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Many a time, batting first or chasing is discussed in the forums and yet never are any real consensuses reached. Some pitches are said to be better to bat first, others bowl first, but such word of mouth is often not to be trusted. So, this article will examine a number of factors related to [...]
“Keep The Faith”
- a study into the values of a specialist keeper in FTP
There’s an ongoing debate in real life about “the death of the specialist gloveman”. It’s one of the many variables in cricket that sides will be forever trying to find the right balance - do I have a batsman who can keep [...]
On Nov 2, 2007 manger Fruitl00ps (me) was assigned a local amateur cricket club to train them and turn into professionals and achieve glory! Fruitl00ps named the team “NRI Sixters” (NRI stands for Non-Resident Indian). Having read the rules and giving a quick thought to the game system/mechanics, Fruitl00ps quickly decided to put one of [...]
I was asked by Lambert what I thought about an idea he had, on creating a league structure for the National team, his idea was solid but relied on having just 1 fatigue structure overall, which was never likely to be adopted, nor was going to be popular.
And so we got thinking, how do you [...]
Todays Topic is called “Upsets (Don’t get upset)“.
In thinking about today’s topic, I had a clever idea that all the episodes in this little story here could link to one another, and I figured out that I can go from match ratings, to upsets - because esstentially what tells us in FTP what an upset [...]
Hi, it’s me again!
Ironically, after rating the best 5 new implementations in FTP last episode, I though it would be a good time to talk about match ratings.
Everyone has a kind of love/hate relationship with match ratings. A manager always strives to improve his rating as much as he can, and there are a lot [...]
So first up, hi I guess. Good, glad we got that sorted.
The other day I was contemplating just how cool I would be, after starting the next big thing in FTP - Weekly Butlee Rantings, and I came around to thinking that this has got to be right up there with all the big things [...]
So the U-19 World Cup is over, West Indies proved their salt and UAE was the surprise of the tournament. During the course of world cup almost 20000 runs were scored, and over 700 times when the bowlers shouted Howzzaaaaat the umpires agreed. This analysis in this edition of Numbers Game has been shamelessly picked [...]
Ireland are preparing to embrace a new era under a new management team after the upcoming World Cup at the end of the current season. This, for many has not come as a shock with controversial U 19 manager Dave Knape announcing his departure earlier this season after a 3-0 tour defeat to Bermuda.
Internationals were [...]
Since the time talents were introduced in FTP, most managers have wondered how much importance should be given if you luckily or unluckily get some talents on your players. This article tries to use the Stats from the recently concluded U19 tour to understand the impacts.