2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Sun Jun 23, 2019 3:48 pm

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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby ianp1970 » Sun Jun 23, 2019 6:33 pm

When will Kudleep play any cricket after the WC?

Last year he had more white ball wickets than anyone...
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sun Jun 30, 2019 2:28 pm

Mohammad Abbas has not had the impact in 2019 that we thought he may have had. At the start of the year he was one of the most promising bowlers in world cricket and was expected to spend a long period of time destroying frail County Championship Division 2 batting orders with his scathing deliveries. This has not come to pass. This is not solely the fault of the Pakistani bowler. He spent long periods of time inactive due to the insistence of the PCB that the bowler train alongside the Pakistan World Cup team despite the fact that they knew he was not due to be selected. There was also time wasted as he played in the ODI series against Australia and was exposed as being woefully inept at 50 over bowling. Since he joined up with Leicestershire his impact has been mixed. He has had two very good performances; one four weeks ago where he got match figures of 6/96 against Derbyshire and again this week where his 6/88 against Northamptonshire is enough to see him claim his highest score of 2019 and scrape his inaugural Best Cricketer of the Week accolade by 3 points. This sits amongst other less prestigious cricketing feats and wicketless spells. His performance this week sees him pull himself to the very top of the bottom third of players in our overall table - 68 points above Kuldeep Yadav but 290 points from Morne Morkel. This is all to play for though as another week like this one could see a further lurch up the table. Last year it was Ravi Jadeja who proved to be our late surger, could Abbas be capable of the same feat?

Shakib Al Hasan was so close to sealing Cricketer of the Week it is almost criminal. The Bangladesh captain has lit up the World Cup and is that very rare thing in international cricket: simultaneously his country's best bowler and best batter. He has taken to this World Cup as seamlessly as he did the BPL at the start of the year. In the five weeks he played for Dhaka, he scored 1129 points at an average of 225.8 a week. Easy, some people said. Playing against such green Bangladeshi bowlers and a group of second tier T20 mercenaries is nothing of note. But Shakib has brought that exact same form onto the biggest stage. Over this last five weeks he has scored 1026 at a higher average of 206.2 a week. An unbelievable achievement when you look at the quality that the veteran captain is up against. What is even more note-worthy is how he spreads his point scoring across the disciplines. This week 160 of his 231 came with the ball as he scored a fivefer against Afghanistan. Last week a staggering 235 of his 275 points came with the bat. Imagine the carnage he would cause if he could combine those two disciplines. Shakib's form has been rewarded by his return to the overall top 5 as he muscles Jonny Bairstow into sixth position.

I can't help but notice that some of our high-flying players have had far from a high- flying World Cup Week. Second place Joe Root and fifth place Jonny Bairstow all had scores of 100 or more last week but came up against the immovable Titans of Sri Lankan cricket and hit something of a wall. Both Englishman hit something of a wall at precisely the wrong time. Root's weekly tally of 18 is his lowest active week since gameweek 10, whilst the oftentimes prolific Jonny Bairstow has not scored lower than this week's score of 37 since Week 15. This is problematic timing for the two Englishman and the team they represent. They are the team's bankers and they need to keep their currency up. On a personal level it sees Joe Root drop to third place again, having been overtaken by Jeetan Patel, whilst Jonny Bairstow drops out of the overall top five for the first time in three weeks. That time it was just a blip before he returned back the following week. England fans will be hoping for a repeat performance. At the top of the table we find a similar situation with Glenn Maxwell. His score of 33 is the lowest weekly score he has attained since March. This dents the number one player in the world's lead to 725 runs, however with him being the only player guaranteed more World Cup games after next week he has time to push on.

Week

Mohammad Abbas - 234
Shakib Al Hasan - 231
Morne Morkel - 208
Jeetan Patel - 189
Kane Williamson - 171
Jack Leach - 165
Ben Stokes - 149
Simon Harmer - 125
Virat Kohli- 102
Jos Buttler - 65
Rashid Khan - 60
Kuldeep Yadav - 50
Shai Hope - 45
Jonny Bairstow- 37
Glenn Maxwell - 33
Rohit Sharma- 28
Joe Root - 18

Joe Burns - dnp
Callum Ferguson - dnp
Shubman Gill - dnp
Shreyas Iyer - dnp
Duanne Olivier - dnp
Wayne Parnell - dnp
Abdur Razzak- dnp

Overall

Glenn Maxwell - 3741
Jeetan Patel - 3016
Joe Root- 2877
Simon Harmer - 2760
Shakib Al Hasan - 2730
Jonny Bairstow - 2558
Ben Stokes - 2493
Rashid Khan - 2455
Virat Kohli- 2380
Jos Buttler - 2229
Kane Williamson - 2220
Rohit Sharma - 2128
Shreyas Iyer - 1887
Duanne Olivier - 1852
Wayne Parnell - 1753
Shai Hope - 1739
Morne Morkel - 1710
Mohammad Abbas - 1420
Kuldeep Yadav - 1352
Callum Ferguson - 1080
Shubman Gill - 1039
Jack Leach - 944
Abdur Razzak- 898
Joe Burns - 709

Headlines

For the first time in 2019 nobody moves.

This is despite nearly 1000 points achieved by DFM in the last fortnight.

The bottom three placed contributors all score the grand total of 0.

Week

DFM - 359
Andy - 276
Sussex - 273
RD - 241
Ian - 239
GGAS - 225
DC - 149
Arthur - 83
MIB - 65
Alviro - 0
The Professor - 0
RDJ - 0


Overall

RD - 5451
Arthur - 5106
MIB - 4681
Sussex - 4597
Andy - 4441
Ian - 4268
DFM - 4220
DC - 3532
GG-AS - 3399
Alviro- 2770
RDJ - 2750
The Professor- 2594
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Sun Jun 30, 2019 7:51 pm

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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:00 pm

Rohit Sharma has hit three centuries in a calendar week. Let's just stop and marvel at that. The century. The focus and goal for every batsmen. That rare of things. And he just goes ahead and helps himself to three in a week. It will come as little surprise to you that Rohit Sharma is our Cricketer of the Week for his 309 runs against England, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This haul of centuries managed to see The Hitman break Kumar Sangakkara's record of 4 centuries in a World Cup tournament as he takes his tally up to five. Rohit has used the World Cup to help himself surge up the table. At the start of the tournament, Rohit was a long way of the pace in a distant 12th with just 1631 points. This marked a massive fall from grace since his three week spell in the overall top 5 in February. Throughout the group stages, Rohit has accrued 966 points in his nine games and has moved up into eighth place. With another two games potentially in the pipeline it would be a tall order for Sharma to overhaul the 278 points keeping him out of the top 5 but lest we forget; three centuries in a week. Who can dictate what is possible in that kind of form?

With the group stages of the World Cup done and dusted, three of the twelve World Cup players in our overall list have been eliminated with the further nine representing India, England or New Zealand. The three players to who we bid adieu have all had very different World Cup experiences. The foremost loss to the tournament is Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan who has used 2019 as his yo-yo. After being our best Cricketer in the world for the first 6 weeks, his stock fell dramatically so that by the time the first game of the World Cup started he was in a lowly 11th position with 1704 points. Fast forward 8 games and Shakib is the third highest run scorer in the tournament with 606 - and this is missing a game due to injury. This has seen Shakib back in the top 5 again after improving his overall score for the year by a stonking 1286 points - this is more than Callum Ferguson has scored in the year as a whole. He will be a huge loss to the tournament. The second player we are saying goodbye to will not be missed as it seems like he never really turned up. I have written a few times this year how Rashid Khan's figures are way down on what they were last year in all formats of the game. This has been highlighted by his lack of potency in this tournament. Afghanistan have been poor and, despite pushing some teams close, are deserved wooden spoon holders. One thing that the Afghanistan team rely on is bags of wickets from their mystery spinner, however his best figures for the tournament were his 2/17 against Sri Lanka. He finishes the World Cup with just six wickets - the same as similarly under achieving Kuldeep Yadav. This poor for, has seen Rashid pull off a 'reverse Shakib'. He started the tournament in second with 2109 but has gained only 395 points in his nine games - a third of what Shakib managed. He is now only just clinging on to his place in the top ten with the still active duo of Jos Buttler and Kane Williamson breathing down his neck. Somewhere in the middle of these two players sits Shai Hope who has blown hot and cold in this tournament. The young West Indian has scored big but slow and has been forced into playing the anchor man to often after his big hitting colleagues have hit out. His stock has risen in this tournament but his place in the overall table hasn't. He finishes in 15th - only one place higher than he started but has 695 extra points. These players will have something of a break from tournament cricket for a while until the CPL kicks off - a tournament I see them all competing in. Internationally, Hope has a home series against India but Afghanistan and Bangladesh have nothing lined up until November. With this period of inactivity on the horizon it could be all change again.

Is there justice in this world? If you are Simon Harmer possibly not. The Essex man's figures with the ball this week were simply extraordinary. The big scoring South African has been taking bags and bags of wickets again this year and has muscled his way back into the top five ready for a Summer push to regain his top spot position from Glenn Maxwell. This week his figures of 1/42 and 4/35 against Nottinghamshire look unspectacular but if you scrape the surface - or click on the scorecard - you see a whole different picture. In Nottinghamshire's second dig, Harmer bowled 40 overs, 24 of which were maidens. Of those other 16 overs Harmer only leaked 35 runs leaving him with an economy of 0.87. An economy that low is phenomenal - however he still only gets the thirty points for having an economy rate under four. The same points as Morne Morkel got for his 3.66 off 21 overs against Yorkshire. The same points as Jeetan Patel got for his 1-135 in 43.1 overs against Kent. We abolished the rule of awarding 5 points for a maiden last year as it doubly rewarded bowlers and with this rule in place Harmer would have got a further 120 points - I'm not sure if anyone would begrudge him that. As it stands his 200 points sees him finish fourth for the week but, due to the Shakib effect, he moves down in the overall table into fifth position. Even more galling for some once in a lifetime figures.

Week

Rohit Sharma - 467
Jonny Bairstow-317
Shakib Al Hasan - 260
Simon Harmer - 200
Virat Kohli- 186
Ben Stokes - 180
Jack Leach - 175
Duanne Olivier - 152
Morne Morkel - 140
Callum Ferguson - 139
Shakib Al Hasan - 122
Jos Buttler - 121
Joe Root - 118
Jeetan Patel - 99
Kuldeep Yadav - 50
Rashid Khan - 49
Kane Williamson - 47
Glenn Maxwell - 33

Mohammad Abbas - dnp
Joe Burns - dnp
Shubman Gill - dnp
Shreyas Iyer - dnp
Wayne Parnell - dnp
Abdur Razzak - dnp

Overall

Glenn Maxwell - 3773
Jeetan Patel - 3115
Joe Root- 2995
Shakib Al Hasan - 2990
Simon Harmer - 2960
Jonny Bairstow - 2875
Ben Stokes - 2673
Rohit Sharma - 2597
Virat Kohli- 2566
Rashid Khan - 2504
Jos Buttler - 2350
Kane Williamson - 2267
Duanne Olivier - 2004
Shreyas Iyer - 1887
Shai Hope - 1861
Morne Morkel - 1850
Wayne Parnell - 1753
Mohammad Abbas - 1420
Kuldeep Yadav - 1402
Callum Ferguson - 1219
Jack Leach - 1119
Shubman Gill - 1039
Abdur Razzak- 898
Joe Burns - 709

Headlines

A phenomenal week in which MIB's two contributors scored five centuries between them sees the top three tighten up.

In fact, gaps are narrowing all over the place. With the exception of myself and Alviro one good week would see any player over take the person ahead of them.
Week

MIB - 786
Andy - 382
Arthur - 239
Sussex - 233
GGAS - 224
DFM - 200
DC - 180
RD - 172
RDJ - 152
Ian - 149
Alviro - 139
The Professor- 0

Overall

RD - 5623
MIB - 5467
Arthur - 5345
Sussex - 4830
Andy - 4823
DFM - 4420
Ian - 4417
DC - 3712
GG-AS - 3623
Alviro- 2909
RDJ - 2902
The Professor- 2594
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby ianp1970 » Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:35 pm

Kudleep has been an unmitigated disastrous pick :d'oh: I can confidently say I'll be releasing him in December...
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:37 pm

ianp1970 wrote:Kudleep has been an unmitigated disastrous pick :d'oh: I can confidently say I'll be releasing him in December...

you can't.... you have to give me Jeets back ;)

it was only a season long loan 8-)
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:40 pm

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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:35 am

Just seen Joe Burns is back in action for Australia A after his personal reasons/viral infection/fatigue.

Got a lot of making up to do but is 88* over night.
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:23 pm

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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:28 pm

Simon Harmer's march up the table looks close to being unstoppable. Another eight wickets for Essex against Yorkshire sees him finish as the best Cricketer of the Week for the fifth time this year and limes him up for another tussle with Jeetan Patel. Throughout 2018 we saw the trio of Harmer, Patel and Rashid Khan grappling for first, second and third as the year progressed. As we creep over the halfway mark of the year, we see a similar thing happening again, however it is Glenn Maxwell who makes up the third player. Thanks to his 50 wickets so far this season, Harmer is now 116 points off Jeetan Patel - and would have overtaken him if it were not for the remarkable 70 runs that the veteran New Zealand player robbed from Hampshire. In turn, Patel is now just 466 points away from long time leader Glenn Maxwell. It now seems unlikely that Maxwell will join up with the Australia Test squad for the Ashes, so we may see him return to Lancashire for a spell. This could be a tussle that continues through until September but I suspect that Harmer may very well be our number one Cricketer in the world by the end of August in his current form.

How we love an underdog! Now the World Cup is winding down and we are returning to the cricketing normality of players featuring in one game per week, we have seen an upward surge from some of our more lowly placed contributors. Four of our top six players for the week are in the bottom third of the table for the year and many of them are using the County season to boost their scores now that the limelight is moving away from the very top echelons of the game. Jack Leach is a player who will still harbour aspirations of a recall to the England side for the Ashes series and his spurt up the table in the last month will have helped his cause. Over his last three fixtures he has picked up 14 wickets and moved himself from second bottom to 21st. His seven wickets against Nottinghamshire sees him finish second this week. Callum Ferguson is another player who has been underwhelming in the County Championship for Worcestershire. Last week's 139 was his highest score for eight weeks but he bested that with a century versus Derbyshire to bring him into the weekly top five for the first time in 2019. He is now 19th overall. Joe Burns is another player who has performed well this week with a fifth placed finish. In an alternative reality he would have been scoring truckloads for Lancashire in preparation for the Ashes series, however a prolonged absence of seven weeks due to a fatigue based virus sees the Queensland player rock bottom of the table. His first game back saw him bag a century and fifth spot for the week, as he represented his country's A side in a game against Sussex. He is a cert for the Australia squad and to escape out of the bottom third. The last player who has seen good returns over the last few weeks is Leicestershire's Mohammad Abbas. After winning Cricketer of the Week two weeks ago, he has finished just outside the top five this week. Abbas' position near the foot of the table is largely due to a prolonged spell training with the Pakistan World Cup squad despite Mickey Arthur knowing he was not going to select him. Since he joined up with Leicestershire, he has scored triple figures in terms of points in four of the seven gameweeks he has featured in and boosted his overall position in the table from 22nd to 18th. As our World Cup performers get their well earned rest from the game, these players could keep up their impetus and force themselves into the top ten if they continue their form of this week.

Gracious me! What a surprise! A big game and Virat Kohli goes missing. One of the most regular criticisms of the Indian captain is that he does not have the nerve for the big event. We have seen this time and time again for Bangalore in the IPL and we saw it this week in the World Cup. His score of 1 is, by far, his lowest tally of points this year. If you couple this with the exact same score for Rohit you can see that India were on a hiding to nothing....or a hiding to two. Next week we will analyse the World Cup players and see who made the most and least impact - at the start of the tournament Kohli's name would have been top of your prediction list but his performance against New Zealand was yet another underwhelming performance for him. If you compare this to his opposing captain, it makes even poorer reading for an Indian fan. Despite neither of the two men scoring immense amounts of runs across the competition, Williamson has outperformed Kohli in terms of points scored in four of the six weeks of the World Cup. A lot of criticism is being aimed at Kohli in terms of his captaincy but his harshest critic is likely to be himself....or some of the companies that he endorses....but probably more himself.

Week

Simon Harmer - 263
Jack Leach - 251
Jeetan Patel - 224
Callum Ferguson - 200
Joe Burns - 173
Mohammad Abbas - 151
Morne Morkel - 123
Kane Williamson - 107
Shreyas Iyer - 97
Joe Root - 79
Duanne Olivier - 78
Jonny Bairstow - 44
Glenn Maxwell - 32
Virat Kohli - 21
Jos Buttler - 20
Ben Stokes - 10
Shubman Gill - 10
Rohit Sharma - 1

Shakib Al Hasan - dnp
Shai Hope - dnp
Rashid Khan - dnp
Wayne Parnell - dnp
Abdur Razzak - dnp
Kuldeep Yadav- dnp

Overall

Glenn Maxwell - 3805
Jeetan Patel - 3339
Simon Harmer - 3223
Joe Root- 3074
Shakib Al Hasan - 2990
Jonny Bairstow - 2919
Ben Stokes - 2683
Rohit Sharma - 2598
Virat Kohli- 2587
Rashid Khan - 2504
Kane Williamson - 2374
Jos Buttler - 2370
Duanne Olivier - 2082
Shreyas Iyer - 1984
Morne Morkel - 1973
Shai Hope - 1861
Wayne Parnell - 1753
Mohammad Abbas - 1571
Callum Ferguson - 1419
Kuldeep Yadav - 1402
Jack Leach - 1370
Shubman Gill - 1049
Abdur Razzak- 898
Joe Burns - 882

Headlines

DFM topscores and moves to fifth
Jack Leach moves GG into 8th

Week

DFM - 414
The Professor- 270
GGAS - 251
Ian - 224
Alviro - 200
RD - 155
Sussex - 128
Arthur - 99
RDJ - 78
MIB - 45
DC - 20
Andy - 0

Overall

RD - 5778
MIB - 5512
Arthur - 5444
Sussex - 4958
DFM - 4834
Andy - 4823
Ian - 4641
GG-AS - 3874
DC - 3732
Alviro- 3109
RDJ - 2980
The Professor- 2864
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:18 pm

Winter is coming

cheers Prof. accurate as ever :salute
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:26 pm

Yes cheers Prof. Good day for whoever has Ben Stokes.
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:48 pm

Most County Champ wickets since the start of 2017 (all 35-37 matches played):

Simon Harmer 194
Jamie Porter 171
Chris Rushworth 162
Kyle Abbott 156
Jeetan Patel 149
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Re: 2019 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby sussexpob » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:10 am

Rohit Sharma just fell 20 runs short of beating the all time runs at a World Cup; he scored 5 x 100s, 1 x 50 in 9 innings at a SR that would rank him comfortably in the top ten ever achieved in the history of the game over any sustained period. He has been outscored in this period by someone playing 3 less matches, taking 2 wickets an innings (at a hardly earth-shattering 31 a piece) and scoring 17 runs per trip to the crease.

Taking Sharma's near record breaking return in a WC (and one that came at a far higher SR than the record holder)....... he'd on average get 80 points for his average innings, which would rank at a guess about 30 runs over the best historically achieved career averages. He'd have gotten 10 bonus points for a SR of 99. He'd have gotten a batting bonus of 20..... average return per match, 110 points lets say. Jeetan Patel..... takes 2 x 2-for in a game (80 points)..... scores 17 per innings at SR 60 (34 points)..... achieves a bowling econ of under 4 x 2 (60 points)...... average return per game, 174 points. If he was to take 1 wicket in the first dig, and a 3 for in the second it would increase to 194 (his average wicket return was 4 per completed match). How can these returns be compared so dis-proportionally?

Just take a look at Jeetan's last match.... he takes 3/160 over two innings on a pitch where 3 innings fell below 250 (so essentially he had a horror show on a deck the ball dominated... hes runs conceded amount to the same as his sides first complete innings score)..... he gets a staggering 140 points for that return. 3/160 match return for a bowler comparable to a batsman scoring 110 runs at under SR80 in an innings? :horse

The bowling points scoring ratio is so out of kilter with batters, a part time bowler who takes no wickets but bowls 3 overs an innings without getting utterly annihilated (and assuming said bowler scores a very manageable 5 runs per innings) would beat a batter scoring a 50.

The reward for bowling economy set at under 4 runs for a 4/5 game is essentially a free half century for any bowler who bowls a handful of overs. It would be like saying any batter who is at the crease 18 balls gets an extra 30 runs added to his score, no matter if its an 18 ball duck.
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