NatWest T20 Blast Fantasy League 2017

[Red Devil]

I didn't think I saw see Dernback on your list

[Durhamfootman]

Eight players left, don't I?

Hales, Patel, Mullaney - Notts
Roy, Dernbach - Surrey
Vince, Afridi - Hants
Ingram - Glamorgan

And none of those sides play each other, so in theory I could take all eight to Finals Day.

A trawl back through the thread and I found this

Alex Hales
Jason Roy
James Vince
Jos Buttler
Colin Ingram
Samit Patel
Steven Mullaney
Darren Stevens
Shahid Afridi
Benny Howell
Chris Jordan

I can't get out of my head the risk that Kent will rest Stevens for this competition.

I will replace him with....um....Finch?....Dernbach?....Topley?......

Dernbach; we're going we Dernbach.

It appeared to me that you were mulling over whether to replace Stevens or not, and at the time I didn't read this as being a conclusive team change, so I've been scoring you with your original team which included Stevens.

whenever I change a team I always score out the discarded player so that is immediately obvious that the change has been made.

provisional 11

Rushworth (Dur)
Cobb (Nor)
Patel (Not)
Dawson (Ham) Mullaney (Not)
Clarke (War)
Leach (Wor)
Bresnan (Yor)
Bopara (Ess)
Ingram (Gla)
Howell (Glo)
Northeast (Ken)

feels unnatural only having 4 south players

In your case brendy, it's only since you questioned things that the change has become obvious to me and so I missed it at the start of the comp.... and I apologise for that.

what to do?

Obviously Dernbach (496) has scored 203 points more than Stevens (293), which is significant in terms of the leaderboard, and he is still in the comp, which Stevens isn't. At the same time, Red has been sitting on top of the leaderboard thinking that he had a bit of a cushion because he didn't realise that you'd asked for a change to be made either

I didn't think I saw see Dernback on your list

so it's all a bit of a *modded* up really.... mostly on my part

I can easily change your team, but given that we are coming to the sharp end of the comp, I think I would need confirmation from Red that he is happy for me to do so, and that he is happy that you tried to change your team in good time, and that I cocked up in good faith

If we left it alone, I think you'd have a better than decent chance of winning it anyway

My apologies to both of you. Let me know how you wish me to proceed

[Durhamfootman]

Sorry gents

It's all a bit messy, really.

If I'm ever unsure over a team selection I generally ask the question. This time I didn't, so it slipped by me

[Durhamfootman]

and I usually quote the changed team, and stick a underneath it to confirm that I've picked up the change

I didn't do that this time, either

maybe I'm becoming complacent

I'll be more careful in future

[st_brendy]

To be fair though, it's not like Red could have done anything differently as the competition has progressed, had Dernbach's points been continuously added to my score.

Obviously if I'd noticed that I wasn't receiving Dernbach's points, I'd have highlighted this long before now. But I've been quite relaxed and trusting, with no desire to manually check my points tally every time. But naturally now that I know, I would like Dernbach's points, as I believe I'm entitled to them.

Apologies though if I didn't make it crystal clear.

(I've already been sitting here these whole weeks, seething at myself for not going with Finch when I was pondering over that change! That's bad enough for me - although very much my own mistake!! )

[Red Devil]

I've been thinking i was in with a chance so I'm afraid i'm going to have to dig my heels in and insist that the change is not allowed



Looking back at Brendy's post I'm happy to accept that Brendy intended the change to his team to be made ... and don't beat yourself up about it DFM, you do an amazingly efficient job of running these comps

and I think that pretty much means the bookies will have started paying out so congrats to Brendy

[st_brendy]

Many thanks, Red.

And yes, don't worry about it Footman. It's why I don't bother to deeply scrutinise your scoring. You do a great job!

[Durhamfootman]

thanks chaps.... I'm on it

[Durhamfootman]

Leaderboard after group stage
(remaining players)

Apologies once again

8566 Red Devil (5)
8440 st_brendy (8)
8310 ianp1970 (4)
8177 Alviro Patterson (4)
8098 braveneutral (2)
7900 Adi (3)
7814 GG-Amir Sohail (8)

7284 Durhamfootman
7218 bhaveshgor
6807 rich1uk
6445 andy
6297 Red Junior
5747 The Professor
5206 DiligentDefence

[meninblue]

[Dr Cricket]

Player Leaderboard after group stage
(800 min)

1181 Willey
1165 Howell
1074 Santner
1011 Patel S
986 Bopara
968 Coughlin
936 Ingram
926 Collingwood
917 vd Merwe
850 Bresnan
841 Hales
831 Ronchi
831 Vince
811 Buttler
809 Wessels
800 Finch

surprised Wayne Madsen
Joe denly
chris Nash
lyth

not on the list.
Joe Denly scored 567 runs with 2 hundreds and a fifty averaged 43, strike rate 150.
lyth same 535 runs with 1 hundred and 4 fifty strike rate 164
Madsen 522 runs with 4 fifties strike rate 146
Nash 520 with 6 fifties, strike rate 141
looking at that list bowlers and all rounders or Lower order sloggers get too much points.
not sure how the 4 top run scores can't get on the list.
maybe need to increase the bonus for high scores or 50s.

[st_brendy]

I think it's more of a case that no-one in the league has picked those players, so no need for Footman to score them. I'm sure in reality, they all do have many points. Especially Madsen, as an all-rounder.

[Dr Cricket]

Dahm, thought it included all the players lol.
been making a list of the players included, so I have a general idea what type of player do well in these types of competitions lol.

[Durhamfootman]

I think it's more of a case that no-one in the league has picked those players, so no need for Footman to score them. I'm sure in reality, they all do have many points. Especially Madsen, as an all-rounder.

[Durhamfootman]

Player scores QF 1


Derbyshire

33 Tahir
36 Henry
16 Viljoen

Hampshire

105 Abbott
181 Afridi (I've run out of invectives.... and the will to live as well, as it happens)
67 Bailey
85 Vince
115 Dawson