Kippax
Cricketer Of The Year
2023/24 'Beat the Braai Guys'
Hopefully Vandem's tallying might come to the rescue of CW's traditional competition later in the year.
I'm only seeking one entrant, because I've selected a strong Braai Guys squad (over 8500 points gained in the NZ draft comp last season). I've been working on the selection of a challenger team with another distinct theme (New Zealand Under-30, comprised of players born in 1994 or later).
Whoever posts a third team with a really nice look and nice balance, one that I could imagine thriving if they became a team in reality, your entry will become the second challenger team. Note that if someone has posted Southee etc. in a proposed team, those same bigger names are still available for you to utilise. Or perhaps you've conjured up another team with a distinct theme that appeals to my sense of humour, you might get a wild card ticket in.
All the points, bonus contests and rules will be identical to those seen in the 2023-2024 NZ first-class draft thread. The 'pick a real wicketkeeper' rule has changed to Cribbage's suggested improvement. Ravindra has also dropped down to being a Class C wicket, after I examined recent stats.
Missed the cut: Seifert, Chu, O'Rourke, Rae, Sheat, Lister, Keene, Mariu, Sunde, Heaphy.
All teams can chop and change before a 27 August lock. Two mid-season interchanges and/or new recruits will be permitted (also a reallocation of the 1x and 0.5x bowlers) from 30 November.
Aus A vs. NZ A (away) 1st
Aus A vs. NZ A (away) 2nd
Shield Wk. 1 (pre-Christmas Shield rounds coincide with the ODI World Cup)
Shield Wk. 2
Shield Wk. 3
Shield Wk. 4
Ban vs. NZ (away) 1st
Ban vs. NZ (away) 2nd
Additional NZ A or NZ XI (must be official first-class)
NZ XI vs. SA
NZ vs. SA 1st
NZ vs. SA 2nd
Shield Wk. 5
Shield Wk. 6
NZ vs. Aus 1st
NZ vs. Aus 2nd
Shield Wk. 7
Shield Wk. 8
- A team of eleven, with five reserves who are activated for games missed to injury, illness, suspension, retirement, most types of absence (e.g. with a Test squad (not LOI or T20I), personal reasons, a mainstay or kingpin domestic bowler given a week of rest. Not including: Player dropped on merit, T20 contracts, touring with a NZ limited overs squad, international player workload concerns.
- There must be a realistic game on the schedule that's missed by the unavailable player for the replacement player to become active. He's then deactivated by the starting XI player becoming active or available for selection again at major association level or higher (any format).
- A player's highest eight points hauls during the season will count towards his total.
- Active bench players will take an injured/unavailable starting XI player's spot for the purposes of the eight-game limit, reducing the starting XI player's game limit to a revised number under eight.
- Any spin bowler not selected on merit for any given Plunket Shield match can be classified as unselected (UNS) and a player on the reserve bench is to be made active in his place.
- The replacements won't operate on a 'similar type of cricketer' basis. If your highest bench player is inactive in first-class play, the next player down will be made active.
- Points gained in Tests against Bangladesh (away), Australia and South Africa will carry a 1.5x prestige bonus.
- Only four players selected in the playing XI can score bowling points at 1x. Two more can be nominated to score bowling points at 0.5x.
- Your five reserves can be as tilted towards batting points or bowling points as you wish. Activated reserve players will score bowling points at 1x.
- A reserve wicketkeeper who becomes active will not gain his wk catching/stumping/run out points unless it's your designated wicketkeeper who is injured/unavailable.
- Your designated wicketkeeper is the only player who can collect the wicketkeeping catches, stumpings and run outs on a scorecard.
- A designated wicketkeeper who plays a real-world match as a non-wicketkeeper will accrue a -16 penalty (this is placed in the fielding column).
- Drawn matches, also matches with a forfeited innings, with fewer than 100.1 overs bowled will be recorded as a 0.25 entry in the games played column, fewer than 200.1 overs bowled will be a 0.5 entry, fewer than 300.1 will be a 0.75 entry. Substitutions can also be denoted by 0.25 (before the 101st over), 0.50 (before the 201st), or 0.75 (before the 301st).
General scoring system
Batting Points:
Each Run Scored: 1 point
Blunter's Bonus: Only the players placed at 1, 2 or 3 in your batting order are eligible for this bonus, also one nominated top-order reserve player (the 1, 2 or 3 must be INJ, UNA etc.). One bonus point per FIVE deliveries faced (with wides disregarded, as per the 'B' column on scorecards) within the first 30 overs of any innings of a match.
The NZC video stream (rewindable) or Cricinfo's scoring can be useful for determining how many deliveries a batsman had faced as he entered a 31st over.
Bowling Points:
CLASS A WICKETS:
40 pts --- 60 pts in a 1.5x Test --- must be dismissed for a sub-100 score
Williamson
Conway
S. Smith
Labuschagne
CLASS B:
Since the start of the 2020/21 season, six or more centuries (worldwide), or 1200+ runs at a 40+ ave in NZ
30 pts --- 45 pts in a 1.5x Test --- must be dismissed for a sub-100 score --- the choice of overseas players wasn't based on stats
Warner
Khawaja
Head
Elgar
Mushfiqur
Mominul
R O'Donnell
Raval
Young
Bruce
Blundell
Kelly
Latham
Nicholls
Mitchell
McConchie
CLASS C:
26 pts --- 39 pts in a 1.5x Test --- must be dismissed for a sub-100 score
Markram
Bavuma
Shakib
Litton
Tamim
Ravindra
Cooper
J Carter
W O'Donnell
Rutherford
Popli
Foxcroft
Schmulian
Chapman
Innings bowling average 20 or under: 8 Points (min. 5 overs)
Bowling economy rate 4 or above: -8 Points (min. 5 overs, bowling average must be above 30)
Kiwi Spinners' Economy Bonus: 1 point per maiden bowled in New Zealand
Fielding Points:
Per catch: 10 points
Per WK catch: 8 points
Per stumping: 10 points
Per run out: 10 points (two or more names on scorecard: 5 points each)
Bonus Mini-Contests:
Absolute Spud (-100 points): Drafted first XI player (including the players dropped to reserves or released from squad mid-season) with the worst ratio of points to games played.
Uncapped Emerging Player (200 bonus points): The highest points tally collected from a player born in 2000 or later. Eligible would be Chu ('00), Keene ('01), Sunde ('01), Zeb ('03 or '04), Field ('00), Heaphy ('03), W Clark ('01), O'Rourke ('01), Ashok ('02), Abbas ('03), Vishvaka ('00), Robinson ('02), Severin ('00), Tashkoff ('00), Kristian Clarke ('01), Pringle ('02), Parkes ('00), Cumming ('03), Lockrose ('00), L Johnson ('00), White ('01), McKay ('00), Mitch Hay, ('00), Foulkes ('02), etc.
Heef's Wreath (Recognising Great Work by HeathDavisSpeed) (200 bonus points): Calculated after the other bonus awards and penalties have been applied, the drafter with the highest ratio of points per game (8 games max. per player, includes active reserve players).
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