2024 All Year Fantasy Competition

[Red Devil]

I haven't scored for 3 weeks, but at least I can console myself with Labu's 2 runs and a catch already in the bank for next week

hey.... he might bat for 2 days yet and add another 10 runs


cheers Prof

He might get some wickets with his barrage of bouncers!

He'll probably get a big score in the second innings

[Durhamfootman]

instead he scores 3 runs and turns his 30 bowling economy points into 10 in 2 overs

[The Professor]

Weely Top 5

1. James Vince - 311 - Doing big things in the Abu Dhabi T10 tournament. Is the ninth highest scorer with 148 runs with an average strike rate of 187.34. Basically whenever he plays you're guaranteed at least 50 points. Is guaranteed at least one more game and might have a further 4.

2. Yashasvi Jaiswal - 201 - Got the feeling that his score of 161 was a defining innings in his burgeoning career. Despite that it is only worth silver medal this week. He does move up a place to 8th this week, over-taking his inactive Indian team mate Ravindra Jadeja.

3. Phil Salt - 196 - Registers his fourth three figure score in a row. Has got 892 points in the last month across his 20 over and 10 over commitments with England and Team Abu Dhabi. Started the year slowly but sure is finishing it strongly.

4. Virat Kohli - 155 - A century sees Kohli back in the Top 5 for the first time since July. Such has been his poor form that this is his highest score since May's Yearly Best 244.

5. Mitchell Marsh - 155 - It is telling how bad a 2024 Marsh has had when this is his third highest score of the year. 53 runs and 3 wickets in the loss to India was just enough to keep Jos Buttler in 6th place. He moves up a place on the Overall list to 19th.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 4681 - Registering decent, if not spectacular numbers in the WBBL. Holds top spot for a seventh week. Only Azam's 20 weeks in first place have been longer.

2. James Vince - 4338 - Despite registering the 16th highest score of the year, Vince stays in second place and can only slash the gap on first to 343. More impressively the gap to third place stands at 652.

3. Travis Head - 3686 - Followed up his 6 week absence for cricket with a decent, if not rather underwhelming, 140. Lot of cricket in him yet this year though.

4. Phil Salt - 892 points in a month has seen him go from 13th to 4th. Quite the jump for a guy who took 5 months to break in the Top 10.

5. Sam Curran - Inactive this week and down a place to 5th; his lowest position for 15 weeks. Things could get even worse as he is just 121 points ahead of the next active player Marnus Labuschagne in 7th.

Other Movers

Despite Harry Brook's fairly anodyne 79 against a New Zealand Prime Minister's XI, he still manages to move up 2 places; overtaking the inactive Rachin Ravindra and Simon Harmer,

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 167.18 (Down from 168.44)
2. Jos Buttler -143.26 (Up from 142.83)
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 132.39.

James Vince average improves the most up by an impressive 5.44 to 1205, whilst Marnus' poor start to the BGT sees his average decrease to the tune of 3.53. He currently stands at 123.35 a week.

Highest scorer by Format

Long Form = Simon Harmer = 2235
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Chamari Athapaththu- 3745

Highest scorer by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - James Vince - 2538
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 400
Strike Rate - Phil Salt & *James Vince = 860

Wickets - *Chamari Athapaththu = 1200
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 680

Fielding – Phil Salt & *James Vince - 540
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 50

Weekly Scores In Full

James Vince 311
Yashasvi Jaiswal 201
Phil Salt 196
Virat Kohli 155
Mitchell Marsh 153
Jos Buttler 151
Travis Head 140
Chamari Athapaththu 133
Harry Brook 79
Steve Smith 47
Marnus Labuschagne 35
Usman Khawaja 32

Simon Harmer dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Shubman Gill dnp
Daryl Mitchell dnp
Rachin Ravindra dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp

Overall List in Full

Chamari Athapaththu 4681
James Vince 4338
Travis Head 3686
Phil Salt 3545
Sam Curran 3460
Babar Azam 3303
Marnus Labuschagne 3207
Yashasvi Jaiswal 3182
Ravindra Jadeja 3045
Harry Brook 2859
Rachin Ravindra 2814
Simon Harmer 2808
Moeen Ali 2727
Jos Buttler 2722
Glenn Maxwell 2424
Shubman Gill 2361
Virat Kohli 2254
Daryl Mitchell 1937
Mitchell Marsh 1837
Aaron Hardie 1774
Steve Smith 1550
Usman Khawaja 980

Headlines

Only mover this week is myself who jumps up 2 spots into second.

Weekly Scores

The Professor 464
RT 306
Arthur 243
MIB 201
The Prof Sr. 165
DD 140
Sussex 79
DFM 35
GingerPele 0
Red Devil 0
RDJ 0

Overall Scores

DD 7146
The Professor 6175
DFM 6017
RDJ 5768
Red Devil 5694
Sussex 5683
The Prof Sr. 5663
MIB 5546
Arthur 5095
RT 4974
GingerPele 3749

[sussexpob]

Marnus Labuschagne 3207
Harry Brook 2859

How is this even remotely possible? Marnus is having an absolute calamity of a year, Brook is the 2nd highest international run scorer across all formats (and only behind Mendis because he has played 20 less matches).

[sussexpob]

The stats do throw up some interesting things about the scoring.

Brook and Harmer before this week had the same amount of FC games. Brook had 5 centuries and well over a 1000 runs at an average that is almost world leading for anyone who has scored a comparable amount of runs- Harmer had no 5 wicket hauls, no contributions with the bat, and a below average 2 wickets per innings at 33. Harmer however is ahead. The econ bonus in CC is way overpowered in favour of bowlers. A bowler maintaining a below average econ can get a 30 point bonus per innings, which is the same equivalent bonus of a batter scoring a 100. It works for T20I, but for 4-5 day games its a huge advantage.

Harmer for instance would factor about 140 runs per game based on this average.
Root, the highest test run scorer in 2024, would average 96
Even if Root has played 2 more FC matches, he is 400-500 points off Harmer despite their level of play being the opposite.
Bedingham, who has most runs in all of the world this year in 4-5 day games, only beats Harmer by 1-2 runs per game..... which in practice would be wiped out by the fact all bowlers bat, and even the world batsman in history average 2-3 runs.

So yeah.... over similarish amount of games, best case scenario bats vs average bowlers will get smoked.

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 5

1. Harry Brook - 241 - The man of the moment is the man of the week with yet another ton. Surprisingly this is only his this Cricketer of the Week from his 26 active weeks in 2024. You would imagine we will be seeing more of him going into our 2025 Lists.

2. Moeen Ali - 173 - Last played for Guyana almost 2 months ago and then clocks back in for the same unit in the Global T20 League. 4 games in a week will always give you a bit of a boost. Moeen is the ultimate yo-yo-er and is back up to 11th on the Overall List.

3. Daryl Mitchell - 123 - Making hay in the antipodean sun whilst he has been scrabbling around in the dirt for most of the year. This is his second successive active week in the Top 5.

4. James Vince - 116 - Finishes his jolly up in Abu Dhabi having scored 484 in three weeks. Now onto the BBL; starting next weekend.

5. Shubman Gill - 80 - Hard to read much from this. Retired 50* in a two day Test warm-up game that was reduced to one day and was played the week after the First Test was over. Still enough for him to move up to 15th Overall.

Overall Top 5

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 4681 - I could be wrong (it has been known) but I think that this might be Athapaththu's final total. I cannot see anymore cricket on the horizon for her in 2024. It doesn't feel enough for our first female cricketer to finish first.

2. James Vince - 4454 - Vince will finish second of first this year. 768 points sperate him to third and he has 4 BBL games between now and New Years Eve to overthrow the 227 point gap on first. He averages 80.25 per T20 game.

3. Travis Head - 3686 - Another week's rest (if that's the right word for a father of a month old baby. Back in action next week.

4. Phil Salt - 3569 - Did not end the Abu Dhabi T10 competition with the pyrotechnics we saw throughout the rest of the tournament but keeps his fourth place spot.

5. Sam Curran - 3460 - Inactive again...you feel he may finish 2024 outside the Top 5. Jaiswal is 233 points away from him, Labuschagne 253, Jadeja 348 and Brook 360.

Other Mover

45 points in the 'warm-up' game against an Australian Prime Minister's XI was enough to see him overtake Labuschagne into 8th.

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 167.18
2. Jos Buttler - 140.05 (Down from 143.26)
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 129.67 (Down from 132.39)

Seems cruel, if not also very funny, that Kohli not batting or fielding gets him 0 points in a warm up game and sees his average drop by a smidge over 4 points to 93.92. Harry Brook's goes up the most, +4.87 to 119.23.

Highest scorer by Format

Long Form = Simon Harmer = 2235
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Chamari Athapaththu- 3745

Highest scorer by Discipline

*=New Name

Runs - James Vince - 2604
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 400
Strike Rate - James Vince = 910

Wickets - Chamari Athapaththu = 1200
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 680

Fielding – Phil Salt - 550
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 50

Weekly List in Full

Harry Brook 241
Moeen Ali 173
Daryl Mitchell 123
James Vince 116
Shubman Gill 80
Jos Buttler 79
Ravindra Jadeja 67
Rachin Ravindra 58
Yashasvi Jaiswal 45
Phil Salt 24
Virat Kohli 0

Simon Harmer dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp
Babar Azam dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Mitchell Marsh dnp
Travis Head dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Steve Smith dnp
Marnus Labuschagne dnp
Usman Khawaja dnp

Overall List In Full

Chamari Athapaththu 4681
James Vince 4454
Travis Head 3686
Phil Salt 3569
Sam Curran 3460
Babar Azam 3303
Yashasvi Jaiswal 3227
Marnus Labuschagne 3207
Ravindra Jadeja 3112
Harry Brook 3100
Moeen Ali 2893
Rachin Ravindra 2872
Simon Harmer 2808
Jos Buttler 2801
Shubman Gill 2441
Glenn Maxwell 2424
Virat Kohli 2254
Daryl Mitchell 2060
Mitchell Marsh 1837
Aaron Hardie 1774
Steve Smith 1550
Usman Khawaja 980

Headline

With 3 more normal updates until the end of the year things are so tight.

There are 5 places that have less then 100 points between them and the person below them.

This week Sussex and MIB get the better of Red Devil and The Prof Sr.

Weekly Scores

Sussex 299
RDJ 240
MIB 125
GingerPele 123
The Professor 116
RT 79
Arthur 24
The Prof Sr. 0
DD 0
DFM 0
Red Devil 0

Overall Scores

DD 7146
The Professor 6291
DFM 6017
RDJ 6008
Sussex 5985
Red Devil 5694
MIB 5665
The Prof Sr. 5663
Arthur 5119
RT 5058
GingerPele 3872

[Durhamfootman]

I'm in danger of dropping from long time second down to 5th in a couple of weeks unless Labu the beast can save me..... gawd help me

cheers Prof

[gingerpele]

Shocker of a year from my two players. Can’t wait to replace both of them for next year haha.

[Red Devil]

Shocker of a year from my two players. Can’t wait to replace both of them for next year haha.

Ditto - Babar and Maxwell have been appalling

[The Professor]

It should be noted that Azam was the highest point scorer for 12 weeks in the middle of the year

[The Professor]

Weekly Top 5

1. Harry Brook - 268 - For the second time in a fortnight, the fourth time this year and the fifth time ever Brook finishes as Cricketer of the Week. He also surges up to just outside the Overall Top 5. A huge improvement on his 14th place finish last year.

2. Travis Head - 200 - Last time out he got 140 points...now he got 140 runs and finishes on a round 200 for the week.

3. Marnus Labuschagne - 94 - Huge gap in terms of points between second and third this week. Nobody can say that 64 runs is a return to form for Marnus but it is surely better than nothing.

4. Shubman Gill - 59 - 59 runs this week and 59 points, nothing from the field, no strike rate points just pure batting mediocrity from the man who finished third last year and has looked underwhelming this.

5. Daryl Mitchell - 58 - Three successive weeks in the Top 5 for Mitchell. This is by some distance is most disappointing of the lot. Only in the Top 5 due to the fact that this week's average score (68.58) is the lowest for 2 months.

Overall Top 5

For the third successive week the Top 5 remains unchanged at:

Chamari Athapaththu 4681
James Vince 4454
Travis Head 3886
Phil Salt 3569
Sam Curran 3460

Could we have an exciting finish like last year where long time leader Shakib Al Hasan got usurped with a week to spare. Vince could do it with a decent start to the BBL....and can we even rule Travis Head out?

Top Three Averages

1. Chamari Athapaththu - 167.18
2. Jos Buttler - 140.05
3. Ravindra Jadeja - 129.67

Again harry Brook moves up the most, has added 10 points to his average over the last fortnight. Babar Azam's score of 0 sees him drop firther away from the Top 3 - 122.33 puts him 5th.

Highest scorer by Format

* = New Name

Long Form = *Harry Brook = 2247
One Day = Chamari Athapaththu = 946
Short Form = Chamari Athapaththu- 3745

Highest scorer by Discipline

Runs - James Vince - 2604
Batting Bonus - Travis Head = 430
Strike Rate - James Vince = 910

Wickets - Chamari Athapaththu = 1200
Wicket Bonus - Ravindra Jadeja = 250
Economy - Simon Harmer - 680

Fielding – Phil Salt - 550
Fielding Bonus - James Vince - 50

Weekly List in Full

Harry Brook 268
Travis Head 200
Marnus Labuschagne 94
Shubman Gill 59
Daryl Mitchell 58
Usman Khawaja 42
Yashasvi Jaiswal 34
Steve Smith 22
Rachin Ravindra 19
Virat Kohli 18
Mitchell Marsh 9
Babar Azam 0

Simon Harmer dnp
Aaron Hardie dnp
Sam Curran dnp
Glenn Maxwell dnp
Chamari Athapaththu dnp
Moeen Ali dnp
James Vince dnp
Jos Buttler dnp
Ravindra Jadeja dnp
Phil Salt dnp

Overall list In Full

1 Chamari Athapaththu 4681
2 James Vince 4454
3 Travis Head 3886
4 Phil Salt 3569
5 Sam Curran 3460
6 Harry Brook 3368
7 Babar Azam 3303
8 Marnus Labuschagne 3301
9 Yashasvi Jaiswal 3261
10 Ravindra Jadeja 3112
11 Moeen Ali 2893
12 Rachin Ravindra 2891
13 Simon Harmer 2808
14 Jos Buttler 2801
15 Shubman Gill 2500
16 Glenn Maxwell 2424
17 Virat Kohli 2272
18 Daryl Mitchell 2118
19 Mitchell Marsh 1846
20 Aaron Hardie 1774
21 Steve Smith 1572
22 Usman Khawaja 1022

Headlines

Sussex plots his late surge up the table and moves to 3rd.

Red Devil, who spent weeks 3 to 31 in 1st place, drops to his lowest ebb - 8th.

MIB moves up a place.

Weekly Scores

Sussex 287
DD 200
DFM 94
MIB 93
The Prof Sr. 42
Arthur 22
RT 18
The Professor 9
RDJ 0
GingerPele 0
Red Devil 0

Overall Scores

DD 7346
The Professor 6300
Sussex 6272
DFM 6111
RDJ 6008
MIB 5758
The Prof Sr. 5705
Red Devil 5694
Arthur 5141
RT 5076
GingerPele 3872

[Arthur Crabtree]

Thanks again as ever. Looks like you'll win the battle of the Profs.

[The Professor]

Quite the achievement for my old man to have the first and the last cricketers on the list as it stands....not that I'm much better with 2nd and 18th

[The Professor]

Last 5 weeks have been won by English Cricketers.....only 6 of our 22 are English and they are all playing on the other side of the world. Surprising.

[Durhamfootman]

I suppose there's no chance of Comatose boy turning out?