Fantasy cricket Skills VS Luck optimization.

A modern-day development in the world of cricket has been the advent of fantasy games. Apps like Dream11, My Team 11, Paytm first games and other such apps have captivated people all over the world as fantasy players from all over the country are now frequenting these apps and making their team.

While some do it for leisure or as a hobby, it has become a serious source of income for a few people as these apps often give out huge prizes. With the amount 0of cricket going on internationally and domestically, players are often looking out for the fantasy cricket tips to get their names on the leaderboard of the player list. This keeps getting more and more interesting with these apps spending a lot on their marketing and reaching a wider audience base. Most of these apps now have top cricketers or ex cricketers as their brand ambassadors.

So, what exactly works on these apps, is it skill or is the luck factor that works supreme.

While Luck is certainly a factor as selecting a player is something you do on speculative basis but you can never predict how a player performs on the given day. Most games that happen all over the world these days apart from the ones that happen internationally are the limited over games. We have often seen leagues in Europe and UAE where there 10 over games. In these games, it is specifically a lot of unpredictability involved as every player can have their day and reputations don’t really matter too much.

But by enlarge, cricket is a game where numbers are a great source of information. How a player plays in a particular game often depends upon the form that he has been in over the last few games before the game. An inform player usually has a greater chance of performing better. You may still see a failure but the probability of him being successful certainly increases. The other factors when it comes to team selection usually depends upon an analysis of conditions. There are certain players who perform better when the conditions are bouncy and the ball comes on to the bat while there are those who perform better in slower lower conditions. Take for instance, a player like Varun Chakravarthy. Varun had not performed well before the IPL 2020 season but with the IPL taking place on the slower wickets of UAE. Similarly, a player like Rahul Tewatia scored a 90-run knock on the smaller grounds of Sharjah so picking up such a player on smaller grounds can be a really smart pick. Horses for courses as they say.

One must also be careful about distributing points sensibly and in the most judicious manner. Most of the fantasy teams usually give a certain allocation of points. Most world class players are expensive and it is difficult to pick all the good players in their team. Now that becomes a challenge for the fantasy player as it means that a few out of form or uncertain players may have to be picked. The strategy then becomes all about keeping more utility players as they can get you more runs, wickets and catches. This gets you more chances to get points on the board. Another important aspect is keeping up with the injury reports as picking up players who are not available for selection can be an automatic loss of points. Also check team sheets just before the game begins and make changes to the team accordingly. While luck is beyond anyone’s control, skills are controllable and all the effort should be put into controlling what is controllable.