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 for a given season, based on the players performance from the previous season.

The formula for re-evaluating the (player) stock prices has evolved over the years, and will continue to do so. 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 every player who took part in MPL 2016, from a stock price perspective. Listed below is the legend for reading the table that follows.

Only four player’s had a peak value higher than $30 at some point in the tournament – Ankit Soni ($30.89), Priyank Saxena ($36.29), Udith Hegde ($36.36), and Dhruv Reddy ($37.49). Each of these four players, play as an all-rounder. An all-rounder is said to be very good if he has a stock price that is north of $20. Crossing $30, and getting close to $40 puts a player in a tier well above the rest of the pack.

Priyank is the only player in MPL history, to breach the $40 mark – he had a peak of $40.50 during MPL 2015. Anil Kumar Yedugani who was second behind Priyank, with a peak value of $37.06 during MPL 2014, now slides to third behind Dhruv.

• ‘Offer Price‘: Price paid for a  player’s service at the MPL 2016 “Player’s Auction”
• ‘Closing‘: Stock price for the given player after his last match in MPL 2016
• ‘Low‘: Lowest price point for the player’s stock price during the MPL 2016 season
• ‘Peak‘: Highest price point for the player’s stock price during the MPL 2016 season
• ‘Average‘: Average price point for the player’s stock price across the MPL 2016 season
• ‘*’: Indicates a player who was the captain of the team in MPL 2016. The ‘Offer Price’ for the captain for each team for the MPL 2016 season, was the average stock price for the respective player from the MPL 2015 season.
• ‘^’: Indicates a player who was the mentor/vice-captain of the team in MPL 2016. The ‘Offer Price’ for the mentor/vice-captain for each team for the MPL 2016 season, was the winning bid placed by the captain of that team for the mentor/vice-captain.

Continue reading MPL 2016 Player Review from a Stock Perspective →

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MPL 2016 Auction will be the biggest auction yet, in MPL history. With 6 teams and at least 70 players still left in the auction pool, the MPL Auction and Awards night promises to be an exciting night.

MPL Auction Awards Night Schedule:

1.  MPL 2015 Awards Night
2.  Dinner break
3. Team Name Auction
4. MPL 2016 Schedule, and Tournament format walk-through/discussion
5.  Mohit pick’s his team if he’d like to. Team loses $9 in the process – Mohit’s avg. price from last year
6.  General Auction starts.

1.  A team name will be picked randomly by the Auctioneer. Captains can bid for the team name (starting at $1).
2.  If the team name does not attract any bid, it will be called again after the other teams have been called once.

1.  Team with the most balance left at the end of the team name auction will start the auction by nominating an available player.
2.  Once a player is nominated, the Auctioneer, will enable the bidding on the player.
3.  At this point, all the captains can bid on the player via the app.  The captains can either pass on the player or bid for the player by entering an amount. (This is silent/hidden from other captains)
   1.  The bid amount must be equal to or greater than the average stock price for the player.
   2.   If all the captains pass on the player then he will be held from the auction till all the other players have been nominated at least once.  The passed player’s average price would also be halved each time they are passed (min $1).
4.  We will have a visual queue on the auction page (as soon as a captain bids).
5.  Once all the 6 bids are in, the auctioneer will reveal the individual bids.
   1.  The captain with the highest bid will get the player.
   2.   In case of a tie, when 2 or more captains have bid the same amount, the captain who bid the quickest will get that bid amount and other captains who were tied will then get to raise the bids in an open auction. Only the tied captains will get an opportunity to bid for the player in the open auction.
6.  The captain that wins the player, will then get the chance to nominate the next player.
7.  All teams need to have a minimum of 14 players in the squad.
8.  All the players need to be bought at a min. price of $1.  This means that if a team has 7 players in the squad and $20 left in its pool, then the maximum it can bid for the 8th player is [$20 – (min players – current players + 1) => 20 – (14 – 7) + 1 => $14].

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MPL 2016 Tournament Format

Round-Robin Stage

• 1.0 : Each of the six teams will play a total of nine matches in the round-robin stage.
• 1.1: For each team, the nine matches will constitute playing twice against four, randomly picked, out of the other five teams, and once against the remaining team.
• 1.2: The entire schedule for MPL 2016 will be announced prior to the Player’s Auction.
• 1.3: We are making certain assumptions about the ground permit for Sargent Field – that we will have it for the days that matches are scheduled at Sargent Field i.e. the schedule for all matches, including those at Sargent Field, will be published prior to the permit being received. If changes are required to the schedule, after we receive the field permit, we will update the schedule accordingly, which in turn could impact i.e. reduce the number of matches played by each team in the round-robin stage.
• 1.4: There will be a total of 27 matches in the round-robin stage, and four matches in the Playoffs, for a total of 31 matches.
• 1.5: With the number of scheduled matches increasing from 22 (in MPL 2015) to 31 (in MPL 2016), matches washed-out during the round-robin stages will not be replayed. The points from these matches will be split by the two teams.

Continue reading MPL 2016: Tournament Format and Playing Conditions →

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2016 will see MPL have 6 brand new captains for the first time with no retained players. To help the captains, MPL will have it first ever VIRTUAL AUCTION for Vice-Captain/Mentor/Guru.

Here are the rules for the Virtual Auction:

1. Based on the FB poll results for Vice Captains, a Vice Captain Player pool will be created consisiting of all players that receive more than a single vote in the poll.
2. Players from the Vice Captain pool  will be presented one by one (most popular first) for auction for a period of 24 hrs (Starting Monday, 5/9/2016 7PM ). Every 24 hours a new player will be presented till all the teams have acquired a player.
3. Each captain can only acquire a single player in this virtual auction. Once a captain has acquired a player he is out of bidding for the remaining players.
4.  The cost of the player will be deducted from the Captain purse. Each captain will start with a purse of $101 to compose a squad. The average stock price of the captain WILL BE deducted from this purse. (Raghuvir will post the actual balance available to each captain)
5. Bidding Rules:

a)  A captain bids on the player by adding a new comment to the post. (All bids are binding)

b) If a captain is not interested in a player, he can pass on the player by either explicitly commenting or not commenting at all.

c) If a player is passed by all the captains, he is taken out of the Vice Captain Pool.

d) Bidding for the player starts at $1

e) Captain with the highest bid at the end of the 24 hrs will get the player.

e) Kunal (Auctioneer-in-chief) rulings are final.

f) Once 5 out of the 6 captains have acquired their players, the last captain will be able to select any player still available in the Vice Captain pool for a cost of the average stock price of the player. (Raghuvir – will provide the average stock prices of all players in the Vice Captain pool by Monday 5 PM).

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