..

they batted 1st, on a flat pitch, ideal conditions for batting, and we bowled them out for 147!!!  My opener took 2 early wickets, tho expensive, but my spinners just ripped through them.

B. Lamb (rfs)     10     0     37     4     3.70     2     3
T. McBeath (rfs)    9    1    33    1    3.67    0    0
J. Holmes (rfs)    8.3    1    27    3    3.18    2    0

Pretty astonishing figures for a batting pitch too.. just wish Lamb would stop the no balls and wides.

In reply, knocked off the runs before the half way point, losing just 2 wickets in the process. Bonus was that I put my average keeper in as a pinch hitter, and he hit 71no from 62 deliveries, meaning I could play my stronger batters further down the order :)

I lost 7 wickets and just managed to limp over the line against a bot.

Flat pitch, all bats on normal, pretty much my strongest team - just had the all rounders in the tail to save fitness. All players were rested or revived too.

Don't know what they were playing at!

won mine easily again, have now won the league, should also win the youth league.

My youth pull: 17yo reasonable medium pacer.

Always medium pacer :(

got me a 16yo batter, tho he's poor.. he has better tech and power so I can just train him batting for the next 2 seasons :)

MaHOOSive game 2moro for me.. strong side coming up!

I'm hoping to have the best T20 ratings in the world tomorrow.

If I win I'm promoted!

Then I need to concentrate on OD, some how my easy run in has gone tits up.

I'm playing 5th who have got a lot better, my rivals are playing 3rd who have got a lot worse. Neverends!

Think I just about managed to get the best ratings... definitely secured promotion though!

Same again tomorrow, but without the best in the world bit (I can only hope!).

Asa - how are you planning on sustaining your academies once they get to the top? I'm confused, given how hard it is to make money in the game, how you can afford to spend so much!

I have started to hit it hard for the first 2 seasons, then rein it back slightly seeing as its not really doing too much. Last season I finished 2nd in all 3 divisions, which meant I had a fair bit of extra cash. I then sold, what on paper looked like an AWESOME youth player for 441k.. he was a batsman, but I have much better ones coming through ( and I didn't really need him).

I'm spending approx 70k on academies at the mo, and intend to spend somewhat less next season. It means I'll save a lot over the course of a season, meaning I don't  need to make as much from transfers, which won't be a problem. I have 2 17yo capable bowlers, one of whom WILL be sold next season.

It also helps having a winning team, my average weekly loss is about 40k at the mo, and with my team being a decent one in the league, it draws higher crowds etc.

Will definitely be selling off a couple of my older players at the end of this season, as I'm promoting my other 4 18yo's. I only have 3 slots to maintain top efficiency, so 3 will be going..all that helps :)

I'm not exactly doing too badly on the winning front myself... :P

The thing is if you pull back your academy spending too much the levels will decrease. And then there's the extra wages next season that will need to be paid :(

My youth squad is pretty sick:
1 x reliable medium pacer
1 x capable finger spinner
1 x reasonable bat/reasonable bowl finger spinner
6 x reasonable medium pacers.

All medium pacers! Planning on training 3 of them to capable and then flogging them for cash, and keeping the best 3 to help my push for top ranked youth team in the world next season.

true. i might even be able to manage to keep it up. haven't decided yet. will wait n see how high my wages will be. Definitely want to keep them near excellent.. which costs about 2 x average

Your wages will be fine, I have my weekly reasonable medium pacer youth pulls to worry about :(

Another convincing win from my youth team, and thats another title wrapped up. the only one that isn't certain is the 20/20 as i'm playing a decent team on Tuesday ( or at least they got within 8 runs last time.

Won today which leaves me just 1 win from taking all 3 titles this season.. roll on Tuesday!

wooooooooooo

just the TEN pops today :)

Lost today, but calculated I should have 5 bots in my 20 20 league next year. So hopefully I can gain easy promotion (top 2 go up I think), rest players and kick some arse in the cup and OD league! ;)

Also managed to acquire a wrist spinner yesterday, so shouldn't be so vulnerable on spinning pitches any more!

edit: got it wrong... 4 bots.

Should avoid relegation at least!

Comfortable win guaranteeing winning all 3 of my divisions :)

8k capacity crowd, and 82716 rating :)

Just need to find 1 bowler I think ( one of my promotees maybe ;) ) and I'll have a stunning bowling attack!

Anyone want a friendly tomorrow?

am booked up I'm afraid.. people want to play meeee.... I let them win by playing a crap team too :)

4k crowd today.. record for my youth team.

if I get a good crowd on Friday, I might even break even for the week lol

People want to play me too, but I left thursday free for a match in the LMS comp, only for him to arrange a match and so I'm playing him Sunday and high and dry for Thurs...

sucks when that happens!!

leaving my thursday's free for friendlies I think next season, not going to get too involved in anything!

all 3 leagues won so maximum prize money.. membership being bought on Friday.. in time for the new season, so I can track exactly my academy ups n downs..

just praying that my 17yo goes accomplished tomorrow!

stunning win for my team today.

83k rating, and a near 8000 crowd put me in profit for the week!!!

Scored 422-4 with my opener getting 152, and then bowled them out for just 79 :)

10 wicket win for me today.
have won my 1 day and youth leagues

new fixtures/leagues up.

SHIIPPPP the 454k in prize money :)

SHHHIIIPPP that I made a profit this week b4 the prize money :)

397k in prize money for me, have a balance of over 1m now despite never improving ground or buying/selling players

nice one.. I'm nearly at 1m. Mainly thanks to my 8k stadium filling out, last week was the 1st week I'd made a profit ( except for weeks with player sales and prize money) so I'm pretty happy :)

After the 1st week of the season, I SHOULD see that I can continue with my academy investment without losing too much!

Have dipped under 1m having decided to put 2000 extra seats in, see what extra income it brings me.

88k rating today in a friendly, and chased down 300+ :)

96k for me, and through to the next round of LMS.

Have a team in my Div 5 one day league who are rated 47th in the world?????

I'm in Div 4 rated 4 in the world...   ;ashamed;

Bigglesthwaite CC >> Matt Noack >> Details
Team (Senior)   Bigglesthwaite CC    Talents   Finisher
Bats   Right hand batsman    Bowls   Right arm Medium
Wage   $1,268    Rating   26,421
Nationality   England England    Age   19
Form   reasonable    Fatigue   revived
Experience   dreadful    Captaincy   average
Endurance   ordinary    Training   Bowling
Batting   poor    Bowling   average
Technique   average    Power   average
Keeping   ordinary    Fielding   ordinary

Current Bid: $100,000

Still a few days to go too...

Now have I just got a great price here, or am I completely out of touch with the market?

You've got a great price. Someone's looked at his rating and bought him based on that. i've just sold my worst capable youth bowler ( he has no secondaries to speak of) for 350k. Its crazy.

I listed him for 0.

Looking forward to selling the players I don't want at some point soon - 3 of them are capable already, should get me 500k+ each when they turn reliable and I sell!

Prodigy might even sneak to accomplished before I list him!

Upto £110k now, 3 different teams have valued him > £100k  :dontask:

Still an hour to go too! Will pay for most of a new youth I am going to bid on!  ;D

amcgrath1uk - National Manager nominee - don't forget to vote people  :)up

FYP!

 ;nana;

;nana;

Cheers by the way Jon

Didn't want to push too hard on here or anywhere else, if I get it I get it, if not ah well, will go for the u-19s

tbh, I don't think anyone will be able to beat bc8 and his mates. I did vote for you though :P

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cheers lol.. does that mean I need to invite you into the discussions if I win ;)

I've had quite a few pms from people on there telling me they've voted for me..knew I had to get votes from somewhere so have done a lil bit of brown nosing... tbh I'd want it more the next time it comes up.. but we'll see ;)

fwiw I have voted for you too

thats about 6 votes then

be interested to see how close I get

Thanks for the support :)

Best of luck mate ;)

Youth One Day:     #1 in Youth One Day 3.2
Ranking:    Country: 1 / 290. World: 5 / 1075

Woo! ;D

Makes up for sliding down the senior rankings! (extreme resting thanks to the cup!)

I've done the same and still managed this in 20/20

Senior Twenty20:     #3 in Twenty20 4.2
Ranking:    Country: 4 / 287. World: 5 / 1066

Must be leftover from last season!

I don't think you've been taking resting to the extremes I have! ;)

true, i did have to play 2 1st teamers today, but they will only be batting low down on Sunday, am jiggling my batting order to have the more experienced coming in 3/4/5, so i'll have capable bats going in at 6/7/8 :)

that youth ranking is so inconsistent, I have dropped 200 places in the world according their rankings, despite pissing all my youth games

It's based entirely on match ratings, not performance. So if you've promoted some good players you're likely to fall in the ratings.

indeed.. mine's dropped enormously.. my senior reserve side has risen a bit tho ;)

My resting for the cup is now at its utmost... have got my senior academy to a bloody high level so have decided to take a small hit on the training % and now have 22 in my senior squad... should still win 20/20 and prob OD with my reserves... would like my youth team to demote.. and then promote next season for max cash ;)

I don't have anyone in my squad (of 20) below revived... ;)

haha mine are still shattered after a fairly important OD then cup game on the bounce... the 1st team will only be playing once a week until I'm out of the cup :)

As I haven't bothered to read about the game until this week( and why would you when you pissed 2 outta 3 leagues without even picking the teams) I haven't promoted any players.

How odd.

What's your team name I'll take a look!

fk my life, I'm a Mod.

Asa... you're banned!  ;danafish;

nooooooooooooooooo

cheesecake

You have 4 19yos who won't be getting any more training in the youth system, so I think others will improve faster than you and so your ranking will drop.

ok, still find it strange that my players are playing better, have more experience, are winning but get poorer ratings. Still as long as i keep winning who cares!

Yikes! My player has just made his international debut against the aussies! Batting at 6 and bowling.

nice one bongo(see what mod privileges gets ya...lol)

Well he got bashed a bit with the ball, but did ok with the bat ;)

He's a batting all rounder on a batsman's pitch!

Still hit the winning runs  :P

I've got a got a couple of bowling all rounders who should be knocking on the door... esp as they are due pops..

Mine last popped in bowling last year :P

mine are older.. 23 and 26... but they have good experience... reasonable/reliable for both is very close ;)

Mine only has capable experience.

Will be reliable/capable/capable soon though :P

weeeppp

Just looking forward to when my 18yo bowler becomes expert later this season :)

I've got 2 not far behind, with good all round stats 2, although 1 does need a little more power.

I'm hoping the one with gifted bowling might be able to overtake you at some point!

From what I can see.. it doesn't make that much difference.. maybe half a week or so..

Every little helps!

I might have 4 players in the U19 squad, and one will probably make the Bermudan squad in a couple of years. Will have to be careful if that's the case, could really weaken my team!

I know one of mine will make it.. possibly a couple more too

it won't make any difference this season tho... next season onwards...

I have 2 reliable bowlers, a soon to be double reliable keeper bat (with decent tech and fielding!) and a soon to be double capable all rounder (with gifted bowling and finisher).

I'd be very surprised to not have 1 make the squad!

Looks like we're both through in the cup... it's getting difficult from here onwards!

I can't afford a slip up in the league either, so I imagine I will lose in the next couple of rounds...

Thats why you have the better team... total luckbox in getting that lot ;)

I've got BOTS/easily beatable teams in the next few weeks of OD, but a tough game in the cup next against Whackers..

I'm looking forward to next season - I can add all that to my existing squad! Should make the fatigue management pretty easy and still allow me to put out a strong team across all 4 comps.

Yup same here.. next year will be all about tactics and team selection!

Bowling   Overs   Maidens   Runs   Wickets   Econ   No balls   Wides
R. Pamenter (rfm)    10    0    38    3    3.80    1    1

B. Lamb (rfs)    9.3    1    18    7    1.89    2    0


2 man bowling team???

Obv! ;)

Tough games start here (or rather did yesterday!)

I can't believe how well my bowlers did - first 20 overs were just carnage.

Can either of us go all the way? Good luck against Knights, he'll be a tough nut to crack! I know he's been getting advice from Rift, so maybe you should look at my game (on a crumbler) for some ideas of what he might do.

I look at all previous games when I'm playing hard opponents ;)

Definite crumbling pitch, pretty happy with my tactics...

Going to need luck certainly, hoping for Lamb to pop this week, and possibly ( tho I think he's a week or 2 off) Pamenter. Can go in with an all capable min bowling attack... just hope its enough.. and that I bowl 1st!!

You're game isn't going to be easy either!

My game is easier than last week!

My point was knights has been taking tips from rift, who I beat this week, so if you want to take a look then do so.

I think rift's bats were too aggressive, and know that knights had both openers on aggressive last week...

I tend to have my worse batsmen aggressive, so one of my openers, then if it gets to them, down the order as I bat to 10 now. Against stronger teams, I also play one batsmen on defensive to try and hold the innings together.

usually put all my best bats, ie 2-6 on normal, as they are good enough to play vs most.

I hope he does put a few on aggressive, as it plays into my hands with my bowling order. I know that a lot of teams play aggressively, ie go for max runs in 30-40th over, so I tend to play my best bowler and 2nd best spinner ( esp at home) and they tend to destroy teams or put the last 10 under so much pressure they fold going for silly runs in the last 10.

Think I may have also surprised a few teams with my near 93k rating ;)

I STILL have a player or 2 I could add to the team to get a higher rating if needs be ;)

Anything you can send me is good tho ;)

I enjoyed that!

My main point was attack early and you should pick up some wickets which is always good (aggressive openers) if you pick up more you can wrap the game up in the first 10. I guess Pamenter usually opens the bowling on attack though!

He does, and he comes back on before people expect him too as well. Stick in my highest tech bowler on the other end on defensive, as he bowls superbly on it. ( 10-3-16-2 last time, 10-2-21-0 game before, 10-1-28-2 the one before that)

I'm PRAYING I bowl first so I can chase. I won't have a single batsman on defensive either, with approx half the team on aggressive. Way I look at it is if one of them gets 70-80+ I should win...

Sounds risky to me, especially if you want to chase!

It does sound risky, but it actually isn't...

My nos 6-10 will all be on aggressive as usual, and my wk who opens will be too. My best 4 batsmen will be on normal..

Well that worked bloody well.

despite conceding 214 we chased it down bloody comfortably. Not bad against the no 1 ranked team in the world :)

Both myself and Bongo in the last 8 too :)

Vital home draw for me against the rather nasty spin of Jeanz. Need to figure out who my 4th and 5th bowlers will be!

Have a tough match on Friday too :(

Same here, but at home on a crumbler on Friday, so may just take the risk with my reserves

Is the academy woth it on this game? Didin't put any money into it last season. This season have been putting 30k a week in and my academy is still meagre. Training pops and YP haven't been any better either!

I'd say so yeah. You need to invest the average into an academy ( approx 19k youths, approx 16k senior) to get it to move towards satisfactory. The higher the academy, the quicker the pop times ( tho its not a huge difference) and with the youths, its more likely to get a better youth pull every week.

Both of my academies are at superior, my senior academy will probably pop as well soon, all financed by selling off good youths who wouldn't get anywhere near playing in my senior squad ;)

Yeah I see there are a couple of levels before satisfactory, but I haven't moved up yet. If no joy next week will scrap funding the academy. be better off buying players with the money. All my YP are poor, wouldn't even play em in my youth team

for the 1st time since the start of the game, i've lost all 3 matches this week. WEEP..

I lost today. Was expecting to as oppo were better than me, though don't get my best bowlers going for 8 or 9 runs an over when they never go for more than 5 on a bad day

managed to somehow lose a game today after batting first and scoring 360. Suddenly my decent bowlers were going for 10 runs an over...lol

Ouch

I was probably one wicket away from losing to a BOT. They had 40k ratings, I had 88k!!!

Anyone fancy a 26 year old England bowler?

The bidding stands at £900,000, ends tomorrow at 1350.

Looking good for six figures, which would fund my training facilities for a good while.

Tempted, however already have 1 better bowler ( at 18) and 1 who has the same skill level, but not tech ( also 18) and both are rfm.

I need a class bat however

I have a rfm who is 19 and only a level behind (with skilled bowling too), and don't have that money on hand yet (multimillion pound sales coming soon! ;))

I'm also looking more for batsmen, as my bowling unit is starting to look pretty nice!

I have a crop of young bowlers who will overtake him next season. I figure that right now he's one of the better players in the game but that this time next season there will be many more better than him and much younger. For those reasons I'm cashing in now, while his value should be at it's highest at least in relative terms. That and I'm running low on funds, keeping the academies improving is expensive!

You got a hell of a lot for him, well done..

Don't think anyone could afford Pamenter if I sold him! Or at least, for how much I'd want for him!!

Won 2 of my leagues and got 412k in prizemoney. Up to 1.5m

same here



my leagues are looking damn easy for next season. Pretty much guaranteed 12 wins in both leagues, with having 1 damn good opponent in both leagues, and 1 ok in my 20/20.

This week is going to be pretty sick. Best player out all week after hitting a big ton and then bowling in the cup. Decent team tomorrow in T20. Decent team weds in youth. #8 in England on Friday (My 2nd team should out rate them though... now that is sick) and then a cup match on Sunday.

I've got an easy 20/20 game, tho playing a strong team, semi decent youth team, and a BOT on Friday :)

Full strength for the cup :)

Obv!

Would just like an easy game at some point in the near future!

Must be tough having 2 teams, 1st team ranked no 1, 2nd team would prob rank top 30..

It is when you have to take on #8 in England/ #26 in the world with them!

suppose...

playing my best XI youths on Thurs.. be interesting to see what they get!

95750 to beat.

Bonus points for setting record high ratings and then losing  ;ashamed;

won't get that as they don't bat deep enough.

I reckon 85kish

Only have one all rounder in the side pulling 95k.

Then 2 ordinary bats and 2 poors. Hardly batting deep!

The all rounder is pretty nice though!

My line up is:

rel/cap ( + rel keep)
rel/cap ( +skilled tech)
cap/reas ( 17yo!)
cap/cap ( boundary hitter)
rel/cap ( finisher)
reas/reas ( skilled bat)
cap/cap/reas ( 1st teamer)
reas/reas/ord ( my project)
poor/accomp/reas
Pamenter
dread/rel/cap

not too bad

Pulled in just short of 88k.. am sure it would be higher if I played my good spinner ( who can't bat to save his life)

League match man with 2nd team despite being out rated by several thousand!

It did play into my hands a little by him having a spinners pitch - top spinners out today, top seamers out in the cup on Sunday.

sigh

that is all

Looks like we've got a good showing in the cup this season - I see 3 of us left in the last 32 - Asa, Donkey and my bunch of reprobates.

Not a bad showing at all!!

congrats to the donkey in particular...myself and Bongo should manage it most of the time!

TBH I've found it quite tricky juggling all 4 balls and finances dictate a mid season sale at Pony Park.

So I won't cry too much in the likely event of defeat on Sunday.

How do you guys stay ahead financially? I invest quite a lot in my academies and survive by selling players, but I'm not sure this is sustainable without parting with prize assets as my wage bill rises. It might work out okay, but there does not seem to be that much money sloshing round.

Post your finances and we'll have a gander...

This Week

Income                            Expenses

Gate Takings:   $19,888    Ground Maintenance:   $10,000
Sponsorship:   $65,630    Player Wages:         $100,114
Prizemoney:   $0            Academies:                  $136,000
Player Sales :   $127,627    Player Purchases :   $0
Player Sales:   $0            Player Purchases :   $0
                                    Transfer Listing Fees:   $3,000

Weekly Income:   $213,145    Weekly Expenses:   $249,114

Weekly Balance:   -$35,969    Overall Balance:          $166,498

Last Week

Income                          Expenses
Gate Takings:   $114,393    Ground Maintenance:   $8,000
Sponsorship:   $65,630    Player Wages:          $99,392
Prizemoney:   $0            Academies:            $136,000
Player Sales:   $0           Player Purchases:           $0
                             Transfer Listing Fees:   $0

Weekly Income:   $180,023    Weekly Expenses:   $243,392

Weekly Balance:   -$63,369    Overall Balance:   $202,467


My academies are at lavish/luxurious and my investment is the minimum required to keep them improving. The sale of Seymour kept me going through last season but the academy investment has increased a lot and I have no desire to keep selling my best players. I may well get by just selling my not quite so good players, but I'm just not sure if my business model is sound...

And I thought I spent a lot on my academies!!

I find superior acadmies are more than adequate, as the difference it makes up the next level is negligible. Saying that, on a good week, like last week, I broke even ( if it weren't for me expanding my stadium to 16k!)

What I did in terms of money is assess my squad in terms of age and quality.. ie batting wise the oldest I had was Reid at 25, meaning I could sell a youngster or 2 and not lose out


13 Oct 2008    Sold    Curtis Cula-Reid    The Gangsta's    $750,000
12 Oct 2008    Sold    Bruce Dickinson    The Highlanders    $1,200,000

Dickinson, at the time, was the 2nd highest skilled bowler I had behind Pamenter, but his secondaries were pretty low in comparison to another, younger bowler.

Oh, and play your best youths in the senior side, and whatever's left, put in the youths. Means you may lose a few more youth games, but the added experience will come in invaluable at a later date ( seeing how experience seems to be mega important in this game)

PPS Always looking to improve my squad, so if you put someone good up for sale, I'll probably go for him ;)

Check out Andrew Willcocks

http://www.fromthepavilion.org/player.htm?playerId=70432


I pretty much operate in the way you describe, I have plenty of valuable players so there's no danger of going skint, It's just I'd prefer to keep as many as possible!

I suppose I'm just paying the price for not really giving the game enough attention in the first couple of seasons...

must say I didn't until past halfway in the 1st season.. just wonder how many of my 20yo's would be even better!!

Wilcocks is a very nice player, esp with being an LFM.. won't get in my 1st team, and would JUST sneak into my 2nd...

I only lost 7k last week and that was with a 50k (money) stadium expansion.

I'm also lucky that I have most of my home games in the second half of the season so should get better attendances from them.

It seems to me your problem is your academy spending, so you can either sell to keep it up or lower your spending in that area.

Your wages are around the same level as mine too, so you must have some good players.

I think you really need to concentrate on getting promoted as that will bring you more money from sponsorship and gate receipts.

Good luck against Jeanz - he knocked me out in the quarter finals 2 seasons ago!

Thanks chaps.

Great result today sir!!

GOGOGO Ponies!

I made it to round 7 too.

Managed to avoid a clash with my league mate Blue Royster Cult, as he went out. I'm guessing that he'll win the league now though. Still got T20 to win though ;)

Revolution are no walkover tho!

I'm on top at the mo, could do with some more wickets!

Neither are BRC and they have 4 points on me in the league... which is the only thing left for him to win.

If I lose to revolution I should be able to recover enough fatigue in the week to have a decent shot at BRC, but if I don't it seems better to concentrate on the cup.

Wow.

Feck me, I crushed him!

Nice one Bongo. Good luck Staples.

sigh :/

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please beat Scaly. The whole world is depending on you!

Any help you want at all just ask!! He MUST lose.

gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl for the game 2moro

ty

I have my best XI out, fit and keen.

Bowling first, I have them at 63-3 after 12.

I need 49 from 5 overs, just 2 wickets down. With my best bats in there is a glimmer of hope....

GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!

30 from 3...

19 from 12 balls...

9 needed from the last over. Eeeeek!

Feck.

so so sick  >:(

On tilt today Bongo?

I think that's the worst batting effort I've ever seen from my team, bar Peters and Symonds (he will be awesome soon!).

It's not just the loss of wickets but a bat on normal scoring 6 from 36 balls (s/r 16) and then getting out.

Still don't think Green would have been the right pitch though!

Now get out there and win me a kite! ;)

Indeed... your bats sucked today..

I'm running well.. lost every race so far lol

For Sale.

Herbert Rimmington

Team (Senior)   Ruswarp Ponies     Talents   Spin Specialist, Safe Hands
Bats   Right hand batsman    Bowls   Right arm Fast
Wage   $6,828    Rating   28,001
Nationality   England England    Age   22
Form   reasonable    Fatigue   revived
Experience   average    Captaincy   ordinary
Endurance   average    Training   Batting
Batting   expert    Bowling   dreadful
Technique   expert    Power   dreadful
Keeping   atrocious    Fielding   dreadful

Upto $500,000 already

I see Asa is going for the U19 job, remind me when voting time comes around!

He was on my list... I have too many bats in my senior squad already :/

Will be sending u a message when voting starts ;)

Me too, think he'd be around 8th choice in my squad by the time I got his fielding up... still a nice player though!

GL with the election Asa, hopefully you'll win it and be distracted in SOD games  ;whistle;

Ty

Voting is now open so go go go go

Just one more day left to vote... go go go go

Just seen this but got my vote in before the deadline

Congratulations Asa!

Good luck!

tyty

obv luckboxed the position.. now to kill all!!

I can't log into this today, anyone else have probs?

The domain renewal has gone pear shaped so the domain no longer points to the server. The IP address still works:

http://206.225.86.135/

Congrats on the Mod job Asa

cheers

I sure have done any work

Does it have any effect on your players being in the national squad?  2 of my players are now in the squad!!

Yeah definitely. Who are these players?

If they play in actual U19 or NAT games, rather than friendlies, they get a decent exp boost!

I doubt they are good enough tbh
my team in ftp is cheesecake

sigh
Asa dropped one of my U19 players ;)....and I voted for him...lol

Mind you the one that played was rubbish so he'll probs get dropped too

LOL

Just mixing things up, looking at as many players as I can ;)

no probs, was only joking
surprised they got a game as there are better players in the squad.
Have a couple in my youths who may be future contenders for U19

One of my assistants is compiling lists of 16yo's for the next U19 manager. I think the season 11 WC ( 3 seasons time), the English u19 team is going to be montrous looking at some of the 16yo's we're getting.

I don't always look at just primary/tech btw, the best performing player at the last WC for us was the best balanced player in the squad!

Have noticed that my youth pulls have been mostly 16yr olds lately, and pretty good too, compared to last few seasons.

sigh... mbn!

well it is but I have loads who are 19 so my team will be shite next year.
will probs sell most of em too, and for sod all, as they wont be good enough for my senior team

WIIIIIIIIIIIII
Asa picked 2 of my players for the U19 touring squad

Asa didn't pick the squad this time, tho to be fair, I'd have picked them anyway!

lol
TBF I don't think mckenzie is good enough, robinson is better, so is mann
But then my youths are in div 5 so wtf do I know..lol

The difference is that McKenzie is 18, so he'll have another season and a half training before the next U19 WC. Obv your current 19yo's will be too old to play in the WC. Forward planning ;)

I've never taken that much notice of FTP until I got players picked for the U19.
Whats a good amount to be putting into the academy every week? I currently put £22k into youths, and zero into seniors
Have £2.3m in the bank

lol fair enough

I did have a fair bit until I spent 2.6m on a player ;)

Errrr I put about 104k a week into mine, slightly more into youths than seniors. But I choose to run at a loss each week, selling off players and prize money to thrive. Seemed to work so far!

Fairly sure Bongo has a fair bit of cash.

I never seem to get much when I sell players. Got 30k for a cap cap. Usually only get a k or 2 for YPs.

I usually lose a few k each week, balance increase comes via prize money

Used to put 35k into youth and 20k into senior. Academy level stayed same as is now for youths and although seniors academy went up training performance/pops didn't so scrapped it.

to make ANY money you need to train up to exp/exp at the least I've found.

ok cheers

Training is scarce in this game so it doesn't make any money (unless you have an awesome academy - but even then I would imagine the costs outweigh the gain in value).

I have a fair chunk of cash, but I'm sitting on it while I try and figure out what a sustainable level of wages will be.

I've started to scale down my spend levels on academies. Want them to drop the same amount as my wages rise next season. Its gonna be painful.

Think I need to sell a player or 2 as I'm expecting a big name or 2 to be leaving, hence their players will be available if they get sold.

I've made a profit this season (so far, but prizemoney should keep it up) so it's not so much of an issue for me.

All I really need is a young(ish) seam all rounder as McAndrew is starting to get a bit old.

New site layout for this    -   Personally I don't like it, what do others think

I think I won all 3 div 1 titles in England this season.

Not a fan of the light blue but options to change colour will come soon.

Otherwise mostly positive once you've set preference back to grid layout.

What don't you like?

bumping to see if anyone fancies starting up a team in this?

afaik only Asa and I play atm...

Couldn't get on with From The Pavilion at all.  A few of us still play Battrick though.

Same as sheriff, I used to play it but forgot about it and my team got booted.

Was never as smooth as battrick though. I always had odd results too, losing games I should win and vice versa

Very old bump but Asa and I are still playing this and always on the lookout for new players.

For those still here that did play in the early days, some sad news. Ashario (Matt Krevs), the designer of the game, passed away last year due to cancer. Another player bought the game from Matt's estate and has kept it running with a new management team. It still looks the same but a lot of changes have happened/are happening over the next few seasons, most seem to be of the good so I'd recommend giving it another shot if it's still your thing.