Where our numbers come from

Ball-by-ball history

Cricsheet’s data, under the Open Data Commons Attribution License: every ball of 23,241 men’s and women’s matches, to 3 November 2026.

In 19,687 of its T20 and ODI matches, every player’s fantasy points by the app’s points system: 4,34,270 player-games.

Today’s matches

Squads, playing XIs, credits, roles and the points after the result come from the FantasyArena Pro app’s own match data: 126 matches in 27 series since 5 September 2026.

We match the app’s players to Cricsheet’s by name, team and match: 879 of 1,039 matched (687 checked by hand), 82 still to check, 78 not in Cricsheet.

How we pick the three XIs

From the two announced XIs, within the app’s rules: 11 players, 100 credits, at most 10 from one side, 1 to 8 of each kind. Each player is worth his form, the average of his points in past games, and how much it swings:

• Steady: the average less a quarter of the swing, so the steadier players come first.
• Balanced: the average alone.
• Bold: the average plus half the swing, only with five games’ history.

The captain and the vice-captain by the same values. Before the toss, where a match preview names both sides’ probable XIs, we also pick from each side’s likeliest players by those XIs, shown as “Probable XI · not confirmed”: some picks may not play. After the toss we pick again from the announced XIs. With under two thirds of the squad having five games in the format, there is no predicted XI.

Record: after the lineups, on the app’s 22 matches, the Balanced XI scored on average more points than 75.3% of random valid XIs; on 3,318 matches of history since 2024, 80.1%. Any one match can go any way.

Before the toss, from the probable XIs: on the app’s 18 matches whose preview named both XIs, the Balanced XI scored on average more points than 44.2% of random valid XIs; on 384 matches of history since 2024, 58.6%.

They have not passed our test of scoring more points than random valid XIs on the app’s matches: a probable pick, not a final team.

What our history does not have

• Cricsheet does not have every match: some are missing from its files.
• Afghanistan men’s international matches (380) and the Afghanistan Premier League are not in it.
• Under-19 matches are not in it.
• Legends’ matches are not in it.
• Many domestic leagues are not in it.
• New matches arrive a few days after they are played.
• No roles, credits or bowling styles: those are the app’s.

When it changes

The history every night; a match’s page every 30 seconds from the toss to the first ball.

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