As I've said before, season eight will start in late November/early December.
The format will be very similar to this season, with pre-season international tours (done slightly differently), and a 50 over competition.
The major change will be with the pre-season player transfer system, which will be something completely new to PC, as the usual "release x players" isn't very exciting.
Some of you will welcome the change, while I'm guessing a few of you won't. Pretty much it'll benefit anyone who's prepared to spend 20 - 30 minutes doing what you need to do, and it'll disadvantage anyone who doesn't really care and just wants to do it as quickly as possible.
It's pretty complicated, so don't worry if you don't understand it now, as I'll explain it in much more detail when you need to do what you need to do.
It'll consist of three phases, phase one will be a very skillful phase where you'll have to release/keep players, and also bid on players without knowing what players other people have released. Probably sounds confusing ATM. You'll have an option to keep about five players without anyone knowing, and then you'll have to release at least five players without anyone knowing. Then in the same message to me you'll have an option to bid on other teams players, as well as bid on your other players that you haven't been able to guarantee you'll keep them. This will be done with some sort of credits. The thing is you'll have to predict what players you want to bid on, as you don't want to waste credits on Tendulkar as you know Riz will guarantee be keeping him. Pretty much it'll be done silently through PM, so whoever is prepared to spend the most on each player will get him.
Phase two and three will be much simpler. Phase two will be a silent auction, you'll carry over all your remaining credits from phase one, say someone bids more from you on a player, you'll get those credits back, and you'll also get some new credits. Pretty much you'll be able to place the amount of bids left in your squad, so say you got 11 players in phase one, you'll be able to place seven bids in phase two. Again it's silent through PM.
Phase three will just be a draft, filling up the remaining spots in your squad. That will be done in the thread, with the people with the most spots left going first, pretty much just like normal.
Pretty much that's a little insight for a month down the track, if you don't get it don't worry at all, as I'll go into more detail at the time, especially on phase one.
The format will be very similar to this season, with pre-season international tours (done slightly differently), and a 50 over competition.
The major change will be with the pre-season player transfer system, which will be something completely new to PC, as the usual "release x players" isn't very exciting.
Some of you will welcome the change, while I'm guessing a few of you won't. Pretty much it'll benefit anyone who's prepared to spend 20 - 30 minutes doing what you need to do, and it'll disadvantage anyone who doesn't really care and just wants to do it as quickly as possible.
It's pretty complicated, so don't worry if you don't understand it now, as I'll explain it in much more detail when you need to do what you need to do.
It'll consist of three phases, phase one will be a very skillful phase where you'll have to release/keep players, and also bid on players without knowing what players other people have released. Probably sounds confusing ATM. You'll have an option to keep about five players without anyone knowing, and then you'll have to release at least five players without anyone knowing. Then in the same message to me you'll have an option to bid on other teams players, as well as bid on your other players that you haven't been able to guarantee you'll keep them. This will be done with some sort of credits. The thing is you'll have to predict what players you want to bid on, as you don't want to waste credits on Tendulkar as you know Riz will guarantee be keeping him. Pretty much it'll be done silently through PM, so whoever is prepared to spend the most on each player will get him.
Phase two and three will be much simpler. Phase two will be a silent auction, you'll carry over all your remaining credits from phase one, say someone bids more from you on a player, you'll get those credits back, and you'll also get some new credits. Pretty much you'll be able to place the amount of bids left in your squad, so say you got 11 players in phase one, you'll be able to place seven bids in phase two. Again it's silent through PM.
Phase three will just be a draft, filling up the remaining spots in your squad. That will be done in the thread, with the people with the most spots left going first, pretty much just like normal.
Pretty much that's a little insight for a month down the track, if you don't get it don't worry at all, as I'll go into more detail at the time, especially on phase one.
I don't think many leagues will have vCash for a while.
