Season 2: First Class Shield (Discussion Thread)

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Round 2 Live Scores - Day 1/4

SA Wombats 503 vs Q Koalas 54
V Possums 341 vs NT Kangaroos 232
WA Swans -18 vs NSW Platypuses 223
T Devils 75 vs ACT Cockatoos 299


Number of players playing:
NT Kangaroos 10
NSW Platypuses 12
WA Swans 4
SA Wombats 10
T Devils 5
ACT Cockatoos 4
V Possums 11
Q Koalas 8
Free Agents 2

[Nige]

Play Jake Weatherald and he gets a duck, drop him and he gets a ton.  ::)

[Scrads]

Play Jake Weatherald and he gets a duck, drop him and he gets a ton.  ::)

Don't captain Fergy and he gets a ton, captain him and he gets a duck ::)

[PowerBug]

Sayers! Bear! Wildermuth! Gg Koalas


Also I wanted to put up the efficiency numbers to see exactly how well everyone's team selection goes. Throughout that Matador Cup without knowing exact numbers the Possums were horrendous and only one change each GW probably would've seen them win the whole thing.

[Scrads]

I'll be up there. Jake Lehmann not in my selected team and last week it was Kurtis Patterson haha.

[Torpedo10]

Maddo saving us!

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Day 2 Stumps

SA Wombats 988 vs Q Koalas 165
V Possums 474 vs NT Kangaroos 329
WA Swans 328 vs NSW Platypuses 422
T Devils 299 vs ACT Cockatoos 469

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Day 3 Live Scores

SA Wombats 1433 vs Q Koalas 156
V Possums 627 vs NT Kangaroos 339
WA Swans 401 vs NSW Platypuses 672
T Devils 429 vs ACT Cockatoos 618

So yeah, having a blinder...

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Day 3 Stumps

SA Wombats 1433 vs Q Koalas 156
V Possums 627 vs NT Kangaroos 353
WA Swans 401 vs NSW Platypuses 726
T Devils 472 vs ACT Cockatoos 622

With only 93 runs left in the NSW/WA game I can't see the results changing from where they are.

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Round 2 Results - Wombats, Platypuses go huge; Swans on struggle street
SA Wombats 1448 defeated Q Koalas 166
Best SA: Sayers (442 x2 = 884), Bailey (198), White (174)
Best QLD: George (82)

V Possums 637 defeated NT Kangaroos 402
Best VIC: Weatherald (185) [not named], Turner (158) [not named], Tremain (123 x2 = 246)
Best NT: Behrendorff (151), Maxwell (141) [not named], Wade (53 x2 = 106)

WA Swans 361 defeated by NSW Platypuses 938
Best WA: Maddinson (146 x2 = 292)
Best NSW: Agar (436), Somerville (343) [not named], O'Keefe (297), Lehmann (199) [not named]

T Devils 468 defeated by ACT Cockatoos 622
Best TAS: Worrall (136), Bird (105), Henriques (69 x2 = 138)
Best ACT: Holland (215), Boland (157 x2 = 314)

Boy oh boy what a round! How my Wombats put up that kind of score I don't know, and the Platypuses weren't far behind when you look at who they didn't name! The Possums did the job over NT, and ACT with 4 players knocked off the Devils who only had 5. Looking like a long season for the Swans, who with 4 players will be relying on Maddinson a lot, although Cummins and maybe Conway could find themselves games soon to ease some pain.


Efficiency Rating Round 2
NT Kangaroos   58.18
NSW Platypuses   49.60
WA Swans   97.04
SA Wombats   95.45
T Devils   87.48
ACT Cockatoos   91.20
V Possums   68.27
Q Koalas   49.55

Some very interesting things here. WA and ACT would've done better NOT naming some players, seeing as both only had 4 and some scored minus for each team. NSW COULD'VE put up a mammoth 1891 this week, if everything went right!

Efficiency Rating Season
SA Wombats 92.40
ACT Cockatoos 88.68
WA Swans 83.84
T Devils 80.45
V Possums 73.86
Q Koalas 73.49
NT Kangaroos 67.55
NSW Platypuses 54.56

I'll get the screen grab of the ladders from next round, this is where we sit after 2 rounds :)                  
Position   Team   P   W   D   L   F   A   %   Pts
1   SA Wombats   2   2   0   0   2517   771   326.459   8
2   ACT Cockatoos   2   2   0   0   1591   1230   129.350   8
3   T Devils   2   1   0   1   1292   1174   110.051   4
4   NSW Platypuses   2   1   0   1   1543   1430   107.902   4
5   V Possums   2   1   0   1   1399   1371   102.042   4
6   Q Koalas   2   1   0   1   1095   2118   51.700   4
7   NT Kangaroos   2   0   0   2   1072   1566   68.455   0
8   WA Swans   2   0   0   2   913   1762   51.816   0

[Scrads]

Considering I changed the captaincy from Agar (who I was sick of underperforming) to Fergy (who was in serious form)! As you can see by my abysmal efficiency, I haven't been getting much right this season! Haha

[nrich102]

Hurts when the captain scores -9

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There's a change being made to the coaching ranks. I never really planned to have a team and only took over because at the time there was no interest, and recently both Koop and fantTCfool approached me saying they wanted to get involved. After speaking to them both, they've agreed on Koop to be the new coach of the SA Wombats, and fanTCfool will be his assistant coach.

I'll go back to a neutral role so I can cover for any weekly absences without any potential bias. The 3rd Round for the Shield is only a few days away, squads will be out soonish I reckon and I'll try to post them here if I get a chance (I have my last exam on the day the round starts). Also the T20 Auction will be approaching soon, will look at probably a start in the last weekend in November at this stage, depends how detailed the squads are. I'll take a closer look at that in a week.

But for now, welcome to Koop and fTC :D

[BratPack]

Welcome coaches who were favored by PB rigging the game  :P

[fanTCfool]

Keen to be involved and working with the man El Kopo!
I do like my double D's (;)) and the man Chadd Sayers may soon top the list looking at the two monster scores to date!