ICC sim league IV

[Teuton]

This ODI tournament has worked really well (and the defining concept of using players who never had a chance to play them might be hard to top). So ODIs are a natural fit for a sim league.

But i would enjoy a test, and maybe t20 league (3rd preference) too. Variety is a positive.

Out of interest, do you remember (approx) how many players you needed to add to the database (of the massive 16x14=224 player pool)?

 

[jimmy101]

There were 28 created players in the end, all of the rest were already in the database. Which isn't bad considering there was 224 players drafted overall.

Plus I managed to create three more teams using 33 unselected players already in the database from pre 1970. (see "Jimmy's XI" in the trial matches). The ATG mode in cricket captain has quite alot of depth.

 

[OverratedSanity]

A bit belatedly, here are the similar stats from the Super 10 stages:

Top scorers:
212: Norman O'Neill (sr 81.85)
209: Trevor Goddard (sr 67.42)
205: Bert Sutcliffe (sr 92.76)
193: Geoff Pullar (sr 92.79)
190: CB Fry (sr 77.55)

Top strike rates (100+ runs)
125.77: Les Ames (122 @ 30.50)
121.36: Chandu Borde (125 @ 41.67)
117.78: Monty Noble (106 @ 21.20)
113.49: Allan Rae (143 @ 35.75)
108.81: Patsy Hendren (173 @ 57.67)

Most wickets:
16: Allan Watkins (av 8.00, ec 4.68)
13: Allan Fairfax (av 13.69, ec 6.07)
13: Vinoo Mankad (av 14.38, ec 6.00)
12: Fred Trueman (av 14.42, ec 4.82)
11: George Hirst (av 16.55, ec 5.35)
11: Amar Singh (av 13.73, ec 4.82)

Most economical bowlers (100+ balls bowled)
3.12: Bapu Nadkarni (7 @ 9.43)
3.51: Peter Pollock (5 @ 26.00)
3.88: Mohammad Nissar (8 @ 12.12)
3.93: Tom Richardson (6 @ 20.83)
3.97: Johnny Briggs (6 @ 23.83)

An XI for the Super 10s might be:
Geoff Pullar
Bert Sutcliffe
Allan Rae
Vijay Manjrekar (182 @ 36.40, sr 101.68)
Patsy Hendren
Chandu Borde
Les Ames+
Allan Watkins
Mohammad Nissar
Fred Trueman
Bapu Nadkarni

which has no players at all in common with the "best XI of the group stages"!

Both in the group stages and here, I've barely had any players in these charts but it's somehow worked as a team. Just lucky I suppose. Pollock and May haven't been anywhere near as good as I'd hoped.

 

[jimmy101]

Yeah, Pollock in particular didn't do much. He basically dominated in one of the previous sim leagues. Although his best moment might still be ahead of him.

 

[jimmy101]

Final

Honest "Zero ODIs" Hunks vs The Edgelords - Lord's, London (D/N)

Hunks

Edgelords

The Edgelords won by 4 wickets.

Man of the match: Hugh Trumble

 

[jimmy101]

OS - You the man.

 

[jimmy101]

Thanks for participating everyone. We had some really good contests & I hope everyone enjoyed watching it unfold.


ICC Sim league IV.


Winner: OS.

Runner-up: HB.

Semi Finalists: Samuel Vimes (Super 10 winner) & Teuton.

Teuton Trophy: TBA by Teuton.

Team of the tournament: TBA by AndrewB.

Player of the tournament: TBA (please feel free to vote on this).

 

[OverratedSanity]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!1!!1

HB just a regular SA... dominant in the group stages, choking on the big stage

Jking, very fun tournament. Thanks jimmy

 

[OverratedSanity]

Trumble and Bedser were pretty clutch in the playoffs. Can someone please do the hard work and calculate some statistics. Could be fun to work out who had the best overall tournament.

 

[srbhkshk]

If there is a minnow basher + bending to the stronger teams trophy, no one even comes close to my team.

 

[AndrewB]

Top scorers:
-------------------M--I-NO--Runs--Avge--HS-100-50---SR--
Norman O'Neill----14-14--1--617--47.46-118--2--3---94.92
Everton Weekes----13-13--2--514--46.73-130--1--3---99.04
CB Fry------------13-13--0--488--37.54--92--0--3---91.04
Trevor Goddard----14-14--0--477--34.07--66--0--4---70.46
Len Hutton--------12-12--1--453--41.18--95--0--3---85.96
Phil Mead---------12-12--1--448--40.73--85--0--4---97.18
Patsy Hendren-----14-14--6--432--54.00-114--1--1---91.33
Wally Hammond-----12-12--0--428--35.67-132--1--1---90.49
Bert Sutcliffe----13-13--0--423--32.54--81--0--4---89.05
Ernest Tyldesley--12-12--0--419--34.92--75--0--2---88.96
Conrad Hunte------12-12--1--417--37.91-109--1--3---83.07

Top strike rate (100+ runs):
--------------------M--I-NO--Runs--Avge--HS-100-50---SR--
George Brown-------12-10--1--136--15.11--46--0--0--127.10
George Hirst-------11--9--4--168--33.60--46--0--0--126.32
Jim Parks----------12-10--3--189--27.00--46--0--0--121.15
Chandu Borde--------6--6--2--131--32.75--79--0--1--110.08
Denis Lindsay------12-11--1--149--14.90--34--0--0--108.76
Cyril Washbrook-----7--6--0--110--18.33--60--0--1--106.80
Budhi Kunderan-----14--8--1--112--16.00--30--0--0--105.66
Jack Gregory-------13-13--6--294--42.00--54--0--1--102.80
Kumar Ranjitsinhji-12-12--0--216--18.00--47--0--0--100.47
Everton Weekes-----13-13--2--514--46.73-130--1--3---99.04

 

[AndrewB]

Most wickets:
------------------B----R---W--Avge----BB---Econ
Allan Watkins----420--345-33--10.45--7-42--4.93
Fred Trueman-----556--436-28--15.57--4-22--4.71
Neil Adcock------639--439-26--16.88--4-11--4.12
Hugh Trumble-----629--546-26--21.00--4-31--5.21
Amar Singh-------552--461-24--19.21--5-27--5.01
Harold Larwood---472--396-24--16.50--5-14--5.03
John Reid--------477--379-23--16.48--5-23--4.77
WG Grace---------456--403-22--18.32--6-46--5.30
Hugh Tayfield----506--421-22--19.14--4-22--4.99
Bill Lockwood----526--392-21--18.67--4-40--4.47
Allan Steel------340--387-21--18.43--5-49--6.83
Billy Barnes-----591--511-21--24.33--3-23--5.19

Most economical:
------------------B----R---W--Avge----BB---Econ
Chandu Borde-----166--106--9--11.78--5-39--3.83
Mike Procter-----624--411-20--20.55--4-27--3.95
Trevor Bailey----456--307-20--15.35--3-16--4.04
Fred Martin------270--182--8--22.75--2-13--4.04
Fred Spofforth---281--190-10--19.00--3-35--4.06
Neil Adcock------639--439-26--16.88--4-11--4.12
Peter Pollock----500--350-17--20.59--3-15--4.20
Jack Ferris------197--138--7--19.71--3-27--4.20
Bapu Nadkarni----252--178-13--13.69--4-30--4.24
Johnny Briggs----522--371-16--23.19--3-28--4.26

 

[Teuton]

Final Standings for the predictions:
10: Howe_zat & AndyZaltzHair
8: The Battlers' Prince
7: morgieb & AndrewB
6: Samuel_Vimes, Nate, SillyCowCorner1 & mr_mister
5: Teuton, srbhkshk, OverratedSanity
4: ImpatientLime, HonestBarani
3: kingkallis
2: randycricfreak

 

[mr_mister]

good job running this jimmy

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I excited for the next version of this sim league.


I'd be picking Bishoo and Miraz in my test team.

 

[jimmy101]

MOTM awards

x3

Norm O'Neill, Jack Gregory

x2

Allan Steel, Vinoo Mankad, Geoff Pullar, Warwick Armstrong, Conrad Hunte, WG Grace, Everton Weekes, Hedley Verity, Pasty Hendren, Allan Watkins, Stewie Dempster

x1

Ted Dexter, Bill Edrich, Ray Lindwall, Harold Larwood, Wilfred Rhodes, George Hirst, Brian Booth, Denis Atkinson, Herbert Sutcliffe, Bobby Peel, Ranji Hordern, Clarrie Grimmett, Jim Laker, Dudley Nourse, Subhash Gupte, Ken Barrington, Bert Ironmonger, Johnny Wardle, JT Hearne, SG Barnes, CB Fry, Amar Singh, Peter May, Hugh Trumble, Gubby Allen, Jack Ryder, Tom Graveney, Wally Hammond, Jack Hobbs, Vijay Merchant, Polly Umrigar, Mike Procter, Tip Foster, Leonard Hutton, KS Ranjitsinhji, Fazal Mahmood, Alan Fairfax, Frank Worrell, Fred Trueman, Bert Sutcliffe, Hugh Tayfield, Warren Bardsley, Vijay Manjrekar

Amazingly neither Adcock nor Goddard received a MOTM.

 

[jimmy101]

ICC Sim League honours board.

Sim League I - AndrewB
Sim League II - mr_mister (Australia A)
Sim League III - ImpatientLime (Jimmy Death & the Splish)
Sim League IV: OverratedSanity (The Edgelords)

 

[AndrewB]

Team of the tournament would be something along the lines of:
Norman O'Neill
CB Fry
Phil Mead
Everton Weekes
Patsy Hendren
Jim Parks+
Chandu Borde
Jack Gregory
Trevor Bailey
Allan Watkins
Neil Adcock

Seems a bit odd to have a man who averaged 40 in Test cricket batting at 10, but he averaged 9 in this. Procter, Trueman, Nadkarni and Hirst were all close to getting picked.

 

[honestbharani]

Very very sorry guys. Guess I deserve the loss in the finals having gone AWOL. Was on a work trip and was crisscrossing the USA interstates and timezones and frankly, did not have time to even check out the home page of the forum for the past 10 days or so. Congrats OS and great work Jimmy on running the league and special thanks to Andrew for all the lovely stats. My team definitely a 90s RSA or the more recent mid 2010s India. Awesome looking group stage performances followed by choking in the semis or the finals.