[Samuel_Vimes]

Originally posted by Rich2001
Lenght first... I was with you on this one, I had the comp set to a year with whoever was top etc after each month being declared manager of the month type of thing... but in the end it was just going to be pointless for new people to join.

If say on the 21st Aug 2004 you stumbled across Cricket Web and thought oh that Fantasy Cricket looks like fun i'll join that... only to see the top 10 players have 25,000 points and the closest to 0 is already on about 350. What do you have to gain? you wouldn't climb many places and all you would be doing is battling yourself and if you did join how long would you hang around or spending time sorting your team transfers out etc.

With 3 months stints your always going to be in the game so to speak and even if you join up after 2 months you know the points will be reset and can mount a challange next month.

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As for matches that a team plays what we can do is at the end of the 3 months stint you could add a new team for the next 3 months - Therefore always being able to pick players that might be playing, or we could just clear the points out and let you carry that team on, remember transfers are one a week, so in 3 months you could change about 10-12 players, techincally you could re-build your whole side in that time ready for the next period of play. And as players finish a series ie NZ v PAk will be over first you can start replacing those player.

Either way it wouldn't be a problem to implement either so if you all shout now for what you perfer.

How about the average idea? That way, players who play only 4 games count as much as those who play 13, and managers. Of course, players who do really well in one game then get dropped will score a lot of points, but realistically, who's gonna do that?