From The Pavilion

Hm. I think I'm quite pleased with this guy.

Double Hm! Do I train as an AR, or focus on the bowling?

Don Ray 16 years | 25,331 rating | $1,090 wage (5% discount)
Left hand batsman | Left arm Fast
Talents Gifted (Endurance), Skilled (Bowling)
Experience dreadful
Captaincy dreadful

Batsman ordinary
Bowler ordinary
Keeper dreadful
Allrounder ordinary

Batting reasonable Endurance ordinary
Bowling average Technique ordinary
Keeping dreadful Power ordinary
Fielding average

My affiliate's scout dragged this guy off the football pitch next door, where he was looking very good as a goalkeeper. Turns out, he's quite an ordinary cricketer, but his leg spin might be worth developing.

Casey Keller 16 years | 22,932 rating | $828 wage (5% discount)
Left hand batsman | Left arm Finger spin
Talents Doosra
Experience poor
Captaincy capable

Batsman poor
Bowler poor
Keeper poor
Allrounder poor

Batting ordinary Endurance poor
Bowling ordinary Technique dreadful
Keeping ordinary Power average
Fielding ordinary

Philly wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:40 pm

Hm. I think I'm quite pleased with this guy.

Double Hm! Do I train as an AR, or focus on the bowling?

Don Ray 16 years | 25,331 rating | $1,090 wage (5% discount)
Left hand batsman | Left arm Fast
Talents Gifted (Endurance), Skilled (Bowling)
Experience dreadful
Captaincy dreadful

Batsman ordinary
Bowler ordinary
Keeper dreadful
Allrounder ordinary

Batting reasonable Endurance ordinary
Bowling average Technique ordinary
Keeping dreadful Power ordinary
Fielding average

I think, with it being about halfway through the season, I'd concentrate on making him a really top class bowler. Looks quality!

Philly wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:55 pm

My affiliate's scout dragged this guy off the football pitch next door, where he was looking very good as a goalkeeper. Turns out, he's quite an ordinary cricketer, but his leg spin might be worth developing.

Casey Keller 16 years | 22,932 rating | $828 wage (5% discount)
Left hand batsman | Left arm Finger spin
Talents Doosra
Experience poor
Captaincy capable

Batsman poor
Bowler poor
Keeper poor
Allrounder poor

Batting ordinary Endurance poor
Bowling ordinary Technique dreadful
Keeping ordinary Power average
Fielding ordinary

Probably best that he switched to cricket as I doubt he was going to be as good as the original Kasey Keller.

Very nice player Philly, and almost zero wasted stats with only dreadful keeping as well.

I agree with the group, that I'd just stick with him as a bowler. One batting pop on AR possibly wouldn't hurt, but I'd expect to be waiting as it's feels a modest wage for those primaries.

First pull of the season that isn't terrible for me, but is still fairly meh considering:

16 years | 22,534 rating | $987 wage (5% discount)

Left hand batsman | Right arm Finger spin

Talents Arm Ball
Nationality USA USA
Form reasonable
Fatigue rested
Experience dreadful
Captaincy reliable
Skills Summary
Batsman ordinary
Bowler poor
Keeper poor
Allrounder ordinary
Skills
Batting average Endurance dreadful
Bowling poor Technique reasonable
Keeping ordinary Power poor
Fielding poor

A lot of work required on the secondaries so that average/reasonable does feel like a bit of a false dawn, and no relevant talent... I'm hoping it's closer to reasonable/reasonable with the wage.

Nice pop on Garrett:

17 years | 37,126 rating | $1,576 wage (5% discount)

Right hand batsman | Right arm Finger spin

Talents Gifted (Fielding)
Nationality USA USA
Form reliable
Fatigue revived
Experience ordinary
Captaincy average
Skills Summary
Batsman average
Bowler capable
Keeper ordinary
Allrounder reasonable
Skills
Batting ordinary Endurance average
Bowling capable Technique reasonable
Keeping ordinary Power reasonable
Fielding accomplished

darkmatter wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:46 pm

I agree with the group, that I'd just stick with him as a bowler. One batting pop on AR possibly wouldn't hurt, but I'd expect to be waiting as it's feels a modest wage for those primaries.

That's where my mind was headed. Fielding first, then bowling tech.

Arguably, this is my best youth recruit of the season although he's similar to a player I recruited in the early weeks.

Jason Hansen
16 years | 23,590 rating | $829 wage (5% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Medium
Talents Skilled (Bowling)
Nationality USA USA
Form reasonable
Fatigue rested
Experience poor
Captaincy poor
Skills Summary
Batsman poor
Bowler ordinary
Keeper dreadful
Allrounder ordinary
Skills
Batting ordinary Endurance average
Bowling average Technique poor
Keeping dreadful Power average
Fielding ordinary

Favourite pop of the week:

Charles Moses
20 years | 38,243 rating | $3,879 wage (7% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Wrist spin
Talents Skilled (Technique)
Nationality USA USA
Form average
Fatigue rested
Experience reasonable
Captaincy ordinary
Skills Summary
Batsman ordinary
Bowler expert
Keeper poor
Allrounder average
Skills
Batting dreadful Endurance reasonable
Bowling expert Technique outstanding
Keeping dreadful Power poor
Fielding capable

I wasn't really expecting it but probably should have. I only just started training fielding again so it was a nice bonus. Despite not being good enough for the youth national team, I'm crossing my fingers that he might be good enough for the senior national team at some point if only as back-up wrist spinner to Garner.

Another Jackson rolls into the Bluenose pipeline.
Pure batsman, or WK. Tending towards pure batsman, as it's later in the season and he has no useful talent for dual training.
Thoughts?

Ryan Jackson: 16 years | 26,245 rating | $1,075 wage (5% discount)

Right hand batsman | Left arm Fast medium
Talents Finisher
Experience poor
Captaincy average

Batsman average
Bowler dreadful
Keeper ordinary
Allrounder poor

Batting reasonable Endurance ordinary
Bowling dreadful Technique average
Keeping ordinary Power average
Fielding ordinary

Philly wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 24, 2020 2:00 pm

Another Jackson rolls into the Bluenose pipeline.
Pure batsman, or WK. Tending towards pure batsman, as it's later in the season and he has no useful talent for dual training.
Thoughts?

Ryan Jackson: 16 years | 26,245 rating | $1,075 wage (5% discount)

Right hand batsman | Left arm Fast medium
Talents Finisher
Experience poor
Captaincy average

Batsman average
Bowler dreadful
Keeper ordinary
Allrounder poor

Batting reasonable Endurance ordinary
Bowling dreadful Technique average
Keeping ordinary Power average
Fielding ordinary

I'd go batsman unless you really need a keeper.

Also, after a brief look, I think I've only had 2 Jackson's in my FTP career and I don't think any of them went on to my senior team.

https://www.fromthepavilion.org/player. ... rId=336371

From the old days, one of a few players to make it to senior nats

not a bad one, but quite late in the season so not a humdinger

16 years | 23,748 rating | $927 wage (5% discount)

Right hand batsman | Right arm Finger spin

Talents Gifted (Power)
Nationality USA USA

Experience poor
Captaincy poor

Skills
Batting dreadful Endurance dreadful
Bowling average Technique ordinary
Keeping poor Power average
Fielding average

gonna just go for tech then see what happens, hopefully a end pop too, he'll be tired after training at this rate

A nice wage on this guy and about 4k in spare ratings. Not sure what I should do with him. Is it too late to go keeper or do I just go batsman?

Wyatt Mills
16 years | 29,122 rating | $1,300 wage (5% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Fast
Talents Seam Specialist
Nationality USA USA
Form reasonable
Fatigue rested
Experience poor
Captaincy capable
Skills Summary
Batsman average
Bowler ordinary
Keeper poor
Allrounder ordinary
Skills
Batting reasonable Endurance average
Bowling ordinary Technique average
Keeping ordinary Power average
Fielding poor

spark wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:26 am

A nice wage on this guy and about 4k in spare ratings. Not sure what I should do with him. Is it too late to go keeper or do I just go batsman?

Wyatt Mills
16 years | 29,122 rating | $1,300 wage (5% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Fast
Talents Seam Specialist
Nationality USA USA
Form reasonable
Fatigue rested
Experience poor
Captaincy capable
Skills Summary
Batsman average
Bowler ordinary
Keeper poor
Allrounder ordinary
Skills
Batting reasonable Endurance average
Bowling ordinary Technique average
Keeping ordinary Power average
Fielding poor

going by his summary I'd keep clear of keeper. I'd be pure bat personally

I'd be more curious about his bowling than his keeping (I like fast bowlers), but would probably go pure batsman given it's late in the season.