How to keep winning in Fantasy Cricket

Understand the game

As basic as it sounds, one cannot discount this step to start with. Different fantasy cricket league apps would be having different rules and if one has to ace at this art, one has to keep the pointing and penalizing system at the tip of their tongue. Not only would it help during the making of a team for the first time but also amidst the repeated changes. As the season progresses, a player would be more often than not get muddled in gauging the strengths, weaknesses, and forms of various players to replace the non-performing ones. Hence, one should ensure that the rules of the game should be well indoctrinated in the mind before making the minutest of the decision. Fortunately, most of the fantasy cricket applications have a similar pointing system and deduction points that make it easy for all and sundry to get acquainted with them as fast as possible.

Get the BIG names

Alright, this is a no-brainer. This serves three major purposes for the player. Firstly, it guarantees participation for the players in your team. While how one player would perform on a given day is anyone’s guess, but taking the mega stars assures points (1, or 2 depending on the game) for participating to begin with. Something is better than nothing, hence, one should always look to keep the big names regardless of their form. And one never knows how form would return as they say – “Form is temporary… Class is permanent”. Apart from the participatory points being assured, the big names are also the difference makers for every side. No can argue that a Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers have more chances of scoring and more often than not, in more matches, compared to other players in that position. Hence, apart from their regular appearances, a team’s major stars are also expected to give the most number of points and consistently. Thirdly, it helps one keep his or her pace with everyone else. No one plays a fantasy cricket game to make personal records but to compete with others and keeping major players in the side has been the most common practice among all the players. Hence, this strategy helps a player to remain in touching distance of his competitors as chances are everyone will have the same few big names in their time.

Research for the differentials – value for money players

Honestly, there weren’t much “skills” required so far, for the first two steps are expected to be religiously followed by one and all. Hence, the winner in the long run in has to do something different to outdo others, right? This is the differential. Anyone trying to excel in the fantasy cricket game has to know the players, the leagues, and the competitions like the back of their hand, and the better one knows the better are their chances of making the difference. An average audience is more or less always informed about the current form of an individual and picks their teams accordingly, but an ardent follower knows that the devil lies in the details. Merely knowing the form of players would mean one is relying on chances, but knowing a player’s weakness against particular opponents, his or her record in particular venues, changes something as intangible as ‘chance’ into ‘probability’, which can be measured. In T20Is especially, where the playing eleven is hacked and chopped very often, knowing the not-so-big players helps a lot. In fantasy cricket league apps like LeagueAdda, when your budget is limited, knowing the value for money players would eventually make a huge difference. A team is made of eleven players and there would be many games where the stalwarts would depend on the utility players to get the job done. It is here that the all-rounders come into play, who would more or less give above average points with their holistic displays. However, only an expert would know how likely are they to get both the ball and the bat in a match and to what effect.

Captain material

Despite the captain’s bonus points sounding more like a gamble, one can still increase the chances of scoring high consistently with the right picks. The concept is easy - try and pick the maximum point getter of the week as your captain and people more often than not got for the star batsmen, for they are more than likely to get the big hits. However, in some apps it is the bowler who has been allotted the most points for taking wickets like in League Adda for example, and therefore a side’s strike bowlers should be the best captain picks in T20Is. In the longer formats like ODIs and Tests, while a set of players combine to put pressure on the batsmen, another set comes in to take them out of the equation. In some cases, the all-rounder plays the biggest role with others just supporting like Rashid Khan for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Hence, it is essential to have the right knowledge of what whose role is in the team and choosing the right captain is often seen as the biggest edge a winner has over the others.