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    Useful VT, challenge being to put theory into practice!

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      That must be for the top rated academy, like the Xpert Eleven paths. I wonder what training they do.

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        I've been trying to upgrade from the $1,000/2,000 standard to something like $10,000-15,000. So far, most of the ones I've been interested in have gone for about $50,000-75,000, so i'm clearly doing something wrong somewhere....

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          I've just bought a wrist spinner from Sits.

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            Originally posted by jdsx View Post
            I've been trying to upgrade from the $1,000/2,000 standard to something like $10,000-15,000. So far, most of the ones I've been interested in have gone for about $50,000-75,000, so i'm clearly doing something wrong somewhere....
            What I did was put in a high opening bid which was also what I was willing to pay as a maximum, it seemed to put off other bidders and I'd get my player. 10-20k as an opening bid and then avoiding a bidding war in the auction style.

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              Are you using your auction agent?

              I spend far more time than is wise thinking about how unrealistic these games economic models are. There is silly money around, like players going for $2M+

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                Originally posted by Vicarious Thrillseeker View Post
                I've just bought a wrist spinner from Sits.
                I took an early dislike to poor Everard Sharman. He’s gone to a much better home.

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                  I promise to give him his full allowance of overs when we play you.

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                    I rotated my squad for today's 20/20 fixture and still won by 204 runs.

                    i think I may have the measure of the computer based opponents. Feel like I may not really be match ready to face Kakanui in the opening fixture of the OTF League

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                      That's pretty much my thought ad hoc.

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                        About the bot teams, not Kakanui I assume? Many OTF teams better than mine.

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                          Etienne and I playing a youth friendly in just over an hour. I fear we’ll get trounced as the youngsters have had very little TLC so far.

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                            I'm looking forward to the OTF friendlies the most, apart from pebblethefish we all started at similar times i think and have shared strategies about transfers.

                            I'll wait a while before tinkering with the batting and bowling options.

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                              Sits, as I think I've mentioned before my youth T20 group is the only one where I am facing human opponents so a lot of my focus is on the youths at the moment, so I have that in my favour. But against that I'm using friendlies to try different players and strategies so you may be able to take advantage of that.

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                                You beat us by 5 wickets I don’t think we disgraced ourselves. Very slow run rate though. At least bowler Albert Van Der Pluijm got 3-for and MotM. Little acorns for the pigs.

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                                  Away to the Fuzzy Ducks in a friendly today, they've just started to turn up the heat after taking a liking to my fifth bowler.

                                  133/2 at drinks, quite even so far. I'm dropping in every five minutes or so.
                                  Last edited by Antepli Ejderha; 22-04-2020, 06:36.

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                                    Our innings were basically identical, Sits. Solid start, four quick wickets, then strong 5th wicket partnership. We just scored marginally faster throughout.

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                                      Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View Post
                                      I'm looking forward to the OTF friendlies the most, apart from pebblethefish we all started at similar times i think and have shared strategies about transfers.

                                      I'll wait a while before tinkering with the batting and bowling options.
                                      I'm not comfortable being the favourite. I'm also not used to it.

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                                        Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View Post
                                        Away to the Fuzzy Ducks in a friendly today, they've just started to turn up the heat after taking a liking to my fifth bowler.

                                        133/2 at drinks, quite even so far. I'm dropping in every five minutes or so.
                                        Well, 311 was never going to be enough on that pitch! I was fearing a 10-wicket defeat, especially when you were 260 without loss... but I'll take a 6 wicket defeat!

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                                          Originally posted by jdsx View Post

                                          Well, 311 was never going to be enough on that pitch! I was fearing a 10-wicket defeat, especially when you were 260 without loss... but I'll take a 6 wicket defeat!
                                          I was getting greedy once we got over 200 thinking we might win by 10 wickets.

                                          I noticed I've not got a fast bowler so had a look on the transfer market and Vicarious Thrillseeker had bids on two that I fancied so I did the honorable thing and walked away.

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                                            I'm starting to think I might need some more variety in the OTF competitions as the pitches will be random. I've only got the one spinner.

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                                              Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View Post
                                              I noticed I've not got a fast bowler so had a look on the transfer market and Vicarious Thrillseeker had bids on two that I fancied so I did the honorable thing and walked away.
                                              Please feel free - there is two days to go on both and I have a feeling they won't stay at $1000

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                                                The youth league that both DM and I are in, now has 6 human managers and promises to be a real competition. The Nurdles started very well today, reducing Camberwick Green to 89/6 until an unbroken 7th wicket stand of 107* meant that it was always likely to be a challenging target. Fortunately, we made it with 5 wickets and 3 overs to spare

                                                (*sadly not put on by Windy Miller and Captain Snort)

                                                DM, sadly, was not quite so fortunate, going down by 7 wickets to Liverpool Lightning

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                                                  I may have been guilty of some complacency. Just started a 50-over against a bot team, and picked most of the makeweights with that in mind. The bots are racing off at over 6 an over...

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                                                    Oh, that’s better. Three wickets while I wrote that.

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