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CRICKET MANAGER 2k16
This is first of its kind Cricket Management game in PC.
Match type: List A (50 overs)
No of teams: 10
History
The Cricket Manager 2k16(Formerly 2k15) was launched on 11th April, 2015 under the chairmanship of @PCA and simulation managed by @SixerBoy11 . After the first successful season, there was some sort of reshuffle in players and managers. Second season only consisted of nine teams whilst the other three and upcoming consist of ten. Though SixerBoy11 had a busy life, he managed to work for the league till the third season. After three successive seasons, the league was kept on hold due to SixerBoy11's inactivity. After two and a half months it was re-opened under the simulation of @RAGHU . On February 24, 2016 @PCA bid adieu to the PlanetCricket forums, handing over the league to Na Maloom Afraad and AB the smasher.
Rules for the secret bid:
- Manager has to bid for atleast one player in each round
- Manager can bid for maximum of six players in each round
- If the bid amount is up to $100,000, then the bid amount should be in the multiples of 10,000 example
- (50k,60k,...,100k)
- If the bid amount is between 100,000 and 1,000,000 then the bid amount should be in the multiples of 50,000 example (150k,200k,250k,300k,…..1000k)
- If the bid amount is greater than 1,000,000 then the bid amount should be in the multiples of 0.1 million example (1 mil, 1.1, 1.2, … etc.)
- If the bid is not successful, then the bid amount would be return back to the team’s account.
- If more than one team bid for a player for the same amount, then the team which sends their bid at the earliest will get that player.
- Minimum Bid Amount for any player is $50,000
Rules for submitting the secret bid:
- Secret bid will be sent across to me by the managers through Personal Messages (not visitor messages).
- The PM should contain the player they are bidding and their respective bidding amounts.
- Manager has to send the PM for one round starting from round 1, there will be separte secret bids for each round.
- The deadline for submitting the secret bids would be 36 hrs from the time, a round begins.
Season 4 Changes:
1. Player Retention:
Each team can retain maximum of 2 players with the option of retaining two more players in the Secret Bidding using Right to match card.
2. Right to match card:
Once the secret bidding results are announced, teams have an option of using Right to match card to retain their existing players for the price which they sold for in the Secret Bidding. The right to match card decision needs to posted in the thread within 24 hours after the announcement of the result.Right to match card cannot be used in the last round of the
secret bidding. Each team can maximum use two right to match cards.
3. Betting:
Betting value has been increased.If you win the bet you will get $400,000 and if you lose the bet you will lose just $100,000.
4. TV Channel:
Each team can have their own tv channel. TV channel helps to increase your number of fans. Every day you will get 1000 fans for sharing youtube videos related to your team.
5. Newspaper:
Each team can have their own newspaper. Newspaper helps to increase your number of fans. At the end of the match you will get (2000 or 4000 or 6000) depending on your design/content of the newspaper.
6. Tweets:
Comments for your match will be considered as tweets. Tweet helps to increase your number of fans. Tweets posted at the end of your match will get (500 or 1000 or 1500) fans depending on the content of the tweet.
7. Website:
Website helps to increase your number of fans. At the mid season you will get (2000 or 4000 or 7000 or 10,000) fans depending on the design/content of your website. At the end of season you will get another (2000 or 4000 or 7000 or 10,000) fans depending on the design/content of your website.
8. Stadium Upgrade:
Previously stadium upgrade costs 10 Million. Now its been reduced to 5 Million. As Kolkata had upgraded their stadium in the previous edition by paying 10 Million their seating capacity has been increased to 30,000. Other teams have seating capacity of 10,000. Stadium should be upgraded at the beginning of the season and it can be done only once in a season.
9. Ticket Revenue:
Ticket revenue depends on number of fans you have before your home match. 20% of your fans will come and watch the match. For example, if you have 50,000 fans before your home match then 5000 fans will come and watch the match. Ticket price costs $100.
10. Merchandise:
Merchandise sales depends on your number of fans gained in Season 4. You can make a $10 profit from each fan.
For example if you have 100,000 fans in Season 4 then your merchandise profit would be 10 Million.
11. Insurance cost is scrapped and there will be no rain affected matches.
Things that remain same as last season
Squad Rules:
New Players:
Mark Waugh, Michael Bevan, Andrew Symonds, Len Hutton, Fred Trueman, Graeme Pollock, Alland Donald, Sunil Gavaskar, Javagal Srinath, Courtney Walsh, Michael Holding, Dennis Lillee, Greg Chappell, Waqar Younis and Inzamam ul haq are some of the new players for Season 4. Complete list will be announced before the beginning of Secret bidding.
Season 4 Prizes:
Tournament Prizes:
1. Winners - 8 Million
2. Runers up - 6 Million
3. Third place - 5 Million
4. Fourth Place - 4 Million
5. Fifth Place - 3.5 Million
6. Sixth Place - 3.5 Million
7. Seventh Place -3 Million
8. Eigth Place - 3 Million
9. Ninth Place - 2.5 Million
10. Tenth place - 2.5 Million
Bonus Prizes:
Team Performance:
Other Prizes:
1. Best Website - 2 Million
2. Best Newspaper design - 2 Million
3. Most profitable team in the betting - 2 Million
1. Player Retention:
Each team can retain maximum of 2 players with the option of retaining two more players in the Secret Bidding using Right to match card.
2. Right to match card:
Once the secret bidding results are announced, teams have an option of using Right to match card to retain their existing players for the price which they sold for in the Secret Bidding. The right to match card decision needs to posted in the thread within 24 hours after the announcement of the result.Right to match card cannot be used in the last round of the
secret bidding. Each team can maximum use two right to match cards.
3. Betting:
Betting value has been increased.If you win the bet you will get $400,000 and if you lose the bet you will lose just $100,000.
4. TV Channel:
Each team can have their own tv channel. TV channel helps to increase your number of fans. Every day you will get 1000 fans for sharing youtube videos related to your team.
5. Newspaper:
Each team can have their own newspaper. Newspaper helps to increase your number of fans. At the end of the match you will get (2000 or 4000 or 6000) depending on your design/content of the newspaper.
6. Tweets:
Comments for your match will be considered as tweets. Tweet helps to increase your number of fans. Tweets posted at the end of your match will get (500 or 1000 or 1500) fans depending on the content of the tweet.
7. Website:
Website helps to increase your number of fans. At the mid season you will get (2000 or 4000 or 7000 or 10,000) fans depending on the design/content of your website. At the end of season you will get another (2000 or 4000 or 7000 or 10,000) fans depending on the design/content of your website.
8. Stadium Upgrade:
Previously stadium upgrade costs 10 Million. Now its been reduced to 5 Million. As Kolkata had upgraded their stadium in the previous edition by paying 10 Million their seating capacity has been increased to 30,000. Other teams have seating capacity of 10,000. Stadium should be upgraded at the beginning of the season and it can be done only once in a season.
9. Ticket Revenue:
Ticket revenue depends on number of fans you have before your home match. 20% of your fans will come and watch the match. For example, if you have 50,000 fans before your home match then 5000 fans will come and watch the match. Ticket price costs $100.
10. Merchandise:
Merchandise sales depends on your number of fans gained in Season 4. You can make a $10 profit from each fan.
For example if you have 100,000 fans in Season 4 then your merchandise profit would be 10 Million.
11. Insurance cost is scrapped and there will be no rain affected matches.
Things that remain same as last season
- Home team will have the option of choosing the pitch type (Excellent or normal or poor).
- Main sponsorship money depends on your performance and number of fans at the end of previous season (season 3).
- For Apparell sponsorship teams can either go for 1 Million fixed or 200,000 performance bonus for each win in season 2 (9 league + 1 playoff + 1 final).
- Betting will happen for real life matches. All kinds of real life matches will be available for betting. Domestic, international, test, odi, t20 etc.
- Secret bidding rules have not changed much. I will post the separate rules before the beginning of the Secret Bidding.
Squad Rules:
- Each team should have minimum of 15 players and maximum of 18 players.
- Each player in your squad needs to play at least one match before the end of leage stage.
New Players:
Mark Waugh, Michael Bevan, Andrew Symonds, Len Hutton, Fred Trueman, Graeme Pollock, Alland Donald, Sunil Gavaskar, Javagal Srinath, Courtney Walsh, Michael Holding, Dennis Lillee, Greg Chappell, Waqar Younis and Inzamam ul haq are some of the new players for Season 4. Complete list will be announced before the beginning of Secret bidding.
Season 4 Prizes:
Tournament Prizes:
1. Winners - 8 Million
2. Runers up - 6 Million
3. Third place - 5 Million
4. Fourth Place - 4 Million
5. Fifth Place - 3.5 Million
6. Sixth Place - 3.5 Million
7. Seventh Place -3 Million
8. Eigth Place - 3 Million
9. Ninth Place - 2.5 Million
10. Tenth place - 2.5 Million
Bonus Prizes:
Team Performance:
- Team with five consecutive wins in league stages - 2 Million ( a team can win this only once)
- Team with three consecutive wins in league stages - 1 Million ( a team can win this only once)
- Team with highest victory margin (in terms of balls remaining) - 1 Million
- Team with highest victory margin (in terms of runs) - 1 Million
- Note: If a team wins prize for "five consecutive wins" then they are not eligible for "three consecutive wins" prize.
Other Prizes:
1. Best Website - 2 Million
2. Best Newspaper design - 2 Million
3. Most profitable team in the betting - 2 Million
Now comes the most important part.
Each team can have 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 managers. There are many activities like bidding, team selection, newspaper, tv, tweet, betting, website so having more than one manager for a team will be helpful.
Managers who had managed a team in Season 3 will be given first preference. If they are not interested/responded those teams will be given to other managers solely based on my discretion. Once the initial list of managers have been identified others can join as the co-managers depending on the interest of the manager.
If you had managed a team in season 4 and would continue to do so in season 5, you are welcome to do that. Please post your confirmation.
If you had not participated in season 4 then please post your interest as there will be many vacant slots for managers/co-managers.
If you have any questions please feel free to post.
Team financials are here.
Fans count at the end of season 3 are here
Season 3 Changes:
1. Ticket Revenue:
Previously ticket revenue was based on three factors Wining Momentum, Activity and Wesbite. I understand that not all teams will have time to update their website. So going forward only winning momentum (50%) and activity (50%) will decide the ticket revenue.
But teams maintaining a website will be rewarded with bonus prizes.
2. Pitch Type:
Previously all matches were simulated on normal pitch. Going forward home team will have the option of choosing the pitch type (Excellent or normal or poor).
3. Betting:
Previously either you win $200,000 or lose $200,000 for each bet. Going forward, if you win the bet you will get $300,000 and if you lose the bet you will lose just $100,000. This is to encourage betting and have more bets.
4. Activity Index:
Previously a manager can earn maximum of 25 points in each round. Its been increased to 50 from Season 3. So even if one manager is inactive your team can still get 50 points.
5. Player Release:
Teams will not get any money for releasing their players. If a player is being released, they just don't need to renew his contract.
6. Buying/Selling Players:
Previously players have to bought or sold at a fixed price which was decided during the initial purchase. Going forward a player can be sold upto thrice his worth of the initial price. But he cannot sold less than his purchase price.
For example: KKR bought Kapil Dev for 1 Million. He can be sold upto 3 Million but cannot be sold for less than 1 Million.
Lets say KKR sells Kapil Dev for 1.6 Million to Durban. Here Durban needs to pay 1.6 Million but KKR will get only $600,000. The remaining 1 million will go to the player.
If KKR sells Kapil Dev for 1 million then they will not get any money and the entire 1 million goes to the player.
IN nutshell a team which is selling a player can get only the difference amount between Purchase price and Selling price.
Season 3 Prizes:
Tournament Prizes:
1. Winners - 7 Million
2. Runers up - 6 Million
3. Third place - 5 Million
4. Fourth Place - 4 Million
5. Fifth Place - 3.5 Million
6. Sixth Place - 3.5 Million
7. Seventh Place -3 Million
8. Eigth Place - 3 Million
9. Ninth Place - 2.5 Million
10. Tenth place - 2.5 Million
Bonus Prizes:
Team Performance:
1. Team with five consecutive wins in league stages - 2 Million ( a team can win this only once)
2. Team with three consecutive wins in league stages - 1 Million ( a team can win this only once)
3. Team with highest victory margin (in terms of balls remaining) - 1 Million
4. Team with highest victory margin (in terms of runs) - 1 Million
Note: If a team wins prize for "five consecutive wins" then they are not eligible for "three consecutive wins" prize.
Activity:
1. Most active team in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 3 Million
2. Second most active team in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 2.5 Million
3. Third most active team in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 2 Million
4. Fourth most active team in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 1.5 Million
5. Fifth most active in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 1 Million
Website:
1. Best Team Website - 2 Million
2. Second best Team Website - 1.5 Million
3. Third best Team Website - 1 Million
4. All other teams who will have an updated website for Season 3 will get 500,000 each.
Betting:
1. Most profitable team in the betting - 1 Million
1. Ticket Revenue:
Previously ticket revenue was based on three factors Wining Momentum, Activity and Wesbite. I understand that not all teams will have time to update their website. So going forward only winning momentum (50%) and activity (50%) will decide the ticket revenue.
But teams maintaining a website will be rewarded with bonus prizes.
2. Pitch Type:
Previously all matches were simulated on normal pitch. Going forward home team will have the option of choosing the pitch type (Excellent or normal or poor).
3. Betting:
Previously either you win $200,000 or lose $200,000 for each bet. Going forward, if you win the bet you will get $300,000 and if you lose the bet you will lose just $100,000. This is to encourage betting and have more bets.
4. Activity Index:
Previously a manager can earn maximum of 25 points in each round. Its been increased to 50 from Season 3. So even if one manager is inactive your team can still get 50 points.
5. Player Release:
Teams will not get any money for releasing their players. If a player is being released, they just don't need to renew his contract.
6. Buying/Selling Players:
Previously players have to bought or sold at a fixed price which was decided during the initial purchase. Going forward a player can be sold upto thrice his worth of the initial price. But he cannot sold less than his purchase price.
For example: KKR bought Kapil Dev for 1 Million. He can be sold upto 3 Million but cannot be sold for less than 1 Million.
Lets say KKR sells Kapil Dev for 1.6 Million to Durban. Here Durban needs to pay 1.6 Million but KKR will get only $600,000. The remaining 1 million will go to the player.
If KKR sells Kapil Dev for 1 million then they will not get any money and the entire 1 million goes to the player.
IN nutshell a team which is selling a player can get only the difference amount between Purchase price and Selling price.
Season 3 Prizes:
Tournament Prizes:
1. Winners - 7 Million
2. Runers up - 6 Million
3. Third place - 5 Million
4. Fourth Place - 4 Million
5. Fifth Place - 3.5 Million
6. Sixth Place - 3.5 Million
7. Seventh Place -3 Million
8. Eigth Place - 3 Million
9. Ninth Place - 2.5 Million
10. Tenth place - 2.5 Million
Bonus Prizes:
Team Performance:
1. Team with five consecutive wins in league stages - 2 Million ( a team can win this only once)
2. Team with three consecutive wins in league stages - 1 Million ( a team can win this only once)
3. Team with highest victory margin (in terms of balls remaining) - 1 Million
4. Team with highest victory margin (in terms of runs) - 1 Million
Note: If a team wins prize for "five consecutive wins" then they are not eligible for "three consecutive wins" prize.
Activity:
1. Most active team in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 3 Million
2. Second most active team in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 2.5 Million
3. Third most active team in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 2 Million
4. Fourth most active team in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 1.5 Million
5. Fifth most active in the league (comments, newsletter, etc) - 1 Million
Website:
1. Best Team Website - 2 Million
2. Second best Team Website - 1.5 Million
3. Third best Team Website - 1 Million
4. All other teams who will have an updated website for Season 3 will get 500,000 each.
Betting:
1. Most profitable team in the betting - 1 Million
Cricket Manager 2k15 Season 2:
After the success of Season 1, its time for Season 2. Its going to be bigger and better.
Following are changes/rules for Season 2.
1. Each team shoud have exactly 18 players.
2. Each player in your team needs to play atleast two matches.
3. 15 new players would be introduced in season 2. They would be up for secret bidding like season
After the success of Season 1, its time for Season 2. Its going to be bigger and better.
Following are changes/rules for Season 2.
1. Each team shoud have exactly 18 players.
2. Each player in your team needs to play atleast two matches.
3. 15 new players would be introduced in season 2. They would be up for secret bidding like season
Player Release:
If you no longer need a player he can be released. You will get 50% of what you paid for him if you release the player.
Player Contracts:
After Secret Bidding, Trade Window and Player release you need to provide contracts for the players.
Kolkata Knight Riders have 16.1 Million lets say they spend their 3 million in secret bidding for buying 3 players then
they need to sign contracts with 15 players with the remaining 13 million amount.
Chennai Super Kings have 8.7 Million and if they spend their 3 million in secret bidding for buying 3 players then
they need to sign cotracts with 15 with the remaining 5.7 million amount.
Lets say Chennai Super Kings buy Gary Sobers from KKR for 1.6 million. In this case there is no need to renew the contract means
they don't need to spend anything additional to retain the player. If Chennai Super Kings want to retain Richard Hadlee then they to spend 1.7 million to retain him.
Sponsors:
Each team can have one apparell sponsor and one main sponsor. Teams have the choice to decide their sponsors.
Season 2 sponsorship is based on your performance in season 1.
Main sponsor will provide following fixed amount for Season 2.
Kolkata Knight Riders - 6 Million
Southampton Samurai - 5 Million
Mumbai Indians (Kings X1 Punjab) - 4.5 Million
Royal Challengers Bangalore - 4 Million
Chelsea Cricket Club - 3.5 Million
Hobart Tigers - 3.5 Million
Deccan Chargers - 3 Million
Durban Dolphins - 3 Million
Mettur Game Changers - 2.5 Million
Chennai Super Kings (Chennai Lions) - 2.5 Million
For Apparell sponsor teams can either go for 1 Million fixed or 200,000 performance bonus for each win in season 2 (9 league + 1 playoff + 1 final). Sponsorship money will be provided once the secrte bidding and trade window is closed.
Ticket Revenue
Ticket Revenue for home matches would be based on three factors
1. Winning Momentum - 50% (same as season 1)
2. Team Activeness (comments, newsletter, etc) - 50%
Betting:
From season 2 onwards betting is going to be legalised in Cricket Manager 2k15. Betting will happen for real life matches. Polls will be used for Betting, so that it's easy to track. Both Managers can bet (ie they can vote on the polls). Each entry will cost 200,000 if you win your money gets doubled (ie 400,000) if you loose your 200,000 is gone. Betting is optional if teams don't want to participate that's ok. But who want to miss out on earning easy money. Beware it requires some cricketing brain.
All kinds of real life matches will be available for betting. Domestic, international, test, odi, t20 etc.
For example a poll will be created on this thread for IPL finals and teams can vote on it. If both the managers vote on the poll then 400,000 will be your betting amount and if they win they will walk away with 800,000.
Merchandise:
Merchandise will be introduced from Season 2. At the beginning of the season teams need to decide how many t-shirts they want to produce. The cost of producing a t-shirt is $25 and the selling price of t-shirt is $50. For season 2 max of 120,000 t-shirts can be produced. Now comes the crucial part. Number of t-shirts you sell depends on number of matches you win. For each match you win 10,000 t-shirts will be sold. If you win finals 30,000 additional t-shirts will be sold.
Number of league matches - 8 (80,000 t-shirts)
Playoffs will be considered as 1 match (10,000 t-shirts)
Finals 1 match (30,000 t-shirts)
Let's say you want to produce 120,000 t-shirts. 120,000*25 = 3 million will be deduced at the start of the season and if you win just one match then 10000*50 you will get 500,000 which means a loss of 2.5 million for your team.
Let's say you want to produce 60,000 t-shirts. 60000*25= 1.5 million will be your manufacturing cost and if you win 8 matches all 60000 will be sold but you could have sold extra 20000 t-shirts here.
Insurance:
There will be two rain affected matches in season 2 and you have two options here.
Either you can spend 500,000 million Insurance or you may not spend even a penny for Insurance.
If your home match is rain affected and you would have spent on Insurance then whatever the tickets revenue you had in your previous match that would be given to you which indirectly means your first home match will not be rain affected.
Suppose your ticket revenue for your first home match is 800,000 and your second match is rain affected and if you have insurance cover you will get the entire 800,000.
Suppose your ticket revenue for your first home match is 400,000 and your second match is rain affected and if you have insurance cover you will get the entire 400,000.
Even though you spent 500,000 there is a possibility of getting lower than what you spent.
Stadium Upgrade
Currently your stadium capacity is 10,000 which can be upgraded to 20,000 on spending 10 Million for Infrastructure cost.
To Summarize,
You can spend money for
1. Buying Players in secret bidding
2. Buying Players from other teams
3. Paying wages to retain your existing players
4. Merchandise cost
5. Betting fee
6. Insurance Cost
7. Stadium Infrastructure Cost
You can earn money by
1. Selling Players to other teams
2. Releasing Players
3. Match prize, Overall and Bonus Prizes
4. Ticket Revenue
5. Merchandise Revenue
6. Betting Income
7. Sponsorships
Inputs from Managers:
Start of the season: Insurance cost, Merchandise numbers, Stadium Upgrade
For each match: Playing X1
Inbetween matches: Vote on the polls for betting (it is optional)
End of the season: Buying/Selling of players (if any)
This league will be managed by me and simmed by @Na Maloom Afraad
Credits:
Former Managers: @PCA @RAGHU @SixerBoy11
Players List @Iridium
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