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What is Fantasy Cricket?
Fantasy cricket is amongst the most popular methods in the world to be a part of the action being played out on the field of play. It allows you to play fantasy manager and choose sets of mixed teams comprising players who you think will perform well. Fantasy Cricket is the ultimate test of your selection skills. If you think you know your Cricket, Fantasy Cricket is the place to put this knowledge on the line against thousands of similar thinking fantasy managers from around the world. It’s thoughtful, it’s competitive and very involving. It’s the next best thing to managing a cricket team in the real world.
What is Pick'em Fantasy Cricket?
It's a click and play game from Cricinfo Fantasy cricket in which you take a calculated punt on who will emerge the winner in a contest between two teams and score points for getting it right. At the end of a Pick 'em game, typically running through the duration of a multi-match and multi-team tournament like the IPL, the player with the most points is declared the winner. In the case of a tie for the top spot, other variables - as per the rules of the game - are considered to arrive at the ultimate Pick 'em winner.
Why should I play?
You should play because you know your cricket and are confident enough to show this off to the world. Apart from that, you should also play because it’s a fun way to be part of the action. (Yes, we already said that but it’s worth repeating.) Perhaps most of all, you should play Fantasy Cricket because it makes following your star players a lot more fun
I have created a team, now what?
After you create a team, you wait for the significance of what you’ve just embarked upon to sink in. Then, if you have enough time, you go back and double check your fantasy team. Also, you keep an eye on the series home page. After that, you don’t take your eye off the ball by continuing to keep an eye on the furiously updated series home page. Make sure you do all this before the official cut off time specified in the game. Once the cut off time has passed, you sit back and hope your fantasy team justifies the faith you’ve shown in them. Finally, enjoy.
What happens at the end of the day?
At the end of the day, a set of complex tools in the background collate the points of each of the thousands of teams that were part of the day’s play and update the fantasy scores for each manager’s team. This tends to take a few minutes. Once this is done, you come by and take a look-see at where you stand compared to the other fantasy teams. Hopefully, on more days than not, you’ll like what you see. During a game, it’s best not to make any transfers or tamper too much with what you have. Much like in the real world, when a match is in progress, it’s best to stick with what’s done and hope for the best.
Fantasy Leagues
A fantasy league is what you create when you want to play within a closed group of people and see how the league you have created is performing against other similarly jigged groups. A fantasy league is ranked based on how the league member teams are performing, so it helps to have a lot of good fantasy players in your league in order to ensure that your league does better than other leagues. Confused? The rules simplify all such matters … and then some.
Scoring rules
If you don’t read the rules, you’ll end up doing a whole bunch of stuff that won’t help your fantasy team’s cause. What do we mean by this? Read the rules and everything about fantasy cricket, scoring, transfers and cut off times will make a lot more sense.
What should I keep an eye out for?
The rules. The series home page. Cut off times. Free transfer windows. Players that the top performing teams have included in their sides. And any improvements that you feel the site deserves, so you can write in and keep us on our toes.
How can I get better at Fantasy Cricket?
Put simply, by playing more of it. By reading up more on cricket at our site (of course). By choosing your Trump Players wisely. By using the Random Team Generator when you need a start in picking your team. By being frugal with your transfers. And by making it a point to ring in your changes before the official cut-off times specified. In time, we’ll keep striving to put together other applications and other statistical tools to help you make even better decisions.
What should I do during the day's play?
Hope for the best from all the players involved, irrespective of which particular team they belong to. Fantasy regulars will tell you that the good thing about this form of cricket is you don’t become a partisan supporter. And that means fantasy players tend to enjoy the game more, minus the stress of rooting for one particular team. In other words, the most enjoyable thing to do during the day’s play is cheer players from both sides because they happen to be in your side.
What should I do in-between the games?
Keep a close eye on the series home page. This is where you’ll get news about any player injuries, changes to the squad, playing conditions and all the other variables that play a role in what develops. Our advise is to make it a point to check the series home page at least once a day. It’s what we do. (After all, we’re fantasy managers too.)
How can I help?
You can help by keeping an eye out for any things you feel we can do better. In fact, many of our regular players have already been very helpful with their feedback, suggestions and alerts that go a long way in helping us improve. The way we see it, fantasy cricket belongs to all of us. Let’s all work together to make it better. Thank you.
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