The ‘Fantasy Cricket Stock Exchange (FCSE)‘, in place since the MPL 2013 season, has served a two pronged role – primarily a fantasy cricket platform, and secondarily towards calculating how much each team is charged for the players it retains.
The formula for re-evaluating the (player) stock prices has evolved over the years, and will continue to do so as we look ahead to the 2016 season. As always, any updates to the formula to recalculate stock prices, is applied to the next full MPL season – the formula doesn’t change mid-way, during the MPL season.
Volatility in the stock market is a concept everyone is familiar with, and the FCSE is par for the course with stock prices here also equally volatile at times.
With that in mind, let’s review the performances of everyone, from MPL 2015, from a stock price perspective. Listed below is the legend for reading the table that follows.
- ‘Offer Price‘: Price paid for a player’s service at the MPL 2015 “Player’s Auction”
- ‘Closing‘: Stock price for the given player after his last match in MPL 2015
- ‘Low‘: Lowest price point for this stock during the MPL 2015 season
- ‘Peak‘: Highest price point for this stock during the MPL 2015 season
- ‘Average‘: Average price point for this stock across the MPL 2015 season
- ‘*’: Indicates a player who was part of “Three Musketeers” of the respective teams in MPL 2015. The ‘Three Musketeers’ were the three members retained by each team for the MPL 2015 season, from among their MPL 2014 squads. The ‘Offer Price’ for members of the ‘Three Musketeers’ for each team for the MPL 2015 season, was the average stock price for the respective player from the MPL 2014 season.
Please refer to the 'Notes' at the end of this post for more context on what the price points represent
Avengers
| Player Name | Offer Price | Closing | Low | Peak | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amogh M | 3 | 11.08 | 3 | 15.7 | 8.73 |
| Ankit D* | 13 | 10.83 | 1.12 | 13 | 5.17 |
| Ankit S* | 9 | 6.02 | 6.02 | 19.99 | 13.74 |
| Ganesh I | 1 | 7.17 | 0.13 | 7.17 | 2.52 |
| Kunal K | 8 | 10.48 | 1.83 | 10.87 | 7.07 |
| Mohit V | 17 | 4.95 | 4.95 | 17 | 9.14 |
| Onomitra G | 3 | 4.89 | 3 | 6.31 | 4.76 |
| Prabakar G | 1 | 2.24 | 1 | 4.58 | 2.45 |
| Pritish D | 7 | 6.54 | 5.49 | 7.84 | 6.53 |
| Rushil P* | 10 | 14.74 | 3.25 | 15.37 | 9.79 |
| Sabhay K | 13 | 4.59 | 4.59 | 13.09 | 8.54 |
| Sapan S | 9 | 2.42 | 2.42 | 9.33 | 6.91 |
| Srikanth P | 3 | 1 | 0.1 | 6.56 | 2.73 |
| Surya A | 15 | 10.29 | 0.1 | 15 | 7.75 |
| Swarooph S | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 6.5 | 1.52 |
Incredibles
| Player Name | Offer Price | Closing | Low | Peak | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abhijit W | 9 | 11.06 | 6.31 | 13.33 | 9.09 |
| Adai K | 7 | 10.51 | 2.97 | 16.35 | 7.79 |
| Aditya B | 3 | 2.37 | 0.1 | 3 | 1.1 |
| Akshay B | 1 | 1.74 | 0.1 | 1.74 | 0.93 |
| Anuj S | 3 | 3.45 | 2.16 | 12.99 | 6.1 |
| Chaitanya E | 11 | 21.55 | 5.68 | 21.55 | 14.7 |
| Koushik B | 3 | 1.89 | 0.1 | 3 | 1.55 |
| Matt T | 1 | 1.1 | 0.95 | 1.76 | 1.25 |
| Nachiket G* | 17 | 5.88 | 5.88 | 19.56 | 12.87 |
| Priyank S* | 20 | 30.51 | 17.98 | 40.5 | 27.32 |
| Rahul P* | 15 | 13.19 | 6.03 | 15 | 9.15 |
| Sachin N | 4 | 2.31 | 0.18 | 12.76 | 6.42 |
| Sreeram B | 2 | 3.52 | 1.77 | 5.28 | 3.6 |
| Sriram S | 15 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 23.35 | 14.17 |
| Udith H | 2 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 10.19 | 3.61 |
Priyank S is the first player in FCSE history to scale the $40 barrier. Amol P was the first player, in MPL 2013 to breach the $30 barrier, with a ‘Peak’ of $30.46, on stock price recalculation. He came close in MPL 2014 with a ‘Peak’ of $29.39. Anil K raised the bar higher in MPL 2014, with a ‘Peak’ of $37.06.
Justice League
| Player Name | Offer Price | Closing | Low | Peak | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anand R* | 15 | 10.98 | 7.71 | 16.48 | 11.09 |
| Anand S | 1 | 1.57 | 0.91 | 2.08 | 1.5 |
| Anand Sudhakaran | 1 | 1.14 | 1 | 2.83 | 1.84 |
| Anandan R | 10 | 4.57 | 3.06 | 10.1 | 7.39 |
| Arun G | 18 | 2.88 | 2.88 | 18.91 | 14.45 |
| Ashish S | 5 | 3.8 | 1.33 | 5 | 3.56 |
| Hari R* | 4 | 4.68 | 3.22 | 9.05 | 5.39 |
| Karthik T | 1 | 1.31 | 1 | 1.31 | 1.15 |
| Mayank A* | 9 | 24.94 | 9 | 28.09 | 19.09 |
| Rafeeq A | 23 | 20.89 | 12.71 | 23 | 18.66 |
| Raghunandan M | 1 | 1.33 | 0.51 | 1.33 | 1.02 |
| Ram G | 1 | 6.3 | 1 | 9.39 | 6.1 |
| Sandeep H | 5 | 2.78 | 2.36 | 7.08 | 4.03 |
| Sanket M | 3 | 6.03 | 3 | 17.11 | 6.1 |
| Shalyajit J | 16 | 7.89 | 4.89 | 16 | 8.95 |
Transformers
| Player Name | Offer Price | Closing | Low | Peak | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anil K* | 18 | 22.21 | 15.86 | 27.82 | 20.95 |
| Ashish U | 7 | 14.38 | 4.38 | 14.38 | 7.56 |
| Chirag G* | 18 | 22.03 | 11.51 | 25.41 | 18.13 |
| Dipesh S* | 12 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 26.22 | 16.3 |
| Divakaran J | 4 | 1.98 | 0.58 | 6.28 | 3.06 |
| Ganesh K | 10 | 26.63 | 10 | 26.63 | 15.9 |
| Hari Kishan S | 1 | 5.69 | 1 | 13.47 | 5.67 |
| Madhu G | 1 | 7.48 | 1 | 10.11 | 3.75 |
| Neel K | 1 | 0.95 | 0.53 | 2.18 | 1.14 |
| Prasad R | 8 | 4.72 | 4.72 | 8 | 6.2 |
| Raghuvir L | 2 | 3.54 | 2 | 9.03 | 4.92 |
| Seenu K | 5 | 5.38 | 5 | 5.38 | 5.19 |
| Srikanth S | 17 | 5.95 | 4.25 | 17 | 9.13 |
| Yeshwanth D | 6 | 18.24 | 6 | 22.66 | 15.59 |
The 2015 Transformers are the third team to have five players whose ‘Peak’ price point was over $20. The 2013 Incredibles, and the 2014 X-Men were the previous two, to have this distinction.
X-Men
| PlayerName | OfferPrice | Closing | Low | Peak | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aditya V | 4 | 1.07 | 0.1 | 4 | 1.33 |
| Amar J | 1 | 2.11 | 1 | 3.94 | 2.43 |
| Anoop J | 5 | 3.55 | 2.45 | 5 | 3.88 |
| Dhruv R | 6 | 14.77 | 6 | 21.73 | 11.96 |
| Kaushik N | 2 | 12.32 | 2 | 12.32 | 7.15 |
| Kirthi D | 1 | 1.38 | 0.62 | 2.35 | 1.25 |
| Koundinya S* | 15 | 14.48 | 12.17 | 20.08 | 16.61 |
| Krishna B | 13 | 3.52 | 3.52 | 14.55 | 8.7 |
| Milind R | 7 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 7 | 4.02 |
| Raj B | 2 | 4.15 | 1.06 | 10.26 | 3.94 |
| Rohith B* | 10 | 10.81 | 10 | 27.06 | 15.89 |
| Sandeep A | 21 | 3.03 | 3.03 | 21 | 10.16 |
| Suresh R | 2 | 7.37 | 2 | 7.37 | 3.89 |
| Venkat S | 1 | 3.82 | 0.1 | 10.61 | 3.12 |
| Yashwanth A* | 20 | 20.48 | 19.06 | 33.88 | 22.49 |
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Notes:
- By nature stock prices were volatile – up and down during the evaluations. Consider an example where the stock prices for two players are at $10 and $20 entering a match, both score a first-ball duck, and do not have any other point earning opportunities. Their stock values as a result drop, but the price-point prior to the match means that they won’t both drop to the same price point, post match. Thus it takes time – multiple matches and performances on the field – for a given stock to reach a certain price point.
- The ‘Closing Price’ is a reflection of where the stock value ended at after the player’s last match – taken in line with the ‘Average’, it indicates how the player performed in/heading into his last match of the season.
- Those who played as an all-rounder had chances to push and maintain their stock value around or over the $20 mark. Thus player’s who performed a single role – either as a batsman or as a bowler – did well if their stock price was around or over $10.
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