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    I am up to 2049 season with Surrey (1 of my saves) and whilst the batting is still strong with regens, I am finding the bowling is mostly rubbish, not much in the 20s averages.

    I cannot win any titles now, and basically are a mid table team. Simply have no strength in the bowling to bowl teams out, especially in the 2nd innings.

    I make changes end of each season, looking for the best youth or domestic players to bring in, but they don't perform consistently well enough to challenge for titles.
    Last edited by CricketFan; 05-07-2021, 01:08 PM.

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    I agree. Over time regen batters seem to get better. Bowlers worse. Also spinners seem to drop out of the game altogether. Some years I see a long list of youth uncontracted young players that I have to scroll down a full second page to see them all - and there is one spinning allrounder and no specialist spinners. The allrounder takes second XI wickets at 55. Also I noticed that the few spinners that exist past about 2035 are leg spinners. I can't remember the last time I could contract - or played against an off-spinner.

    In this regard it is an exploit. Whenever you get a half decent spinner - especially if you have 2 - prepare spinning pitches. Because the opposition won't have any spinners and you can dominate. Spinners are the only type I hang on to when their contract gets above 40k. The rest can go. But spinners I keep from 18 to 40 if I can. Sometimes my seam attack is one seamer and a batting allrounder I use to get through the first few overs to scuff up the ball, and bowl to rest the spinners now and then.
    Last edited by Scritty; 04-27-2021, 06:08 PM.
    The continued lack of stats in ICC is not so much the elephant in the room - as the Brontosaurus in the bathtub.

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      Each save will work differently. I find if you get a good batter it will keep repeating good batter, same theory for bowlers, keepers and all rounders. I think it’s the way regens are created that makes this happen

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Jamesy1984 View Post
        Each save will work differently. I find if you get a good batter it will keep repeating good batter, same theory for bowlers, keepers and all rounders. I think it’s the way regens are created that makes this happen
        There may be something in that.
        After all. For a few batters to be better than average - somewhere a few bowlers have to be worse than average. Maybe the game tries to keep a "status quo". But that status can be impacted by the actions of the player?

        Just thinking out loud.

        I have a few saves - and spinners still seem to die out after 5 or 10 game years, but that might be because the few that exist are so impactful and the game is trying to balance that. My twin spinners take 80 wickets per first class season on average and are number 1 and 3 in the international rankings (often number 1 and 2).
        If the regen system gave the game more spinners that are this good the game would look pretty unbalanced in another way.

        Great insight James
        The continued lack of stats in ICC is not so much the elephant in the room - as the Brontosaurus in the bathtub.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Jamesy1984 View Post
          Each save will work differently. I find if you get a good batter it will keep repeating good batter, same theory for bowlers, keepers and all rounders. I think it’s the way regens are created that makes this happen
          I've always found that. I tend to get saves where teams have brilliant fast and RFM bowlers but no spinners and all-rounders are like hen's teeth and in another save there are spinners a plenty and a great many RMF bowlers but not an outright quick with an average below 30.

          Batsmen too. At the moment I have played a decade a Glamorgan before taking on the England team. I thought that I was failing to pick up the decent FC openers but no, there are only 2 test quality openers in all of England.

          Oh. Hang on. That might just be a fair rendering of English FC cricket.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by CricketFan View Post
            I am up to 2049 season with Surrey (1 of my saves) and whilst the batting is still strong with regens, I am finding the bowling is mostly rubbish, not much in the 20s averages.

            I cannot win any titles now, and basically are a mid table team now. Simply have no strength in the bowling to bowl teams out, especially in the 2nd innings.

            I make changes end of each season, looking for the best youth or domestic players to bring in, but they don't perform consistently well enough to challenge for titles.
            I am in season 2102/2103 - the players are pretty decent, they've been fetching me way better results considering how much I've advanced. That said, their performance in Tests is BELOW AVERAGE, they're still good in the ODI and T20 format. So no complaints.
            I play West Indies/Guyana

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            • #7
              saviopaes under 900 years now until you make the year 3000 you can do it

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Jamesy1984 View Post
                saviopaes under 900 years now until you make the year 3000 you can do it
                at the cost of my team's form yes - but don't think I'll go that far, atleast surely not before the next game comes out. This game version then will gradually fade out
                900 years is a long shot

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