h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Griffin has now missed 8 striaght games for your Phantasy Phootball team. I must ask you to sell him on or risk losing points.

B

Hooray, I've been waiting for this Don't suppose I get any money back, no?

Yes, as it happens. You can have £0.9m for him.

B

Any decision on this? I don't think I've received an email.

B

BTW (and this won't surprise you), I object to the Phantasy scoring system. I have two batsmen who helped their team to an innings victory this weekend, yet receive potentially fewer points than batsmen who batted twice.

B

I haven't even looked yet - just deduct points or whatever, and I'll get to it when I get time.

Of course you can potentially get fewer points if a batsman is out first ball and doesn't take a catch, but these things will even out over the season. The average score of batsmen helping to an innings victory has to be more than the average of a batsman on the losing side, even taking batting twice into account. The bowlers will also get to bowl twice, giving them more point-scoring potential than the losers, and you've got twice the opportunity of catches and stumpings. So team performance is factored in.