The majority of BTers have their Training Intensity set to 100% to maximise net effectiveness – although it is acknowledged that training hard can negatively affect a players fitness level.  Reducing the level, doesn’t hit the players as hard, but you don’t get the training benefits.  On the whole, it is acknowledged that the training should be set to a maximum and you will just have to watch players fitness levels and not play them as much whilst they are training.

Training Speeds

How long does it take for skills to improve with training?

Although not much data has been collected, we can determine that the following stats appear true on average.

Primary Skills – Batting / Bowling

The following table shows how many nets a 17yo – 23yo player requires to go up a whole level in the skill of Batting or Bowling.

* Bowling net
* Batting net
* Wicket-keeping net
* Fielding coach net
* Fitness coach net

Once you have hired at least one specialist coach, you can start to allocate a player to each of these coaches for the week within the nets area. Each coach will add one more available coaching session.

There are some limitations though. Due to the limited time and space available, you can only have 10 coaching sessions each week. If you have more specialist coaches than that, then you are simply paying them to sit around each week. Even if you do allocate a player to them, he will never get the chance to train as the net space will never be available.

Secondly, although each player can be allocated to more than one specialist coach, the effectiveness of the sessions will reduce with every duplication.
(eg. if you allocate Smith to two batting sessions, he will get the full benefit from the first session, but due to the amount of work he has already done in that session, the amount he can possibly gain from the second session is much less (about 65% of normal amount). If he was allocated to a third batting session, he would receive again even less training. A fourth training session would only provide negligible benefit.
However, if Smith was told to also go to a bowling session as well as the batting ones, he would still get the full benefit from the first bowling session. Again, any subsequent bowling sessions would also see a reduction in training received.