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Ridiculous Comparisons (and any other draft related items) that don't deserve their own thread

Who is the better Test bowler?

  • Bill Johnston

    Votes: 7 70.0%
  • Stuart Clark

    Votes: 3 30.0%

  • Total voters
    10

shortpitched713

International Captain
Ran a little sim on these:

Team 1 = Red Jaguars
Team 2 = Blue Barracudas
Team 3 = Orange Iguanas
Team 4 = Purple Parrots

Blue Barracudas (366, 292) beat Red Jaguars (297, 222) by 139 runs Red Jaguars Test #1 MOTM: IVA Richards
Orange Iguanas (337, 421) beat Red Jaguars (268, 227) by 263 runs Red Jaguars Test #2 MOTM: KC Sangakkara
Purple Parrots (233, 255) beat Red Jaguars (103, 197) by 188 runs Red Jaguars Test #3 MOTM: FS Trueman
Blue Barracudas (521, 321-7) beat Red Jaguars (403, 311) by 128 runs Blue Barracudas Test #4 MOTM: ED Weekes
Blue Barracudas (495) beat Orange Iguanas (128, 328) by an innings and 39 runs Blue Barracudas Test #5 MOTM: J Garner
Blue Barracudas (252, 133-1) beat Purple Parrots (146, 238) by 9 wickets Blue Barracudas Test #6 MOTM: IT Botham
Red Jaguars (245, 306) beat Orange Iguanas (227, 304) by 20 runs Orange Iguanas Test #7 MOTM: SM Pollock
Blue Barracudas (454, 324) drew with Orange Iguanas (408, 216-9) Orange Iguanas Test #8 MOTM: JH Kallis
Orange Iguanas (457, 90-2) beat Purple Parrots (353, 192) by 8 wickets Orange Iguanas Test #9 MOTM: KR Miller
Red Jaguars (465) beat Purple Parrots (175, 280) by an innings and 10 runs Purple Parrots Test #10 MOTM: AA Donald
Purple Parrots (297, 257-8) beat Blue Barracudas (485, 66) by 2 wickets Purple Parrots Test #11 MOTM: FS Trueman
Purple Parrots (286, 434-8) beat Orange Iguanas (308, 174) by 238 runs Purple Parrots Test #12 MOTM: RG Pollock
Red Jaguars (509, 164) beat Blue Barracudas (318, 197) by 158 runs Red Jaguars Test #13 MOTM: SM Gavaskar
Orange Iguanas (480, 234) beat Red Jaguars (255, 180) by 279 runs Red Jaguars Test #14 MOTM: CG Greenidge
Purple Parrots (331, 362) beat Red Jaguars (195, 232) by 266 runs Red Jaguars Test #15 MOTM: RG Pollock
Blue Barracudas (333, 172) beat Red Jaguars (189, 211) by 105 runs Blue Barracudas Test #16 MOTM: GD McGrath
Orange Iguanas (375, 217) beat Blue Barracudas (176, 110) by 306 runs Blue Barracudas Test #17 MOTM: KR Miller
Blue Barracudas (282, 184-4) beat Purple Parrots (242, 223) by 6 wickets Blue Barracudas Test #18 MOTM: M Muralitharan
Red Jaguars (293, 93-4) beat Orange Iguanas (208, 177) by 6 wickets Orange Iguanas Test #19 MOTM: MD Marshall
Blue Barracudas (334, 181-8) beat Orange Iguanas (303, 211) by 2 wickets Orange Iguanas Test #20 MOTM: JH Kallis
Purple Parrots (347, 151-4) beat Orange Iguanas (312, 185) by 6 wickets Orange Iguanas Test #21 MOTM: RG Pollock
Red Jaguars (522) beat Purple Parrots (193, 97) by an innings and 232 runs Purple Parrots Test #22 MOTM: AA Donald
Blue Barracudas (410, 107) beat Purple Parrots (204, 114) by 199 runs Purple Parrots Test #23 MOTM: J Garner
Purple Parrots (402) beat Orange Iguanas (204, 161) by an innings and 37 runs Purple Parrots Test #24 MOTM: FS Trueman
Red Jaguars (346, 266) beat Blue Barracudas (222, 241) by 149 runs Red Jaguars Test #25 MOTM: Javed Miandad
Orange Iguanas (302, 347) beat Red Jaguars (285, 156) by 208 runs Red Jaguars Test #26 MOTM: KC Sangakkara
Purple Parrots (391, 391-6) beat Red Jaguars (373, 51) by 358 runs Red Jaguars Test #27 MOTM: FS Trueman
Red Jaguars (425, 147) beat Blue Barracudas (188, 222) by 162 runs Blue Barracudas Test #28 MOTM: SK Warne
Orange Iguanas (611, 236) beat Blue Barracudas (382, 155) by 310 runs Blue Barracudas Test #29 MOTM: KR Miller
Blue Barracudas (323, 260) beat Purple Parrots (199, 221) by 163 runs Blue Barracudas Test #30 MOTM: IT Botham
Orange Iguanas (433, 68-1) beat Red Jaguars (250, 249) by 9 wickets Orange Iguanas Test #31 MOTM: KR Miller
Orange Iguanas (213, 208-5) beat Blue Barracudas (191, 226) by 5 wickets Orange Iguanas Test #32 MOTM: RN Harvey
Orange Iguanas (450, 383-5) beat Purple Parrots (381, 235) by 217 runs Orange Iguanas Test #33 MOTM: CG Greenidge
Red Jaguars (379, 442) beat Purple Parrots (435, 196) by 190 runs Purple Parrots Test #34 MOTM: Javed Miandad
Blue Barracudas (221, 315) beat Purple Parrots (93, 208) by 235 runs Purple Parrots Test #35 MOTM: IT Botham
Orange Iguanas (297, 158) beat Purple Parrots (165, 168) by 122 runs Purple Parrots Test #36 MOTM: DW Steyn

Blue Barracudas 18 games 10 wins 1 draws
Orange Iguanas 18 games 10 wins 1 draws
Red Jaguars 18 games 8 wins 0 draws
Purple Parrots 18 games 7 wins 0 draws

ED Weekes (Blue Barracudas) 1653 runs @ 48.62, CG Greenidge (Orange Iguanas) 1541 runs @ 45.32, BC Lara (Orange Iguanas) 1471 runs @ 43.26, RG Pollock (Purple Parrots) 1469 runs @ 44.52, JH Kallis (Blue Barracudas) 1359 runs @ 39.97, SM Gavaskar (Red Jaguars) 1324 runs @ 38.94, ML Hayden (Blue Barracudas) 1310 runs @ 38.53, Javed Miandad (Red Jaguars) 1304 runs @ 39.52, KC Sangakkara (Orange Iguanas) 1240 runs @ 35.43, KF Barrington (Red Jaguars) 1228 runs @ 37.21,

FS Trueman (Purple Parrots) 91 wickets @ 20.4, DW Steyn (Orange Iguanas) 73 wickets @ 24.71, J Garner (Blue Barracudas) 68 wickets @ 23.43, IT Botham (Blue Barracudas) 65 wickets @ 26.31, GD McGrath (Blue Barracudas) 65 wickets @ 25.22, AA Donald (Red Jaguars) 64 wickets @ 28.08, KR Miller (Orange Iguanas) 63 wickets @ 21.83, RR Lindwall (Purple Parrots) 60 wickets @ 29.83, MD Marshall (Red Jaguars) 59 wickets @ 28.12, AW Greig (Red Jaguars) 58 wickets @ 35.1, CEL Ambrose (Orange Iguanas) 50 wickets @ 23.66,

Man of the series: JH Kallis (Blue Barracudas)


Blue Barracudas (421, 211) beat Orange Iguanas (211, 184) by 237 runs Blue Barracudas Test #1 MOTM: V Sehwag
Blue Barracudas (231, 317) beat Orange Iguanas (235, 237) by 76 runs Orange Iguanas Test #2 MOTM: ED Weekes
Blue Barracudas (490) beat Orange Iguanas (299, 161) by an innings and 30 runs Blue Barracudas Test #3 MOTM: ED Weekes
Orange Iguanas (279, 182) beat Blue Barracudas (237, 148) by 76 runs Orange Iguanas Test #4 MOTM: CEL Ambrose

Blue Barracudas 4 games 3 wins 0 draws
Orange Iguanas 4 games 1 wins 0 draws

ED Weekes (Blue Barracudas) 412 runs @ 58.86, V Sehwag (Blue Barracudas) 384 runs @ 54.86, AB de Villiers (Blue Barracudas) 289 runs @ 41.29, BC Lara (Orange Iguanas) 280 runs @ 35.0, KR Miller (Orange Iguanas) 234 runs @ 33.43, RN Harvey (Orange Iguanas) 233 runs @ 29.12, IVA Richards (Blue Barracudas) 228 runs @ 32.57, GS Sobers (Orange Iguanas) 199 runs @ 24.88, CG Greenidge (Orange Iguanas) 177 runs @ 22.12, KC Sangakkara (Orange Iguanas) 164 runs @ 20.5,

GD McGrath (Blue Barracudas) 23 wickets @ 15.87, J Garner (Blue Barracudas) 20 wickets @ 15.85, CEL Ambrose (Orange Iguanas) 16 wickets @ 22.25, A Kumble (Orange Iguanas) 12 wickets @ 33.42, KR Miller (Orange Iguanas) 11 wickets @ 24.18, VD Philander (Blue Barracudas) 11 wickets @ 23.18, GS Sobers (Orange Iguanas) 9 wickets @ 31.78, Imran Khan (Orange Iguanas) 9 wickets @ 33.22, JH Kallis (Blue Barracudas) 8 wickets @ 32.12, M Muralitharan (Blue Barracudas) 8 wickets @ 35.5,

Man of the series: GD McGrath (Blue Barracudas)

Team 2 are the winners, followed by Team 3, then Team 1, and then Team 4.

The whole high scoring thing ataraxia complains about seems to be gone, now that I've stacked all teams with GOATed bowlers. :p
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Its my OCD about cricket line-ups. Like to have lefties and righties alternate. :)
I do too if I can manage. Just this time I was just thinking about draft orders and team compositions of batting and bowling, and lost sight of the whole handedness thing. Ultimately it's not the biggest effect in the world, I don't think.
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Sunil Gavaskar
Matthew Hayden
Kumar Sangakkara +
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers *
Jacques Kallis
Ian Botham
Shaun Pollock
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath

Made this side, with the following restriction: debut 1970 or later, with 1 wildcard (no Bradman), and only inactive players. What could be an alternate side (even one that includes active players) that would play this side tough?

Obvious players are Steve Smith, Tendulkar, Marshall, Warne, Gilchrist, one or more of Imran and Hadlee. But not sure how to fill out the openers or remainder of the side, anyone want to give it a go? Match would be played in modern conditions, with helmets and all that, for what it's worth.
 

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
Sunil Gavaskar
Matthew Hayden
Kumar Sangakkara +
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers *
Jacques Kallis
Ian Botham
Shaun Pollock
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath

Made this side, with the following restriction: debut 1970 or later, with 1 wildcard (no Bradman), and only inactive players. What could be an alternate side (even one that includes active players) that would play this side tough?

Obvious players are Steve Smith, Tendulkar, Marshall, Warne, Gilchrist, one or more of Imran and Hadlee. But not sure how to fill out the openers or remainder of the side, anyone want to give it a go? Match would be played in modern conditions, with helmets and all that, for what it's worth.
Jack Hobbs
Gordon Greenidge
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Allan Border
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
 
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shortpitched713

International Captain
Gordon Greenidge
Graeme Smith
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Allan Border
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
What I really like about this team is, that you could have gone for an Ambrose or Steyn or Lillee, Waqar, etc. in place of Wasim Akram, but you decided "**** it, this team's batting down to 11". I approve. :happy:
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Sunil Gavaskar
Matthew Hayden
Kumar Sangakkara +
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers *
Jacques Kallis
Ian Botham
Shaun Pollock
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath

Made this side, with the following restriction: debut 1970 or later, with 1 wildcard (no Bradman), and only inactive players. What could be an alternate side (even one that includes active players) that would play this side tough?

Obvious players are Steve Smith, Tendulkar, Marshall, Warne, Gilchrist, one or more of Imran and Hadlee. But not sure how to fill out the openers or remainder of the side, anyone want to give it a go? Match would be played in modern conditions, with helmets and all that, for what it's worth.

Jack Hobbs
Gordon Greenidge
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Allan Border
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Imran Khan (c)
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Because I'm a junky, and you knew I was going to do this **** when I got the time to get around to it:

shortpitched713 = Silver Snakes
Fuller Pilch = Green Monkeys

Green Monkeys (334, 247-4) beat Silver Snakes (345, 233) by 6 wickets Silver Snakes Test #1 MOTM: Imran Khan
Green Monkeys (297, 270-6) beat Silver Snakes (239, 327) by 4 wickets Green Monkeys Test #2 MOTM: SR Tendulkar
Green Monkeys (447, 318) beat Silver Snakes (420, 233) by 112 runs Silver Snakes Test #3 MOTM: AR Border
Silver Snakes (551-8, 276) drew with Green Monkeys (558, 186-3) Green Monkeys Test #4 MOTM: SM Gavaskar
Silver Snakes (544-9, 260) beat Green Monkeys (357, 215) by 232 runs Silver Snakes Test #5 MOTM: M Muralitharan
Green Monkeys (533, 11-1) beat Silver Snakes (311, 231) by 9 wickets Green Monkeys Test #6 MOTM: SR Tendulkar
Silver Snakes (215, 739-7) beat Green Monkeys (608-8, 200) by 146 runs Silver Snakes Test #7 MOTM: IVA Richards
Silver Snakes (864) beat Green Monkeys (255, 302) by an innings and 307 runs Green Monkeys Test #8 MOTM: ML Hayden
Silver Snakes (256, 166) beat Green Monkeys (325, 94) by 3 runs Silver Snakes Test #9 MOTM: M Muralitharan
Silver Snakes (394, 249-4) beat Green Monkeys (344, 298) by 6 wickets Green Monkeys Test #10 MOTM: ML Hayden
Silver Snakes (509, 140-3) beat Green Monkeys (210, 438) by 7 wickets Silver Snakes Test #11 MOTM: JH Kallis
Silver Snakes (122, 383) beat Green Monkeys (249, 182) by 74 runs Green Monkeys Test #12 MOTM: Imran Khan

Silver Snakes 12 games 7 wins 1 draws
Green Monkeys 12 games 4 wins 1 draws

SR Tendulkar (Green Monkeys) 1322 runs @ 62.95, ML Hayden (Silver Snakes) 1248 runs @ 54.26, GS Sobers (Silver Snakes) 1054 runs @ 58.56, JB Hobbs (Green Monkeys) 1024 runs @ 46.55, RT Ponting (Green Monkeys) 941 runs @ 40.91, SM Gavaskar (Silver Snakes) 928 runs @ 40.35, IVA Richards (Silver Snakes) 911 runs @ 43.38, JH Kallis (Silver Snakes) 910 runs @ 43.33, AC Gilchrist (Green Monkeys) 847 runs @ 40.33, BC Lara (Silver Snakes) 839 runs @ 38.14,

SM Pollock (Silver Snakes) 45 wickets @ 24.29, MD Marshall (Green Monkeys) 44 wickets @ 32.64, Wasim Akram (Green Monkeys) 40 wickets @ 37.62, GD McGrath (Silver Snakes) 39 wickets @ 29.59, M Muralitharan (Silver Snakes) 37 wickets @ 29.3, Imran Khan (Green Monkeys) 35 wickets @ 38.34, SK Warne (Green Monkeys) 34 wickets @ 45.59, JH Kallis (Silver Snakes) 33 wickets @ 37.82, GS Sobers (Silver Snakes) 29 wickets @ 40.07, Sir RJ Hadlee (Green Monkeys) 29 wickets @ 41.97,

Man of the series: GS Sobers (Silver Snakes)

Probably supports my hypothesis that it's hard to pick a team from this era that is definitively much better than a second team. Maybe a bit "unsporting" of me to pick up both the GOATed batting all-rounders though. :p

Edit: Attached the 9th match scorecard/match log, as that was some interesting stuff!
 

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shortpitched713

International Captain
Modern players only ( 70- ) version of a self draft I did.

Team 1

Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Viv Richards *
Jacques Kallis
Javed Miandad
Adam Gilchrist +
Ian Botham
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Glenn McGrath


Team 2

Graeme Smith *
Matthew Hayden
Kumar Sangakkara +
Brian Lara
Greg Chappell
Sachin Tendulkar
Imran Khan
Richard Hadlee
Malcolm Marshall
Dale Steyn
Muttiah Muralitharan


Which of these teams would you guys say is better? I probably would give the slight nod to Team 1 due to the presence of the extra batting all-rounder Jacques Kallis, which the other team doesn't have.


Edit: Seems once again I managed to stack Team 2 with lefty batters, and have none besides Gilly on Team 1. @honestbharani triggered again, I suppose. Oops. :laugh:
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Bit of simming I'm doing, which might be of interest to @JOJOXI , @Bitmap , @CricAddict .

Wanted to test out my regression model combined with normal distribution era adjuster via sim, and figured I had some good candidates in the recently concluded Willy Wonka Vanilla Test draft teams. The effect of this however is that older players, especially the vast majority of batsmen in the pre WWII era have their averages smashed, but it does bring the other post WWII great batsmen to a level more in line with the more modern era. The farther back you go though, the more extreme this effect becomes unfortunately, so you have something like Jack Hobbs averaging 28 (lol even I don't think he's at a bowling allrounder quality as a bat). So apologies to @kingkallis , and @Himannv , but as your teams did not end up simming as well, I excluded them, and used them to beef up the other teams, in particular Bitmap's team whose original configuration with multiple apartheid era SA players does sim well in initial testing, but due to inadequate sample size those players had to be removed for an amalgamation of other teams' players in the final build. Also note, that spinners of the pre WWII era also don't do well because I'm using my extrapolation of @Flem274* 's MVP model in their average calculation. Also had to adjust bowlers' batting averages so we don't have things like McGrath averaging 1 and Steyn and Ambrose at like 4, because ICC Ranking absolutely doesn't rate bowlers as batsmen (with some exceptions) . So yeah, with these things in consideration, I tried to beef up every team as evenly as I could, giving every one a spinner, while overall trying to keep the identity of the teams where I could. Also note JOJOXI gets the "mom said we have Bradman at home" version of Don Bradman, who is a 66 averaging bat (still the GOAT batsman of the entire bunch by far though). I'm going to do three rounds of 36 match sims with these teams, then a final. Here are the values for the teams I ended up with:

JOJOXI
["GC Smith", 45.44, 100, "OpenBat", 2002, 2014, 1.19, 1.19, 109, ]
["V Sehwag", 46.56, 76.89, "OpenPartSpin", 2001, 2013, 1.64, 0.97, 4, ]
["DG Bradman", 66.24, 72.16, "Bat", 1928, 1948, 1, 1.04, 24, ]
["BC Lara", 56.40, 100, "Bat", 1990, 2006, 1.21, 0.99, 47, ]
["SPD Smith", 58.89, 78.66, "Bat", 2010, 2021, 1.1, 1.2, 34, ]
["SR Waugh", 46.79, 44.65, "PartMed", 1985, 2004, 0.97, 0.96, 57, ]
["AC Gilchrist", 47.57, 100, "WK", 1999, 2008, 1.64, 1.2, 6, ]
["IT Botham", 32.87, 27.03, "Fast", 1977, 1992, 1.21, 1.11, 12, ]
["SM Pollock", 27.89, 22.99, "Fast", 1995, 2008, 1.05, 0.8, 26, ]
["Wasim Akram", 17.98, 23.57, "Fast", 1985, 2002, 1, 0.94, 25, ]
["SK Warne", 13.04, 25.25, "Spin", 1992, 2007, 1.15, 0.91, 0, ]

Bitmap
["L Hutton", 49.47, 69.71, "OpenBat", 1937, 1955, 1, 1.2, 23, ]
["CG Greenidge", 44.84, 70.11, "OpenBat", 1974, 1991, 1, 0.8, 1, ]
["R Dravid", 51.40, 100, "Bat", 1996, 2012, 0.85, 0.8, 25, ]
["RN Harvey", 52.93, 76.67, "Bat", 1948, 1963, 1, 0.8, 1, ]
["JE Root", 53.24, 71.46, "PartSpin", 2012, 2021, 1.1, 1.01, 50, ]
["CL Walcott", 46.35, 76.07, "WK", 1948, 1960, 1, 0.92, 0, ]
["KR Miller", 33.77, 25.36, "Fast", 1946, 1956, 1, 0.98, 0, ]
["RA Jadeja", 28.45, 27.60, "Spin", 2012, 2021, 1.25, 0.8, 0, ]
["MD Marshall", 14.55, 22.37, "Fast", 1978, 1991, 1, 1.0, 0, ]
["J Garner", 9.09, 22.79, "Fast", 1977, 1987, 1, 0.93, 0, ]
["CEL Ambrose", 9.06, 21.83, "Fast", 1988, 2000, 0.93, 0.84, 0, ]

shortpitched713
["WM Lawry", 46.36, 100, "OpenBat", 1961, 1971, 1, 1.08, 25, ]
["ML Hayden", 49.92, 74.54, "OpenBat", 1994, 2009, 1.2, 1.2, 0, ]
["KF Barrington", 55.09, 71.53, "PartSpin", 1955, 1968, 1, 1.2, 0, ]
["ED Weekes", 56.35, 85.95, "Bat", 1948, 1958, 1, 1.2, 0, ]
["Javed Miandad", 52.85, 73.97, "Bat", 1976, 1993, 1, 1.03, 34, ]
["GS Sobers", 57.29, 34.02, "Fast", 1954, 1974, 1, 0.94, 39, ]
["KC Sangakkara", 54.78, 100, "WK", 2000, 2015, 1.08, 1.11, 15, ]
["Sir RJ Hadlee", 24.07, 22.15, "Fast", 1973, 1990, 1, 0.99, 0, ]
["VD Philander", 19.30, 23.61, "Fast", 2011, 2020, 0.89, 0.85, 0, ]
["DW Steyn", 9.01, 21.77, "Fast", 2004, 2019, 0.89, 1.03, 0, ]
["M Muralitharan", 7.82, 23.28, "Spin", 1992, 2010, 1.41, 0.84, 0, ]

CricAddict
["SM Gavaskar", 52.03, 100, "OpenBat", 1971, 1987, 1, 1.2, 47, ]
["AN Cook", 44.23, 100, "OpenBat", 2006, 2018, 0.94, 0.8, 59, ]
["JH Kallis", 52.41, 33.91, "Fast", 1995, 2013, 0.92, 0.92, 2, ]
["SR Tendulkar", 52.32, 85.02, "Bat", 1989, 2013, 1, 1.19, 25, ]
["IVA Richards", 53.56, 83.05, "PartSpin", 1974, 1991, 1, 0.86, 50, ]
["GS Chappell", 51.59, 66.95, "PartMed", 1970, 1984, 1, 0.84, 48, ]
["A Flower", 45.25, 100, "WK", 1992, 2002, 0.9, 1.2, 20, ]
["Imran Khan", 32.44, 23.57, "Fast", 1971, 1992, 1, 0.96, 48, ]
["R Ashwin", 23.02, 25.02, "Spin", 2011, 2021, 1.07, 0.91, 0, ]
["AA Donald", 7.47, 22.42, "Fast", 1992, 2002, 0.7, 1.02, 0, ]
["GD McGrath", 4.61, 21.43, "Fast", 1993, 2007, 0.82, 0.86, 0, ]

Edit: Also note the bowling averages for part time bowlers are super high. 2 reasons for this 1) Is to deter them from being bowled at all by the sim, with Waugh being an exception, as the sim really wants to use whichever 5th bowler there is due to whatever it's fatigue model is, so Waugh's relatively excellent part time bowling is important to keep at his calculated value. 2) It's a bitch to generate the ICC bowling averages for these players who probably will hardly get a bowl anyway, so better to just deter the sim from using them.
 
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shortpitched713

International Captain
Here are the results of the first round of simming:

shortpitched713 (654) beat JOJOXI (244, 382) by an innings and 28 runs shortpitched713 Test #1 MOTM: Sir RJ Hadlee
Bitmap (567, 4-0) beat shortpitched713 (373, 197) by 10 wickets shortpitched713 Test #2 MOTM: L Hutton
shortpitched713 (533, 186-5) drew with CricAddict (494, 101-6) shortpitched713 Test #3 MOTM: ED Weekes
JOJOXI (501, 62-2) beat shortpitched713 (406, 156) by 8 wickets JOJOXI Test #4 MOTM: DG Bradman
Bitmap (661-3) beat JOJOXI (212, 133) by an innings and 316 runs JOJOXI Test #5 MOTM: R Dravid
JOJOXI (551, 287) beat CricAddict (397, 172) by 269 runs JOJOXI Test #6 MOTM: AC Gilchrist
Bitmap (364, 332) drew with shortpitched713 (469, 173-4) Bitmap Test #7 MOTM: R Dravid
Bitmap (336, 287) beat JOJOXI (278, 135) by 210 runs Bitmap Test #8 MOTM: J Garner
Bitmap (149, 305-1) beat CricAddict (308, 144) by 9 wickets Bitmap Test #9 MOTM: CG Greenidge
CricAddict (487, 277) drew with shortpitched713 (479, 272-5) CricAddict Test #10 MOTM: ML Hayden
JOJOXI (461, 331) beat CricAddict (292, 325) by 175 runs CricAddict Test #11 MOTM: DG Bradman
Bitmap (515) beat CricAddict (135, 279) by an innings and 101 runs CricAddict Test #12 MOTM: RN Harvey
shortpitched713 (668-9) beat JOJOXI (302, 254) by an innings and 112 runs shortpitched713 Test #13 MOTM: DW Steyn
shortpitched713 (276, 390) beat Bitmap (328, 205) by 133 runs shortpitched713 Test #14 MOTM: DW Steyn
shortpitched713 (415, 144) beat CricAddict (179, 309) by 71 runs shortpitched713 Test #15 MOTM: Sir RJ Hadlee
JOJOXI (525, 284-2) drew with shortpitched713 (519, 208-5) JOJOXI Test #16 MOTM: DG Bradman
Bitmap (478, 77-4) beat JOJOXI (374, 180) by 6 wickets JOJOXI Test #17 MOTM: CL Walcott
JOJOXI (385, 284) beat CricAddict (253, 268) by 148 runs JOJOXI Test #18 MOTM: DG Bradman
shortpitched713 (377, 339) beat Bitmap (356, 229) by 131 runs Bitmap Test #19 MOTM: M Muralitharan
JOJOXI (372, 191-7) beat Bitmap (269, 293) by 3 wickets Bitmap Test #20 MOTM: DG Bradman
Bitmap (324, 148-9) beat CricAddict (255, 215) by 1 wicket Bitmap Test #21 MOTM: J Garner
shortpitched713 (489, 149) beat CricAddict (295, 255) by 88 runs CricAddict Test #22 MOTM: Sir RJ Hadlee
CricAddict (350, 385) beat JOJOXI (415, 147) by 173 runs CricAddict Test #23 MOTM: Imran Khan
Bitmap (277, 248) beat CricAddict (111, 209) by 205 runs CricAddict Test #24 MOTM: MD Marshall
shortpitched713 (337, 77-3) beat JOJOXI (236, 177) by 7 wickets shortpitched713 Test #25 MOTM: DW Steyn
Bitmap (355, 408) beat shortpitched713 (379, 186) by 198 runs shortpitched713 Test #26 MOTM: KR Miller
CricAddict (473, 65-0) beat shortpitched713 (290, 246) by 10 wickets shortpitched713 Test #27 MOTM: JH Kallis
JOJOXI (497, 73-4) beat shortpitched713 (193, 374) by 6 wickets JOJOXI Test #28 MOTM: Wasim Akram
Bitmap (506, 171-6) beat JOJOXI (300, 376) by 4 wickets JOJOXI Test #29 MOTM: R Dravid
CricAddict (593) beat JOJOXI (251, 247) by an innings and 95 runs JOJOXI Test #30 MOTM: R Ashwin
Bitmap (229, 392) beat shortpitched713 (318, 179) by 124 runs Bitmap Test #31 MOTM: RA Jadeja
Bitmap (456, 196) beat JOJOXI (271, 359) by 22 runs Bitmap Test #32 MOTM: R Dravid
Bitmap (529, 191-4) beat CricAddict (249, 470) by 6 wickets Bitmap Test #33 MOTM: R Dravid
CricAddict (423-6, 29-0) beat shortpitched713 (199, 252) by 10 wickets CricAddict Test #34 MOTM: Imran Khan
CricAddict (327, 356) beat JOJOXI (209, 148) by 326 runs CricAddict Test #35 MOTM: SM Gavaskar
CricAddict (529) beat Bitmap (295, 227) by an innings and 7 runs CricAddict Test #36 MOTM: SR Tendulkar

Bitmap 18 games 13 wins 1 draws
shortpitched713 18 games 7 wins 4 draws
CricAddict 18 games 6 wins 2 draws
JOJOXI 18 games 6 wins 1 draws

R Dravid (Bitmap) 1954 runs @ 65.13, DG Bradman (JOJOXI) 1930 runs @ 60.31, KF Barrington (shortpitched713) 1658 runs @ 51.81, L Hutton (Bitmap) 1586 runs @ 49.56, ML Hayden (shortpitched713) 1559 runs @ 45.85, SR Tendulkar (CricAddict) 1504 runs @ 47.0, JE Root (Bitmap) 1477 runs @ 52.75, ED Weekes (shortpitched713) 1427 runs @ 41.97, CG Greenidge (Bitmap) 1417 runs @ 44.28, SPD Smith (JOJOXI) 1349 runs @ 42.16,

R Ashwin (CricAddict) 78 wickets @ 29.06, M Muralitharan (shortpitched713) 77 wickets @ 27.36, RA Jadeja (Bitmap) 74 wickets @ 29.28, Wasim Akram (JOJOXI) 71 wickets @ 30.73, J Garner (Bitmap) 70 wickets @ 26.43, AA Donald (CricAddict) 66 wickets @ 30.5, MD Marshall (Bitmap) 65 wickets @ 25.85, SK Warne (JOJOXI) 65 wickets @ 40.42, GD McGrath (CricAddict) 65 wickets @ 28.22, KR Miller (Bitmap) 64 wickets @ 25.17,

Man of the series: RA Jadeja (Bitmap)

And holy crap, Bitmap's team gets off to a flier, probably due to him keeping 5 specialist quality bowlers in his side. Straight up OP, and the rest of the team's have a bit of work to do to catch up here, in what will likely be a race for the second final slot. Included logs from 2 of the closest matches in the attachments. Further logs available on request.
 

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