Comments on: Sports Psychologists (aka. Assistant coaches?)

By: Will Scarlet

Will Scarlet — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:08:20 +0000

I agree with Madbias. The rules seem fairly clear on the point.

By: Madbias

Madbias — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:01:44 +0000

Actually, no he didn’t – I’ll ask him again. I have however asked a few others, including a few GM’s and the general consensus is that I’m wrong lol

By: Retarded Karma

Retarded Karma — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:25:18 +0000

Well Madbias, Did Al get back to you? In a game like Battrick being so competitive these “finer” details make all the difference. I see players with 250’000 BT points and think what the hell am I missing here. I recruit players and they have 7000 tops BT points with my academy in top shape. So I am guessing that its in the training!

By: Madbias

Madbias — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:41:53 +0000

Hi Cheesewire, thanks for the comment. It seems as though my perception on things is wrong. Having asked Al, he provisionally agreed with you, but said he would investigate further after his wedding (which he’s now back from). If this is the case, then I might as well just have the maximum as this will give me however slight – an advantage over say 6. However – I’ve had 10 before and then reduced it to what I thought was the optimum and never noticed any difference in the pop times.

I am prepared to hold my hands up though guys and say I’m wrong on this (unless Al comes back and tells me otherwise).

Thank you to all, for your comments and please feel free to ask questions on any of the other categories on the site.

Cheers – Toby (Madbias)

By: Cheesewire

Cheesewire — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:21:54 +0000

Sorry mate, but you are mistaken. The more SP’s you have (up to a point, because the effect of extra ones becomes negligible over a certain number), the faster secondaries train on anyone being trained on a primary/fielding/wk net. So, let’s say for example you were (for some bizarre reason) only using 3 nets, and training 1 player on 3 x bowl. If, by your logic, you only employed 1 SP, the trainee’s consistency would increase at an agonisingly slow rate – probably about half as fast as if you had 5-7 SP’s.

By: Madbias

Madbias — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:50:45 +0000

Hi Windies – thanks for the comment. OK – I’ll throw a little question into the pot. My nets are as follows :-
Player 1 has – 1 x Batting Net
Player 2 has – 2 x Bowling, 1 x Stamina and 1 x Fielding Net
Player 3 has – 2 x Batting Net
Player 4 has – 1 x Stamina Net
Player 5 has – 1 x Batting and 1 x Fielding Net

How many PS’s would you advise? By my reackoning I would need 6 PS’s

By: Windies.

Windies. — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:28:58 +0000

I too have to agree with the guys as stated above. I have been involved with the U19 Setup within the West Indies for the last 5 seasons….and trust me if players only had 1 SP, they will not pop even half the time as stated on this site.

By: Madbias

Madbias — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:40:17 +0000

Hi johanx – thanks for coming to the site and commenting. To get the full pictures on PS Coaches, you need to read not only the section on Sports psychologists, but the section on nets. In the Nets section of the rules, the following paragraph spells it out a little more clearly :-

“Sports psychologists will only attend the first net of a type per player per day. So your bowling trainee with 3 bowling nets only sees the sports psychologists in the first net and the sports psychologists are not available to him in the subsequent bowling nets. If he had a fielding net as well, they would also attend that session. All psychologists will attend each net for which any would qualify, so have 10 different players being trained one session of batting each and all psychologists will attend all 10 sessions.”

This to me slightly goes against what Bob and yourself see it to be. I could be wrong and will ask Allan directly to clarify. It is a little confusing – but then again it wouldn’t be Battrick without a few grey areas LOL

By: johanx

johanx — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:32:00 +0000

My understanding is the same as Bob’s. According to the rules, if you have 5 SPs, then these 5 will go (as a group if you may) to all 10 nets if (as per your example) you have 10 separate players each doing a bowling net. These 5 will not attend a net if (a) it is a stamina net or (b) it is not the first net of that skill (bat,bowl) for the player in the net.

So in theory you can have 1 SP that will attend all 10 nets but if you have more then the effect will be higher (and diminishing) at each net THEY attend.

By: Madbias

Madbias — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:17:54 +0000

Hi Bob. Thanks for posting to the site

Not sure where you’re coming from on this. It all depands on the way you’ve set up your nets. 5-7 “may” be enough, if you are training a player with more than one net – assuming the net is anything except Stamina.

So if I had 10 seperate players, who all had a single bowling net – then I would need 10 x PS coachs. However, if I had 5 seperate players each on 2 bowling nets – I’d only need 5 x PS coaches.

In reality, you tend to give certain players more than one net and possible some a Stamina net – and therefore 5-7 PS coaches is more than enough.

It does however depend on how you allocate the nets to your players.

If anybody wants to let me know how they’ve structured their nets – I’ll be glad to advise on how many PS coaches they would need