2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:33 pm

Maybe the gods of Cricket are smiling on those less fortunate this week. Everyone that featured this week started in the bottom ten in terms of points per active week. This ranged from Glenn Maxwell at 125.18 down to Virat Kohli at 75.55. One player that made positive progress on all fronts is David Warner - this week's Cricketer of the Week. His 212 points this week is another improvement for the Australian who has got better and better as the IPL has continued. He began the tournament poorly with 6 runs against Bangalore. His next two performances saw him get points in the sixties. This week both his performances have been in three figures - 100 against Mumbai and 112 against Punjab. He is now the highest IPL scorer of our eleven players with 397 points. He has also scored the most runs, with the most Strike Rate points and joint most points for fielding. He can also boast the highest average points per game - standing at 66.17. Quite an achievement when you take that score of 6 into consideration. If you remove that game from history, his average would be a monumental 78.2. This stellar week has seen Warner move up five places on the overall list - overtaking Mohammad Nabi, Colin Ackermann and his three international colleagues Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne. There is quite a gulf between him and the next player on the list - Aaron Finch. With Finch's poor form you would not bet against Davey ending the IPL as our highest Australian competitor.

Whereas Warner's ascent has been gradual, Kohli's has shot up. Just two fixtures ago he was averaging 14 points per game - second lowest of all our players. At that time his highest score was 34 points from 14 runs and two catches against Hyderabad. Fast forward a week and Kohli's average is a more respectable 43.4 - the fourth most of our players. 72 runs against Rajasthan and 43 against Delhi has seen the Bangalore captain accrue 175 points this week. This is over four times his total for the previous two weeks combined. Such is the gap at the bottom end of the table, that this score only saw him move up one place on the overall list - over-taking Travis Head into 18th. There could be a little more progression for the combative Indian captain. He is currently doing rather well for Bangalore and has a little queue of people in front of him. He is 42 points behind inactive Kolkata player Tom Banton and 126 behind slightly more active Kolkata player Shubman Gill. Further ahead are Keshav Maharaj and Martin Guptill who have both been inactive for 28 weeks. With this in mind, Kohli could turn a poor 2020 on it's head. The last time Kohli made a move up the list was in the sixth week of the year where he moved from seventh to fourth. Whilst moving from 19th to 18th is a slightly different ball game, in current form the only way is up.

Under different circumstances Babar Azam would be one of the hottest prospects in an IPL franchise. Thanks for that Lord Mountbatten! As the creme de la creme of cricket impress in the UAE, Babar returned from Somerset to captain his Central Punjab team in the National T20 Cup. Whilst he was in quarantine for the obligatory two weeks, his team played five and lost four. No prizes for guessing that the return of a player of his calibre reversed their fortunes. Azam's opening fixture saw him score 86 from 52 balls helpin to put Northern Pakistan to the sword. This earned him 136 points - a very high total for a single T20 game. Of all the contributions we have had from our IPL players this year, the average points per game is 47.21. The highest individual score was Rohit Sharma's 120 against Kolkata. Azam scored 16 more than this. You may point the to the quality of opposition as an excuse for this. You would be wrong. The National T20 Cup boasts a hugely competitive quota of Pakistan internationals. The six Northen Pakistan bowlers he faced off against had a combined 206 T20I caps. These are no rookies. Azam's sparkling performance moves him up above Simon Harmer into fourth. Harmer and he have been jostling for position for some time but it would seem Azam has the beating of him as well as every IPL contributor.

Week


David Warner - 212
Shubman Gill - 186
Virat Kohli - 175
Babar Azam - 136
Rohit Sharma - 101
Steve Smith - 65
Glenn Maxwell - 58
Aaron Finch- 31


Kyle Abbott - dnp
Colin Ackermann- dnp
Tom Banton- dnp
Lewis Gregory - dnp
Martin Guptill- dnp
Peter Handscomb- dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Travis Head- dnp
Jason Holder - dnp
Marnus Labuschagne- dnp
Keshav Maharaj- dnp
Mohammad Nabi- dnp
Joe Root - dnp
Ben Stokes - dnp


Overall


Joe Root - 2286
Ben Stokes - 2204
Lewis Gregory - 2126
Babar Azam - 1971
Simon Harmer - 1922
Jason Holder- 1691
Aaron Finch - 1665
David Warner - 1497
Mohammad Nabi - 1458
Steve Smith - 1437
Colin Ackermann - 1435
Glenn Maxwell - 1435
Marnus Labuschagne - 1337
Martin Guptill - 1243
Keshav Maharaj - 1176
Shubman Gill - 1132
Tom Banton - 1048
Virat Kohli - 1006
Travis Head - 901
Rohit Sharma - 842
Peter Handscomb - 383

Headlines

No movement this week. A decent week will see MIB take RDJ though.

Week


RD - 233
Arthur - 212
The Professor- 186
DC - 136
Ian - 101
DD - 65
MIB - 31
Alviro - 0
DFM - 0
GG - 0
RDJ - 0


Overall


DC - 4181
GG - 3817
Arthur - 3786
DFM - 3349
RDJ - 2795
MIB - 2713
RD - 2439
The Professor - 2375
Alviro - 2087
DD - 1905
Ian - 842
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:40 pm

It was Ben Stokes that I prophesied would knock Joe Root off top spot and reclaim his title at the top of the list. This did not come to pass despite the flame-haired allrounder's return to cricket. Instead, we have a brand new name at the very top of the list - that of Babar Azam. Nobody has played more cricket than Azam in 2020. His active weeks stand at 18 out of 40. That is one more than Tom Banton and two more than Lewis Gregory and Aaron Finch - however he would have few better weeks than the last seven days. His form in the National T20 cup for Central Punjab has been nothing short of breath-taking. He has made 325 runs in five games. This is even more impressive when you consider he got a duck in one of them. His average points per game stands at 93. To put this into comparison, Steve Smith registered an average of 104.5 in fixture 2 of the IPL. Apart from that no IPL Cricketer on our list has got within touching distance of that average. This week has improved his overall average points per active week. He now stands at 127.78 - 12th placed out of our 22 players. This indicates that Babar has played an awful lot of decent, if not spectacular, cricket in this most unusual of years. His lead on Stokes is a mere five points so his tenure as the leading Cricketer in the World may be brief in the short term. We many need to consider Babar as a contender. If Stokes were to overtake him before the close of the IPL, Babar has a home series against minnows Zimbabwe to boost his score.

Have faith in Virat Kohli and he will deliver. A poor start to the IPL season and a lowly position in the overall list were cast aside this week to see the Indian captain pick up 324 points from four games. This has seen him shoot up the list from 18th to 14th. His improvement over the last fortnight has been very impressive. Averaging 14 points per game after the first three fixtures, he now averages 60.11 - the highest of any of our IPL contributors. He also has picked up 541 points since the start of the competition - the highest of any of our players. Despite his insipid start his total yield of 351 runs is 67 more than David Warner. He also has 20 more Strike Rate points than Shubman Gill who is second in that particular metric. His 140 points from last Saturday's game against Chennai is the highest score for any of our players. His 140 from 90 runs with a strike rate of 173.07 is worth 20 points more than Rohit Sharma's performance against Kolkata in Match 5. Bangalore are guaranteed another five games and seem likely to progress even further. This means that, working on Kohli's current average, he may be expected to accrue another 301 points before we get to the knockouts. That should be enough to see him into the top ten - a place he has not been for the last thirty weeks.

Happily the Sheffield Shield, unlike most other forms of cricket around the world, has not been effected temporally by Covid. This means that some of our least active players will come to the fore once again. Travis Head had only been active for seven weeks before his game for South Australia this week. Bottom placed Peter Handscomb will be back in action in two weeks time. The biggest beneficiary of antipodean cricket this week was an Aussie who had played more than most. Marnus Labuschagne has featured in 11 weeks of cricket this year - one fewer than the average. This week he provided one of his best performances in Queensland's opening fixture. The mercurial batsmen has a propensity to score big runs and delivered this week with 167 against Tasmania. His part time bowling also helped him chip in 50 points to his total to see him finish third in the weekly table. Labuschagne hadn't played any cricket since Australia's tour of England but finished that chapter of the year in ninth place. He has picked up where he left off there by shooting back up to eight place this week. With the international players featuring in the first four rounds of the Shield, scores like this won't hurt the South African born Aussie one bit.

Week


Babar Azam - 329
Virat Kohli- 324
Marnus Labuschagne- 257
Travis Head- 135
Aaron Finch - 133
Steve Smith - 113
Ben Stokes- 91
David Warner - 87
Shubman Gill - 85
Rohit Sharma- 50
Tom Banton - 8
Glenn Maxwell - 0


Kyle Abbott - dnp
Colin Ackermann- dnp
Lewis Gregory - dnp
Martin Guptill - dnp
Peter Handscomb- dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Jason Holder- dnp
Keshav Maharaj- dnp
Mohammad Nabi- dnp
Joe Root- dnp


Overall


Babar Azam - 2300
Ben Stokes - 2295
Joe Root - 2286
Lewis Gregory - 2126
Simon Harmer - 1922
Aaron Finch - 1798
Jason Holder- 1691
Marnus Labuschagne - 1594
David Warner - 1584
Steve Smith - 1550
Mohammad Nabi - 1458
Colin Ackermann - 1435
Glenn Maxwell - 1435
Virat Kohli - 1330
Martin Guptill - 1243
Shubman Gill - 1217
Keshav Maharaj - 1176
Tom Banton - 1048
Travis Head - 1036
Rohit Sharma - 892
Peter Handscomb - 383


Headlines


Despite both Joe Root and David Warner moving down the rankings, Arthur moves back up to second.


Week


DC - 420
RD - 324
RDJ - 257
MIB - 141
Alviro - 135
DD - 113
Arthur - 87
The Professor- 85
Ian - 50
DFM - 0
GG - 0


Overall


DC - 4601
Arthur - 3873
GG - 3817
DFM - 3349
RDJ - 3052
MIB - 2854
RD - 2763
The Professor - 2460
Alviro - 2222
DD - 2018
Ian - 892
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Sat Oct 17, 2020 7:46 pm

It's all about second place.
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:00 pm

Baby stuff getting in the way of doing this today. Going to get up early and do it tomorrow.
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Sun Oct 25, 2020 4:44 pm

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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Mon Oct 26, 2020 12:30 pm

Remember when Ben Stokes was having a bad IPL? If I had done this post yesterday as I has planned he still would have been. He would have had 76 points - sandwiching him between Shubman Gill and Steve Smith. A trio of misfiring IPL batsmen. And then he fired. His century for Rajasthan yesterday yielded him 187 points . This eclipses the highest IPL total so far this year - Virat Kohli's 140 against Chennai). T20 is Stokes' least effective format - however when he pulls it out the fire it produces moments that are seared into your memory. It is odd how one performance can turn the course of a tournament. Before yesterday's game Stokes averaged 32 points a game with only Glenn Maxwell (19.21) and Tom Banton (9) below him. After the game his average was 57.83 with only Kohli (59), David Warner (59.64) and Jason Holder (67.5) above him. In the blink of an eye Stokes has eclipsed some of our other IPL contributors in exactly half the time. Maxwell's season has been a poor one. The Punjab allrounder has only one score in the top half of all individual contributions (31 points or more). It has taken Stokes six games to overhaul Maxwell's eleven game total of 212 points. Stokes also has 115 more runs and 40 more points for Strike Rate than the Aussie. It is not just Maxwell who he has overshadowed. He has ten more batting bonus points than Aaron Finch and has more points for fielding than Finch, Kohli and Smith. All of those players have featured in their side from the start. If Stokes had played all games, at his current average, his expected total would be 694 - 38 more than current leader David Warner. What could have been! What has happened, however, is that Stokes has reclaimed his position at the top of the overall list. After a month of playing second fiddle to Joe Root and Babar Azam, Stokes is leading us out as we approach the final two months of the year.

That David Warner is our current IPL points leader might come as a surprise to you. His Hyderabad team have had their worst season in many a year and Warner's performances haven't lit up the tournament. What he has done this year, which has eluded him in year's gone by, is shown consistency. Over the last eleven fixtures, Warner's average points have improved in all but two rounds. Hos tournament high reached 66.43 after his 48 runs against Rajasthan in fixture 7. He now has the second highest average of 59.64 - with only newbie Holder trumping him. There have been 87 individual contributions from our players in this year's IPL - ranging from Stokes 180 yesterday to Glenn Maxwell's 0 against RCB. If we divide these performances into thirds we see a majority of Warner's outings within the top 29. Basically, this means that in seven of his 11 games he has scored 61 points or more. However, if we were to look at scores of more than 100 points (the sign of an outstanding game) there have only been two. This means that 45% of Warner's matches in this year's IPL have been somewhere between 61 and 100 points. Not bad going at all - despite the fact that it's looking like progression to the knockout phase may be unlikely. Warner moves up to eighth - a position he has got no higher than since the third week in January.

In terms of delivering what your national coach asks of you, Travis Head has followed through. At the start of the Sheffield Shield season, Justin Langer sent a message to those on the fringes of national selection; perform well and you'll get in. Usman Khawaja is a man trying to force his way back in whilst Cameron Green is making it hard to be ignored. It's difficult to tell who the incumbent is at the moment but if anyone can claim that title it is Travis Head. It seems an inordinate period of time since Head's second Test century in the Boxing Day Test in 2019 - however there have only been a handful of Tests since then. And yet the South Australian has his critics. Those critics will have to have a rethink after his second week in a row in the top five. His contribution against West Australia was decent - 85 runs plus some points for his part time bowling. That looks paltry compared to his haul of 213 points against Tasmania - all points from the bat. His 171* to save the game showed that he can score big and also grind out a game when needed. He arrived at the crease at 79-2 with his side trailing by more than 200 runs. To succeed under such circumstances is even more impressive. In a week where only four Cricketers moved up in the list, Travis jumped the highest. Overtaking Tom Banton and Keshav Maharaj into 17th. It is worth noting that Banton has played in 18 weeks of this year to reach his current total of 1066. Travis Head's 1249 points have come from just nine weeks. His average points per active week stands at 138.78 - Banton's at 59.22.

Week


Ben Stokes- 256
Travis Head- 213
David Warner - 166
Martin Guptill- 125
Jason Holder- 135
Virat Kohli- 108
Glenn Maxwell - 104
Shubman Gill - 86
Steve Smith- 56
Aaron Finch- 31
Rohit Sharma- 21
Tom Banton - 10


Kyle Abbott - dnp
Colin Ackermann - dnp
Babar Azam- dnp
Lewis Gregory - dnp
Peter Handscomb- dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Marnus Labuschagne- dnp
Keshav Maharaj- dnp
Mohammad Nabi- dnp
Joe Root- dnp




Overall


Ben Stokes - 2551
Babar Azam - 2300
Joe Root - 2286
Lewis Gregory - 2126
Simon Harmer - 1922
Aaron Finch - 1829
Jason Holder- 1826
David Warner - 1750
Steve Smith - 1606
Marnus Labuschagne - 1594
Glenn Maxwell - 1539
Mohammad Nabi - 1458
Colin Ackermann - 1435
Virat Kohli - 1438
Martin Guptill - 1368
Shubman Gill - 1303
Travis Head - 1249
Keshav Maharaj - 1176
Tom Banton - 1066
Rohit Sharma - 913
Peter Handscomb - 383


Headlines


RD overtakes MIB - whose 41 points is the lowest score of 2020 for a poster to have both players feature.


Week


DC - 256
Alviro - 213
RD - 212
The Professor- 211
Arthur - 166
GG - 135
DD - 56
MIB - 41
Ian - 21
Durham - 0
RDJ - 0


Overall


DC - 4857
Arthur - 4039
GG - 3952
DFM - 3349
RDJ - 3052
RD - 2975
MIB - 2895
The Professor - 2671
Alviro - 2435
DD - 2074
Ian - 913
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sat Oct 31, 2020 2:43 pm

Some might say that Shubman Gill has snatched Cricketer of the Week worthier performances. Stokes scored the second highest points total of the IPL against Punjab to get 150 points. Warner got the third highest against Delhi earlier in the week. Critics (and Gill has a lot of them) will also point to the fact that Gill is one of only two players to have played twice this week. And yet, they may say, he still got the third lowest total for a Cricketer of the Week in the history of us doing this. However for all the stick that Gill has been getting in this tournament he has been one of the most consistent players. His average points per game speaks to that. Gill's current average is 54.15 - the fourth highest overall and third for players that have featured in every game. Averages don't tell the full story though. One must look at individual performances. If you split all performances by our list members in this year's IPL into thirds you automatically get a series of strong performances (61 points or more), poor performances (18 points or fewer) and average performances. When you compare the five players that have played in all fixtures (Gill, Kohli, Maxwell, Smith and Warner), Gill is joint lowest for poor performances. His 7 points against Mumbai and 1 against Bangalore represent his low water mark. The main criticism of Gill is his pedestrian strike rate in the Powerplay. This is not borne out in comparison to our Listed cricketers. Overall he has the second most Strike Rate points of any of ten IPL players. 170 of his 704 points in the competition come from Strike Rate - only David Warner with 190 has higher. There have only been four games out of the thirteen Gill has played where he hasn't picked up points for Strike Rate . Two of those were due to him not collecting the 20 runs he needed to qualify. Gill's week has been buoyed up by inclusion in India's Test squad for the eagerly anticipated tour of Australia. The longest format suits Gill better as it is his more natural style of play. If can jump 6 places in the IPL - a tournament for which he is not well suited - who knows what he can achieve in the longest form.

Another strong IPL performance this week came from David Warner. Last week I called Warner Mr Consistent; suggesting that he wasn't blowing the roof off of innings in the way that he is capable. He then immediately got the fourth highest match point total of the IPL with 136 against Delhi. This sees him move up to sixth place - a mere 36 points off Simon Harmer and a place in the top five. That quickfire 66, coupled with Kohli's disappointing score of 9 against Mumbai, now sees the Hyderabad captain almost home and hosed in terms of overall points. The three contenders are Warner with 792 points, Gill with 704 and Kohli now lagging behind with 658. There are obviously huge question marks around progression for Hyderabad which may hold Warner back. This being said, Warner's superior average points per game of 66 would suggest to me that regardless of progression he is a force to be reckon with. Gill has one more game before the knock outs. He would have to score way above his average to eat into the 88 point deficit. Despite the fact that Kohli now has a huge 134 point gulf to fill, Bangalore are just about guaranteed to progress. This means that Kohli can expect to bank 164 points - working on his average of 54.83. This means that, going in to the knockouts, we can forecast Wee Davey to be 156 points ahead of Kohli - but Virat has that extra game. So....in short....who knows. Exciting eh?

Leaving the glitz of the IPL behind we've seen antipodean cricket kick into life over the last fortnight. One person who'll benefit from this is Martin Guptill. There's a man who needs to be looking on the bright side of life. If any of our Cricketers had the right to feel aggrieved about cricket's suspension then Guptill is the one with the best claim. When the world stopped, the New Zealander had enjoyed a three week stretch as the top of our overall list. He was 67 points ahead of Keshav Maharaj and had 115 on Ben Stokes in third. And then nothing...until July when cricket restarted...in England. No opportunity to play County Championship cricket for Martin who was stuck in New Zealand. Meanwhile Stokes went from strength to strength. The England allrounder won the first three Cricketers of the Week after the resumption. When Guptill scored his first points in the Plunket Shield last week he was the third to last Cricketer to restart after lockdown. Only Peter Handscomb and Maharaj still waiting it out. Between him turning out for New Zealand in Sydney in March and last week's Auckland game his 115 point lead on Stokes turned into a 1052 point deficit. Rather than top spot, the New Zealander found himself in 15th. Not to be dissuaded though, he has gone back to doing what he does best - scoring points. He has finished fourth in terms of weekly points for the last two weeks and has moved back up to thirteenth place. With New Zealand seemingly a safe haven from the pandemic, how good could Guptill's Summer get?

Week


Shubman Gill - 153
Ben Stokes- 150
David Warner - 136
Martin Guptill- 88
Steve Smith - 61
Glenn Maxwell - 26
Jason Holder - 20
Babar Azam- 19
Virat Kohli - 9


Kyle Abbott - dnp
Colin Ackermann- dnp
Tom Banton- dnp
Aaron Finch - dnp
Lewis Gregory- dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Peter Handscomb- dnp
Travis Head- dnp
Marnus Labuschagne- dnp
Keshav Maharaj- dnp
Mohammad Nabi - dnp
Joe Root- dnp
Rohit Sharma- dnp


Overall


Ben Stokes - 2701
Babar Azam - 2319
Joe Root - 2286
Lewis Gregory - 2126
Simon Harmer - 1922
David Warner - 1886
Jason Holder- 1846
Aaron Finch - 1829
Steve Smith - 1667
Marnus Labuschagne - 1594
Glenn Maxwell - 1565
Mohammad Nabi - 1458
Shubman Gill - 1456
Martin Guptill - 1456
Virat Kohli - 1447
Colin Ackermann - 1435
Travis Head - 1249
Keshav Maharaj - 1176
Tom Banton - 1066
Rohit Sharma - 913
Peter Handscomb - 383


Headlines


The Professor moves up as MIB drops twice in two weeks. As a sidebar both of my picks (Gill and Guptill) have the exact same number of points. What are the odds?


Week


The Professor- 241
DC - 169
Arthur - 136
DD - 61
RD - 35
GG - 20
Alviro - 0
DFM - 0
Ian - 0
RDJ - 0


Overall


DC - 5026
Arthur - 4175
GG - 3972
DFM - 3349
RDJ - 3052
RD - 3010
The Professor - 2912
MIB - 2895
Alviro - 2435
DD - 2135
Ian - 913
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Sat Oct 31, 2020 3:05 pm

Cheers Prof. Good work.
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:19 pm

It's all well and good with your IPL but two of the best performances this week did not come from the UAE but from Rawalpindi and Adelaide. First off we have our Cricketer of the Week - Babar Azam whose 292 points is the eleventh highest score of the year. The Pakistan superstar has the eighth and eleventh highest weekly score of 2020 alongside the lowest (130). His two mega performances sees him win player of the series - but many will question the quality of opposition. Due to the skulduggery of the ICC scheduling system it is rare for any of our players to face off against Zimbabwe. This is just the sixth time any one on our List has had a fixture versus The Chevrons. These six performances encompass only four players: Shakib Al Hasan and Rashid Khan who have played them twice and Aaron Finch and Babar Azam who have played them the once. In terms of raw score, Azam's 292 is second after Rashid Khan's 328 against Zimbabwe in February 2018. That big total encompassed three ODIs compared to Azam's two. This means, on average, Rashid got 109.33 points per ODI whilst Azam got 146 this week. Azam was playing against a weak opponent but he played the best against that opponent than any of the players we have ever seen on our Lists over the last three years. And there is more to come. There is now three T20s. Babar finds himself in second position for the third week in a row but is just 118 points off Stokes in first. This is the first year we are seeing a real battle for supremacy at the top of the table. By the first week of November in 2018 Simon Harmer had a 1032 point lead on Rashid Khan, with Glenn Maxwell being 738 clear of Harmer last year. So whose side are you on; Azam or Stokes?

Travis Head must be overjoyed with his early performances in the Sheffield Shield. Justin Langer maybe less so. The Australia coach has an embarrassment of batsmen. Head has given him an ache with two centuries in the first three rounds of fixtures. Head was one of the players that was most effected by the Covid break; this week is only his tenth active week of 2020. Only Keshav Maharaj, Peter Handscomb (9 each) and Harmer and Colin Ackermann (8 each) have had less cricket this year. At the end of last year's Shield the Redback captain was riding high in eighth place with 901 points. The next time he picked up his bat in anger, four weeks ago, he had slumped to 19th. The long respite doesn't seem to have effected him at all as he has earned 538 points over the last month. This has seen him move up to 14th position. His total this week was boosted with 50 points for his bowling thanks to the wicket of Nic Maddinson and an economy of 5.21. A pretty useful week all told. Head finishes in the top five for the third week out of the last four and is now 40 points behind Virat Kohli. The Indian isn't playing as much cricket as he'd like over the next few days so it's likely that Head may overtake him. That Kohli vs Head battle may continue when they face off against each other in Adelaide in the First Test in December.

The T20 journey of Jason Holder has been rocky over the last few months. Like Rocky, it seems that the big man may prevail in the end. You may have ended the CPL thinking the West Indian Test captain was something of a busted flush in the shortest form of the game. He was out of the T20 national side and failed to impress with either bat or ball in his home tournament. He finished 12th on the run table and 15th for most wickets. Decent but nothing to boast about from the ICC's top rated All Rounder. If you compared him to Mohammad Nabi, the other player we had playing in the tournament, he came off second best. The Afghan All Rounder scored more points than him with more wickets at a better economy and more points from fielding. Then Holder was expecting a period of time in the cricketing wilderness. Until the injury of Mitchell Marsh and his call up for Hyderabad. Here we have many more players to compare Holder to - and the outcome is much more favourable for the Barbadian. After 6 games, Holder has scored 425 points - averaging 70.83. This is the highest for any of the 11 players from our List in this year's IPL. Three of his six performances have been in the top third of all points totals for players in our List. None of his performances have been in the bottom third. It is no coincidence that Hyderabad's fortunes pivoted the moment they dropped Bairstow for the West Indian. He is well worth his re-entry into the top 5. With at least one more game guaranteed and just 10 points off fourth position you would imagine the only way is up.

Week


Babar Azam - 292
Jason Holder - 270
Keshav Maharaj- 257
Travis Head - 230
Marnus Labuschagne- 187
David Warner - 180
Virat Kohli- 72
Shubman Gill - 66
Peter Handscomb- 55
Aaron Finch - 52
Ben Stokes - 28
Rohit Sharma - 14
Steve Smith- 14


Kyle Abbott - dnp
Colin Ackermann- dnp
Tom Banton - dnp
Lewis Gregory - dnp
Martin Guptill- dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Glenn Maxwell - dnp
Mohammad Nabi - dnp
Joe Root - dnp


Overall


Ben Stokes - 2729
Babar Azam - 2611
Joe Root - 2286
Lewis Gregory - 2126
Jason Holder- 2116
David Warner - 2066
Simon Harmer - 1922
Aaron Finch - 1881
Marnus Labuschagne - 1781
Steve Smith - 1681
Glenn Maxwell - 1565
Shubman Gill - 1522
Virat Kohli - 1519
Travis Head - 1479
Mohammad Nabi - 1458
Martin Guptill - 1456
Keshav Maharaj - 1427
Colin Ackermann - 1435
Tom Banton - 1066
Rohit Sharma - 927
Peter Handscomb - 438


Headlines


No change overall but all bunching up between fourth and ninth.


Week


Alviro - 487
DC - 320
GG - 270
RDJ - 187
Arthur - 180
RD - 72
DD - 69
The Professor- 66
MIB - 52
Ian - 14
DFM - 0


Overall


DC - 5346
Arthur - 4355
GG - 4242
DFM - 3349
RDJ - 3239
RD - 3082
The Professor - 2978
MIB - 2947
Alviro - 2922
DD - 2204
Ian - 927
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:56 pm

cheers prof

any more thoughts on the 3 player thing?
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sat Nov 07, 2020 8:48 pm

I think it all depends on how many people we get interested. I think any less than 20 people in the list and it's not worth it.....but then again loads and loads makes it an even bigger task.

I think if we get 10 people or more we'll do 2 a piece. If not three.

In unrelated news, Babar overtook Stokes today.
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Sun Nov 08, 2020 2:46 pm

Cheers Prof, good work.

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Postby The Professor » Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:31 pm

Hope all is well with the good Doctor.....but will be looking to pillage Stokes off of him if he were not to return.
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby Durhamfootman » Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:26 pm

you might have to fight a few people for him, although I won't be one of them. I have other players in mind
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Re: 2020 All Year Fantasy Competition

Postby The Professor » Sat Nov 14, 2020 2:00 pm

(NB: This was written before Saturday morning's PSL game)

It's all well and good being one of the highest point scorer of 2020 when you have played the most cricket. That has been the message that I have been giving about Azam - up until this week. As he wins Cricketer of the Week for the fourth time, he also opens up a 115 point gap in first as he returns to the PSL for anything between one and three games. Babar's rise to the top has been long and patient. He did not register any points until Week 4 and was then silent for a further 6 weeks before he broke into the top top ten. From there he has plodded up the table in a workmanlike fashion that does not fit his approach to batting. It is notable that Azam has only gone backwards on the List on two occasions throughout the whole of the year. This could be down to the sheer amount of cricket the new Pakistan Test captain has played this year. This has been his 21st active week in 2020 - three more than Tom Banton, Steve Smith and Aaron Finch in second. For a long period of time it was this high amount of cricket that benefitted his position. At the start of September Azam's average points per active week stood at 94.64. This was the fourth lowest of any active player on our list. Since then his spell playing domestic cricket and the home series against Zimbabwe has seen him now with the eleventh highest - 135.43. This puts him in amongst the Labuschagnes and Holders of this world. As we approach the end of the year there is still cricket to be played for both Babar and Ben. We should see a dog fight until the bitter end - but we can confidently say that Azam deserves his place.

And it's not just the top of the table where there is a battle of supremacy. There is very little between the whole of our middle band of players on the list. This has been best exemplified this week by Keshav Maharaj. Despite only scoring 150 points, the spinner jumped up a ridiculous six places - from seventeenth to eleventh. There is just 142 points between Maharaj in 11th and Colin Ackermann in 19th. To put this into perspective there is a gap of 989 between 1st and 9th. This means that it's all to play for in those middle positions. Maharaj deserves his surge up the table. However it seems a week too late. The Saffer was joint with Peter Handscomb as the two players who had to wait the longest to return to cricket after lockdown. The pair had to wait 32 weeks without a game. It was the bowler who impressed the most on return with 7 wickets in the opening fixture of the 4-Day Franchise Series. His 257 points and third place finish for the week only saw him move from 18th to 17th. This week, his more humble tally of three wickets and 150 points sees him move up six spots. It's a funny old game. Further progression up the table is possible but will not come as easily. To overtake Steve Smith and move into the top ten, Maharaj will need 104 points - however ninth place Aaron Finch is 278 points away. Both Aussies will play instrumental parts in the closing weeks of the year. Maharaj is proving that it is all very much to play for even if you were out the game for a while.

A more exciting end to the IPL would have been more ideal - however many of our players would be most pleased with their seasons. The most eye-catching pair on our list did not even make the final. In terms of raw numbers it was David Warner who profited the most. His 974 points throughout the competition was 204 greater than Shubman Gill in second. He scored the most runs and got the most points for fielding than any of our eleven players. He also had the third highest average points per game - 60.86. This was the highest average for a player who featured in all games. In a weird quirk - despite the huge amount of cricket played - only two players weekly average for 2020 improved. Warner was one of those with his average going up by the grandiose 2.86 points per active week of cricket. He is currently 14th on that particular metric with 114.89 points a week. Turning to the main list, he benefitted the most there too. He started the competition in 15th place and ended in sixth. Not bad going. The player that made the greatest impact on our list was inarguably Jason Holder. Despite playing just seven games, his 456 points was enough to see him finish above Glenn Maxwell who got 238 from 13 and Aaron Finch who got 428 from 12. He finished with the most wickets with eleven more than Maxwell. What is more impressive is the West Indian's average. He finished with the highest average of any player with 65.14 points a game. At no point during the tournament did his points per game average drop below 50. This has seen him move up a further one place on the table into fourth overall. More importantly than this, come the next round of IPL auctions you can bet your bottom dollar Holder will be the hottest property.

Week


Babar Azam - 233
Peter Handscomb- 181
Keshav Maharaj - 150
Rohit Sharma - 108
Marnus Labuschagne- 74
Travis Head - 47
Jason Holder- 31
David Warner - 2


Kyle Abbott - dnp
Colin Ackermann- dnp
Tom Banton - dnp
Aaron Finch- dnp
Shubman Gill - dnp
Martin Guptill- dnp
Lewis Gregory - dnp
Simon Harmer - dnp
Virat Kohli - dnp
Glenn Maxwell - dnp
Mohammad Nabi- dnp
Joe Root- dnp
Steve Smith - dnp
Ben Stokes - dnp


Overall


Babar Azam - 2844
Ben Stokes - 2729
Joe Root - 2286
Jason Holder- 2147
Lewis Gregory - 2126
David Warner - 2068
Simon Harmer - 1922
Aaron Finch - 1881
Marnus Labuschagne - 1855
Steve Smith - 1681
Keshav Maharaj - 1577
Glenn Maxwell - 1565
Travis Head - 1526
Shubman Gill - 1522
Virat Kohli - 1519
Mohammad Nabi - 1458
Martin Guptill - 1456
Colin Ackermann - 1435
Tom Banton - 1066
Rohit Sharma - 1035
Peter Handscomb - 617


Headlines


Despite being outscored, Alviro jumps 3 places in that tightly packed mid table.


Week


DC - 233
Alviro - 197
DD - 181
Ian - 108
RDJ - 74
GG - 31
Arthur - 2
DFM - 0
The Professor- 0
MIB - 0
RD - 0


Overall


DC - 5579
Arthur - 4357
GG - 4273
DFM - 3349
RDJ - 3313
Alviro - 3119
RD - 3082
The Professor - 2978
MIB - 2947
DD - 2385
Ian - 1035
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