The ‘Fantasy Cricket Stock Exchange (FCSE)‘ as a concept was born during spring of 2013 – implemented and deployed for MPL 2013. The Fantasy Cricket aspect included ‘stocks’ (players) being reevaluated, based on their performance on the field.

The ‘Fantastic Four’ were the four members retained by each team, from among their MPL 2012 season squads for the MPL 2013 season. The ‘Offer Price’ for members of the ‘Fantastic Four’ was preset at $20, $18, $16, and $14 – the member of a team’s ‘Fantastic Four’ with the highest points tally in MPL 2012 was assigned the highest price, and so on.

As we review performance of players in MPL 2013 from a stock perspective, captured below are some of the key data-points for each stock

• ‘Offer Price‘: Price paid for a  player’s service at the “Player’s Auction” for MPL 2013
• ‘Closing‘: Stock price for the given player after his last match in MPL 2013
• ‘Low‘: Lowest price point for this stock
• ‘Peak‘: Highest price point for this stock
• ‘Average‘: Average price point for this stock
• ‘*’: Indicates a player who was part of “Fantastic Four” of the respective teams in MPL 2013

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Q) What is the ‘Fantasy Cricket Stock Exchange (FCSE)’?
A) The ‘Fantasy Cricket Stock Exchange (FCSE)’ – MPL edition – is a pseudo stock market created for Fantasy Cricket. It is a new concept, born after playing Fantasy Football (NFL) and Fantasy Cricket (IPL).

Everyone registered to play in MPL 2013, is a stock. As part of the IPO, the value for each stock is the auction price for that player in the MPL 2013 auction.

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This is the fourth post in a four-part post. I’d pinged each of the four MPL 2012 team captains to send me, in their own words, their thoughts on how they chose, and why they retained the players that they did.

The following is what Ankit, the captain of Avengers, Captain America, the First Avenger, sent in.

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Picking just four members of your team of seventeen is like picking your top four songs from your entire playlist. It is hard because the decision making is not one dimensional. Just like different songs evoke different feelings, different team members bring different talents. So, to find the right mix is critical.

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This is the third post, in a four-part post. I’d pinged each of the four MPL 2012 team captains to send me, in their own words, their thoughts on how they chose, and why they retained the players that they did.

The following is what Srikanth, the former captain of Justice League, sent in.

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In last year’s MPL, Justice League was added among great excitement and fun. As part of the auction, we were able to acquire players with experience, and players who were debuting in MPL that year. We wanted to make sure we had right bunch of people to have a mix of both youngsters and experience.

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This is the second post, in a four-part post. I’d pinged each of the four MPL 2012 team captains to send me, in their own words, their thoughts on how they chose, and why they retained the players that they did.

The following is what the inimitable Sidhu, the former captain of X-Men, sent in.

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Finishing as runners up last year was certainly more than what other teams had given us a chance at the start of the tournament. Yashwanth, Rafeeq and Koundi, one of the costliest buys of the 2012 MPL were a certainity to be retained by any teams in the MPL. I had seen more than a bit of Rohith to be sure that he belonged to the elite league as well.

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This is a four-part post. I’d pinged each of the four MPL 2012 team captains to send me, in their own words, their thoughts on how they chose, and why they retained the players that they did.

The following is what Onomitra, the former Mr. Incredible, sent in.

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Incredibles had a lot of really good cricketers and I am sure all of them would have loved to continue in Incredibles. As an outgoing captain and selector for the next team, this was a very good place to be in, but at the same time, an awkward puzzle to solve. In the end I went with Chirag, Shreenath, Nachiket and Rahul.

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