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Recruiting Youths
Posted on April 7th, 2009
Posted by Asterius under Howzzat!
Just a few points to consider when recruiting or “pulling” a youth every youth academy training update.
-Pulling general usually leads to players having good overall skills but they are useless especially when they are skilled at bowling and keeping. You should not be choosing this option.
-Looking to have a nat player? Probably pull from the weaker nat teams such as America and Bermuda. Or if you want to have a national player from your country, contact the nat manager and enquire as to whether the squad has a lack of a certain type of player. If you think you have a good prospect, either mail the respective nat manager or post it in the off-site.
-Consider what weaknesses are in your own team, look at the ages of the players whether all your good batsmen are 19, therefore you should pull a batsmen so that next season you don’t have a weak batting team.
-Look for a transfer market prospect, basically train the player in one specific skill (if they have a talent this makes things easier), often managers will jump and see a youth with a high primary and buy it.
-Probably best not to go for an allrounder, it’s better having a bowler who can bat then a batsmen who can bowl. You can always train a bowler to bat but trying to get an allrounder from scratch is very hard.
Asterius
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