Battrick

[Dell19]

Its the cricket variation of hattrick. Hattrick own the servers and a share of the game. The first season has been complete and the new season has had one league game so far. Its a reasonably promising game although there have been bugs.

www.battrick.org.uk

In my first season I finished 5th and relegated because the promotion system was altered for the first season although this season I've won both cup games and the league game so things are looking up. There is at least one other CFC member that plays Battrick and a lot of hattrick players play battrick as well. Including some of the premiership managers.

 

[Inter4]

I know nothing about Rugby.. and since I don't like Hattrick..

Go FootieManager! (I just won La Liga in G19, hopefully I'll get my cup in 6 months.. HOPEFULLY)

 

[Dell19]

Its cricket. The one that Elsaak posted was rugby.

 

[Scuffer]

I got myself a hattrick team yesterday, Scuffers XI.

They look abysmal, but hopefully they might make woeful in a season

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Slow down hotrod, you shouldn't expect too much too soon!

 

[Dell19]

Generally teams seem to start in the feeble/mediocre range in terms of players but after a season and a half my team is moving towards competent/respectable although there are some big gaps in secondaries for some players and I haven't done much fielding training yet.

Currently chasing 280-6 with 96-1 after 14 of the 50 overs.

Should win the game but I'm PICing since they have only won one game this season.

 

[Scuffer]

Yeah, that's about where my team is. Feeble/mediocre range.

Well, I lost my first game by six wickets, though it was a little closer than that sounds. Ah well. Looks like the other teams in the league have been established a while longer than my bunch of chancers, so I'll probably finish where I started - at the bottom. But next season, watch out midtable!

Dell, how tight is the money situation? I'd love to spend but am not to keen on finding out only 3 old blokes and a whippet are going to turn up, and the whippet gets in free anyway.

 

[Dell19]

Taking a post from the bdf site that I made:

Personally I would just sell and don't buy. My plan is that if the youth pull lottery is this good already then one day the prices will collapse so it makes sense to just sell or train your youth pulls. Unless of course you really need a replacement batter. Currently I have a team that can comfortably win games in IV so I'm in no rush to try and buy replacements with the 175k that I have in the bank.

So far I've pulled two respectable bowlers where one was sold for a 100k.

Pulled two 17 year olds with one being an allrounder at about mediocre and the other being a competent/mediocre batter.

I've also pulled two batters that both are currently proficient/mediocre and one of them has high fielding.

I've also pulled a couple of mediocre players that form the tail end of the squad and a couple that I've sold for modest sums.

and all this on a youth academy that is only strong, what it will be like at superb is hard to contemplate. However all this makes me think spending 250k on a respectable player is bad business when by the end of the season or the next I may have gained enough youth pulls to fill out a whole team considering that the two 17 year olds should progress reasonably quickly.



Basically youth pulls seem to be a pretty good investment whereas the transfer market is a bit over priced because lots of teams want slightly better players but not many teams are selling.

 

[Scuffer]

Cool. That makes a lot of sense. The money that even the most ordinary of players seems to go for has kept me out of the transfer market. At least until I get a feel for the game anyway.

 

[Dell19]

Another victory:

And that's the end of the match. Granwick United won by 4 wickets.
pirates 280-6
Granwick United 281-6

End of Over 44: 281-6, runrate=6.39

 

[Scuffer]

A solid beating is on the cards for the Scuffer XI today. 185-9 after 40 overs, chasing 320. Still, valuable experience for them, they'll need to get used to losing!.

Does your second team need a run out in a friendly this weekend Dell? Or anyone else you know?

 

[Dell19]

The new changes don't take affect until next season. I'm still going to play several reserves for form though.

 

[Scuffer]

ah, so no friendlies for a bit then. Mind you, I've sacked so many wasters, I don't actually have enough for a second team anyway.

Scuffer XI pulled off a magnificent debut win yesterday, clouting Vigo Dynamite by a comfortable 66 runs. Very very satisfying. Next game is against someone good, so putting a few reserves in there so can have a full charge at a new team the week after.

 

[Scuffer]

Well, three months on and I have turned my team of abject losers into a battle-hardened team of winners, topping my league (V.111) with every chance of promotion.

Anyone signed up in the interim?

 

[Dell19]

I don't know. There are some battrick related forums although I only post on one that you have to be paying for hattrick to view.

I'm currently third in my IV after two dismal games at the start of the season. The first game I should have MOTSed but played normal because I had a close cup game and thus lost. The next league match I PICed for the team morale but then lost again. Won all my games since and will hopefully finish second.

 

[Scuffer]

In my first season I took it easy against anyone decent and went for it against anyone equally lousy, just to get off the bottom. But now I expect to win, it's much harder to decide how to play it.

Is it only the top team that get promoted/play-offs, or do 2nd place sides get a look in too?