Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Midwest Cricket Fantasy-06

We introduced the Midwest Cricket Fantasy League for the playoffs and had a pretty decent rate of success. The process involved chosing 11 players from div1/div2 and using the MVP system to calculate the points, based on the players performances in the games. A total of three players were allowed to be changed per week from the roster.

Since, this was the first year, the entire points calculation and updating the various teams were done manually. We plan to automate it by next year.

I would like to thank Vijay P, Vijay G from Purdue, Ram from Eagles, desi_babu and Sajid Patel for all their help. The job involved getting all the points per person on a weekly basis, updating the various teams, building up and updating web pages for the various teams and uploading it to the website.

The winner of Midwest Fantasy League-06 is Sajid Patel with 181 points. The key to being the winner is to be able to predict who the week's top performers would be and effectively use the constraints of changing only three players in the roster per week , which Sajid did very well. Desi_babu ended up with 160 points followed closely by Vijay G with 154 points.

I would like to thank everybody who participated in such a short notice. We plan to have the Fantasy League version for 07 starting with the regular season games. See you all then and have a wonderful off-season.

For a complete list of teams, the total points, the rosters and the player changes, please visit the Fantast 06 homepage