The league dates can be found under the Community -> Calendar menu normally.

First Class games are matches lasting up to 3 days. Each day 110 overs are played with teams allowed a maximum of two innings. For more information check the site rules under Competitions or Match Orders.

How do i achieve a result in FC? I.e. Win/Draw/Tie/Loss.

See the site rules

BT20 is Battrick's very own Twenty20 competition. It is held during the off-season with all managed teams (no bots) participating. Last season each team was placed in a group of eight where each team played each other once. The top two teams in the group then proceeded to the finals which were a straight knockout until the winner was decided.

*Note that if you joined up after the last BT20 Cup you may not have been placed in a BT20 group. Do not fear as all BT20 groups are redrawn and new users added to a group just prior to the competition.

Best thing to do would be to BT-mail the manager of either the U19 or Nat team your player is eligible for.

You can find out who the current national and U19 managers are by looking at the applicable squads from the country's home page.

Your player has in all likelihood suffered a form drop. This may have been a visible drop (e.g. respectable to competent) or a drop in the sublevel of form (e.g. high competent to low competent). There has rarely been a bug in training.

Form is random. The only thing you can do to increase the chance of maintaining or increasing form is to have the player either train in the nets or play in a match during the week. Even if the player does one or both of these he may still drop in form. It's all down to luck.

To be able to upload a logo to your pavilion page you must have BT membership. Once you have purchased BT membership then follow the below procedure to upload your logo.

1. Find/create your logo.
2. Upload the logo to a hosting site such as http://www.photobucket.com
3. Copy the URL of the image.
4. Paste the URL into the relevant box on the Main ; Preferences page.
5. Make sure to enter your password to confirm the change

All bugs should be reported on the "Bug Reports" board whilst any development ideas should be posted on the "Dev Ideas" board. These boards can both be found in the "Other" section of the "Join New Sledging Board" drop down menu (see Section 1). Make sure you check the "Sticky Threads" on either forum to see if your bug/dev idea hasn't already been raised.

Bug Reports Sticky Thread - (36640)
Dev Ideas Sticky Thread - (28399)

Yes you can!

Yes, 5% of the total sale value is deducted from every player sale (this only affects the seller). For example - If a player is sold for 100K the buyer will pay the full amount (100K) however the seller will only receive 95% of the sale value (95K).

Player Ads and valuation requests are only allowed on the Player Ads board in the relevant threads. Please note that player ads in any other sledging board or thread will be promptly deleted and can earn you a sledging ban or fine as per the Sledging Rules.

Bowlers for Sale Thread - (44131)
Batsmen for Sale Thread - (44132)
Keepers for Sale Thread - (12986)
All Rounders for Sale Thread - (12987)
Nat/U19 for Sale Thread - (12988)
Multiple Sales Thread - (12989)
Valuation Request Thread - (59941)
Wanted - (52323)

*TIE - players will conserve energy in the match performing slightly below their potential. Taking It Easy in a match will decrease the PFL loss by around 30% (compared to a PAN).
*PAN - players will perform to their potential during the match and experience normal PFL losses.
*GFI - players will run themselves into the ground trying to win the match. As a result the PFL loss of the players will increase by about 50% (compared to a PAN).

Note that TIE/PAN/GFI can only be used in the OD and Cup competitions.

To increase the secondaries (concentration/consistency) of your players you MUST have at least 1 Sports Psychologist (SP) employed (most managers recommend 3-5 SPs for a new team). Then simply follow the below advice from keggut's helpfile:

Concentration training is only received if you are training batting, fielding or wicketkeeping.

If you wish to maximise concentration pops combine a Batting net with a fielding AND wicketkeeping net. The next best way is to combine a batting net with a fielding OR wicketkeeping net. The least concentration pops occur when a single net (batting or wk or fielding) is used on the player.

Consistency training is only received if you are training bowling, fielding or wicketkeeping.

If you wish to maximise consistency pops combine a Bowling net with a fielding AND wicketkeeping net. The next best way is to combine a Bowling net with a fielding OR wicketkeeping net. The least consistency pops occur when a single net (bowling or wicketkeeping or fielding) is used on the player.

A "bot team" is one not controlled by a human manager. A team is either created as a bot or has been turned into a bot after the previous manager failed to login after 7 weeks. There are two types of bot teams neither of which will have a General Manager when you visit the pavilion page:

1. A Complete Bot - a team that has never had a human manager at all. These bots will have all players set to worthless form. The ground capacity is also set to 14000 and the pitch is green. The lineup for each match is random.

2. A Partial Bot - a team that has been managed by a user in the past, however has been turned into a bot due to the manager not logging in for 7 weeks. These bots retain the players the previous manager last had but they are set to worthless form. The ground capacity and pitch will also be the same as it was under the previous manager. Further to this the team lineup for each match will reflect the last default lineup the previous manager selected.

How do you know you are playing a bot team?
- they have no General Manager listed on their Pavilion (team) page.
- the team name is 'greyed out' on league and team fixture pages.

Benefits to friendlies:
-A small amount of gate receipts.
-Another opportunity to help increase the chance a player will maintain or increase form.
-A chance to experiment with orders.
-Small experience gains.

Downsides to Friendlies:
-Small PFL drain (1/3rd that of a OD Match)

Friendlies do not affect Team Morale, Sponsors or Members Confidence. With no effect on members confidence there will be no effect on the number of members gained/lost during the week. Only competitive matches effect the members confidence of your club.

A player can gain dual nationality two ways:

1. The player is "born" with the dual nationality - i.e. they are pulled from the youth academy or allocated in a starting squad.
2. The player is eligible for dual nationality after 5 seasons playing in a different country. For example a Pakistan user purchases an Australian player from the transfer market. The player then plays 5 seasons with the team from Pakistan. The player is now eligible for dual nationality.

Once a player with dual nationality plays for any of the countries that they are eligable for, they will then take that country as their primary nationality and no longer be able to play for any other country.

There are numerous mentoring services for BT managers. Numerous offsites run such a service whilst there are also a number of alliances (for those users with BT-membership) that offer mentoring. Check to see if your national offsite has a mentoring program (links to these offsites can be found in Community -> Links).

JFW also offers an excellent mentoring service - http://z13.invisionfree.com/JumpersForWickets/index.php?showtopic=1560

It is recommended that you read as many training articles and help sites as possible before you implement a training program.

For starters take a read of these articles posted on the JFW website:

http://z13.invisionfree.com/JumpersForWickets/index.php?showforum=26

As a general rule you should start by training players who are under the age of 20. Mediocre is about the minimum you should start with (the higher the skill the better).

*After reading the JFW articles, take a look over the older training threads on the Newbie Board (click view older threads). If you still have some questions then open up a new thread on the Newbies board.

Sledging links are created by typing in the following "codes" in a post. Just replace the x's with the relevant numbers.

To link threads -> [threadID=xxxxx]
To link players -> [playerID=xxxxx]
To link teams/users -> [teamID=xxxxx]
To link leagues -> [leagueID=xxxxx]
To link matches -> [matchID=xxxxx]
To make hyper links for websites -> [LINK=http://www.someaddress.com]

The player completes the entire match for your team before jetting off to join his new team.

To change your ground name go to Club -> Ground. Down the bottom right you will see the "Change Ground Name" link under the "More Options" heading. The ground name can be changed by clicking on this link - note that there is a 5000 fee for every ground name change.

To change your team name you will need to wait until Week 1 of the new season. The name of your team can only be changed once a season for a cost of 50000. The option to change your team name appears on your Club -> Pavilion page for a limited time (approx one week).

To change your user name you will also need to wait until Week 1 of the new season. The option to change your user name can be found under Main -> Preferences. There is no cost to change your user name.