BBL10 fantasy league

[Durhamfootman]

Leaderboard after match 29

Gap replenished

4782 Durhamfootman
4524 meninblue
4092 bigfluffylemon
4079 Red Devil
4003 Red Junior
3986 Red Twins
3364 Alviro Patterson
3273 The Professor
3170 DiligentDefence
2268 mikesiva

[Durhamfootman]

Player scores match 30


Scorchers

162 Marsh M
40 Inglis
145 Richardson J
dnp Green
80 Munro

Sixers

5 Philippe
dnp Abbott
dnp Holder
2 Brathwaite
0 Christian

[Durhamfootman]

Leaderboard after match 30

Another good day for me

5029 Durhamfootman
4524 meninblue
4286 Red Devil
4256 bigfluffylemon
4167 Red Junior
4150 Red Twins
3509 Alviro Patterson
3318 The Professor
3250 DiligentDefence
2268 mikesiva

[Durhamfootman]

Player Leaderboard after match 30
Top 10


587 Rashid
553 Mujeeb
546 Richardson J
535 Maxwell
534 Christian
523 Sams
505 Siddle
490 Meredith
473 Richardson K
467 Marsh M

[Durhamfootman]

Player scores match 31, 32


Heat

78 Lynn
dnp Morkel
25 Mujeeb

Hurricanes

134 Short D
dnp Paul
55 Lamichhane
50 Handscomb
10 Botha
dnp Meredith
20 Malan

Stars

64 Stoinis
25 Maxwell
110 Zampa
15 Fletcher
46 Pooran
0 Stanlake

Thunder

21 Hales
69 Khawaja
dnp Sams
61 Cutting
21 Billings

[Durhamfootman]

Leaderboard after match 32

Adi fights back a little

5273 Durhamfootman
4956 meninblue
4718 Red Devil
4626 bigfluffylemon
4558 Red Junior
4509 Red Twins
3856 Alviro Patterson
3703 DiligentDefence
3537 The Professor
2409 mikesiva

[Red Devil]

Looking like a comfortable lead at the top of the table at the moment

[Durhamfootman]

Player scores match 33


Strikers

90 Rashid
0 Siddle
dnp Head
62 Carey
dnp Short M

Renegades

14 Finch
25 Richardson K
dnp Marsh S
111 Nabi
45 Wasim

[Durhamfootman]

Leaderboard after match 33

Not much change

5388 Durhamfootman
5122 meninblue
4732 Red Devil
4716 bigfluffylemon
4585 Red Twins
4572 Red Junior
3960 Alviro Patterson
3807 DiligentDefence
3551 The Professor
2655 mikesiva

[Durhamfootman]

Adi bites off another points from my lead, as Siddle and Kane R fail to give me a Brucie bonus

[bigfluffylemon]

Interesting that despite T20 being generally considered a batsman's game, not a single specialist bat makes the current player top 10 - it's all bowlers and allrounders (all rounders not so surprising that they'd score well, but it's mostly bowling all rounders too apart from Maxwell, and possibly M Marsh).

A good year for bowling in BBL, or just the nature of the format that consistent bowlers and alleounders are the MVPs? After all, the best bowler in a game can only bowl 4 overs, while a batsman could bat 20 overs one day then get a duck the next while his team still gets a good score.

[Durhamfootman]

Our fantasy leagues have always been slightly skewed towards bowlers. It's less obvious in T20, as you say allrounders tend to do well, but it's harder for batsmen I think. If Dan Christian didn't bowl, but came in at 5 or 6, then he might win 4 games all on his own by smashing a quick fire 30 in the last 3 overs, but in the other 10 games when things are going well for his team he might not bat at all. Hales might score heavily one game in three at the top of the order, but that also means he misses out 2/3 of the time. Bowlers usually get their allocation... they might not always come off, but they usually get their chance and if they are bowling at the death or at the start there are definite opportunities there to take wickets, and if you are taking wickets then you also give yourself more chances to pick up economy bonuses too. Gnarly old spinners bowling in the middle overs can pick up 30 economy points as easy as kiss my hand and if they grab a couple of wickets too, then they'll often pick up 80-100 points. A batter has to be scoring 50 to get anywhere near that. Adam Zampa bowled a couple of overs in the D/L match the other night... bagged 2 in 2 as the other side tried to step on the 'rain is coming' pedal and ended up only conceding 7 runs...... 110 points for bowling 12 good balls. A batsman hitting 12 consecutive balls to the boundary for 4 runs would have scored 78 points.

We could, I suppose, award more SR bonuses to batsmen (bowlers have 5 levels, batsmen 3), but that just opens up the possibility (probability) of Dan Christian walking out to bat in the final over, facing 4 deliveries, smoking them all for 4's and 6's, and scoring 70 points for 5 minutes work, while Alex Hales wins POM for scoring 71 runs at an SR of 174 and walks away with only 31 points more than the fella who faced 4 balls.

Another way might be to award economy points to bowlers who bowl min 3 overs instead of 2, but I suppose that would cause problems in the Blast where D/L gets much more heavily involved in matches.... I can easily imagine a bowler in a 10 over piece of nonsense, bowling out of his skin and effectively winning the match by restricting the opposition to some scrambled singles, but get nothing for it because he isn't allowed to bowl a 3rd over

Stick to players who give you the very best chances of maximising points (all rounders, WK bats, wily old part time slow bowlers), and hope you don't pick an experienced, proven all rounder like Ben Cutting and find that this year he's got a captain who only ever allows him to bowl one over per match and find you have to rely on him scoring heavily off a handful of balls at the fag end of an innings to scrape a few points together (thank goodness I didn't pick him this year)

[Durhamfootman]

Player scores match 34


Scorchers

50 Marsh M
40 Inglis
200 Richardson J
dnp Green
70 Munro

Thunder

5 Hales
56 Khawaja
dnp Sams
66 Cutting
163 Billings

[Durhamfootman]

Leaderboard after match 34

As you were

5513 Durhamfootman
5127 meninblue
4827 Red Devil
4822 bigfluffylemon
4706 Red Twins
4683 Red Junior
4160 Alviro Patterson
3882 DiligentDefence
3759 The Professor
2655 mikesiva

[Durhamfootman]

Player Leaderboard after match 34
Top 10


746 Richardson J
677 Rashid
578Mujeeb
571 Short D
560 Maxwell
534 Christian
523 Sams
517 Marsh M
505 Siddle
498 Richardson K