County Cricket 2006 Prediction League

[Collyisamackem]

I don't see why not, being so early in the competition. I suggest we allow the change but set a definitive deadline, beyond which it will just have to be unfortunate.

[adamberry]

Yeah, I'd agree with that, maybe set a deadline of the end of May(?) after which no changes can be made.

[Vrock]

The end of May sounds good to me, if you do spot that any of your players are injured/will not play for the whole season then post your required edit and I will sort that for you.

[adamberry]

(i) Winner of the County Championship - Sussex
(ii) Who will be relegated from CC1 - Middlesex, Nottinghamshire
(iii) Who will be promoted from CC2 - Surrey, Worcestershire
(iv) Who will finish with the wooden spoon in CC2 - Somerset
(v) Who will win the National League (40-40) - Essex
(vi) Who will be relegated from NL1 (40-40) - Durham, Middlesex and Glamorgan (p/o)
(vii) Who will be promoted from NL2 (40-40) - Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Hampshire (p/o)
(viii) Who will finish with the wooden spoon in the National League - Yorkshire
(ix) Who will win the C&G Trophy - Sussex
(x) Who will win the 20:20 - Leicestershire
(xi) Who will have the highest County Championship batting average (qualification of over 10 innings) - Mark Ramprakash 105.28
(xii) Who will make the highest individual score of the season - Justin Langer (Somerset) - 342
(xiii) Who will score the quickest century in all competitions of the season (not including Ealham's of course) - Justin Kemp - 56 balls for Kent v Durham at Stockton (14th June)
(xiv) Who will have the lowest bowling average (qualification of over 20 wickets) - Naved-ul-Hasan (35 @ 16.71)
(xv) Who will take the most wickets across all competitions - Mushtaq Ahmed (102)

As it's Vrock's competition I'll leave the scoring system up to him.

[Vrock]

Thank you very much Adam for gathering the correct results, it is much appreciated.

Here's a Vrock special of tally charts who got what right and point in brackets (dependant upon how many answers were correct for multi-choice questions)

(i) Adam (1)
(ii) Navdeep (1)
(iii) Adam (1), Colly (1), Vrock (1), CPCT (1), Moss (1), Navdeep (1), Notts Exile (2), greg (2) bellum_851 (2)
(iv) CPCT (1)
(v) Adam (1), Colly (1), Vrock (1), CPCT (1)
(vi) Adam (2), CPCT (1), Moss (1), Notts Exile (2), greg (2), bellum_851 (2)
(vii) Adam (1), Colly (2), Vrock (2), CPCT (3), Moss (1), Navdeep (1), Notts Exile (2), greg (1), bellum_851 (1)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)
(xi) Vrock (1), bellum_851 (1)
(xii)
(xiii) Navdeep (1)
(xiv)
(xv) Vrock (1), CPCT (1)

Now using my extremely fast calculations skills of counting for each member one by one I came up with the following:

adamberry: 6 points
Collyisamackem: 4 points
Vrock: 6 points
cantplaycantalk: 8 points
Moss: 3 points
Navdeep: 4 points
Notts Exile: 6 points
greg: 5 points
bellum_851: 6 points

Well done CPCT with your very fine victory by an excellent 2 point margin.

To sort the best from the rest we shall use the tie-break question to give a good old top 10[-1]!

(I have just realised it's the only one Adam missed off, just to add, Mark Pettini's 23 ball century (as well as another one from a Middlesex player I think it was) will be discounted due to the rather silly circumstances upon which they were gained.)

Anyway, the highest score (with a few, on the day, around this figure) was 177 by the Foxes in the final.

The Rankings:

CPCT
Vrock
Adam
Notts Exile
bellum_851
greg
Colly
Navdeep
Moss

Sorry, Moss, you pick up the wooden spoon/hammer in the form of a very poor diagram:

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[adamberry]

Originally Posted by Vrock

just to add, Mark Pettini's 23 ball century (as well as another one from a Middlesex player I think it was) will be discounted due to the rather silly circumstances upon which they were gained.)

To be fair, I just took the information of the Walter Lawrence Trophy website, so I didn't get to choose if I thought one of the centuries was silly...

My congrats to cantplaycantalk also.

[Moss]

Originally Posted by Vrock

Sorry, Moss, you pick up the wooden spoon/hammer in the form of a very poor diagram:

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Bum.

At least I got three points - better than 0.

(Ever the optimist...)