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So time to share this idea more of a new auction style game I'm calling WORLD CUP CRICKET PREMIER LEAGUE
What I propose is very different to Salary Cap or Draft style fantasy league's but kind of in the middle.
We are all probably aware in India they have the IPL. Indian Premier League for T/20 cricket.
8 Franchises bid for players in an auction style system where each has a certain amount of funds they allowed to contract players up to.
What I propose is in lead up to the World Cup Cricket we do something similar. In a few weeks time that is.
We have 6 Franchises to start off in an auction that is run for each cricket player involved from the main one day international cricket playing nations taking part in tournament and each Franchise can have either 1 person manage their team or up to 3.
Someone from the franchise puts in bids for players they want representing the franchise at various stages and you might have a limit of $9 million to spend on creating a player roster of say 17 to 18 players.
Each player auctioned is a very quick auction of only 5 to 15 minutes and highest bidder in that time on a thread recognized from a franchise wins that player. So that is where more than one owner would be important as unlikely the same person can be online for every player auctioned. The role of auctioneer would have to be shared around. It could not just be me.
Anyway, the basic idea would be 6 teams once squads assembled , would play each other once over the preliminary matches of World Cup. The top four after all fantasy teams played each other advance on to Semi-Finals and the 2 teams that get eliminated and players from those teams become free agents. Those free agents then up for auction at that stage. Franchises still remaining in tournament at that stage can remove present players and bid for new ones that are free agents. The player roster fund to bid with would go up in semi-final stage to about $10 million or keep at that same amount. The 4 teams play off and two remain for Grand Final of our Fantasy League. The timing of that is as the World Cup reaches Quarter Finals of real tournament. Those two fantasy franchise teams remain for a final as the quarter finals of real world cup take place and similar thing of players from eliminated teams up for auction to remaining two franchises and the 3rd phase of league tournament the player roster fund for a franchise is maybe increased again to as high as $11 million. The winner of third week is the Champion franchise team of WCCPL. The World Cup Cricket Premier League Champion.
Anyway, that is the basics of the idea.
I would think it would need at least a dozen people playing to make it interesting. So something like two part owners a franchise would work ok for a dozen people and at various stages of the auctions most of the people involved take turns of being auctioneer and keep tabs of winning bids going to which franchises. They then publish in a post before we move onto next player to be bid on.
So for example a mock bid might have Virat Kohli up for auction as a batter at 11 am till 11-10 am on a set date. Vernon Philander as a bowler at 11-15 am to 11-25 am and the various part owners would know that well before hand and someone nominated as bidder for that session would represent that franchise in the bidding session. (i.e you organize that amongst yourselves as co-owners of franchise team).
Between 11 am and 11-10 am in the official thread each franchise can bid up to 3 times for Kohli and the highest bidder that posts between 11 am and 11-10 pm gets that player on their roster for that salary contract. Then the auctioneer in same thread announces the winning bid to which franchise and moves straight onto next player of Philander at 11-15 am. You might have say 3 to 4 players up for auction in an hour in a bidding session. Then a break is had from bids to see where all our rosters are at in terms of contracts and remaining funds and then another session starts up later. There maybe four sessions during a day for 16 players in that day so the full auction would probably be run over a week.
Example:
4 players auctioned between 11 am to noon is one day session.
4 players auctioned between 1 pm to 2pm is second day session
4 players auctioned between 7pm to 8pm for first night session
4 players auctioned between 9 pm to 10 pm for second night session.
We can probably not be live at all sessions so that is why we have co-owners of a franchise so you organize between yourselves as owners of a particular franchise to take turns of representing your franchise as official bidder over the course of assembling your squad as the auctions continue during the week.
So a guide to those four sessions might have this example set up for a Monday of auction starting:
11 am to 11-10 Virat Kohli - Batsman
11-15 am to 11-25 am Vernon Philander - Bowler
11-30 am to 11-40 am Angelo Mathews - Allrounder
11-45 am to 11-55 am Luke Ronchi - Wicketkeeper
1-00 pm to 1-10 pm Darren Bravo - Batsman
1-15 pm to 1-25 pm Corey Anderson - Allrounder
1-30 pm to 1-40 pm Chris Woakes - Bowler
1-45 pm to 1-55 pm Hamilton Masakadza - Batsman
7-00 pm to 7-10 pm Brendan McCullum - Bat/Wicketkeeper
7-15 pm to 7-25 pm Ahmed Shehzad - Batsman
7-30 pm to 7-40 pm Dale Steyn - Bowler
7-45 pm to 7-55 pm Ravi Bopara - Allrounder
9-00 pm to 9-10 pm Solomon Mire - Batsman
9-15 pm to 9-25 pm Steven Finn - Bowler
9-30 pm to 9-40 pm Ian Bell - Batsman
9-45 pm to 9-55 pm Darren Sammy - Allrounder
So between one session to another there be some time out time to look where we are all at in terms of player roster and remaining funds to bid with. That example would see 16 players in World Cup bid on in a day. As you probably know each cricketing nation will have a squad of 15 players so if you consider the players from the top ten nations that is 150 players in total that could run auctions on. We would need 17 players for each franchise so basically we are aiming to each get 17 players to successfully bid on from the 150 players which means 17 times six to fill all of our franchise player contracts before matches start.
The bulk of the bidding would happen on the waking hours with breaks in between sessions. Then final team announced for each franchise for the week by 10 minutes before the 1st cricket match of each round starts and locked into that for the fantasy round.
Once a franchise comes close to using up the player roster funds of $9 million there are limits placed on accepted bids to ensure each franchise is getting at least 17 players each on their roster and a minimum of each positional type needed to field a proper team of 11 on field plus 4 emergencies. So would probably score it based on a free cricket fantasy game being done online that is easy to access player scores. So rather than drafting players we would be doing an IPL style auction system just for something completely different for all of us.
If I sense there is a dozen or so people willing to take it I am happy to reveal more but that is the basics of it. There is already about half a dozen of us that expressed interest in it. So for example I might be one part owner of a franchise team up with another member and at various points of the auction one of us has a turn of being auctioneer and also nominated bidder for our franchise and at various other points other owners take turns at being auctioneer so the role of running it and keeping tabs of winning bids spread around. Each franchise could only make at most 3 bids in the 10 minute window of opportunity a player is up for auction. Deleting bids will be frowned upon and risk being thrown out as a part owner. As you will know beforehand when each of players up for auction (once fully set up) you organize for one of your members is online to put in a bid and represent your franchise in an auction session. Probably 3 members for each franchise would be maximum. So it is possible in week one there are 6 franchises with 3 part owners each for each franchise as one example and the 3 owners make sure they are organized to represent themselves at various times to be online for bids on players they want.
I am willing to set up all the players listed and categorize positionally and a few cricket team structures for each match will be set up that we must play within. So your franchise task is to bid to get a realistic looking balanced squad but how much you spend on specific players is up to you as franchise owners.
I also thinking of customizing it that we pick a captain for each franchise for each phase of matches and you get one and a half times his points for being captain and we also nominate a designated hitter for each specific match and that player gets double score contributed to our fantasy team that round of matches. Keep in mind I will set up the fantasy fixture so no real cricket nation has two matches in a fantasy round so won't be crazy stuff that goes on in Big Bash fantasy games.
At this stage in order to do that I will not include players from minnow nations of Afghanistan, Scotland , Ireland or UAE in this fantasy game. The other 10 cricketing nations will be included to auction on players. I may decide, if we have time, to then include an 18th player to each franchise via a simple random draft of one player from a minnow side but they will simply be standby player to replace any other player from your real contracted players you bid on that gets a major injury in the tournament.
I will let the people that want to play to be first come first served, assuming there is enough to make it worth while doing. If not I am happy to share it with some dedicated cricketing forum.I know this is strictly not a cricketing forum but seems enough of us follow cricket to give it a decent bash for fun during February and March before footy season begins. If there is strong interest here we would need to organize ourselves into co-owners or a head coach with a couple of assistants. Just an idea so see what feedback I get here and based on interest expressed from this point on will share more details.
What I propose is very different to Salary Cap or Draft style fantasy league's but kind of in the middle.
We are all probably aware in India they have the IPL. Indian Premier League for T/20 cricket.
8 Franchises bid for players in an auction style system where each has a certain amount of funds they allowed to contract players up to.
What I propose is in lead up to the World Cup Cricket we do something similar. In a few weeks time that is.
We have 6 Franchises to start off in an auction that is run for each cricket player involved from the main one day international cricket playing nations taking part in tournament and each Franchise can have either 1 person manage their team or up to 3.
Someone from the franchise puts in bids for players they want representing the franchise at various stages and you might have a limit of $9 million to spend on creating a player roster of say 17 to 18 players.
Each player auctioned is a very quick auction of only 5 to 15 minutes and highest bidder in that time on a thread recognized from a franchise wins that player. So that is where more than one owner would be important as unlikely the same person can be online for every player auctioned. The role of auctioneer would have to be shared around. It could not just be me.
Anyway, the basic idea would be 6 teams once squads assembled , would play each other once over the preliminary matches of World Cup. The top four after all fantasy teams played each other advance on to Semi-Finals and the 2 teams that get eliminated and players from those teams become free agents. Those free agents then up for auction at that stage. Franchises still remaining in tournament at that stage can remove present players and bid for new ones that are free agents. The player roster fund to bid with would go up in semi-final stage to about $10 million or keep at that same amount. The 4 teams play off and two remain for Grand Final of our Fantasy League. The timing of that is as the World Cup reaches Quarter Finals of real tournament. Those two fantasy franchise teams remain for a final as the quarter finals of real world cup take place and similar thing of players from eliminated teams up for auction to remaining two franchises and the 3rd phase of league tournament the player roster fund for a franchise is maybe increased again to as high as $11 million. The winner of third week is the Champion franchise team of WCCPL. The World Cup Cricket Premier League Champion.
Anyway, that is the basics of the idea.
I would think it would need at least a dozen people playing to make it interesting. So something like two part owners a franchise would work ok for a dozen people and at various stages of the auctions most of the people involved take turns of being auctioneer and keep tabs of winning bids going to which franchises. They then publish in a post before we move onto next player to be bid on.
So for example a mock bid might have Virat Kohli up for auction as a batter at 11 am till 11-10 am on a set date. Vernon Philander as a bowler at 11-15 am to 11-25 am and the various part owners would know that well before hand and someone nominated as bidder for that session would represent that franchise in the bidding session. (i.e you organize that amongst yourselves as co-owners of franchise team).
Between 11 am and 11-10 am in the official thread each franchise can bid up to 3 times for Kohli and the highest bidder that posts between 11 am and 11-10 pm gets that player on their roster for that salary contract. Then the auctioneer in same thread announces the winning bid to which franchise and moves straight onto next player of Philander at 11-15 am. You might have say 3 to 4 players up for auction in an hour in a bidding session. Then a break is had from bids to see where all our rosters are at in terms of contracts and remaining funds and then another session starts up later. There maybe four sessions during a day for 16 players in that day so the full auction would probably be run over a week.
Example:
4 players auctioned between 11 am to noon is one day session.
4 players auctioned between 1 pm to 2pm is second day session
4 players auctioned between 7pm to 8pm for first night session
4 players auctioned between 9 pm to 10 pm for second night session.
We can probably not be live at all sessions so that is why we have co-owners of a franchise so you organize between yourselves as owners of a particular franchise to take turns of representing your franchise as official bidder over the course of assembling your squad as the auctions continue during the week.
So a guide to those four sessions might have this example set up for a Monday of auction starting:
11 am to 11-10 Virat Kohli - Batsman
11-15 am to 11-25 am Vernon Philander - Bowler
11-30 am to 11-40 am Angelo Mathews - Allrounder
11-45 am to 11-55 am Luke Ronchi - Wicketkeeper
1-00 pm to 1-10 pm Darren Bravo - Batsman
1-15 pm to 1-25 pm Corey Anderson - Allrounder
1-30 pm to 1-40 pm Chris Woakes - Bowler
1-45 pm to 1-55 pm Hamilton Masakadza - Batsman
7-00 pm to 7-10 pm Brendan McCullum - Bat/Wicketkeeper
7-15 pm to 7-25 pm Ahmed Shehzad - Batsman
7-30 pm to 7-40 pm Dale Steyn - Bowler
7-45 pm to 7-55 pm Ravi Bopara - Allrounder
9-00 pm to 9-10 pm Solomon Mire - Batsman
9-15 pm to 9-25 pm Steven Finn - Bowler
9-30 pm to 9-40 pm Ian Bell - Batsman
9-45 pm to 9-55 pm Darren Sammy - Allrounder
So between one session to another there be some time out time to look where we are all at in terms of player roster and remaining funds to bid with. That example would see 16 players in World Cup bid on in a day. As you probably know each cricketing nation will have a squad of 15 players so if you consider the players from the top ten nations that is 150 players in total that could run auctions on. We would need 17 players for each franchise so basically we are aiming to each get 17 players to successfully bid on from the 150 players which means 17 times six to fill all of our franchise player contracts before matches start.
The bulk of the bidding would happen on the waking hours with breaks in between sessions. Then final team announced for each franchise for the week by 10 minutes before the 1st cricket match of each round starts and locked into that for the fantasy round.
Once a franchise comes close to using up the player roster funds of $9 million there are limits placed on accepted bids to ensure each franchise is getting at least 17 players each on their roster and a minimum of each positional type needed to field a proper team of 11 on field plus 4 emergencies. So would probably score it based on a free cricket fantasy game being done online that is easy to access player scores. So rather than drafting players we would be doing an IPL style auction system just for something completely different for all of us.
If I sense there is a dozen or so people willing to take it I am happy to reveal more but that is the basics of it. There is already about half a dozen of us that expressed interest in it. So for example I might be one part owner of a franchise team up with another member and at various points of the auction one of us has a turn of being auctioneer and also nominated bidder for our franchise and at various other points other owners take turns at being auctioneer so the role of running it and keeping tabs of winning bids spread around. Each franchise could only make at most 3 bids in the 10 minute window of opportunity a player is up for auction. Deleting bids will be frowned upon and risk being thrown out as a part owner. As you will know beforehand when each of players up for auction (once fully set up) you organize for one of your members is online to put in a bid and represent your franchise in an auction session. Probably 3 members for each franchise would be maximum. So it is possible in week one there are 6 franchises with 3 part owners each for each franchise as one example and the 3 owners make sure they are organized to represent themselves at various times to be online for bids on players they want.
I am willing to set up all the players listed and categorize positionally and a few cricket team structures for each match will be set up that we must play within. So your franchise task is to bid to get a realistic looking balanced squad but how much you spend on specific players is up to you as franchise owners.
I also thinking of customizing it that we pick a captain for each franchise for each phase of matches and you get one and a half times his points for being captain and we also nominate a designated hitter for each specific match and that player gets double score contributed to our fantasy team that round of matches. Keep in mind I will set up the fantasy fixture so no real cricket nation has two matches in a fantasy round so won't be crazy stuff that goes on in Big Bash fantasy games.
At this stage in order to do that I will not include players from minnow nations of Afghanistan, Scotland , Ireland or UAE in this fantasy game. The other 10 cricketing nations will be included to auction on players. I may decide, if we have time, to then include an 18th player to each franchise via a simple random draft of one player from a minnow side but they will simply be standby player to replace any other player from your real contracted players you bid on that gets a major injury in the tournament.
I will let the people that want to play to be first come first served, assuming there is enough to make it worth while doing. If not I am happy to share it with some dedicated cricketing forum.I know this is strictly not a cricketing forum but seems enough of us follow cricket to give it a decent bash for fun during February and March before footy season begins. If there is strong interest here we would need to organize ourselves into co-owners or a head coach with a couple of assistants. Just an idea so see what feedback I get here and based on interest expressed from this point on will share more details.
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