Matt79
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Awww shucks. Thought my team may just have had Joe's measure, especially after our preliminary meetings, but Joe's boys stood up in the final. Well done to him, his team topped the table, and looked a very strong team throughout the process, so you have to give it up for them as deserving winners. Bloody Gavaskar saved your ass in the 5th test, but my guys finally succumbed to fatigue at the end of a long series in the 6th - a tad disappointing apart from Sehwag.
The sim was interesting - not sure I agree with all the results it threw up - some pretty useful attacks struggled more than you'd have thought, but then, I suppose they were bowling to some very fine batting line ups.
For my team, I thought the sim did illustrate the value of having a 6-7-8-9 of Gilchrist, Greig, Imran and Pollock. My bowling, like everyone's, was pretty good, but Greig and especially Imran saved me a lot with their runs.
It would be interesting to see people's votes based solely on teams on paper, without the sim, and how they matched the sim results. I think the sim captures better aspects like evenness of players - often in VC4, its the second tier players who play a blinder and win a match for you, whereas when looking at paper people tend (in my experience) to focus on the absolute superstars in the team.
Liked Vimesy's write ups as well. VC4 is fun like that, reconstructing events from it's scorecards. There was a ripper like that in a match earlier where Dravid was out, b. Marshall, 0 (5). You could picture Marshall working him over with an over (well four balls) of unplayable deliveries, before eventually knocking poor Rahul's stumps flying. Would have been a classic over up there with Lillee's real-life effort to Viv.
The sim was interesting - not sure I agree with all the results it threw up - some pretty useful attacks struggled more than you'd have thought, but then, I suppose they were bowling to some very fine batting line ups.
For my team, I thought the sim did illustrate the value of having a 6-7-8-9 of Gilchrist, Greig, Imran and Pollock. My bowling, like everyone's, was pretty good, but Greig and especially Imran saved me a lot with their runs.
It would be interesting to see people's votes based solely on teams on paper, without the sim, and how they matched the sim results. I think the sim captures better aspects like evenness of players - often in VC4, its the second tier players who play a blinder and win a match for you, whereas when looking at paper people tend (in my experience) to focus on the absolute superstars in the team.
Liked Vimesy's write ups as well. VC4 is fun like that, reconstructing events from it's scorecards. There was a ripper like that in a match earlier where Dravid was out, b. Marshall, 0 (5). You could picture Marshall working him over with an over (well four balls) of unplayable deliveries, before eventually knocking poor Rahul's stumps flying. Would have been a classic over up there with Lillee's real-life effort to Viv.
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