Tip:

Training improves player skills, which in turn will bring you more money when you sell the player. Use your nets wisely!

Training

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

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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.

Age 1 net 2 nets 3 nets 4 nets
17 11.1 7.4 6.5 ???
18 12.3 8.6 7.3 ???
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 ???

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Wicket Keeping

Age 1 net 2 nets
17 7.4 6.5
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

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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

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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.

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

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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 above.