On Your Marks...Get Set...Go!

It suddenly dawned on me this morning that this whole affair starts tomorrow! Are you ready? I'm not, I immediately went into a panic, I have all Afghani Es and Fs on my team, my printer won't print the fixtures, I can't figure out how to get a nice clean list of all the players with their rankings, Do I make the WK my captain? How many trades do I make each day? Do I tell everyone that Steyn is out with an injury? What time will they close the trades? I wanna watch the matches, can I subscribe to Willow TV for one month or do I have to commit to a longer time frame? ...... SO MANY questions and things to do. But I sat down, got out a nice clean sheet of paper and a trusty pencil and I got to work. I think I have myself sorted for now at least.

So it all begins tomorrow with England taking on South Africa. Seems like expectations for England are high, those for SA are low. But England has a habit of going sideways, so who knows. Then on Friday its Pakistan v. West Indies. Remember, there is no group stage, just one big round robin set of 45 matches. Then top 4 go on to the semis. You have 300 modifications, so that works out to 6.25 modifications per match, but a captaincy change costs extra, and some days you don't have time to make modifications between matches, so I'm thinking maybe I could make like 8 changes a day......or maybe I do a complete change every other day......should I pick A players? they use up a lot of budget, how do I best use the "mixed role" players? Maybe I should take both wicket-keepers...... now I'm in a panic again.