Found this on a post on the cricket page and so glad I had a look and bought it. Scratches the itch of being a cricket nerd and enjoying the detail.
Looking forward to seeing how it develops!!
A user asked on steam about how player development works in the game and I thought it would be helpful for everyone so posting my response here:
“Thanks for asking this and I am glad you asked this because this is what interests me the most as well as a player too. And I have tried to build as much cricketing logic into the game engine as possible. It will keep improving with each update.
Now for players, as you must have noticed, all players have a set of skill values and there is one set each for the 3 formats. Player progression works very similarly to real life. You have training slots available and you can train the players to improve their skills. Now, each player has their own ceiling. For example, Player A might be currently at 75 with a ceiling of 80. So you can train him to 80 and he reaches his peak. Training beyond that won’t have much effect. Similarly, player B might have a ceiling of 85.
Now, what happens if you don’t train a player at all? The game engine still improves and declines players as the career progresses. So, if you don’t train a player, they still reach a peak age, plateau and then start declining until retirement age. Training is basically a mechanism to make players reach their peak ahead of time so that you can utilise them as per your needs.
Every player has a built in peak age and retirement age.
This, along with player current form, determines how they perform in a live match. So eventually, the game becomes a sum of how you approached all these things.
To keep a real life like balance, you can’t just train everyone to 100 and make a Bradman out of everyone.
Now, as career progresses and players retire, young regens start appearing which are younger in age and play domestic cricket in background. Each country produces their own set of regens every year based on the capacities/quality of that country as of today. So you won’t suddenly start seeing Australia like players in Ireland automatically in 10 years. But if you manage an Ireland career and properly train players and make Ireland climb up in ranking and win trophies, the regen quality will also start improving.”