Personal Fitness Level (PFL)
Personal fitness level (PFL)
While there are no injuries in BT, you cannot continually play an player match after match without him feeling some effects on his body. An individual's PFL has a major effect on his performance and PFL decreases as a result of his exertions both on and off the field.
At the lowest levels of PFL a player will be barely able to perform. The effect of playing with less than sublime PFL is not precisely known.
Personal fitness levels are updated daily during the daily updates.
Age is not currently a factor in a players PFL recovery and there are no immediate plans to make it one.
What causes a player's Personal Fitness Level (PFL) to drop?
Factors causing a decrease in a player's personal fitness are:
- The type of match.
- The player's level of involvement in a game.
- The match orders used in the game, if it is a competitive fixture.
- The number of training net sessions a player is receiving and the intensity % of the training.
Type of match
If a player plays a game, his fitness level will go down.
First Class matches are naturally more tiresome and draining for a player than a One Day match. Friendlies affect PFL only about 1/3 of the usual competitive OD match amount.
All players lose around half a level of PFL after the final day of a FC match, on top of what they lose for their own personal contribution.
During an FC match - if some players do not bat or bowl (because you bowl the opposition out easily and reach batting targets quickly), the effect to PFL of the 'non-playing' players is still significant in total. It's relatively small on the non-final days and fairly large on the final day (be it 2nd or 3rd day). Will also depend on stamina to some extent as over a day or two, superb stamina will gain fitness back about as quick as just fielding will lose it.
Player's involvement in match
There's a cost for taking part in any match, then a hit based on how long the player bats/bowls/fields on top of that.
The more the player does in the match, the more his personal fitness level may be depleted (eg. scoring 100 and bowling 10 overs in a League or Cup game will drop PFL by approx 2 levels)
A player will lose a very small amount of PFL as a result of:
- facing a ball, as a batsman
- bowling a ball, as a bowler
Research (by zinc) has revealed that a player will:
- lose more PFL per ball faced as a batsman, than per ball bowled as a bowler.
Match orders
Match orders affect all players who play in the match:
- 'Take It Easy' - PFL loss of the players will decrease by around 30% (compared to a PAN).
- 'Play As Normal' - players will lose a 'normal' amount of PFL.
- 'Go For It' - PFL loss of the players will increase by about 50% (compared to a PAN).
Research (by zinc) has revealed that a player will:
- lose more PFL per ball faced in FC matches, than per ball faced in a OD GFI match.
Training & intensity %
When a player is being trained in the nets, his fitness level will go down. The harder you train (ie. the higher the Training Intensity %, the further your player's fitness will fall.)
The PFL hit for a training hit is believed to be around 0.4 of a PFL level per training net.
Stamina training affects the same as any other kind of training net.
What makes Player Fitness rise?
The rate of personal fitness recovery is governed by a player's level of stamina. PFL naturally gravitates back to sublime (the top level) slowly over time.
Each day of rest that a player gets will see his fitness level rise (ie. each daily update in BT).
A player with mediocre stamina will recover a level of PFL about every 3 days, players with superb stamina will recover quicker than this.
The following table is a guess-timate of how long it takes a player to recover one level of PFL, according to his stamina level:
- Worthless (1) / 3.5 days
- Abysmal (2) / 3.37 days
- Woeful (3) / 3.24 days
- Feeble (4) / 3.11 days
- Mediocre (5) / 2.98 days
- Competent (6) / 2.85 days
- Respectable (7) / 2.72 days
- Proficient (8) / 2.59 days
- Strong (9) / 2.46 days
- Superb (10) / 2.33 days
Will there be injuries introduced to Battrick?
Player Fitness level will be taking the place of injuries (ie.there will NOT be injuries introduced into the game).
During the IRC Q&A on 3 Sep 2006, Allan stated:
"A quality bowler on low fitness might effectively be only competent. A low PFL will affect a players overall ability to perform."
Allan has suggested in mid-2009 that the effect of 'lower than sublime' PFL is not linear.