Ok guys I have a question which is probably premature or kinda left-field - but then again thats the way i roll :P
Anyhoo, bear with me and tell me what you think of this..
As ive said a few times i havent played the game but followed all the youtube vids closely, most of them ive watched a few times. And ive noticed that, as with most previous cricket games, this game is also somewhat devoid from reality in the sense that its pretty much a batsman's game.
What i mean with that is that in real life the same is true but to a lesser extent and in real cricket you sometimes come across a complete jaffer of a delivery which is just too good for the batsman - I havent noticed this in any previous cricket games or in fact in AC2009. Sure you can "bluff" the batsman and so on but that is more to do with building pressure and bowling a good spell - not necessarily bowling a ball that is particularly hard for the batter to play.
So last night I thought of perhaps an implementation for future games which brings the bowler's strike rate more into play, we all sometimes focus on a bowler's average but having a strike rate of 60 also shows that the dude takes a wicket roughly every 10 overs. Dont you guys think that the "jaffer" situation could be somehow tied into a bowler's strikerate? So that every now and then a bowler will bowl a ball that is seriously good and you dont have to bank on a batsman just playing a poor shot? Because thats the way it seems at the moment, you can fool him into expecting a short one and in fact crush his toes etc, but as i watched the vids I saw some deliveries which would (in real life) be terribly difficult to play yet in the game it doesnt cause the batsman problems because he got his timing right...
Im not saying it should be an over-used implementation, for instance for Steyn who has a strike rate of 39 in tests it could mean he would bowl (for instance) 3 such deliveries in a test match whereas someone else with a poor strike rate would trouble the batsmen less. This also doesnt mean it should be "auto-wicket" but I mean if you bowl and inswinger at pace, which straightens then I dont care how good you are, but it takes some batting trying to keep it out or even get bat to it. At the moment an occurence like that within AC2009 or any other game for that matter, is handled a little too easily by batsmen for my liking.
In real cricket its not ONLY about building pressure, bowling to your field or roughing up the batsmen...sometimes it takes a piece of brilliance from a class bowler to swing the momentum.
Hope this wasnt TOO off-topic...i just saw a lot of repeated arguments going on in this tread and would like your thoughts on something a bit different.
Cheers!
