Cricket World Cup 2011 Fantasy League

Taken a HUGE risk and punted on a couple of Black Caps.

Stupid I know, but I'm in this with my heart too! Come on lads! Captain Courageous Danny boy as my captain, and Macca to get us off to a flyer.



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Def in this with my heart ... Picked my fav guys rather than anything else.

Shit I nearly forgot it was half hour earlier than usual. Made 2 changes and have pretty much totally committed myself to SA. 6 of them in tonight: Morkel, AB Dev, Van Wyk, Duminy, Botha, Peterson ... gone for JP as captain :>

Hedged my bets nicely. Praying for a NZ win but hard for me to be too disappointed either way heh.

* Runs off to change all his players To the MIGHTY KIWI's

What a fucken defend of a low total. Legends

How are those 8 dead players working out for ya Yakky boy!???????

Hehehehehehehehehehe

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So yeah. Fuck my life :> But fuck it - if I had to get screwed, I just got screwed in the best possible way

Heh my options are so limited now. I don't have enough changes left to keep up with you guys by playing safe, so I've decided to whack a couple English players in there and hope they win. To make matters worse Kulasekara isn't playing either sigh. So I've got Strauss, Bell, Dilshan tonight... Dilshan as captain. 3 changes left.

Nuwan Kulsekera misses out for Sri Lanka as Herath -

Unbelievable. Sri Lanka looking amazing.



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lol pretty sick... had ONE lankan in my team, as captain, and he does fkn everything 1 wicket, century, 2 sixes, MOM hahahah

Yep! You're gonna need those points though I think. 3 games left and you've only got 3 changes and 8 dead players. You could feasibly have no players in the final at this rate.



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Yup, without Dilshan last night I could've just thrown in the towel completely heh. Now it makes things interesting at least...
Hopefully Kulasekara comes back for the next game then I might pick three Kiwis. Then I'll definitely have at least 2 players in the final

Yep Dilshan really delivering for you at the back end of the tournament. Good to have the players you've stuck with actually come through. Going to be an interesting finish that's for sure. Timetable works well for me, means I have 5 players in the first semi and can change accordingly for the second one - I'll probably only need to make one change but looking at it now it's a bit hard because they players I should put in are more expensive than the players I should sub out. I'll basically be relying on the players I currently have... for the semis at least.



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Haha I'm exactly first-equal compared to all the Cricinfo celebrities. Ian Chappell and I both on exactly 12884 points

Kind of annoying situation for me - if Murali doesn't play (which I'd prefer) that means obviously he's out of my team... but they'll likely bring in Kulasekara which will give bloody Yak 2 players!



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the term Eggs and Baskets comes to mind...........3 games to go

I am exactly 1300 pts behind the Yak but have 8 active players and 6 changes remaining.

Do I
a) follow my statement of filling my team with MIGHTY KIWI's and ride the wave of unlikely goodness to WC and Fantasy Glory,
b) Spread my picks across all sides for maximum point coverage
c) Just pick the two teams I suspect to be in the finals and go for a 6/5 split and get 2 games of points from all players (if they go through)

I suspect that I am going to need at least 2300 points from 3 games if I am to beat the Yak and SMF


runs off to find basket

Yeah I'm torn between going with the heart - throwing a couple of Black Caps in now and laughing all the way through to the final as well. OR leave things as is (4/5 in this game, 4 in the other SF) and then keep 5 changes til the last game and have a liberal pasting of players from both teams and storm home to the finish line in glory.



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Go with the heart imo :>

TWO HOURS!!!

Time to roll the dice mofo's

Not til after the toss.

Don't think I'm going to make any changes... Just need to hope for Dilshan not to turn in yet another MoM performance. Hopefully Danny gets 3-30 and JD Ryder smokes a ton. Either way I've got a reasonable foot in each camp. Obviously bitter sweet if Murali's not in... heh

:>

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hmmm. Not to open up this type of discussion on this auspicious evening, but has anyone else noticed how the Group Stages Points and Knock Out "Phase" in the points totals for your team are separate (which is fine) but that they dont total in the Total Points column......

just saying

That is weird. Perhaps they only add it on after the whole phase is complete... Which would be pretty redundant given there are only 2 phases in the whole comp heh.



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yeah stupid eh. Especially as the column title reads TOTAL

Lol My points are up over 13299 and I never noticed

Are you sure? I'm assuming it's just the individual total tallies aren't updated until the phase is completed, but our overall total should be correct. It would have to be, because our totals are updated after each game.



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Mine adds up, no idea what you guys on about

Mine is weird, some add up (most actually), but a few don't. Any thoughts?





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Total = Bat+Bwl+Fld+MoM (Phase points are included in these values)

Phase = Total Bat+Bwl+Fld+MoM from the finals only. No need to add these on again. They are included in the Total

Oh sure... excuse my idiocy and buying into Deadmoney's conspiracy bullshit.



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Right.. decided it's pretty stupid to hedge my bets at this point and wait to see who wins this match, when I could just have more active players for the final two games. So, I've subbed in three more Lankans since they're probably going to own us

- Sangakkara. Not actually feeling that good about him, but my closest three oppoonents all have him so I'm kinda forced to
- Malinga. Stoked that you all gave me a free run at having him alone SMF obviously has the best choice with Murali (can't believe you didn't make him captain Nath!) but Malinga on his day will be MoM if he does well.
- Matthews. Wanted another all-rounder, nobody has him either.

No Kulsesakara unforutnately But Dilshan is still captain

Let's gooooo KIWIS

Yeah I've backed Sangakkarra all tournament so threw him in there.

I'd be careful hedging my bets like that mate, hasn't gone well for you so far!



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Think Matthews could be a good choice here Yak.



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I'm doing the exact opposite of hedging my bets heh. I was thinking about putting a couple kiwis in to make sure I'd have players in the final, but that's silly. It's better to give myself the best shot at having 4-5 players in the final So threw it all on the line here with SL :> So if SL lose and Dilshan fails I'm pretty much out (unless Pakistan win and Youis Khan destroys) hehe

Yeah hedging way wrong word sorry. Should say 'basketing' or some such word I can't be bothered thinking about atm.

Zero chance of Younis turning in a competition winning performance. He's a rescue man that could easily get 60-80 off 100 balls, but fairly unlikely to get MoM, and almost certainly won't score a quick hundred.



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Thing is Pakistan have just destroyed with their bowling.



So a 60* could easily get MoM from them if they win heh. Decent chance they bowl first, roll india for 240ish and then a scratchy 60-80 takes it :>

Yeah but I mean he's not going to turn in a Yuvraj/Dilshan type performance and get 550+ points.



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Oh right ya, def not

The frequency of posts throughout the tournament in the two CWC threads we have is an amusing indication of what Fantasy Leagues are good for :>

For the first half of the tournament the Fantasy League thread was utterly dominating. But now Non-FL thread is nearly caught up heh.

Player of the match KC Sangakkara (Sri Lanka). WTF!? SR of 68.35 and only scored 54 with 3 catches. Bullshit.

Yeah that's pretty fucked up 73 runs and a wicket for Dilshan? :s

Dilshan with a SR of 78.49.

Totally fked me, this. Sangakkara only got 80 points without MoM points.....

Pretty fucked off... Was out at dinner last night so attempted to use the mobile site to change in players. Total waste of fucking time, the site fucked me round and logged me out every time I tried to change players, and then when it finally stayed logged in long enough to trade someone in - INDIA wasn't even one of the options to choose players from. At this stage I was pretty enraged.

Phone up my flatmate (about 9:55pm) and got him to log in for me, changed captain to Yuvraj first, then added in Tendulkar and Hafeez. Turns out I missed the transfer deadline by what could only have been seconds...

Hafeez - 78 points
Tendulkar - 75 + 100 (MoM)

263 points that I didn't get which would have put me only 85 behind with the final to play. I'm going to have 8 players in the final but still likely not to have Sehwag or Dilshan so if those two kick off it will have slipped away. So slutted...



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yeah noticed you were cutting it fine. Your captain choice inspired me to change mine which turned out to be meh anyway but at least not double minus for Yurav getting a duck.

Also had to laugh at your cheeky transfer of a low value associate that isnt even playing so you can sub in Tendulkar. wondered if anyone would try that. Probably pay off cause India won so you get two games from Tendulkar. - and the way he is running luck wise he will probably get a double century after he is dropped 4 more times....

Yup 60k for Kumar... haha... Will free up room for my last two transfers too.

So gutted about that last night though. That and the 3 changes I had left at the end of the round robin. I'd be in front have 8 players in the final - would be nearly unbeatable.



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Also didn't matter as he picked up enough points with the ball to cover it.



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And it's down to this. I've stacked my team towards India with Sehwag, Tendulkar, Kohli, Yuvraj and Zaheer. I'm puttig my eggs all in that basket and named King Sachin as captain with the hope that he rises to the occasion and gets MoM with his 100th hundred. Still got my trusty Lankans in there too - if Murali comes good It will all work for me too.

8 players... COME ON!



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Need Zaheer to remove Dilshan and I'll have a chance to haul in these 350 odd points!



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COME ON! DILSHAN OUT... 8 POINTS!



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what a fucking powerplay

What an innings.



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FUCK OFF DILSHAN



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Pretty interesting now - cos even if SL win it's likely that Jayawardene will get MoM. If that's the case I'd get about 435 points from the first innings alone. This is going to be so tight Yak!



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Faaaaaaaaark Sachin out to Malinga.... Now shit gets hard for me.

:/

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Malinga wickets and Dhoni promoting himself has meant I'm all but fucked. Need Murali to get 1 of these 2 out to have a hope.



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Just got home... fuck such a close finish

ship it

Details?



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06-0122-0158463-000
L J Stanford

US$25 equivalent whatever that is..

or can ship to 'Yaksha' on pokerstars or full tilt if that's easy :>

Will transfer on Wed - just did calculation and it's ~$33.00

Don't have poker accounts!



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Nice work Yak.....

WIll transfer by TILT today.

stupid fantasy bs...

fkn rigged, will ship across today.

Shipped

Sorry for delay have been off grid somewhat.

Shipped via NZ bank account.



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