Open Forum (Ask GMs)

[FTP-ashario]

Does power have an equal effect on a fast, fast-medium, and a medium's performance?

Mostly

How about a wristy and a finger-spinner?

Mostly

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Does having a lesser bat at the crease increase the chance of a runout occurring?

In some situations, yes

2 of the last 3 times I've decided to open with my bowler with opening talent as an attempt to use his talent and shield the batters he has ran my best batter out

But not in yours.

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Is Safe Hands a flat bonus with no relation to a player's fielding skill, or is it a percentage of a players fielding thus becoming more effective the higher fielding is?

Percentage, with min and max caps

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Does a skilled talent apply to sub levels?

Pretty much everything uses sublevels

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Which player is better at taking wickets:

Wrist Spinner 1
Bowling - World Class
Technique - World Class
Power - Exceptional

Wrist Spinner 2
Bowling - Elite
Technique - Elite
Power - Poor

Excellent question.

[FTP-ashario]

If I train a player with Skilled Power up to Legendary Power, will he still get a (minimal) bonus to Power, or will he have essentially capped Power out, thus making the talent redundant?

He will still get the same percentage bonus

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does a bowler on aggressive get more fatigue?

no

[FTP-ashario]

Regarding Opener/Finisher talents. An Opener talent is at its highest value in over 1, does this value gradually decrease all the way to over 50? And the opposite with Finisher, does the finisher talent slowly become of more worth as the innings progresses, or does the talent start at a particular over (say over 41) and then is the same value through until over 50?

The window of opportunity for these two talents is much shorter than the entire innings

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Does participation in matches affect experience? As in a player who bats and bowls in a match compared to a player who does nothing for the same match

No

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Do friendlies have any effect on form?

No

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Is there any reason for 2 players (before any fatigue updates) to have different levels of fatigue?

Both started at max rested, both bowled the same number of balls, both did not bat and none were captain. They do have different ages and endurance.....but that should only affect fatigue recovery.

The reason for asking is that after the first Windies T20 match today, Bhagoo, Klineberg, Senna & Aleong were all revived. Forde was energetic. The fatigue updates have now run and they have all lost some fatigue.

http://www.fromthepavilion.org/rules.ht ... ayerskills

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I am curious as to how youth pulls work.

Is it just completely random, or do you get sort of 'quotas' for each type of player at the start of every season or two?

So will I get better pulls if I pull something I haven't done in a long time (e.g. I have barely pulled spinners this season, do I have a higher chance of getting a good spinner than a seamer which I have pulled a lot this season?).

Youth pulls are not linked

[FTP-ashario]

Is there any reason for 2 players (before any fatigue updates) to have different levels of fatigue?

Both started at max rested, both bowled the same number of balls, both did not bat and none were captain. They do have different ages and endurance.....but that should only affect fatigue recovery.

The reason for asking is that after the first Windies T20 match today, Bhagoo, Klineberg, Senna & Aleong were all revived. Forde was energetic. The fatigue updates have now run and they have all lost some fatigue.

http://www.fromthepavilion.org/rules.ht ... ayerskills

Is this what you mean:

Endurance is particularly important for all-rounders, fast bowlers, wicket keepers, captains and top order batsman, as they are generally the types of players who will use up the most energy during a match.

As that doesn't make sense in the scenarios above

No

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Does the commentary line have anything to do with the difficulty of the catch? Eg "Player X has dropped a dolly at cover!" was it really an easy catch or is it just a random line?

No, just a random line

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Is match rating in any way calculated differently for SOD & ST20?

Yes