Code: Alex Number 11 StephenZA Boobidy Skippos Heef Gazza Baxter 1 Alastair Cook* D Hughes Raynard van Tonder Renshaw Oshada Fernando Abid Ali Bancroft S van Zyl 2 Hassan Azad D Smith Joshua Richards Khawaja Dhananjaya de Silva Anshuman Rath Islam P Shaw 3 Karun Nair Azhar Ali Tom Abell Pucovski Marnus Labuschagne Brendan Taylor Rahul Ian Bell 4 Kedar Jadhav Rahane David Bedingham Stokes Asad Shafiq Steve(n) Smith (7/6) Root (c) P van Biljon 5 Peter Handscomb K Perera Shreyas Iyer Maddinson Misbah-ul-Haq Shai Hope Singh O Pope 6 Matthew Wade+ Dickwella Anmolpreet Singh Ferguson Shane Dowrich Ravi Bopara (6/7) Buttler (+) B Foakes 7 Ravi Ashwin Mahmudullah Wandile Makwetu + Nevill Ryan Higgins Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2) Pandya W Mulder 8 Wayne Parnell Dwaine Pretorious Gerald Coetzee Neser Wriddhiman Saha + Dominic Bess (5) Woakes L Gregory 9 Tom Curran Harmer Anrich Nortje Archer Bilal Asif Jan Frylinck (4) Patel M Steketee 10 Tim Southee Hazlewood Lakshan Sandakan Amir Rashid Khan Peter Siddle (1) Robinson N Lyon 11 Imran Khan Boland Mustafizur Rahman Swepson Kemar Roach Hasan Ali (3) Stone J Anderson 12 Liam Livingstone Porter Rohit Sharma Ahmed Dan Worrall Daryl Mitchell ten Doeschate B Brown 13 Akila Dananjaya Doolan Zubayr Hamza Coulter-Nile Krishnappa Gowtham Faheem Ashraf Seifert (+) A Shehzad 14 Leus du Plooy Cottrell Rudi Second Short Gabe Bell Nosaina Pokana Jamieson J Faulkner 15 Sam Robson Reece Jason Smith Cosgrove Brendon McCullum Priyam Garg Rossouw R Clarke 16 Axar Patel Iftikhar Ahmed George Linde Lynn Sikandar Raza Nauman Ali Hamza A Gunaratne 17 Boyd Rankin Jomel Warrican Mohammed Nabi Johnson Zak Crawley Kamran Akmal Perera Faizan Riaz 18 George Bailey Craig Ervine Kagiso Rabada Peirson Michael Hogan Zahir Khan Wheeler T Astle Captain Spark Margrat Jimmy Julian Cabinet Morgie Flem 1 Keegan Petersen priyankpanchal Markram Rory Burns M Agarwal Elgar Tom Latham (wk - 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I was just stopping other people from picking them! I am down as one of the wooden spoon teams, so might as well play the youngsters.
Have a look at the CWPL, Dan somehow managed to be not terrible and almost made the top 4. It's not going to be predictable at all imo.
That XI is the team that I will probably play in the practise tournament, bringing in the big guns later as I settle on a first XI.
random sim form matters in this stephen, which is part of what makes it so great. the series is won organically by your players and how you use them (and some random luck) instead of by optimising the draft. it's always great when some random bloke shunts it with the bat or something but goes on a hot streak with his offies, earning himself a demotion to #8 and a promotion to main spinner.
CWPL was fun. Gunned it in the preseason trials and then did sweet fuck all when it actually counted. At least Patt0 didn't snap in half I guess
Number 11 Baxter Gemmell Skippos Julian Hunter Athlai Benny Howe and Dan if I dont include myself. Not in order^
There are definitely some squads better than others, but at this point I don't think there's anyone who just flat out has no chance of making the eight. Dev's team would perhaps be the closest but he did a decent job saving it, and his team does have a niche in that it has pretty comfortably the best spin duo and as such could be pretty tough to beat at home. Injuries, form, canny selection/pitch creation and the new sim factoring in some things I'm not really used to taking into consideration like individual batting and bowling strengths, catching etc, it's really wide open. These are what I think the best eight* teams are on paper: Baxter Number 11 Hunter morgieb Captain Chewie Athlai Spark Boobidy I've included nine because even though Morgie has one of the best teams he's getting the wooden spoon. But what's making it so excited for actually simming this season instead of my usual excitement over just seeing who drafts the best team and then losing interest is that even ignoring 'luck', the team that I think is best on paper might not actually be best this season. So many factors to consider that I could just be totally wrong, and I love that.
Did you try to rate players' catching? Quite surprised by that Without wishing to pry too closely, what was the general approach to that?
Catching ability is 100% Cribb going to Kamran Akmals stats page and turning him from “wicketkeeper catching ability” to “blind man catching ability”
It more just tries to make sure you actually have regulars to put in catching positions by looking at how often they take catches (when not keeping). So if you only take 2% of the catches that happen when you're playing then you're probably not someone who fields in a catching position, and if you draft an entire team full of such players it'll penalise you.