Reposting this for the benefit of those having a crack in 2020… Motts
Our resident stats man, Adam, has been playing SC BBL for a number of years and recently commented in our Rate My Team post with some advice I thought was worthy of its own post.
Once you grasp the basics, it’s quite easy to play and far less difficult than AFL SC.
Little to no injuries to relevant players
Less suspensions, rests, omissions, etc
Less relevant players
Schedule centric which is beneficial for astute players to be able to efficiently and consistently capitalise
Transparent scoring system
In regards to the format:
Target the top 4 batters
Target the death/strike bowlers
Select batsmen with high strike rates
Select bowlers with low economy rates
Select several/many all-rounders
Develop a solid bench to allow potential guns to be relegated to the bench during their byes rather than being traded
Avoid excessively targeting the DGW’s (1-3 per team is recommended and avoid selecting 5+ from a team)
Are there any other tips and tricks you’d add to his list?
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In addition, below is a current shortlist of players to keep an eye on during the season or those to start this season.
Adelaide Strikers:
R Khan
A Carey
P Salt
B Stanlake
W Agar
Brisbane Heat:
B Cutting
C Lynn
M Ur Rahman/ Z Khan
M Bryant
T Banton/ AB De Villiers
B Laughlin
Hobart Hurricanes:
D Short
D Miller
J Faulkner
Q Ahmad
C Jewell/J Doran
Melbourne Renegades:
K Richardson
D Christian
A Finch
M Nabi
S Marsh
H Gurney
M Harris
J Fraser McGurk/W Sutherland
Melbourne Stars:
M Stoinis
N Coulter-Nile
G Maxwell
S Lamichhane
D Steyn/ P Brown
P Handscomb
Perth Scorchers:
J Richardson
C Jordan
A Agar
L Livingstone
C Green
Sydney Sixers:
T Curran
S Abbott
S O’Keefe
J Vince
J Philippe
M Henriques
Sydney Thunder:
U Khawaja
D Sams
C Green
C Morris
A Hales
Adam,
Handscome is now a Hurricane and not a star 🙁
Shaun this is a rehash of a write up from last seasons BBL and Mott’s has kept last year’s comments as well as you can see the comments date December 3 2019.
What’s the downside of having 4+ players with the double game?
No real downside having 4+ DGW players , but you must trade them out accordingly to their break-evens and upcoming byes.
Stars have a DGW in Round 1 but a Bye in Round 3 so after the Stars Round 1 DGW you have to look at trading out your Stars players preferably to Strikers players who have a DGW in Rounds 2 and 3.
Anyone keen to join the SCT BBL Group the code is – 313787.
Motts, Is there any way of finding out when each of the internationals are due to arrive and leave as i heard some players are not available till after the new year?
Shaun our resident BBL spreadsheet man Tim Ratten @Trats1999 has just informed Mott’s and I he is currently working on an International Availability spreadsheet so it will be up on the site before the tournament starts.
Where can I find an actual round by round fixture ? Thought I had but I’m sure it is last years.
Just Google Big Bash 2020 Fixture Wighty.
Mate, still can’t find a round by round fixture. Essential to plan for DWG and byes.
Stars DGW Round 1 , Strikers and Canes DGW Round 2 , Strikers DGW Round 3 , Round 4 and 5 no DGW teams , Round 6 Sixers and Gades DGW. That should get you started.
All good…its on a SC page to the right of where team lime ups are…same as in AFL. Silly me.
Think I might go big with stars and canes then revisit round 4 .Tough game ,takes a bit to get your head around the format ,perhaps why so many drop off quickly.Good luck fellas NDD
5-6 Stars , 4-5 Canes and possibly a Striker on the bench is the way to go I reckon.
my thouhts exactly DA with a reserve keeper that leaves only 4 spots in the opener .Christian ,well priced and they got him to do a job will bowl more overs this BBL SECONDLY wildermuth again good value and an all rounder,number 3 Turner,former champ doesn’t bowl much nowadays and will bat close to 4 or 5,but the main reason i want Turner is that he plays for the scorchers who have plenty of late games ,represents good looping, and lastly Scott from adelaide bottom priced player who has that valuable DPP My query will be round 2 where i have to cull a good star -Zampa maxy or Stoinis but who? cheers NDD
Demons Delight Lachy Pfeffer Heat 42 WK/Bat also a very good loop option as Heat have the best fixture to loop.
Your best option when culling your Stars players is to access it on all of their relative break evens.
already in as well as fletcher from WI. Thanks for the welcomed advice DA. Could you elaborate on the relative break evens tag , not quite got it The tips on this site are gold and are appreciated by this coach pleasure to be here NDD
Break Evens are in BBL SC just like AFL SuperCoach.
For Example , a 42k SGW player BE is 15 and a 62k SGW player is 22.
Whereas DGW Stars players Break Even for a 62k player is 44 as they play twice in the Round.
Players prices rise and fall at the end of the round for players who played.
Got it thanks DA Where do we find players be? NDD
A couple of Twitter handles will tweet out the break evens at the end of rounds.
If you are not on Twitter then post in the Coaches box which players BE’s you would like to know and I will supply them before the next round starts.
yes on twitter you’re a gentleman thanks NDD
Here is a League for anyone to join SCT Standard #7 – 850089
check code DA
I checked it and that is the right code 850089
Still 7 spots left to fill for SCT Standard #7 850089
I’m in…..”Invincibles”
Good stuff. I’m in one of the other leagues, but we can be noobs together.
Good Luck as i saw you jumped in SCT Standard #7 Ian. Wighty don’t forget to join the SCT Group as well #313787.
SCT Standard #8 League now open 975664.
Only 8 spots left as I have added last year’s winner , Phantom and a few other experts to mix it up and so we can monitor their progress/teams.
Are there any spots left in any leagues. Wouldn’t mind giving this a go
384641
My first BBL team .Open to all lets have some fun lads Neil (demonsdelight)
Just joined Neil thanks..
If there’s any other leagues going im interested
glad to have you on board Kunx Phew hope i spelt that right
Lol its the pronunciation most get wrong
I will throw out one of the experts in SCT Standard #8 League so you can jump in Kunx. Code – 975664. Try and jump in as soon as you see this post.
Just jumped in thanks
Be sure to jump in the SCT Group as well Kunx , Code – 313787.
Yea already in cheers
Here is my team reveal.
Fletcher – Handscomb
Short VC, Stoinis , Maxwell C , Christian , Pfeffer – McDermott Emergency , Bryant.
Zampa , Jacks , Coulter-Nile , Renshaw DPP loop , Wildermuth – Ellis Emergency , Bazley a filler at this stage.
Bank $18,800
only scott for renshaw and Bryant for Bazley different DA with 68 k ready for Khan Cheers
should be Turner not Bryant NDD
Now for all you newbies to BBL SC you get 3 trades a round and if you don’t use them you lose them.
Unlimited trades in Finals.
Know nothing about big bash but love the cricket…
Does anyone know when the teams come out for rd 1? Still tossing up lots of players
Teams/squads are announced the day before teams play. Final teams at the toss.
Here is my team reveal.
Philippe –Bench Holt
Short VC, Stoinis , Maxwell C , Jacks ,Lynn – Bench McDermott /Bryant.
Zampa , Stenlake , Coulter-Nile , Christian , Henriques – Bench Wildermuth/ Owen
Bank $45,900
Shaun Henriques will be on Australia A duties and miss the Sixers first 2 games. I reckon swing Short to the Bowlers and trade Henriques to Fletcher 138k Stars DGW WK/Bat.
There are now 2 spots up for grabs in SCT Standard League #8 as 2 of us had to leave after receiving an LOEC type invite from a rival SuperCoach site.
Code – 975664
There are still a few spots left in A GRADERS 384641 CHEERS
Does BBL have a rolling lockout like AFL ?
Yes BBL does have a rolling lockout Wighty.
Tks mate.
Henriques has sustained a hamstring injury. Popular bench cashcow Wildermuth has been added to the Aus A squad so will miss the first 2 games now.
Ashton Turner 62k looks his best replacement (Bat only) so might need some DPP magic.
once again great reporting FA however getting Turner makes our teams almost identical however trading sorts it out good luck
late league 388016 all welcome
I hate this game…….last minute change Ingram to Jacks !! And D Short of course too
you did say last year that it was the only time you’d play!! I have stuck to my guns and refused to play again this year … it’s just too random, with more luck than anything – too many problems with match start times, not available on all TV formats etc and difficulty with round fixture starts and times, access to BE’s etc … and this year they have the rule changes I saw in the coverage start which means players can be subbed in and out of teams mid match!! So you may get donuts!!
Anyway champ – all the best with your second tilt – you’re a braver (more patient) man than me!! Have a great Chrissy mate and I’ll see you for the real stuff in the AFL SC!!
Good day macca, I’m having another go this year, its good to have wighty to beat again. All the best and see you in afl sc.
G’day champ! Great to hear from you too!! And same for you … good luck with your tilt. You won’t need luck for beating Wighty though as you know … he should change his name to #easybeat!!!
Hope you and yours have a happy and safe Xmas and News Years Bruce and see you on the site in the New Year!!
Just took a screen shot of that comment Bruce….you will have to sweat on it for a long time till it comes back to haunt you !!! LOL
Can’t help myself Macca !!! Its the competitive beast in me. I look forward to dealing with you “in the real stuff” !!
BBL sadly is not great for supercoach and the subs have only made it worse,Hopefully luck is spread evenly/ just a poor man’s AFL S/C really. but it does take courage and skill none the less. agree Macca only a fill in NDD
This is sc in a nutshell , chris Lynn is enormous in ipl , 20 points from 20 balls in bbl,
Glad I paid big bucks for short , stoinis and lynn!
Mate I have the same three…but it gets worse….I took the v of Maxwell and stuck it on Stoinis !! I could put the c on Finch or M Marsh but I’m too scared Stoinis would ton up if I did !!
I considered the same thing but I’ve been bitten too often making those late changes! Hope stoinis does the job for you.
Now I seriously hate this game. Had Neilson (wk.bat) as c loop last game and missed switching the c to Darcy Short.
Cant wait for AFL SC to start !!!
Had a good day today ,then decided to put Christian on field late, faced 3 balls and no bowling!! Aah bbl.
We should team up Bruce !! My mistake also left Dunk on the bench.
Got rid of lynn for Ingram who has double points.
As many of you know, I am widely recognised as one of the GOAT Supercoah AFL players, with only my modesty vying for equal top billing as my greatest personal trait. However, I am also very humble and must admit BBL is not one of my great strengths.
In that regard, I have a question and apologise in advance if it displays a level of BBL ineptitude.
Does BBL have a rolling lockout each round like AFL, or must all trades be done before the first game ?
Humbly,
Wighty
Bruce and Macca….shut the f up !!!
BBL has rolling lockouts, so can save trades and use captain / VC loopholes, etc. Though i feel the best chance is to just roll the dice on your best DGW player(s).
I went Maxwell in Round 1; Short in round 2; and this seemed to work. At the moment I have Khan for round 3 as i hope he’ll have a big couple of games.
Question: Is there anywhere they publish the team lineups prior to each game / round? I’ve been googling like crazy but there seems to only be the squad lists from what I can tell :(. Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated.
Actually just checked and realised I went Stoinis round 1 with my captain choice, but that still worked out ok.
Thanks Brad. Guess I need another excuse for my poor form in rds 1/2.
Confirmed Alex Carey is not in the Strikers Squad for tomorrow nights game against the Heat due to missing the 1am cut off to enter Brisbane with the Covid restrictions.
He was the most traded in player for the round and hopefully nobody Captained Carey as he was the 3rd most Captained player for the Round behind Khan and Siddle.
Just completes what is an awful season for me with c on Carey….at least he got one game in and I might still squeeze a win. Surely Adelaide stand in keeper can somehow be substituted for him under the circumstances ??
Traded lynn in 1 min b4 game starts and he tosses coin and is a late out! Well go fark yourself bbl sc massive waste of time.
Bruce, I was travelling nicely till Carey was an out. Also had Lynn..Fraser McGurk was e and he was used as sub for c loop Pucovski. Oppt had neither and what was looking like a comfortable 100pt win became a 17 pt loss !!
Ah well, at SC gold is open !!
Already picked first draft of team for AFL SC,team picker a god send. Ironically had my best result in bbl this season even with lynn debacle.
I’m 0/3 but will come home hard !!
I’ll finish off this season but won’t waste my time on this crap again.
Until I cant help myself next year!!!
haha…of course !!!
maybe the wheel is turning…stoinis a likely out and I have already traded him…oppt still has him
I have one player in thunder v ren game, cutting , out for a duck without facing a ball in run feast. Did put him on bench with e though! Hope he takes a few wickets.
Ferguson won’t give him a bat or a bowl, good I have e on!
Well, it only gets worse….oppt had e on Sangha who chimed in with a quiet 141 and of course he had c on Maxwell !!
jacks dropped and no cover…lost by 12 !!!
bbl is full of those things SOW With afl you get rewarded for your research and talent but not in BBL Jacks hasn’t really lived up to all the hype.Bring on the real stuff Great dry run for you if you are keen to beat the old man in AFL Keep pluggin away and listening to these talented coaches at SCT good luck NDD
I’m definitely treating BBL as a preseason for the AFL supercoach.
good to be reminded of things not to do while playing BBL
True GraPol, like don’t sideways trade premos ie Darcy short for me this week, was tempted. Plus he has dpp!!.
Been improving every round, vc on Maxwell, c on short. Back to reality!!!
This week’s disaster…Hughes in ahead of his DGW next round. Didn’t like Maxwell score as v so switched c to D Short.
BBL sucks
I took c off short when I heard weather no good, turned on tv , weather report better , c back on short 1 min before start.
Bruce, I am looking at 0-5 start, and am prepared to name myself as the worst BBL coach ever !!!
Despite my whinging I haven’t been going too bad really, started off slow ,13.9k after rd 1 and moved up to 1423 after rd 4, all downhill now probably.
Oh to be so lucky. This round Davies 2, recruit Hughes 2, Salt4, and c Short 16 !!
Tossed up all day between marsh and finch, you know which way I went!!
Finch ? Put your 3 most inexperienced bowlers against oppositions best batters!
I have both and c on Phillipe…I’m some chance.
Good luck , I have 6 double gamers , finch and harper a total of 36 pts each over the 2 games, Hughes?, also have nabi , vince and c on Christian. Who knows!
A magnificent about face by my lads !! Top 7% for the week …only problem is I lost by 8 pts 🙁 Thank you Mr Finch, and the Renegades selectors for dropping Sutherland for his DGW2.
Tell you what though Bruce, my AFL team is looking good !!
Mine is looking ok as well. This weeks bbl disaster, all day was trading short for stoinis, waiting to confirm stoinis was playing and work got in the way so didn’t happen , only cost me about 120 odd points. Oh well everyone has a tale of woe.
No , I can top top that wighty bought in khawaja 1 min before start, second ball duck.
I had v on Maxy…kept going back and forth with Short. Fortunately I put c on Hales….looked like he was going to ton up….with runs.
Big chance to break my duck…..even with a donut !!
And on it goes wighty, put salt on field at last minute thinking he was due!!
I’ll raise your Salt and Khawaja, with a Finch first baller !!
Finch IS due…to be dropped !!
I’m starting to get a complex Wighty , everything I do you go one better!
haha…..but Bruce, are you 0/7 ??
No , but had the c on Christian tonight. I don’t love this game!
Reckon I had you covered this game…..5 players ten or less, didn’t score 400, even with c on Hales 🙁
I leave trades as late as I can, who to trade out of gades to bring in dgw, finally move short on then Meredith pulls out super late, watch Darcy fire now i haven’t got him , and Meredith a useless e on bench!
And I traded short for billings!
Think this round has finished me wighty, no coming back next year, to frustrating, see you in afl macca!
Oh dear. I couldn’t see final teams because of Test, and quite safely introduced new recruit Sams for a DGW and put the v on him !!! C is now on Burns. Davies also omitted. At least oppt had c on Ferguson and I kept Short.
I feel your pain Bruce !! I think you might have me in the sads this round. Hurry up AFLSC…..we can get a league up and start some real sledging !!
Bring on rd 13 so I can dump this crap,
Second game hasn’t started tonight but already locked out. This game just keeps getting better!
Game still hasn’t started , this is is an absolute joke , who is x factor , who is on field . Can’t trade anyone in
Never wanted to let other league members down , but I’m out , this is a waste of time!
Not happy Bruce ??? I’m only fielding10 and still might win. Traded Finch to Sams…Sams might play 2nd DGW game, but Finch certain to ton up !! Perhaps lockouts apply from scheduled starting time, not actual ??
I think you are right about lockout times, I’m going to keep fielding teams each round , but there won’t be much time spent on it.
Bruce….hope you still have Billings !!! I must be the only fool in the country that recruited Sams this round !!! Didn’t know he was out. Might still sneak a win though.
want an easy win? come play me
i suck at BBL
Haha…lets compare pts scored after r8 finishes.
Still going well wighty , 2 heat players ,bazley and denly, 7 points between them in 2 games!
thats 3 zeros and one seven !!
Who would have thought wighty I had Christian, Hughes, and bazley scored 61 bowling, ended up winning both league games.
I’m thinking time to punt on Finch. Hail Mary.
Mate, even though I had Sams….I also won one of my leagues !!! I feel so sorry for my oppt….LOL My pts for is 4906.
On 5751 Wighty. Still have no idea what I’m doing. Alot of ‘learnings’ from this year.
Smashing me !!!
After Maxy first innings duck, I decided to move the c to Short/M Marsh, and changed my mind several times. We know what happened dont we !!
I’ve had another ordinary one Wighty, M.Marsh, Inglis , Khawaja and Hughes all under 10. You can carry 1 or 2 dud scores but 4 is too many , plus getting the C right is as important as in AFL SC. I’m resigned to my fate as an ordinary BBL SC player.
I cleverly decided Sams was going to miss because of concussion and traded him out early albeit for Stoinis and his r10 dgw, Thats after starting Sams last round for a donut. Philippe to Inglis as part of loading up on scorchers for R10. Why am I doing this to myself !!
On another note…last night showed up another BBL anomaly. When it rains, the team batting first gets all its SC scores, but the team batting second and having overs reduced, suffers in a SC way as the middle order bats miss out. In AFL, even when it pi55es down, there are still 3300 pts per game to go around regardless.
Yep , and in afl game an ordinary game still scores a 60 or 70 , in bbl you can easily get squat even if you do some great fielding .
Wow !!! I thought my 455 was bad…and I had 5 players who scored 28 between them, including a donut from Gregory.
I’m still hoping to make finals…just need to win 7 of the last 5 rounds !!
Spot on Wighty It really doesn’t reward effort.Loads of luck involved, now it’s reliant on rain gods Leagues are a tad of fun though DD
Had a shocking week in bbl 381.
bring on AFL !!!
My goodness….I did something right. Welcome new dgw recruit Fletcher !!!
Did you see that you dud Finch !!! Thats how you bat.
Finch…you have raised yourself to an impossibly high level of incompetence with a second ball duck…to Maxwell !!
Most embarrassing donut of all time
And that is goodnight from me wighty, needed roy to make some runs to have any hope!
I was with you on that !!! The sadist in me is going hard these last few rounds to try and create some mayhem for those above me…that would be all 13 !!
And of course the c toss up…Stoinis or Maxwell….you know the rest !!!
And so to this round. Didn’t know Fletcher was out and had already traded FMG out to raise cash. V on Maxy again and C loop used with Labuschagne e on bench. Except I had the e on the wrong bench player. Miss Labuschagne 100+pts and
Fletcher gets me another donut.
And for me stoinis vc,crap, put c on billings , not a touch as keeper and run out for 6. I love this game!!!!
It does prepare you for all the heartache that sc afl will dish up!
Here’s another anomaly wighty , I had mc Andrew, bowled like shit, 1 for 53 off 4 overs , still gets 25 for 1 wicket and 5 dots , no punishment for giving up 13 an over.
Bruce, we have two days of anguish left. I lost by 3 pts even with two donuts !!! This round I’m playing first so planning to go out with a bang. Dont think Finch has scored 10 runs since I bought him in…he’s now priced like a first year rookie !!
I cleverly brought Finch in a few rounds ago thinking surely he will turn it around!!!
For all my grumbling BBL has kept me occupied until the real stuff starts.
Yes Bruce, but what do we do until the real stuff ?? One can only change your starting team so many times.
If only we had SC lawn bowls, that would fill the void!!
Hey wighty, is sc bbl joking , at 7.15 lockout , holt(rookie) was named, green light on , mc Andrew not named, no green light . I had mc Andrew on bench with e , but made the call to trade him after that. Of course now he is playing and holt isn’t, what a joke.
C on stoinis tonight, story of the season! Thank God its over for me!
It is over Bruce…but I’m going to rock it with my team in finals. I also had c on Stoinis…switched from vc Short as oppt had c on him….lost by 5 pts.
Is there a womens SC ?? A bowls SC would be fun !!