Net practice

[Scrogs]

Is there some kinda difference between batting in the nets and batting in game versus A/I?
I manage to time shots pretty well in the nets...yet my batting scores in game are abysmal.

 

[ellgieff]

Is there some kinda difference between batting in the nets and batting in game versus A/I?
I manage to time shots pretty well in the nets...yet my batting scores in game are abysmal.

There are a couple of differences we know about for sure.

1) Confidence: bowling machines don't have confidence, neither does your avatar in the nets.

2) Fielders: there's no-one in the nets to take the catches.

3) If you get out in the nets, they don't make you walk back to the pavilion (so there's likely a cognitive bias at play, where you face 60 deliveries in the nets and hit 48+ of them well - but if you were in a match, that second ball that you misplayed would have prevented you from receiving the other 58. So you feel like you're doing great, but you're actually in your 2nd innings)

 

[inertSpark]

There are a couple of differences we know about for sure.

1) Confidence: bowling machines don't have confidence, neither does your avatar in the nets.

2) Fielders: there's no-one in the nets to take the catches.

3) If you get out in the nets, they don't make you walk back to the pavilion (so there's likely a cognitive bias at play, where you face 60 deliveries in the nets and hit 48+ of them well - but if you were in a match, that second ball that you misplayed would have prevented you from receiving the other 58. So you feel like you're doing great, but you're actually in your 2nd innings)

Exactly this. The machine isnt trying to get you out and there is no confidences to consider as well. It will be easier.

I have to say however that I have noticed that shots seem to play along the floor a lot more in the nets than they do in matches. This suggests that something is working slightly differently in the nets.

 

[asprin]

This suggests that something is working slightly differently in the nets.

I second that. Nets seem to be a totally different ball game. But to be fair, they are in real life too.

 

[Nack]

I was thinking about this too. When I'm in the nets I seem to have way more time to play shots and can manage to choose my foot selection a lot better even against the fast bowling. But I think it might just be that in the nets I'm more relaxed. I don't know about you guys but I get really tense sometimes when I'm playing in actual matches, especially as my career player, and I find that when I can manage to calm myself down a bit (breathe!) I play better.

This is one of the things I love about batting in this game, it's really managed to simulate the mental side of batting which is so important. On cricket games of old when you were told where the ball was going to pitch 5 minutes before it's bowled there was nothing like this for me. You really need to have a clear head to bat well, just like in real life. I find that often when I get out it's because I've started thinking about what shot I should play, like if the dots are starting to build up and I feel I need to attack more, or when I try to premeditate what they are going to bowl, like when they've bowled say 4 or 5 deliveries on off stump and I start thinking, 'Jeez, they cant be this accurate, surely this next ball will be short or going down leg...' and then before I know it, bang, plumb in front trying to play across my pads, Shane Watson style! Haha

 

[inertSpark]

I second that. Nets seem to be a totally different ball game. But to be fair, they are in real life too.

I have to wonder then whether there are different physics models at play depending on the mode that is being played. If that's the case then there really ought not to be, as it should be fundamentally the same regardless of which mode is being played - especially with regards to net practice. I mean practice doesn't make much sense if it doesn't even reflect how the ball-on-bat behaves in matches.

 

[Ajh1977]

It would be nice if you could have different surfaces in the nets, on the back of the box the nets shown has a proper pitch but in game its an astroturf type pitch. Maybe that is why its easy to keep the ball down in nets but not in a match.

 

[dippa]

Could there be a difference in the surface, the way the ball bounces and responds indoors to the pitch in the middle?

 

[Moosc]

...and of course there is a lot of difference between the Don character net practice and your career player in the nets IMHO.

Neil W

 

[dippa]

...and of course there is a lot of difference between the Don character net practice and your career player in the nets IMHO.

Neil W

And the bowling difficulty too!

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Exactly this. The machine isnt trying to get you out and there is no confidences to consider as well. It will be easier.

I have to say however that I have noticed that shots seem to play along the floor a lot more in the nets than they do in matches. This suggests that something is working slightly differently in the nets.

Yeah - the ball definitely stays on the ground more in the nets.

One other thing to take into account - unless you enter Career Mode first, then you're controlling The Don in the nets - bit different to controlling a nervous sixteen year old I would have thought?

Ah - Moosc beat me to it. [DOUBLEPOST=1408721027][/DOUBLEPOST]

I have to wonder then whether there are different physics models at play depending on the mode that is being played. If that's the case then there really ought not to be, as it should be fundamentally the same regardless of which mode is being played - especially with regards to net practice. I mean practice doesn't make much sense if it doesn't even reflect how the ball-on-bat behaves in matches.

Good point and this needs to be looked at.