Predict the Top 8

Discussion in 'CPL Cricket' started by Athlai, Jan 20, 2020.

  1. Athlai JJD Heads

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             Alex             Number 11          StephenZA           Boobidy            Skippos               Heef                   Gazza                        Baxter
           1 Alastair Cook*   D Hughes           Raynard van Tonder  Renshaw            Oshada Fernando       Abid Ali               Bancroft                     S van Zyl
           2 Hassan Azad      D Smith            Joshua Richards     Khawaja            Dhananjaya de Silva   Anshuman Rath          Islam                        P Shaw
           3 Karun Nair       Azhar Ali          Tom Abell           Pucovski           Marnus Labuschagne    Brendan Taylor         Rahul                        Ian Bell
           4 Kedar Jadhav     Rahane             David Bedingham     Stokes             Asad Shafiq           Steve(n) Smith (7/6)   Root (c)                     P van Biljon
           5 Peter Handscomb  K Perera           Shreyas Iyer        Maddinson          Misbah-ul-Haq         Shai Hope              Singh                        O Pope
           6 Matthew Wade+    Dickwella          Anmolpreet Singh    Ferguson           Shane Dowrich         Ravi Bopara (6/7)      Buttler (+)                  B Foakes
           7 Ravi Ashwin      Mahmudullah        Wandile Makwetu +   Nevill             Ryan Higgins          Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2)  Pandya                       W Mulder
           8 Wayne Parnell    Dwaine Pretorious  Gerald Coetzee      Neser              Wriddhiman Saha +     Dominic Bess (5)       Woakes                       L Gregory
           9 Tom Curran       Harmer             Anrich Nortje       Archer             Bilal Asif            Jan Frylinck (4)       Patel                        M Steketee
          10 Tim Southee      Hazlewood          Lakshan Sandakan    Amir               Rashid Khan           Peter Siddle (1)       Robinson                     N Lyon
          11 Imran Khan       Boland             Mustafizur Rahman   Swepson            Kemar Roach           Hasan Ali (3)          Stone                        J Anderson
                                                                                                                                                                          
          12 Liam Livingstone Porter             Rohit Sharma        Ahmed              Dan Worrall           Daryl Mitchell         ten Doeschate                B Brown
          13 Akila Dananjaya  Doolan             Zubayr Hamza        Coulter-Nile       Krishnappa Gowtham    Faheem Ashraf          Seifert (+)                  A Shehzad
          14 Leus du Plooy    Cottrell           Rudi Second         Short              Gabe Bell             Nosaina Pokana         Jamieson                     J Faulkner
          15 Sam Robson       Reece              Jason Smith         Cosgrove           Brendon McCullum      Priyam Garg            Rossouw                      R Clarke
          16 Axar Patel       Iftikhar Ahmed     George Linde        Lynn               Sikandar Raza         Nauman Ali             Hamza                        A Gunaratne
          17 Boyd Rankin      Jomel Warrican     Mohammed Nabi       Johnson            Zak Crawley           Kamran Akmal           Perera                       Faizan Riaz
          18 George Bailey    Craig Ervine       Kagiso Rabada       Peirson            Michael Hogan         Zahir Khan             Wheeler                      T Astle
    
             Captain          Spark              Margrat             Jimmy              Julian                Cabinet                Morgie                       Flem
           1 Keegan Petersen  priyankpanchal     Markram             Rory Burns         M Agarwal             Elgar                  Tom Latham (wk - P/T)        greg hay
           2 Kaushal Silva +  abhimanyu easwaran Burns               Kraigg Brathwaite  Gautam Gambhir        Dhawan                 Shubman Gill                 hamish rutherford
           3 Hashim Amla      hanuma vihari      Jaffer              Theunis de Bruyn   G Balance             Gurkeerat Singh Mann   Pathum Nissanka              kusal mendis
           4 Virat Kohli      ross taylor        Mominul             Sam Hain           M Henriques           Vince                  Babar Azam                   will young
           5 Roshen Silva     shiv chanderpaul   Farhat              Marcus Stoinis     Bairstow              Pandey                 Shimron Hetmyer              henry nicholls
           6 Roston Chase (5) sarfraz ahmed      Verreynne           Dinesh Chandimal   G Maxwell             Carey (+)              Ravindra Jadeja              tom bruc
           7 Mosaddek Hossain cameron green      Marsh               BJ Watling         C de Grandhomme       Moeen Ali              Tim Paine (c/wk)             dinesh karthik
           8 Ben Coad (3)     vernon philander   Cornwall            Sam Curran         D Perera              Sean Abbott            Darren Stevens               doug bracewell
           9 Umesh Yadav (1)  imad wasim         Cummins             Jason Behrendorff  J Mennie              Henry                  Suranga Lakmal               neil wagner
          10 Kyle Abbott (2)  kuldeep yadav      Richardson          Mohammad Abbas     M Wood                Olivier                Kyle Jarvis                  morne morkel
          11 Jack Leach (4)   mohammed siraj     Unadkat             Taijul Islam       S Broad               Bumrah                 Shaheen Shah Afridi          ajaz patel
    
          12 Naseem Shah      riley meredith     Lasith Malinga      Chris Rushworth    Jonathon Trott        Shahbaz Nadeem         Rahmat Shah                  jackson bird
          13 Liton Das +      grant roelofsen    S Lamichhae         Liam Dawson        Graham Onions         Tom Cooper             Farhaan Behardien            matt mcewan
          14 Aditya Sarwate   mohammad nawaz     Usman Salahuddin    Tom Kohler-Cadmore Jeet Raval            Tom Bailey             Nicholas Pooran (wk - P/T)   blair tickner
          15 James Hildreth   cameron gannon     Sinethemba Qeshile  Harry Podmore      Sean Williams         Manoj Tiwary           Mehidy Hasan Miraz           malcolm nofal
          16 Tendai Chatara   anamul haque       Dawlat Zadran       Mayank Markande    Peter Moor            Steven Davies          Adil Rashid                  srikar bharat
          17 Tim David        zulfiqur babar     Parvez Rasool       Dan Lawrence       Abdur Rehman          Ben Sanderson          Aizaz Cheema                 dean brownlie
          18 Abhinav Mukund   michael clarke     Timm van der Gugten Josh Inglis        Sam Whiteman          Jacques Kallis         Matthew Kelly                stephen murdoch
    
             Benny            DVMace09           HoweDan             GAS                MrPrez                Chewie                 Hunter                       Athlai
           1 David Warner     Masood             Tamim               Eddie Moore        Pieter Malan          Jason Roy              FDM Karunaratne              Martin Guptill
           2 Janneman Malan   Harris             Larkin              Sami Aslam         Mohammad Shahzad      Glenn Phillips         DP Sibley                    Murali Vijay
           3 Marques Ackerman Sheldon Jackson    Baba Indrajith      Kane Williamson    Faf du Plessis        Cheteshwar Pujara      D Conway                     Aaron Finch
           4 Shaun Marsh      Sangakkara         AB de Villiers      Darren Bravo       Rassie van der Dussen Haris Sohail (6)       JL Denly                     Younis Khan
           5 Dawid Malan      Pienaar            Mohammad Hafeez     Travis Head        Shakib al Hasan (5)   Fawad Alam             SW Ambris                    Angelo Mathews
           6 Risabh Pant      Lomror             Dane Vilas          Kurtis Patterson   Quinton de Kock (+)   Tom Blundell +         M Rizwan                     Mushfiqur Rahim (+)
           7 MS Dhoni +       Parthiv Patel      Ankit Bawne         Dane Cleaver       Temba Bavuma          Scott Kuggeleijn (4/5) JO Holder                    Shadab Khan
           8 James Pattinson  SOK                Chris Morris        Trent Copeland     Keemo Paul (3)        Dale Steyn (1)         S Muthusamy                  Mitchell Starc
           9 Dane Piedt       Yasir              Keshav Maharaj      Nikita Miller      Craig Overton (1)     Mohammed Shami (3)     TJ Murtagh                   Lockie Ferguson
          10 Chadd Sayers     Junaid             Chris Tremain       Alzarri Joseph     Daryn Dupavillon (4)  Usman Shinwari (2)     I Sharma                     Rangana Herath
          11 Beuran Hendricks Gabriel            Trent Boult         Lungi Ngidi        Dane Paterson (2)     Will Somerville (5/4)  HNA Conway                   Hamish Bennett
    
          12 Yuzvendra Chahal Toby Roland-Jones  Qais Ahmed          Heinrich Klassen   Stephen Cook          Jason Roy              JM Holland                   Jimmy Neesham
          13 Chris Gayle      Jalaj Saxena       Tim Bresnan         Craig Williams     Bjorn Fortuin         Liam Plunkett          SA Northeast                 Andile Phelukwayo
          14 Ryan McLaren     Nicky van den Berg Zohaib Khan         Nandre Burger      Umar Akmal            Kashif Bhatti          RA Reifer                    Cam Fletcher (+)
          15 Colin Ackerman   Jerome Taylor      Eoin Morgan         Tabraiz Shamsi     Imran Tahir           Shivam Dube            F Zaman                      Luke Feldman
          16 Fidel Edwards    Andries Gous       Keith Barker        Jake Weatherald    JP Duminy             Ish Sodhi              A Bramble                    Tushar Imran
          17 David Miller     Cameron White      Bahir Shah          Chemar Holder      Mohammad Asif         Akshay Wadkar          Kevin O'Brien                Mitchell Santner
          18 Shoaib Malik     Jarred Lysaught    Liam Hatcher        Tom Andrews        Yuvraj Singh          Henry Cooper           Lahiru Kumara                Michael Papps
    
    
    
    Credit to Chewie for the Squads ^
     
  2. Athlai JJD Heads

    In no particular order

    Top 8:

    me
    Spark
    Baxter
    Hunter
    Boob
    Captain
    Chewie
    Morgie
     
  3. Captain SSD Dong

    Why are Rabada and Rohit not in Stephen's first XI lol
     
  4. Athlai JJD Heads

    Stephen doesn't appear to want them to start
     
  5. Chewie JA Chewie

    I copied from his thread
     
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  6. StephenZA S Marais

    I was just stopping other people from picking them! I am down as one of the wooden spoon teams, so might as well play the youngsters.
     
  7. Captain SSD Dong

    Have a look at the CWPL, Dan somehow managed to be not terrible and almost made the top 4.

    It's not going to be predictable at all imo.
     
  8. StephenZA S Marais

    That XI is the team that I will probably play in the practise tournament, bringing in the big guns later as I settle on a first XI.
     
  9. Chewie JA Chewie

    Yea that's what I do too, to see if my later picks are any good or not
     
  10. Alex AJ O'Driscoll

    Few selection trials will also be had by my team in the pre season.
     
  11. Phlegm SP Phlegm

    random sim form matters in this stephen, which is part of what makes it so great. the series is won organically by your players and how you use them (and some random luck) instead of by optimising the draft. it's always great when some random bloke shunts it with the bat or something but goes on a hot streak with his offies, earning himself a demotion to #8 and a promotion to main spinner.
     
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  12. GoodAreasShane S Thexton

    CWPL was fun. Gunned it in the preseason trials and then did sweet fuck all when it actually counted. At least Patt0 didn't snap in half I guess
     
  13. Julian BJ Taylor

    No order

    Gemmell
    Number 11
    Julian
    Read
    Morgie
    Baxter
    Chewie
    Hunter
     
  14. Benny BS Read

    Number 11
    Baxter
    Gemmell
    Skippos
    Julian
    Hunter
    Athlai
    Benny

    Howe and Dan if I dont include myself. Not in order^
     
  15. Cribbage RG Cribb

    There are definitely some squads better than others, but at this point I don't think there's anyone who just flat out has no chance of making the eight. Dev's team would perhaps be the closest but he did a decent job saving it, and his team does have a niche in that it has pretty comfortably the best spin duo and as such could be pretty tough to beat at home.

    Injuries, form, canny selection/pitch creation and the new sim factoring in some things I'm not really used to taking into consideration like individual batting and bowling strengths, catching etc, it's really wide open.

    These are what I think the best eight* teams are on paper:

    Baxter
    Number 11
    Hunter
    morgieb
    Captain
    Chewie
    Athlai
    Spark
    Boobidy

    I've included nine because even though Morgie has one of the best teams he's getting the wooden spoon.

    But what's making it so excited for actually simming this season instead of my usual excitement over just seeing who drafts the best team and then losing interest is that even ignoring 'luck', the team that I think is best on paper might not actually be best this season. So many factors to consider that I could just be totally wrong, and I love that.
     
  16. Howe JHF Howe

    Did you try to rate players' catching? Quite surprised by that

    Without wishing to pry too closely, what was the general approach to that?
     
  17. Athlai JJD Heads

    Catching ability is 100% Cribb going to Kamran Akmals stats page and turning him from “wicketkeeper catching ability” to “blind man catching ability”
     
  18. Cribbage RG Cribb

    It more just tries to make sure you actually have regulars to put in catching positions by looking at how often they take catches (when not keeping).

    So if you only take 2% of the catches that happen when you're playing then you're probably not someone who fields in a catching position, and if you draft an entire team full of such players it'll penalise you.
     
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  19. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Yeah I still do the wicket keeping skills largely manually.
     
  20. Baxter MJ Deane

    Pope to catch pigeons all season :wub:
     

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