Fantasy points as at 20 June

A new week, a new leader appears on the overall fantasy points table.

I. Smillie [Clontarf] scored 97 points this week and now sits atop the table with 972 points. He joins Bagnelstown’s Imran Muhammad (2 May), Adamstown’s A Yadav (16 & 22 May) and Pembroke’s Jeremy Dunleavy (16 & 29 May) and Merrion’s V. Patel as leaders of the table so far this season.

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I. Smillie is now the odds-on favourite to be the first player to break the 1,000 point barrier. He has got to the top with a combination of playing often (a Leinster leading 17 matches), taking wickets (21), holding catches (9) and scoring runs (272). This would appear to be the clear definition of an all-rounder.

Last week’s leader, V. Patel [Merrion] had a relatively quiet week scoring just 30 points and falling to sixth overall. Diarmaid Tucker [Pembroke] remains in fifth place with 923 points after managing to score 96 points despite a heavy defeat to Ring Commons in Division 10. R. Gallagher [Malahide] leapt five places to fourth with 197 points last week and a total of 923.

Third placed Jeremy Dunleavy [Pembroke] returns to the podium after his 119 points took his total to 951. A. Yadav [Adamstown] climbed back up as far as second with 130 points seeing his total just five points behind first.

The ten 11 overall point leaders are:

The team of the week, that is, the players whose points totals increased by the highest amount, is as follows. Interestingly not one player from last week’s team of the season made it into a second week. So an entirely different 11 players appear this week.

The players, who have made the largest strides up the table in terms of places, tend to come from the lower reaches where a gain of a few points could mean a large jump in ranking. Theo Lawson [Pembroke] has had a late start to the season, but has quickly found form with a couple of fifties and even a century in the Bob Kerr RSA All-Ireland Cup (which does not count for fantasy points). 192 points this week added to last week’s ranking of 1,164^th sees him top this table.

Four players have played 15 games or more with overall leader I. Smillie also leading this category with 17 games played. This is enough to play a full league season and a cup game too. By the end of the season could he make it 40 plus games?

A number of players are closing in on 500 runs for the season, but C. McLoughlin [The Hills] remains the leader here with 486 runs. An average of 81.00 and with three half centuries and two centuries he certainly knows where the middle of his bat is.

The top 11 are:

Leading wicket taker is Diarmaid Tucker [Pembroke] with 27 wickets, including a best bowling of 5/26 and an average of 15.37. Diarmaid has also stood in as Pembroke Fifths captain in a couple of games recently and is also playing at underage levels from 13 up.

The top 11 wicket takers are:

The catches category is skewed by not being able to differentiate between bare handed fielders and well-protected and padded wicket-keepers. However here we show them all lumped in together.

* Also has at least one stumping so we assume they are of the protected and padded variety.

Wicket keepers can be the only ones to have stumpings though. So we can show this category without the *.

Totals dismissals, that is, stumpings plus catches, top five are:

That is all of the main categories covered for this week. However, there are some other categories we can examine.

 

• Most innings without being dismissed – 4 Innings - R. Evans [The Hills] (642^nd overall).
• Most games without batting – 7 games - Adnan Khan [Dublin University] (586^th).
• Highest Individual score – H. Pike [Dublin University] (176^th) 168*.
• Highest batting average –132.00 - K. Marchant [YMCA] (190^th).
• Most overs bowled – 97.5 – R. Nair [Dundrum] (21^st).
• Best Bowling figures – 7/11 – Adam Ellison [Rush] (117^th).
• Best Bowling average – 0.00 – T. Monahan [Wexford Wanderers] (1,452^nd) – One ball, one wicket.
• Highest catches per match – 3.00 – S. Smith [Cork County] (1,431^st).
• Wickets per match played – 6 – B. Adams [Phoenix] (812^th).
• Runs per match played – 105.00 - A Shehabeddin [Malahide] (505^th).
• Fantasy points per match played – 245.00 - A Shehabeddin [Malahide] (505^th).
• Total players: 1,839.
• Games played (total appearances/22): 391.
• Total runs scored (excludes extras and penalty runs): 106,106.
• Number of Centuries: 59.
• Number of half centuries: 414.
• Overs bowled: 26,345
• Five wickets in an innings: 78
• Wickets taken by bowlers: 5,434
• Catches held: 2,000
• Stumpings taken: 87
• Total Fantasy points scored: 328,191
• Number of players mentioned in this article: 69

If there is a statistic you’d like to see, or know more about, feel free to ask. That’s it for this week. Here’s hoping that the weather is good this weekend, that we all get out to play and that points flow well.