Fantasy Cricket
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:47 pm
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Seeing as there's no 'official' fantasy cricket for the English cricket season (LVCC, RLODC, NT20B) in the same way as there is for football's English Premier League, I'm going to set up my own one, somewhat prompted by somebody who suggested a fantasy football league for next season (which I'll get onto and organise as well). Why? Because I can't afford to shell out £10 for the Telegraph's one, and I don't know what I'd do if - if - I end up with £10,000 at the end of it.
So I'm going to base this loosely on the Football version rather than the Telegraph Cricket version. I assume that most of you know how any 'fantasy' sports work, but here's a quick explanation.
You pick a certain amount of players depending on the sport - and their successes or failures are converted into points. For example, in football, scoring a goal will give you 4 points for that player. Your players' scores are added up per week and then each week is added up into a final score.
So, here's my cricket version:
Games taken into account will be any game in the Liverpool Victoria County Championship (LVCC) - in both divisions, the Royal London One Day Cup (RLODC), and the Natwest T20 Blast (NT20B). International games (such as England v Sri Lanka) and exhibition games (such as Surrey v New Zealand) will not count.
You must pick a squad of 11 players:
5 Batsmen
1 All-Rounder
1 Wicket Keeper
4 Bowlers
I shall rank each player's total 'value' in a list I will put up somewhere - probably on the forum - the 11 players may not have a value of over £100m. You may select no more than three players from any side (so no more than three Surrey players or three Middlesex players, for example).
Your team's batting order is not relevant. From a starting XI you shall nominate a captain. He will score you double points. This is changeable per week.
I will not start scoring until 3 May so as to give you some practice. You can change your team as many times as you wish until 1 May without penalty (all right then, 2 May at 23:59). But from therein, you can only make one change per week without penalty. Any additional changes will lose you five points. So if you choose to remove (say) Marcus Trescothick for week 2, you're fine. But if you choose to remove (say) Graham Onions and Jason Roy for week 3, then you lose five points. Changes will only come into effect for the next week.
Scoring:
General:
For playing a one-day match: +1
For playing a four-day match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each match tied/drawn: +1
Batting:
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (This refers to per innings, so a person with scores of 9 and 8 will score 0 + 0).
For each half century: +5
For each century: +10
For each not out: +2
For each hit wicket/handled ball/timed out/hit ball twice/obstructing field: -5
For each duck: -1
Fielding:
For each catch taken: +3
For each run out/stumping: +5
Bowling:
For each wicket taken: +3
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (This refers to per innings, so a person with figures of 0-19 and 0-18 will score 0 + 0).
Worked example: England v Australia, Edgbaston 2005:
Marcus Trescothick:
For playing a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x11 = 11)
For each half century: +5
For each catch taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
TOTAL: 26
Andrew Strauss:
For playing a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
For each catch taken: +3
TOTAL: 11
Michael Vaughan:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each catch taken: +3
For each run out/stumping: +5
TOTAL: 14
Ian Bell:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each catch taken: +3
TOTAL: 9
Kevin Pietersen:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x9 = 9)
For each half century: +5
TOTAL: 18
Andrew Flintoff:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x13 = 13)
For each half century: +5 (x2 = 10)
For each catch taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
For each wicket taken: +3 (x7 = 21)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x5 = -5)
TOTAL: 49
Geraint Jones:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each catch taken: +3 (x4 = 12)
TOTAL: 16
Ashley Giles:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each wicket taken: +3 (x5 = 15)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x6 = -6)
TOTAL: 15
Matthew Hoggard:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1
For each wicket taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x3 = -3)
TOTAL: 8
Steve Harmison:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1
For each wicket taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x5 = -5)
TOTAL: 6
Simon Jones:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each not out: +2 (x2 = 4)
For each wicket taken: +3 (x3 = 9)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x4 = -4)
TOTAL: 15
Justin Langer:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x10 = 10)
For each half century: +5
TOTAL: 16
Matthew Hayden:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x3 = 3)
For each duck: -1
For each catch taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
TOTAL: 9
Ricky Ponting:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x6 = 6)
For each duck: -1
For each half century: +5
For each catch taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
TOTAL: 17
Damien Martyn:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
TOTAL: 5
Michael Clarke:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x7 = 7)
TOTAL: 8
Simon Katich:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1
For each catch taken: +3
TOTAL: 5
Adam Gilchrist:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
For each not out: +2
For each catch taken: +3 (x7 = 21)
TOTAL: 28
Shane Warne:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
For each wicket taken: +3 (x10 = 30)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x7 = -7)
TOTAL: 28
Brett Lee:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
For each not out: +2
For each catch taken: +3
For each wicket taken: +3 (x5 = 15)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x9 = -9)
TOTAL: 16
Jason Gillespie:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each duck: -1
For each wicket taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x5 = -5)
TOTAL: 1
Michael Kasprowicz:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each duck: -1
For each wicket taken: +3 (x3 = 9)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x5 = -5)
TOTAL: 6
So, yes, get your teams in by 3 May, either by Aptomail, PM on the forum, or Inbox on Facebook. If you have any questions, do feel free to ask!
Thanks - I'll have a full player list up soon.
Seeing as there's no 'official' fantasy cricket for the English cricket season (LVCC, RLODC, NT20B) in the same way as there is for football's English Premier League, I'm going to set up my own one, somewhat prompted by somebody who suggested a fantasy football league for next season (which I'll get onto and organise as well). Why? Because I can't afford to shell out £10 for the Telegraph's one, and I don't know what I'd do if - if - I end up with £10,000 at the end of it.
So I'm going to base this loosely on the Football version rather than the Telegraph Cricket version. I assume that most of you know how any 'fantasy' sports work, but here's a quick explanation.
You pick a certain amount of players depending on the sport - and their successes or failures are converted into points. For example, in football, scoring a goal will give you 4 points for that player. Your players' scores are added up per week and then each week is added up into a final score.
So, here's my cricket version:
Games taken into account will be any game in the Liverpool Victoria County Championship (LVCC) - in both divisions, the Royal London One Day Cup (RLODC), and the Natwest T20 Blast (NT20B). International games (such as England v Sri Lanka) and exhibition games (such as Surrey v New Zealand) will not count.
You must pick a squad of 11 players:
5 Batsmen
1 All-Rounder
1 Wicket Keeper
4 Bowlers
I shall rank each player's total 'value' in a list I will put up somewhere - probably on the forum - the 11 players may not have a value of over £100m. You may select no more than three players from any side (so no more than three Surrey players or three Middlesex players, for example).
Your team's batting order is not relevant. From a starting XI you shall nominate a captain. He will score you double points. This is changeable per week.
I will not start scoring until 3 May so as to give you some practice. You can change your team as many times as you wish until 1 May without penalty (all right then, 2 May at 23:59). But from therein, you can only make one change per week without penalty. Any additional changes will lose you five points. So if you choose to remove (say) Marcus Trescothick for week 2, you're fine. But if you choose to remove (say) Graham Onions and Jason Roy for week 3, then you lose five points. Changes will only come into effect for the next week.
Scoring:
General:
For playing a one-day match: +1
For playing a four-day match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each match tied/drawn: +1
Batting:
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (This refers to per innings, so a person with scores of 9 and 8 will score 0 + 0).
For each half century: +5
For each century: +10
For each not out: +2
For each hit wicket/handled ball/timed out/hit ball twice/obstructing field: -5
For each duck: -1
Fielding:
For each catch taken: +3
For each run out/stumping: +5
Bowling:
For each wicket taken: +3
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (This refers to per innings, so a person with figures of 0-19 and 0-18 will score 0 + 0).
Worked example: England v Australia, Edgbaston 2005:
Marcus Trescothick:
For playing a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x11 = 11)
For each half century: +5
For each catch taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
TOTAL: 26
Andrew Strauss:
For playing a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
For each catch taken: +3
TOTAL: 11
Michael Vaughan:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each catch taken: +3
For each run out/stumping: +5
TOTAL: 14
Ian Bell:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each catch taken: +3
TOTAL: 9
Kevin Pietersen:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x9 = 9)
For each half century: +5
TOTAL: 18
Andrew Flintoff:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x13 = 13)
For each half century: +5 (x2 = 10)
For each catch taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
For each wicket taken: +3 (x7 = 21)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x5 = -5)
TOTAL: 49
Geraint Jones:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each catch taken: +3 (x4 = 12)
TOTAL: 16
Ashley Giles:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each wicket taken: +3 (x5 = 15)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x6 = -6)
TOTAL: 15
Matthew Hoggard:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1
For each wicket taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x3 = -3)
TOTAL: 8
Steve Harmison:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1
For each wicket taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x5 = -5)
TOTAL: 6
Simon Jones:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match won: +2
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each not out: +2 (x2 = 4)
For each wicket taken: +3 (x3 = 9)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x4 = -4)
TOTAL: 15
Justin Langer:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x10 = 10)
For each half century: +5
TOTAL: 16
Matthew Hayden:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x3 = 3)
For each duck: -1
For each catch taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
TOTAL: 9
Ricky Ponting:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x6 = 6)
For each duck: -1
For each half century: +5
For each catch taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
TOTAL: 17
Damien Martyn:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
TOTAL: 5
Michael Clarke:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x7 = 7)
TOTAL: 8
Simon Katich:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1
For each catch taken: +3
TOTAL: 5
Adam Gilchrist:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
For each not out: +2
For each catch taken: +3 (x7 = 21)
TOTAL: 28
Shane Warne:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
For each wicket taken: +3 (x10 = 30)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x7 = -7)
TOTAL: 28
Brett Lee:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x4 = 4)
For each not out: +2
For each catch taken: +3
For each wicket taken: +3 (x5 = 15)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x9 = -9)
TOTAL: 16
Jason Gillespie:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each duck: -1
For each wicket taken: +3 (x2 = 6)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x5 = -5)
TOTAL: 1
Michael Kasprowicz:
For playing in a four-day (five-day) match: +2
For each match lost: -1
For each 10 runs scored: +1 (x2 = 2)
For each duck: -1
For each wicket taken: +3 (x3 = 9)
For each 20 runs conceded: -1 (x5 = -5)
TOTAL: 6
So, yes, get your teams in by 3 May, either by Aptomail, PM on the forum, or Inbox on Facebook. If you have any questions, do feel free to ask!
Thanks - I'll have a full player list up soon.