NationStates Jolt Archive

Since II has been a bit boring lately I thought I’d see if anyone was interested in starting an ‘International Cricket Council’ style organisation for NS. I’m not aware if there is already an universal one but I dare say an ‘open’ organisation would be too hard to keep track of anyway given the size of NS so here’s my idea:

I thought we could organise a small group of initial test playing nations so we at least have contact with a few opponents. We could set a limit/induct new nations later. I figure the nations could organise there own fixtures with each other and RP/generate scores and results. Perhaps a limit to the number of fixtures per month would be good. We could play a World Cup/Champions Trophy style tournament every so often with a centralised score generator.

This is just an initial interest thread. I’ll keep bumping it every so often for a while and there’s no need to rush anything. Anyone’s free to post interest or ideas.

In particular I need to know if anyone has any ideas how to generate semi-random cricket scores.

Cheers

Interest certainly...

Interested.

I would also like to utter the word 'interested'.

It's been tried before but a long time ago now (back when Cockbill Street was about, I was Kaze Progressa and The Belmore Family was a leading sporting power. You've never heard of those? My point exactly.)

Definitely interested in this.

Scorination? This (http://www.cricketweb.net/downloadscentre/freeware/totalcricket.php) looks as good as any, and I've used it before.

Sweetness!

Will get right on this scorinator and get back to you all by TM

It's not much more than a niche sport over in these parts, but I figure what's the harm? Consider us interested.

England just beat Australia by six wickets in Sydney. I think questions need to be asked of this scorinator... :rolleyes:

I likes me some cricket. I'd be happy to wrench up some scorination possibilities too, particularly as I seem to crash that one program rather consistantly. :p

The trick is to just not have it die randomly, as things that have an organization without an event are notorious of doing.

I'd be interested as well, having been a fellow member of Cockbill Street's original INSCC (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/internationstates_cricket_council.html). Total Cricket looks like it'd work as a scorinator, though we'd have to come up with a good way to allocate statistics appropriately.

The system I used, and it was flawed, was that you could set five types of player:

* Opening batsmen (batting average 40, bowling average 100)
* Middle-order batsmen (batting average 30, bowling average 75)
* Batting all-rounders (batting average 20, bowling average 50)
* Bowling all-rounders (batting average 15, bowling average 40)
* Specialist bowlers (batting average 10, bowling average 30)

Or something like that anyway. And you could have three star players, increasing their batting average by 6, decreasing their bowling average by 6, or a change of 3 for each. RP bonus was improving every player's average by 1 or 2, I think.

There's got to be a better way.

I sense a problem, that being the more things you require people to define, the less likely people will want to involve themselves.

More distressingly, the Windies seem to be beating England with alarming frequency. There's pleasantly complex, and then just too complex for our purposes, I think.