Syedur Rahman's
The Cricket
Simulator
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NEWS AND UPDATES
NEW - February
2003 - UPDATED SQUADS FOR WORLD CUP
The Cricket Simulator team files have
been updated with the current squads that will be participating in the World
Cup in
NEW - February 2003 - SIMULATED
RESULTS OF FIRST ROUND WORLD CUP MATCHES
After skipping some
lectures last week, I was under pressure to do some work and catch up. After
five minutes of very exhausting reading, I decided to take a three hour break
and simulate all the matches of the World Cup. You can view the score and
commentary files from below or download the whole bunch
of them.
December 2001 - Often in the previous version (i.e.
v5.2), some bowlers' figures were missing from the in-game bowling card and the
score files. (My thanks to Jeremy Brereton for pointing that out). Last
night, I just happened to be running the source code on the interpreter when it
happened again. So, I was able to figure out the problem and it's fixed now.
November 2001 - The
Player Points Checker and Player Transfer Program
I wrote these two programs based on suggestions from those who installed and
played the Cricket Simulator.
The Player Points Checker shows the all round relative strengths of each player
using a points systems based on a formula involving the batting and bowling
averages of a player.
The Player Transfer Program allows you to transfer a player from one team to
another while retaining his career stats (I know that is something totally
against ICC regulations but I intended it to be used for domestic teams, where
players do transfer from one team to another). The transfer program has not
been tested thoroughly, so I suggest you make a backup copy of each team file,
before attempting a player transfer.
Both the exe's are in zipped form, so they must be decompressed to the Cricket
Simulator directory and run from there.
The Player Points Checker checker.zip
The Player Transfer Program transfer.zip
October 2001 - The
predicted results of the cancelled New Zealand tour of Pakistan
Following the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, the New
Zealand board cancelled its tour of Pakistan (this is a cricket site, so her
you with more details). Last week, I sat down and used the announced squads of
the competing sides to simulate each game that would have been played. You can click on the following link -
New Zealand's simulated tour of Pakistan 2001 home
page, to view the stats and scores from this site
You can also download this zip file containing the overall series stats and the
scores from each match. The files must be unzipped to a directory in which the
Cricket Simulator version 4.3 or higher has been installed. However, your old
team and stats files will be overwritten, so its a much better idea, to copy
the Cricket Simulator exes to a new directory and then unzip the files there. Click here to download zip file
The simulated results of matches India would have
played, had they not refused to participate in the Asian Test Championship (considering the predicted results I think they made a good
decision)
June 2001 - The Cricket
Simulator League
The newest version of the cricket simulator (the one that stores stats) was
used to simulate a league involving the top twelve cricket nations of the world
with each team playing all the other teams once in one day internationals. The
results were pretty accurate with
About
the Cricket Simulator and its new features
The Cricket Simulator is
yet another freeware cricket game in text mode. It's a one-man game, designed
and programmed in QuickBASIC by Syedur Rahman, who is an A Level student of computing.
There are two executables included in the zip file - 1daycric.exe (for the
one-day version) and testcric.exe (the test cricket version).
The game uses a complex
formula - about 136 lines of code - to generate the game, by combining the
batsman and bowler’s averages, and predicting the possible outcomes of each
ball. The team data are stored in files with the extensions SRC and STC for the
one-day and test teams respectively. Each file can hold data on fifteen
players, and while beginning a game, a player can select any 11 of them to play
in that particular match. The player will have to select whether to "Play
with a team" or not, that is whether he/she will be in control of the team
(i.e. team selection, bowling changes, declarations, batting orders etc.)
While playing, if you
want to speed up the game you can hold down the enter key, and the computer
will make all the decisions for you automatically, if you hold the shift key
the game is sped up, however if you have selected to "play with a team"
it will stop when decisions need to be made by you. To quit at any time, keep
the escape key pressed.
The results after match
are stored in two files score.txt (score file) and comm.txt (commentary file).
Score.txt will have the batting scorecard, bowling figures and partnership
stats of each innings played in the match. The comm.txt file has ball-by-ball
commentary including the who is bowling to who and the outcome of each ball,
line by line. After each match, the computer will ask whether you want to save
the score file, you can do so by pressing Y and inputting a 8 letter file name,
it will automatically be given the extension SCT. You can also view the
recentmost score by selecting "Display old scores" from the main menu
and then choosing "Display recentmost score". You can also select to
load an old saved score file from the current directory.
The new version also
stores the statistics of each player for all matches played using the cricket
simulator. You can view or erase them from the view stats option on the main
menu. All records (matches played, innings, runs, averages, strike rates,
wickets, economy rates etc) are stored and updated in the team files after
every game.
The commentary file can
be displayed by going to Display Old Scores option and then selecting
commentary file. The recentmost commentary file can also be saved or viewed. If
saved the extension SCC is given to it, and it can be loaded later at any time.
The newest version
of The Cricket Simulator includes the following features·
- Team files, eighteen (previously used to be 15)
cricketers per team
- Player can select 11 of the 18, and ch ange the
batting line up
- Statistics for each cricketer - batting &
bowling types and averages which actually affect the game
- Selecting bowlers
- Ball by ball commentary
- The score file & new commentary file
- Ability to save an unlimited number of these
files and view them later
- Over graphs
- Partnership figures
- AI is better at selecting bowlers, declaring
etc.
- It can now keep statistics
(matches played, innings, runs, averages, strike rates, wickets, economy
rates etc) for each player for all the games played using the cricket
simulator
The test cricket
version has some added features as well as those already mentioned
- Keeps track of time for lunch, tea and end of
day
- Declarations
- Innings Victories
- Follow ons
- RAIN!
Finally, I hope you
enjoy playing and I would like to thank all those who downloaded the earlier
versions and of course those of you who will be trying out the latest version
of The Cricket Simulator
The official "The Cricket Simulator" web site at http://cricksim.thesportcity.com
Syedur Rahman
Designer and Programmer
The Cricket Simulator
E-mail address: endoor@iname.com
Personal Site: http://syedur.isonfire.com
Cricket
Site: http://cricket.thesportcity.com
Copyright 2001: Syedur Rahman, The Cricket
Simulator