A blog a wrote for Bt, but they not wanted to use - oh well.




Was thinking of writing this item a while back and with another manager mentioning that he has his last home-grown player, at age 36, got this going.
I think it is easier to imagine the situation with a new team. Now in the newby board (Newby board link), there is loads of people giving advice to new and old managers alike.
From how to train, who to train and which poor home-grown player to send packing first.

So firstly. You should pull a 0 ITS player every week as it will cost you nothing and you never know what will climb out of the woodwork. The maximum ITS's you can save is 100 and to get to this you will need to invest £20000/week to receive 10 ITS's for that week. Now you asking - how many can i use on a player. 35 can be used on a 17y youth pull if your academy is at superb conditions. Now please! It is a random die roll and you are not garenteed to get a respectable+ player.

12 ITS on a primary is the maximum, so pick at least 1 of batting and bowling, Make sure to spend the remaining ITS sensibly too(on the corresponding secondary). Then the rest can put on stamina and fielding or WK, but that is up to you.
12 ITS will guarantee you mediocre skill.

With the click of a button you pull your 17y and setting the target level to reach is of course an interesting debate in itself.
Depending on the skills of the player and if you want him to go to U19's or just slow training is all up to the manager. Some great pulls will get from 5-10 nets on them, where some will only get 3!

Concentration and Consistency take a long time to train in this game, particularly for youngsters as the speed of training is adversely weighted against them since young lads have a tendency to not listen and/or apply themselves to the mental side of the game as they should. The theory being that these are signs of maturity and hence more mature players will appreciate and learn these skills more readily. Primary (Bowling & Batting) Skills take about 10 or 11 weeks to train for a 17yr old using one net, 6 or 7 using two nets, 5 weeks with 3 nets. Stamina 6 weeks with one net and players of all ages improve at the same rate. Wicket Keeping takes around 7 weeks for a 17yr old to train and fielding takes 6 weeks with one net session. Given that you get conc/cons bonuses from fielding it's a cheap and cheerful stat to increase!

Whatever your chosen training path is, train one or two superstars or 3 or 4 players. Soon it will be evident that your superstar is about 30 yrs old and you start the process all over again.

Now i have not gone and searched the whole BT, of teams that are all 100% (or close) home-grown teams.

I hope that somebody reading this finds some new motivation to develop his/her team further and takes on the challenge to see if home-grown success is possible to achieve.

Nice post, surprised they didn't post it!

said must put it in Newby thread...