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Stamina Nets

Age	Nets	Skill	from	to	Weeks
17-35	TS + 1 S	S	Any	Any	4
17-35	TS	S	Any	Any	10
39	0	S	9	8	2
39	0	S	8	7	1
39	0	S	7	6	2
39	0	S	6	5	1

Multiple Net Experiment

Four near-identical 17 year olds pulled in week 1 of Season 58 were given 1, 2, 3 & 4 nets consistently as follows throughout the proceeding two seasons. The difference in skill level rises can be seen:

player	Pearce	Muwalo	Kuwintas	Mamadzai
nets	3 Ba, 1 F	2 Bo, 1 F	1 Bo, 1 F	1 Ba
S58 wk 1 wage / age	£484 / 17	£485 / 17	£460 / 17	£500 / 17
18/03/23	5, 2, 6, 5, 1, 1, 1	5, 4, 1, 1, 6, 5, 1	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 5, 1	5, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	3123	3443	3025	3282
FORM	7,7	7,7	7,7	7,7
25/03/23	5, 2, 6, 5, 1, 1, 1	5, 4, 1, 1, 6, 5, 2	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 5, 2	5, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	3647	3751	3200	3434
FORM	8,8	8,6	7,7	7,7
01/04/2023	5, 2, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2	5, 4, 1, 1, 6, 5, 2	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 5, 2	5, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	3910	3771	3356	3689
FORM	8,9	8,5	6,7	8,7
08/04/2023	5, 2, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2	5, 4, 1, 1, 6, 5, 2	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 5, 2	5, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	4187	3927	3699	3833
FORM	9,8	7,5	6,9	9,6
15/04/2023	5, 2, 6, 5, 1, 1, 3	5, 4, 1, 1, 6, 5, 3	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 5, 3	5, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	9,8	7,5	7,10	10,5
FORM	4407	4167	3994	3981
22/04/2023	5, 2, 7, 5, 1, 1, 3	5, 4, 1, 1, 6, 5, 3	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 5, 3	5, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	4676	4441	4390	4202
FORM	9,8	8,5	8,10	10,6
29/04/2023	5, 2, 7, 5, 1, 1, 3	5, 4, 1, 1, 7, 6, 3	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 5, 3	5, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	9,8	8,5	9,10	10,7
FORM	4942	4744	4690	4512
06/05/2023	5, 2, 7, 6, 1, 1, 3	5, 4, 1, 1, 7, 6, 3	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 6, 3	5, 1, 7, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	8,8	8,5	10,10	10,8
FORM	5254	5076	5050	4752
13/05/2023	5, 2, 7, 6, 1, 1, 4	5, 4, 1, 1, 7, 6, 4	4, 2, 4, 1, 6, 6, 4	5, 1, 7, 5, 1, 1, 2
BTR	9,9	9,7	10,9	10,9
FORM	5867	5768	5214	4928
20/05/2023	5, 2, 7, 6, 1, 1, 4	5, 4, 1, 1, 7, 6, 4	4, 2, 4, 1, 7, 6, 4	5, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	10,9	9,8	10,10	10,7
FORM	6353	6377	5613	4939
27/05/2023	5, 2, 7, 6, 1, 1, 4	5, 4, 1, 1, 7, 6, 4	4, 2, 4, 1, 7, 6, 4	5, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	6906	6693	5941	4800
FORM	10,10	8,9	10,10	10,4
03/06/2023	5, 2, 7, 6, 1, 1, 4	5, 4, 1, 1, 7, 6, 4	4, 2, 4, 1, 7, 6, 4	5, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	7360	7109	6318	5003
FORM	10,10	8,9	10,10	10,4
10/06/2023	5, 2, 8, 6, 1, 1, 4	5, 4, 1, 1, 7, 6, 5	4, 2, 4, 1, 7, 6, 5	5, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	7779	7533	6645	5137
FORM	10,10	8,10	10,10	10,4
17/06/2023	5, 2, 8, 6, 1, 1, 5	5, 4, 1, 1, 8, 6, 5	4, 2, 4, 1, 7, 6, 5	5, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	7941	7899	6748	5459
FORM	10,8	7,10	10,8	10,5
24/06/2023	5, 2, 8, 6, 1, 2, 5	5, 4, 1, 1, 8, 6, 5	4, 2, 4, 1, 7, 6, 5	5, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	8268	8353	6745	5975
FORM	10,8	7,10	6,10	10,7
01/07/2023	5, 2, 8, 6, 1, 2, 5	5, 4, 1, 1, 8, 6, 5	4, 2, 4, 1, 7, 6, 5	5, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	8073	9183	6941	6306
FORM	8,5	9,10	5,10	10,9
S59 wk1 wage / age	£1597 / 18	£1410 / 18	£989 / 18	£1047 / 18
08/07/2023	5, 2, 8, 6, 1, 2, 5	5, 4, 1, 1, 8, 6, 5	4, 2, 4, 1, 7, 6, 5	5, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	8277	9711	7266	6402
FORM	8,5	9,10	5,10	8,10
15/07/2023	5, 2, 8, 6, 1, 2, 5	5, 4, 1, 1, 8, 6, 6	4, 2, 3, 1, 7, 6, 6	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	8715	9824	7563	6789
FORM
22/07/2023	5, 2, 9, 6, 1, 2, 6	5, 4, 1, 1, 8, 7, 6	4, 2, 3, 1, 7, 6, 6	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	9242	10184	7951	7062
FORM	8,4	6,10	4,10	10,9
29/07/2023	5, 2, 9, 7, 1, 2, 6	5, 4, 1, 1, 8, 7, 6	4, 2, 3, 1, 8, 7, 6	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	10360	10687	8148	7362
FORM	9,5	7,9	3,10	10,10
05/08/2023	5, 2, 9, 7, 1, 2, 6	5, 4, 1, 1, 9, 7, 6	4, 2, 3, 1, 8, 7, 6	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	11275	11733	8654	7648
FORM	10,6	8,10	3,10	10,10
12/08/2023	5, 2, 9, 7, 1, 2, 6	5, 4, 1, 1, 9, 7, 6	4, 2, 3, 1, 8, 7, 6	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	12100	12164	9428	7841
FORM
19/08/2023	5, 2, 9, 7, 1, 2, 6	5, 4, 1, 2, 9, 7, 6	4, 2, 3, 2, 8, 7, 6	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	12880	12760	10437	7924
FORM	10,7	8,9	7,10	8,10
26/08/2023	5, 2, 9, 7, 1, 2, 7	5, 4, 1, 2, 9, 7, 7	4, 2, 3, 2, 8, 7, 7	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	13479	14004	11166	7854
FORM	10,7	9,10	8,10	6,10
02/09/2023	5, 2, 9, 7, 1, 2, 7	5, 4, 1, 2, 9, 7, 7	4, 2, 3, 2, 8, 7, 7	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	14166	14931	11735	7624
FORM	10,7	10,10	8,10	5,9
09/09/2023	5, 2, 10, 7, 1, 2, 7	5, 4, 1, 2, 9, 7, 7	4, 2, 3, 2, 8, 7, 7	5, 1, 8, 6, 1, 1, 2
BTR	14918	15700	11537	7661
FORM	?	?	?	?
16/09/2023	5, 2, 10, 7, 1, 2, 7	5, 4, 1, 2, 9, 7, 7	4, 2, 3, 2, 8, 7, 7	5, 1, 8, 7, 1, 1, 2
BTR	16214	16391	11928	7840
FORM	9,9	10,10	6,9	4,9
23/09/2023	5, 2, 10, 7, 1, 2, 7	5, 4, 1, 2, 9, 7, 7	4, 2, 3, 2, 8, 7, 7	5, 1, 9, 7, 1, 1, 2
BTR	17610	17030	12089	7984
FORM	10,9	9,10	5,8	4,8
30/09/2023	5, 2, 10, 7, 1, 2, 7	5, 4, 1, 2, 10, 7, 8	4, 2, 3, 2, 8, 7, 8	5, 1, 9, 7, 1, 1, 2
BTR	18675	17652	13471	7910
FORM	10,10	9,9	7,9	4,6
07/10/2023	5, 2, 10, 7, 1, 2, 8	5, 4, 1, 2, 10, 8, 8	4, 2, 3, 2, 9, 7, 8	5, 1, 9, 7, 1, 1, 2
BTR	19049	17779	14401	8071
FORM	10,8	8,8	8, 10	4,6
14/10/2023	5, 2, 10, 7, 1, 2, 8	5, 4, 1, 2, 10, 8, 8	4, 2, 3, 2, 9, 8, 8	5, 1, 9, 7, 1, 1, 2
BTR	19716	18330	15537	8391
FORM	10,7	9,8	9,10	6,8
21/10/2023	5, 2, 10, 8, 1, 2, 8	5, 4, 1, 2, 10, 8, 8	4, 2, 3, 2, 9, 8, 8	5, 1, 9, 7, 1, 1, 2
BTR	20552	19568	16373	9476
FORM	10,7	9,8	9,10	6,8
S60 wk1 wage / age	£5610 / 19	£4651 / 19	£2512 / 19	£2417 / 19
28/10/2023	5,2,11,8,1,2,8	5,4,1,2,10,8,8	4,2,3,2,9,8,8	5,1,9,7,1,1,2
BTR	21627	21400	16798	10039
FORM	9,9	10,9	10,9	6,9

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DECEMBER 2022 UPDATE

On 10th December a news item stated:

• Since we initially announced how the new training system would work, we’ve actually made some small changes to the algorithm. Players of enormously high skills may see their skills starting to drop as young as 30. Most players will not. 
• Additionally, we have now decided that players should experience no more than one visual level of skill decrease each week.

On 3rd December Allan stated:

• Players will be susceptible to skill declines from the age of 30.
• For most players these drops will be so small as to be inperceptible until they reach around 36/37.
• For V high skill levels, these plops might actually start to show. The higher the skill level the higher the plop.
• Skill drops will increase exponentially the older the players get.

NOVEMBER 2022 UPDATE

In the Q&A session on 20th November 2022 and updated further on 25th November Allan confirmed the following will now take effect:

• As well as training being dependant both on age and current skill, the number of training sessions applied to the player of each specific type will continue to have an impact, but additional nets will have a different effect to previously. Apart from that, no other factors are at play. -Confirms that there is to be no training benefit from playing at this point.
• Team training will be impacted by squad size, specifically if your squad is larger than 30 players. If you try and train your entire team when you have a squad bigger than 30 you will see the effectiveness of the training reduced (but also the PFL hit reduced for each player).
• If your squad has more than 30 then every player will receive reduced benefit of squad training. (i.e. it is not the case that 30 still receive the full effect with the remaining number getting reduced benefit. They all get same reduced benefit.)
• A player receiving both an individual and team training net of the same skill will get the full training benefit from both nets. (Only individual nets are taken into account for the dimishing returns.)
• Sports psychologists do not attend squad training sessions, they only attend individual net sessions. A squad fielding session does not affect any skills other than fielding.
• There will be some changes to the speed that secondaries change, along with the primary skills. 
• The skill level of a player will have an impact on the age that the plops will start to kick in.
• Training speed is different for different skills
• Stamina training is no longer independent of age.
• Will concentration and consistency training still increase with age? Yes and No.
• Diminishing returns on multiple nets (second net of a type gives less training than the first, third net gives even less, etc.) no longer work the way they did previously
• The impact of sports psychologists attending the first of every time of net session except stamina stays the same.
• You will have the option to have more than one of each team training net (stamina or fielding), but team training will only be applied to the first instance of each skill.
• Multiple nets for one player on a primary (eg 3 batting nets) will have the a different rate of return to previously.
• There are no plans in the near future regarding further player development/changes
• There are no changes to the way that PFL hits from nets work.
• There are no changes to the way that experience from nets work.
• There is no random element to training, where some players might train slightly faster than others.

OCTOBER 2022 UPDATE

A news post on 26th October 2022 confirmed that as of Season 57:

1. Players will start to experience skill decreases later in life. The decreases will start to happen at a different rate depending on the skill level of the player. In effect, highly skilled players will start to see their skills dimish earlier than those less skilled players and at a quicker rate, all be it later in life than they currently do.
2. Training Speeds I – training speeds will no longer have a linear relationship with player age. Younger players will still train faster, but the speed of that training will no longer decrease at such a steady rate across their career. The summary of this change is that younger players will train faster than older players, but the change between the two will happen at different rate depending on the players age.
3. Training Speeds II – training speeds will also no longer be linear across the entire skill range. It will be more difficult/take longer to level up at higher skill levels that it will at lower skill levels. Basically this means that training players of the same age from mediocre to competent will be a lot quicker than from sensational to exquisite.
4. Team Training – we will introduce the option to sacrifice net sessions for team training sessions for Stamina and fielding training. On nets of this type, instead of selecting an individual player as the trainee, you will be able to select entire team. This will have a smaller effect than training an individual, but will benefit your entire squad.

This blog post from just over a year earlier had indicated these changes would come. For the time being we will keep the old training information below but please note this will be out of date from seaon 57 onwards (26/11/2022). Once enough data has been gathered this page will be updated to reflect the new findings around training. If you have any such findings please submit them to Discodinho (manager of Gloucester Gipsies) on Battrick. 

INFORMATON PRIOR TO SEASON 57:

Coaches

Coaches can be used to train each of the ‘primary’ skills a player has:

• Batting
• Bowling
• Wicket Keeping
• Fielding
• Stamina

There is no limit as to how many of each of these coaches you can hire, but there is a limit as to their effectiveness.

If you train the same player using more than one primary skill net, the effectiveness of the 2nd net is only 50% of the first net. And the 3rd net is only 50% as effective and the 2nd net.

Although you can hire more than 10 coaches, you can only use 10 – the rest just suck up wages and do nothing. 

Lets say the reduction in effectiveness for subsequent coaches (ie. more than one primary net on same player) is 50%:

Net	Effectiveness of this net	Total skill nets received	Contribution by this net
1st	100%	1.00	1.00
2nd	50%	1.50	0.50
3rd	25%	1.75	0.25
4th	12.5%	1.875	0.125
5th	6.25%	1.940	0.0625
6th	3.125%	1.97125	0.003125
7th	1.5625%	1.9875	0.015625
8th	0.78125%	1.98828125	0.0078125
9th	0.390625%	1.9921875	0.00390625
10th	0.1953125%	1.994140625	0.001953125

The below image is the most recent and therefore probably most accurate reflection of pop times (February 2018 – thanks to Afghan_Bluey). Click the image for a larger view. The previous estimates are still available below.

Batting or Bowling

The tables below contain approximate number of weeks it takes to train a player up one skill level using the prescribed number of nets.

Edited Sep 2017: Thanks to Afghan_Bluey for more accurate updates.

Age	1 net	2 nets	3 nets	4 nets
17	11.1	7.4	6.3	5.9
18	12.3	8.2	7	6.6
19	13.6	9.9	8.2	???
20	14.9	11.2	9.2	???
21	16.2	12.5	10.3	???
22	17.5	13.8	11.4	???
23	18.8	15.1	12.5	???
24	20.1	16.4	13.6	???
25	21.4	17.7	14.7	???
26	22.7	19	???	???
27	24	20.3	???	???
28	25.3	21.6	???	???
29	26.6	22.9	???	???
30	27.9	24.2	???	???
31	29.2	25.5	???	???
32	30.5	26.8	???	???
33	31.8	28.1	???	???
34	33.1	29.4	???	???
35	34.4	30.7	???	???

Wicket Keeping

Edited Sep 2017: Thanks to Afghan_Bluey for more accurate updates.

Age	1 net	2 nets
17	7.4	4.9
18	8.6	7.3
19	9.9	8.2
20	11.2	9.2
21	12.5	10.3
22	13.8	11.4
23	15.1	12.5
24	16.4	13.6
25	17.7	14.7
26	19	15.7
27	20.3	17
28	21.6	18.3
29	22.9	19.6
30	24.2	20.9
31	25.5	22.2
32	26.8	23.5
33	28.1	24.8
34	29.4	26.1
35	30.7	27.1

Fielding

Age	1 net	2 nets
17	6.1	4.2
18	7.2	5.3
19	8.3	6.4
20	9.4	7.5
21	10.5	8.6
22	11.6	9.7
23	12.7	10.8
24	13.8	11.9
25	14.9	13.1
26	16	14.1
27	17.1	15.2
28	18.2	16.3
29	19.3	17.4
30	20.4	18.5
31	21.5	19.6
32	22.6	20.7
33	23.7	21.8
34	24.8	22.9
35	25.9	24

Consistency & Concentration

To receive Concentration and Consistency skill training, you must have Sport Psychologists (around 5-7 is optimal).

Concentration training is only received if you are training batting or keeping or fielding.
Consistency training is only received if you are training bowling or keeping or fielding.

Edited Sep 2017: Thanks to Afghan_Bluey for more accurate updates.

Nets used	Conc ‘nets’ received	Cons ‘nets’ received
BA	1	0
BO	0	1
(WK or F)	1	1
BA + (WK or F)	2	1
BO + (WK or F)	1	2
WK + F	2	2
BA + WK + F	3	2
BO + WK + F	2	3
BA + BO + (WK or F)	2	2
BA + BO + WK + F	3	3

Age	BA/BO/WK/F/BA+BO	BO+F/BA+F/BA+BO+F/BO+WK/BA+WK	BA+WK+F/BO+WK+F
17	14.2	7.1	4.7
18	13.6	6.8	4.5
19	13	6.5	4.3
20	12.4	6.2	4.1
21	11.8	5.9	3.9
22	11.2	5.6	3.7
23	10.6	5.3	3.5
24	10	5	3.3
25	9.4	4.7	3.1
26	8.8	4.4	2.9
27	8.2	4.1	2.7
28	7.6	3.8	2.5
29	7	3.5	2.3
30	6.4	3.2	2.1
31	5.8	2.9	?
32	5.2	2.6	?
33	4.6	?	?
34	4	?	?
35	4	?	?

Stamina

Number of weeks to improve a whole Stamina skill level for players aged 17-32:

• 6 weeks with 1 Stamina net
• 4 weeks with 2 Stamina nets
• 3 weeks with 3 Stamina nets

After the player turns 33 years of age, stamina decay will slow down the rate of improvement from those figures shown here. Click here for further stamina training speeds for players aged 33 and over.