Experimential Team for Success

[Inbox24]

Hey guys

I'm pretty new at this game so forgive me if this has been proposed before. But let's say I start a new international career and dump all the players in my team and start from scratch. Now for my international playing XI, I pick only youth players (preferably less than 22 years old) who have played a handful of first class games, but still with relatively decent records. For example a batsman averaging 50 with the bat from 5 first class matches or a bowler averaging 25 from from matches.

Now I build a team solely from these type of inexperienced but potentially talented players and play them in my XI at all costs. So it doesn't matter if they're out of form, or we lose every game or whatever, I just keep picking these XI players. Of course I would give them technique or batting practice when needed etc.

Now the question is, would I be able to build a world beating team this way, say in a matter of 2-5 years? If not how long would it take? Or on the flip side, is this a recipe for ending up with players averaging 10 with the bat and 100 with the ball?

Also, how do you improve someone's form. Let's say I've got a youth player with massive potential but he's woefully out of form at the moment (e.g. 1.5 star) and this is obviously causing bad performances. How would you rectify that? Give him practice at the expense of technique or what?

Thoughts on this?

Much Appreciated.

EDIT: I'm using ICC2008 not sure if this is different for different versions

 

[Niv]

Hey guys

I'm pretty new at this game so forgive me if this has been proposed before. But let's say I start a new international career and dump all the players in my team and start from scratch. Now for my international playing XI, I pick only youth players (preferably less than 22 years old) who have played a handful of first class games, but still with relatively decent records. For example a batsman averaging 50 with the bat from 5 first class matches or a bowler averaging 25 from from matches.

Now I build a team solely from these type of inexperienced but potentially talented players and play them in my XI at all costs. So it doesn't matter if they're out of form, or we lose every game or whatever, I just keep picking these XI players. Of course I would give them technique or batting practice when needed etc.

Now the question is, would I be able to build a world beating team this way, say in a matter of 2-5 years? If not how long would it take? Or on the flip side, is this a recipe for ending up with players averaging 10 with the bat and 100 with the ball?

Also, how do you improve someone's form. Let's say I've got a youth player with massive potential but he's woefully out of form at the moment (e.g. 1.5 star) and this is obviously causing bad performances. How would you rectify that? Give him practice at the expense of technique or what?

Thoughts on this?

Much Appreciated.

EDIT: I'm using ICC2008 not sure if this is different for different versions

Someone has low standards

I say go for it, it'll be interesting to see what can be sprouted from a completely youth team.

 

[Themer]

I think doing a game this way you'll probably see some player cope very well and grow into some of the best in the world while some wile away to nothing with riduclously poor averages.

I'd like to see how it pans out so keep us informed

 

[Yogy]

Very good thought. Very much appreciated.

 

[Chewie]

I agree with Themer. Some of the players with high averages fail hard, while some do really well. To raise form, I would give them practice, and also play them in warm up games.

 

[Yogy]

I played with a team of all under 22 and almost '0' FC experience against SA as India. I lost the series 3-0. I won the test series with SL with 12 new players and 6 old players 2-1. I lost the ODI series 2-1 as my team could not chase even a moderate scores.