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Battrick
A browser-based cricket management game
Developer(s)	Battrick Ltd
Designer(s)	Allan Fairlie-Clarke
Released	24 April 2005
Genre	MMOMG
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Internet browser
Media	Website
System requirements	JavaScript enabled web browser

Battrick is a free Internet browser-based cricket management game inspired by the football management game Hattrick. According to the game's creator, Allan Fairlie-Clarke (Battrick username BT-allanfc), the idea for the game came about during a conversation on an Internet forum. The game has now grown to be the largest online cricket management game on the Internet. As of early November, 2007, Battrick has over 9,600 registered users.^[1] In Battrick, users take over a cricket team in the lower levels of their chosen country's league system and aim - through training, tactics and transfers - to improve their team and achieve success in one or more of the several competitions in the games. These include one-day cricket (50-overs), twenty-20 cricket (called BT20 within the game), and first-class cricket. There are currently eight countries in the game(the "big eight" real-life Test nations), each with their own league & cup competitions, and with National and Under-19 sides. The countries are: England, Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The game is free to play. A membership package, which offers no strategic advantage, can be purchased.

1 Game Characteristics
2 Gameplay
3 Other Features
4 Competitions
5 Miscellaneous
6 References
7 External links

Game Characteristics

Battrick is a browser-based game, and is a type of game called a Pbbg, or persistent browser-based game. This means that it is played over the Internet, using only a standard web browser, and that it is persistent, or without a beginning or end. Progress in the game is obtained through management of one's team over the course of many seasons.^[2] The game is coded in ASP and JavaScript. Game administration have stated their intention to soon add XML capability to the game site.^[3]

Gameplay

Battrick players are fictitious and exist only in the game. The have skill levels for Stamina, Batting, Bowling, Concentration, Consistency, Fielding and Wicket Keeping. Each of these are measured with the following 20 levels:

Worthless
Abysmal
Woeful
Feeble
Mediocre
Competent
Respectable
Proficient
Strong
Superb <-- Stamina can only reach Superb
Quality
Remarkable
Wonderful
Exceptional
Sensational
Exquisite
Masterful
Miraculous
Phenomenal
Elite

Useless preceeds worthless but doesn't measure player skills.

Other Features

The game updates daily, so that some effects of changes to tactics or training occur every 24 hours. Matches are played in real-time with ball-by-ball match commentary provided. The game follows a structured timetable over eighteen real-life weeks (a fourteen week season with four weeks off-season), with matches played at times appropriate to each individual country. At any time, gamers may re-set their team line-up for forthcoming matches, perhaps selecting a strong batting line-up one week and a balanced batting-bowling team the next. One also sets their bowling order, and assigns individual players to enter matches with a defensive, normal, or aggressive attitude. Batsmen, bowlers, fielders, wicketkeepers or all-rounders can be bought and sold on a virtual transfer market. Gamers can communicate in a forum called "the Sledging Board". Friendly matches can be arranged between teams knocked out of the cup. New teams start with an arena of 6500 seats and standing room. This can be expanded at a price as the game goes on. Each team starts with a virtual budget of £200,000. This money can be used in a variety of ways to help the team progress, such as hiring staff, signing players, or increasing the capacity of the ground.

Competitions

There are currently four competitions - in three formats - played by club sides in Battrick. They are:

OD League matches
OD Cup matches. Teams knocked out of the cup are able to organise OD friendlies.
Twenty20 tournament (branded as "BT20") The 4 weeks at the end of the regular season. It is unique in its global format, a contrast to the domestic operation of the other competitions.
First Class League Matches

In addition to this the eight nations each field National and U-19 teams for ODI cricket, culminating in their respective World Cup tournaments. The Battrick league system involves eight team divisions organised in a pyramid-esque structure. The eight teams play each other both home and away meaning each side plays 14 games in a league season. Four points are awarded for a win, two for a tie and none for a loss. Where teams are level on points they are separated by the Net Run Rate (NRR) system. The pyramid structure means that while there is one top division in each nation, with four second divisions (Labeled II.1, II.2 etc) and sixteen third divisions and so on, the number of divisions multiplying by four with each additional level. As of October, 2007 each country has four divisions except for New Zealand and India which have five and Australia and England who each have six. To have the chance of promotion to the level above (obviously not applicable with the top division where the OD League Championship is awarded to the top side) a team must first win their division by finishing top of the group. Their league record is then compared to the other division winners at that level; if they are in the top half they are promoted automatically, but the teams in the bottom half of the list must win a one-off play off match away against a team in the level above. In the divisions of the level above, the 7th and 8th placed teams are automatically relegated, replaced by the sides who achieved automatic promotion. The 5th & 6th placed teams will then provide the opposition in the play-offs with the remaining lower level division winners. A cup match is part of a straight knock-out cup competition which involves the top 75-80% of the country's teams. Qualification and seeding for the cup is based upon the final league standings at the end of the previous season. The draw is organised so that the highest remaining seed is drawn away to the lowest remaining seed, the 2nd highest remaining seed against the 2nd lowest remaining seed at the latter's ground and so on. There is the possibility that the seeding system may be scrapped in favour of a random draw at some stage, although no date has been placed upon this. Once a team is knocked out of the cup they are then able to challenge any available team from any country in the world to a friendly game, the only way you can currently (and, most likely, will ever be able to) play sides from outside your chosen nation. These friendly games are purely played to keep players in form and for enjoyment as opposed to being for any competition, although some friendly cups are unofficially organised by users. The season lasts for eighteen weeks with 14 for the OD League and Cup competitions. The 4 week off-season features a Twenty20 competition, taking up half that period. First Class matches were successfully introduced on Tuesday 25 September 2007, 7 seasons after the planned release date. With the same league structure as the OD games, First Class matches are played from Tuesday to Thursday, with 14 (7 home, 7 away) in a season.

Miscellaneous

Battrick is currently in its eighth season. National teams were created during the second season of the game. Senior and Under-19 teams coaches were voted for via elections on the Battrick message boards, allowing them to form the national squads and compete against the other Test nations. The first ever International OD matches took place in Battrick on the 23rd of November 2005.