Cricket Captain 2019 Database Feedback

[Heisenberg]

English Counties

Derbyshire - Logan Van Beek to be made the main overseas player and should be available for New Zealand (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/46430508) Changed
Sam Conners is listed twice. Changed
James Taylor, a young bowler, is missing (http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/...r/1044665.html) Added
Dan Wheeldon has been released. Released
Safyaan Sharif has been released. Changed
Calum MacLeod has been released. Changed
Mattie McKiernan is missing. Added

Durham - Brydon Carse is missing. Didn't play last year, now added.
Michael Jones has been released.He's on their squad list, unless you've got an article showing it's a more recent move?

Essex - Cameron Delport to be made available for T20 only.
Mohammed Amir is missing as T20 overseas. He isn't an overseas player for them this year.
Ben Allison, bowler, is missing. Added
Will Buttleman, wicket keeper, is missing. (https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2019...mer-contracts/) Added.
Aaron Beard possibly to be made all rounder, he often open for the Essex 2nd xi. Hmm, but his FC record suggests just a bowler, lets wait until he's played a bit more.

Mohamed Amir has signed for Essex in the 2019 T20 Blast for 8 matches - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/47174316


Kent - Wiaan Mulder reserve overseas missing. Changed.
Not sure if Kashif Ali has a contract. He has been playing for the MCC this year. No mention of him on the Kent website anymore. Released


Lancashire - Joe Burns was the reserve overseas but has now been replaced by Jake Lehmann (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/48333892) Changed

Leis - Hassan Azad is missing.Added
Usman Arshad has been released.Released
David Sayer has been released. Released
Jamie Dickinson has been released.Released

[Heisenberg]

Northants - Kyle Coetzer has been released. Released
Charlie Thurston is missing Added
Curtley-Jack White is missing (http://www.northantscricket.com/cric...rs/jack-white/) Added.
Rob Keogh maybe should be an all rounder. Bit like Denly and Stirling. Difficult one's.Hmm, tough one. Think will leave for now.

Somerset - Tim Rouse is missing Added
Tom Lammonby is missing Added

Surrey - Imran Tahir missing as T20 overseas (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/48270410) Done
Gus Atkinson is missing Added

[Heisenberg]

Sussex - Alex Carey missing as T20 overseas player. Added.
Tom Haines to be an all rounder. Don't agree, he's a part-timer.
Luke Wright retired from 4 day cricket. He is the live version of the game.

Warwickshire - Rob Yates is missing.Added
Sukhijit Singh has been released. Released

Worcs - George Scrimshaw is missing.Added
Andy Carter has been released .Released
Mitchell Spencer has been released. Released

Yorkshire - Bilal Anjam is missing. Added
Ed Barnes is missing.Added
Jack Shutt is missing. Added
Matthew Taylor is missing Added

[bryce87]

Well, it's up to you to work out how much you value the 2nd team averages and what relation it has to current/potential ability, I'll stand by my point that Shaheen should be better than Hasnain.

Yes I agree

Working out young player abilities is pretty horrific until they establish themselves, no one knows how someone will pan out. There are no certainties, plenty of, "He's going to be amazing", then 3 years later, "what happend to him?". The fun of sport

I appreciate that. But it seems that every roster is filled with young players who are destined for the scrapheap.

I would rather that we assume, since they are on a professional roster, that they play quality cricket and deserve to be there. I have long been in favor of significantly upskilling every poorly rated young player on the game.

This way who makes it to international cricket will vary a lot more and we will have less real life players thrown out in favour of regens, who invariably swamp the game after a few seasons.

[bryce87]

Ah, ignore me, I was testing it on our internal build, which doesn't have this issue as this issue has been fixed by some other changes.

Ok because in my Pakistan CWC19 series I have run into other weird squad issues too.

For example the Indian team bats Dhoni@7 and has Washington Sundar as a starter, with no Chahal in the squad. I know that Chahal was significantly underrated in CC18 so perhaps could use a boost?

The NZ AI CWC19 team used this top 6 against me:
1.Latham
2.Guptill
3.Munro
4.Nicholls
5.Williamson
6.Taylor

I have noticed that there is some type of inbuilt AI team selection rule, whereby a third opener will bat at three. While this is reasonable, could it perhaps be altered so that specialist #3's take precedence over them?

The other AI team selection rule, from CC18 and appears to be in CC19, is that bowling allrounders and bowlers who can bat are often picked to bat at #4 in limited overs matches ahead of better quality players This is strange and random and may be due to an oversight.

Also, if you watch how the first innings of my Pakistan v India WC match played out, the AI bowler ordering in one dayers is not great at all. This needs to be altered, although I suspect it is too complicated to do at this point. My proposed fix is creating a rule that the AI must include six reasonably skilled bowlers in ODI/T20 matches rather than five. This would also reflect real life selection policy. I would also like this to be applied to Test matches, by making the AI pick either four specialist bowlers or three and two allrounders. From what I understand you don't have rules regarding allrounders though so this may not be feasible.

[Sureshot]

Mohamed Amir has signed for Essex in the 2019 T20 Blast for 8 matches - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/47174316

Yes, ignore my edit. The site signed me out so the version of notes I restored was an old one. I've added Amir as their 20 over overseas.

Apologies if you guys are getting posts sent for approval, this is an automated thing. I'm approving as and when I see them.

[Sureshot]

Yes I agree


I appreciate that. But it seems that every roster is filled with young players who are destined for the scrapheap.

I would rather that we assume, since they are on a professional roster, that they play quality cricket and deserve to be there. I have long been in favor of significantly upskilling every poorly rated young player on the game.

This way who makes it to international cricket will vary a lot more and we will have less real life players thrown out in favour of regens, who invariably swamp the game after a few seasons.

I appreciate your feedback, I've had some ideas myself on this that I'd like to chat with Chris about. As of right now, we're working on getting the other platforms ready for release/submission.

There's some good fixes gone in last day or two (including for batting position related issues), so a new Steam build is due in the next day or so. Once all platforms are out I will chat with Chris on our next bits including youth players, see what we can do with what we have and what we can do for 2020 with new data. There are some plans for future CC19 work in the way.

[muzzy]

Im playing as Durham and Australia, went to select my squad for the t20 series but chris green isnt showing up in the database

[Heisenberg]

I agree on Chahal. Only played one full IPL season with him but he was very underrated. Could do with an ability boost.


Doesn't look awful, by any stretch, but have improved him.

[Sureshot]

Im playing as Durham and Australia, went to select my squad for the t20 series but chris green isnt showing up in the database

Showing for me, have you got OD or 20 over selected as the filter? They are the only formats he has played.

[MateGaming]

Appreciate the great work you guys are doing. Will provide some feedback myself when I find time, but do you know when these changes will be released in a new database?

[Sureshot]

Very soon, we're working on it now. Chris is just knee deep in some code right now, I've put together all feedback from here now, so the next db update will be a good one. Thanks all.


VERSION 19.02 DATABASE UPDATE IS UP TO HERE FROM FEEDBACK

[biggy09]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is anything being done for the way the AI select bowlers, specifically in limited overs? FC is generally okay, besides the random batsman coming on first change, but limited overs is generally poor imo. A lot of times in both 50 over and t20 games the AI rarely uses a 6th bowler, and the opening bowlers will also a lot of the time bowl out 7+ overs each to start the innings, even if they are being smacked around.

Was the same in the previous edition, but thought it may have been worked on for the new release. Loving it regardless. Thanks.

[Alrounder80]

Bangladesh:

Mehidy Hossain should be picked in the starting XI for Bangladesh. Looking at the World Cup XI the AI picks for Bangladesh, Liton Das seems to be playing as an extra batsmen at number 8, when it should be Mehidy playing instead of him in the same batting position.

Tweaked.

Mohammad Saifuddin probably be getting picked ahead of Rubel Hossain for ODI cricket. This has been the case in recent times and I expect Bangladesh to pick Saifuddin in the starting XI in tomorrow’s WC game. In-game he plays no WC games.

Tweaked.

Somerset:

Tom Banton needs to be significantly improved. He currently does not get picked by the AI for Somerset when he should be picked as a starter for both ODs and T20s (and in the very near future he will be a starter in FC cricket irl having performed so well in the OD stuff). In his last 4 OD games irl, he scored 53, 112, 59 and 69, the last two being in a semi-final and final.

Banton significantly improved and tweaked for ai pick.

Lewis Gregory is currently treated as the 5^th bowler in FC cricket by the AI and very rarely bowls. Irl, he is probably Somerset’s best bowler in all formats and opens the bowling for them in every format.
Marcus Trescothick is seemingly not being picked by the AI for FC matches. He also doesn’t get picked for limited over matches, but this is correct as he has not been picked for any so far this season irl. In any case, he should be picked to play FC matches, perhaps ahead of someone like Roelof Van Der Merwe who gets picked by the AI as essentially a batsmen (when he is much more of a bowling all-rounder in reality).

Tweaked

Eddie Byrom could do with a slight improvement in his batting skill. He is very much on the fringes of being selected for Somerset, and if not for the current overseas player for Somerset (Azhar Ali), he would be selected. He was their first choice opener for all of last season for reference. Judging from his 2^nd XI performances (considering he doesn’t get picked by the AI), he is poorly rated in all formats.

As of right now, he's not done enough in his career for me to change his ability.

Dominic Bess is slightly better rated in-game than Jack Leach in FC cricket (the AI prefers to pick Bess over Leach in FC cricket). This should not be the case, as Leach is England’s current second choice spinner behind Rashid, and Dominic Bess is struggling to even be selected for Somerset’s 1st XI (had to recently make a loan move to Yorkshire to get 1st XI opportunities). Possible solution would be to reduce Bess’ skill slightly.

Tweaked AI for Leach.

Glamorgan:

Andrew Salter is a tricky one. His irl bowling averages are pretty shocking, but it remains a fact that when selected (usually a regular in the T20 format, occasional selected in OD and FC cricket), he is considered one of the main bowlers and bowls a lot of overs. In game however, he is picked as a pure batsmen and the likes of Billy Root and Marnus Labuschagne bowl ahead of Salter. So I’d suggest his bowling skill is improved so he is bowled more by the AI.

Root's bowling has been tweaked, Salter wasn't picked in List A this season. He had a couple of decent bowling figures from the 20 Over comp last season.

Graham Wagg needs significant improving in his bowling. He currently doesn’t get selected in any format by the AI, when in reality he is a regular in OD and T20 cricket and gets selected every now and then for FC cricket.

Tweaked Wagg.

Roman Walker is a very talented player that was selected in the recent U19s England World Cup squad, and also recently played in an OD game for Glamorgan where he held his own. His current in-game skill needs to be improved (or at the very least, however way you programme in the ‘potential’ for a player, this player needs to have good potential).

U-19 cricket is hardly a reliable benchmark for rating a player's ability. He's an unknown.

Charlie Hemphrey needs to be better skilled in OD cricket. He is a regular for the team in OD cricket irl but in-game is never picked and has a very low 2^nd XI OD average (implying low underlying rating).

Don't rely on 2nd XI averages in game. His rating is right for his record.

Prem Sisodiya, similarly to Roman, was selected in the recent U19s England World Cup squad and even participated in some of the games. He has even more potential than Roman and needs significant improvement in bowling skills.

Improved.

Daniel Douthwaite needs significant improvement in his bowling skills. In my current Yorkshire county season, Douthwaite averages 82 with the ball at 7.88 economy rate and does not get selected for FC games. In reality, he has now become a regular for Glamorgan in all formats. He recently played a match winning hand against Sussex in an OD game, getting 2 wickets a very quick 52*. He has also performed very well in the latest two FC games he has played (8 wickets and 140 between the 2 games).

Improved.

Gloucestershire:

Chrid Liddle could do with improvement in his bowling. He doesn’t get selected by the AI for OD games whereas irl he is a regular in OD cricket (he was this season irl in any case).

Tweaked

Hamshire:

Mason Crane is a bit underrated as he isn’t a regular for any format unlike irl where he is.

His rating is right, I've tweaked the AI for him

Sussex:

Will Beer needs to be selected in all limited over formats. Oliver Robinson seems to be getting picked in OD cricket ahead of Beer, which shouldn’t be the case.

Tweaked.

Warwickshire:

Sam Hain seems to be underrated in OD cricket. He doesn’t get picked in any OD games in the first season for his team by the AI, when irl he is their best OD batsmen, averaging 60 and eyeing an England debut in the near future.

Nothing wrong with his rating, have tweaked AI.

EDIT - Pakistan:

Imam Ul Haq should be a Defensive batsman in-game compared to the current 'Very Defensive' trait he is assigned in-game.

Would agree, changed.


As an aside, I’m noticing some odd AI decisions. Sometimes the AI seems to pick 5 bowlers in an FC game but almost exclusively use 4 bowlers. On other occasions the AI seems to pick a bowler but use part timers ahead of the bowler. I also noticed England picking James Hildreth to bat at number 8 in the upcoming Ashes series, where he proceeded to score a 40* and 19, then dully being dropped for Dawid Malan, who also is batted at number 8. Shouldn’t the AI value performances more instead of arbitrarily dropping and picking players? And shouldn’t the AI be more reasonable in where they decide to bat what are essentially top order batsmen?

[muzzy]

Is it possible the added domestic records in the player profile could be removed or maybe make it into an option at the bottom on the drop down menu so you can select to see them if you like, it’s making the player profile unbearable for me!
On a positive note, i’m really enjoying the match engine and player abilities seem pretty much spot on to me.