NSSports Cricket Discussion Thread (OOC)

[The Plough Islands]

I have no issue with that either - should avoid anomalies like the Kiaser Colonies or Elejamie dropping down to candidate status for missing a season.

After being well and truly bitten by the cricket bug (and having Liventia in his infinite patience explain how xkoranate works to me ), I was thinking of hosting a One-Day International tri-series or potentially a four-way series in the Plough Islands at some point soon - just a quick double round-robin with a final and nice virtual trophy for the winner to take home.
I'd be looking to run this just after MD18 in the Test series (so mid-August) - any potential takers?

[Ethane]

I have no issue with that either - should avoid anomalies like the Kiaser Colonies or Elejamie dropping down to candidate status for missing a season.

After being well and truly bitten by the cricket bug (and having Liventia in his infinite patience explain how xkoranate works to me ), I was thinking of hosting a One-Day International tri-series or potentially a four-way series in the Plough Islands at some point soon - just a quick double round-robin with a final and nice virtual trophy for the winner to take home.
I'd be looking to run this just after MD18 in the Test series (so mid-August) - any potential takers?

I would be interested in participating in it. I know I haven't RPd much so far but that would fall at a favourable time for me.

[Darmen]

Put me down as interested for an ODI series.

[Damukuni]

Sorry the CLT20's been late in coming. It will be done "soon."

[Damukuni]

Did I say CLT20 would be done "soon"? If you check the Domestic Cricket Thread you'll see the CLT20 Group Stage is now posted! Knockouts will happen tonight.

[Lisander]

I hope Linville can do something good this season, since I haven't remembered to work on ProHit.

[Darmen]

Knockouts will happen tonight.

*Yawns* It's been a long night, hasn't it?

[Damukuni]

Knockouts will happen tonight.

*Yawns* It's been a long night, hasn't it?

You might say it's been a "dark night of the soul"...

Working on it now.

[Apox]

Announcing...

The Beta Version of
APOXBALLER
Here Be The Link

So, over the last few seasons of GCF Test Cricket, we've been noticing that RedBaller in it's current form has a few eccentricities (large fourth innings run chases, bold declarations, occasionally very slow run rates) and with TBI not active at the moment to undergo development, I've given it a bit of an overhaul, using the basis of TBI's formulae.

A new feature added to this scorinator is the ability to play four or five day games (which some had been interested in for playing domestic first-class cricket). In the future, I might add in the ability to specific three or even two day games (based off the over numbers for those formats), but this is not currently supported.

I've tried to fix any mistakes in copying across and editing formulae, but it may still occasionally break, so I've added in a "bug reports" section in the main scorinator page. If it does break, please try to write what happened in there and I will take a look. Just re-scorinate your game and take the new score if this is the case. Additionally, I should have locked various sections of the sheet so only I can edit them (to avoid accidental breakages occurring), so it shouldn't be immediately necessary to save a copy of ApoxBaller, especially as further significant updates may occur.

Let me know how you get on using it!

[Ko-oren]

I downloaded my copy of Apoxballer (tm).

What's your advice on ranks? Should the home and away rank always average 100? What happens if the average isn't 100? What are some home/away ratios that indicate how much stronger one team is than the other?

[Apox]

It has been brought to my attention that the ranking point for myself and Darmen were a little bit high in the update on Matchday 7, my rank points should have been 3458 not 3462 while Darmen's rank points should have been 4085 not 4062.

As Matchday 8 has been scorinated now, I'm reluctant to go back and scorinate games, especially as the difference in ranking points are so small. Therefore, I offer my sincere apologies to Darmen, Ko-oren and The Plough Islands for this minor mix up and the correct rankings will be used for future matchdays for myself and Darmen. I don't know where these occasional minor inaccuracies in rank come from but I am continuing to work out why they keep popping up. It isn't a systematic error as it only seems to happen to some teams when I update.

[Pratapgadh]

Was there an ODI tournament before?

[Darmen]

Was there an ODI tournament before?

There was an ODI World Cup a long time ago (2011/2012?) and a handful of quadrangulars and pentangulars (quintangulars?) since then. For the most part though, we've generally focused on Test and T20 cricket due to their popularity.

[Damukuni]

Was there an ODI tournament before?

There was an ODI World Cup a long time ago (2011/2012?) and a handful of quadrangulars and pentangulars (quintangulars?) since then. For the most part though, we've generally focused on Test and T20 cricket due to their popularity.

On top of these revelations, we may see a relaunch reorganization total reboot re-do of the International Cricket Slam, an independent 50-over cup that I was about to get off the ground before life happened and my frequency on NS Sport dropped significantly...

On that note, who could be ready to do another CLT20 (that’s domestic Twenty20’s champions league) in, say, 2 weeks?

[Darmen]

On that note, who could be ready to do another CLT20 (that’s domestic Twenty20’s champions league) in, say, 2 weeks?

I've been ready since January

[Damukuni]

Geez, I wrote about 2 weeks ago... but no official announcement was made.

You now have 7 days to finish up your domestic T20 leagues before the CLT20, the cutoff will be 6:30 PM ET (22:30 UTC) on 31st March, 2019.

[Apox]

Just announcing here what was posted in Discord earlier.

Current plan is that I will run the next Test season starting around mid-October running until December most likely. I will put up the Scheduling thread in a couple of weeks. The plan this season will be similar to the last one, in that there will be a Test table and all games in the season will contribute to it, but there will be no "Test championship" at the end of the season. All other rules will remain broadly the same.

[Apox]

Well somehow a month and a half has gone by with no word on the next Test season - my apologies for that.

Life has been busy for me recently and my priorities on here seem to have been elsewhere. This was discussed between Liventia and myself and the current plan is to push back the season to early 2020 (probably January time) with Liventia and myself sharing hosting responsibilities.

[The Plough Islands]

Well somehow a month and a half has gone by with no word on the next Test season - my apologies for that.

Life has been busy for me recently and my priorities on here seem to have been elsewhere. This was discussed between Liventia and myself and the current plan is to push back the season to early 2020 (probably January time) with Liventia and myself sharing hosting responsibilities.

Thanks for the heads up, no need to apologise for real life getting in the way - in all honesty, one Test season a year works well for me ICly so it works out See everyone in 2020!

[Pratapgadh]

Well somehow a month and a half has gone by with no word on the next Test season - my apologies for that.

Life has been busy for me recently and my priorities on here seem to have been elsewhere. This was discussed between Liventia and myself and the current plan is to push back the season to early 2020 (probably January time) with Liventia and myself sharing hosting responsibilities.

Shit, but that's alright. I have more time to prepare now.

[Liventia]

Well somehow a month and a half has gone by with no word on the next Test season - my apologies for that.

Life has been busy for me recently and my priorities on here seem to have been elsewhere. This was discussed between Liventia and myself and the current plan is to push back the season to early 2020 (probably January time) with Liventia and myself sharing hosting responsibilities.

Shit, but that's alright. I have more time to prepare now.

There's nothing stopping anyone from running their own small T20/ODI/Test tour; it just would have no effect on the official rankings.

[Lisander]

There's nothing stopping anyone from running their own small T20/ODI/Test tour; it just would have no effect on the official rankings.

If it's small enough, wouldn't be interesting to have an all-year-round Test Season? We could have Tests when needed, like in football friendlies, and the rankings could be updated a match at time.

[Pratapgadh]

There's nothing stopping anyone from running their own small T20/ODI/Test tour; it just would have no effect on the official rankings.

If it's small enough, wouldn't be interesting to have an all-year-round Test Season? We could have Tests when needed, like in football friendlies, and the rankings could be updated a match at time.

That is actually a great idea. Then my players won't become too old to play.

[The Plough Islands]

It'd be nice to reflect real life more, but there's a few advantages to having the Tests all in one relatively short period - it means a lot of people will simultaneously have an interest in RPing, which makes finding opponents a lot easier. It's also more newbie-friendly - if there wasn't the schedule and deadlines and spaces to fill I suspect people would fall back on playing the same teams again and again and arranging fixtures through other communication channels, rather than just posting on the thread.

[Liventia]

It'd be nice to reflect real life more, but there's a few advantages to having the Tests all in one relatively short period - it means a lot of people will simultaneously have an interest in RPing, which makes finding opponents a lot easier. It's also more newbie-friendly - if there wasn't the schedule and deadlines and spaces to fill I suspect people would fall back on playing the same teams again and again and arranging fixtures through other communication channels, rather than just posting on the thread.

This is the way I lean too; I'm not convinced about letting all user-run/scorinated matches count towards rankings.