Battrick » Rules

Currently there are two competitions in Battrick, both involving the fifty over versions of the game.

The League
These are what are the season is based around; You will play fourteen games in total, split home and away with seven other teams for promotion or, ultimately, your national title. Four points are awarded for a win, two for a tie, and none for a loss. As a separator Net Run Rate (Net RR) is used, an explanation of which can be found here.

Battrick operates a pyramidal league system. In each country there is one top level division, four 2nd level divisions, sixteen 3rd divisions and so on in multiples of four until we reach the sixth division (1024 of those) if a countries grows to the size that is this is necessary.

Your division will be called something like III.9, the exceptions being the top division in each country which are named individually. The roman numeral (III = 3) is the level of your division while the 9 is the division number.

At the end of a season the team ranked first in the division is declared the division winner. If this division is the not the top level (i.e. our example III.9) then this team will appear in the "Promotion Table" where all the winners of divisions in that level will be ranked by the number of points (and then net run rate) they have achieved in their respective division. So in level III we have sixteen divisions and so sixteen first place teams. The top half of this list are promoted automatically, replacing the 7th and 8th teams in the divisions in the level above. (So in III, the top eight replace the 7th & 8th placed teams in divisions II.1 to II.4)

The lower half of the promotion table will play a play off match away to either a fifth or sixth placed team (depending on their exact position in the promotion table). A win will see them promote and replace their opponent in their division, while a lose will result in the team remaining in exactly the same division.

The teams ranked second, third and fourth will remain as they are in exactly the same division for the next season.

The teams ranked fifth and sixth will play off against teams ranked in the lower half of the level below's promotion table. If they win their play off they will remain in exactly the same division for another season, but if they lose they will replace their opponent in their lower level division.

The teams ranked seventh and eight placed teams are automatically relegated to divisions in the level below.

Play Offs are played in Week 15 at the time usually allotted to the OD League Games.

The Cup

The Cup competition is a straight knockout tournament. The number of teams in the competition depends on the number of levels in the country:

Levels	Teams in Country	Teams in Cup	Rounds
2	40	32	5
3	168	128	7
4	680	512	9
5	2728	2048	11

Seeding is based upon the previous seasons league placing so the reigning league champions are top seed. Once seeding reaches II all teams who finished in each position (i.e. all 1st place, all 2nd place,) in each division are compared in terms of points gained and Net RR if required. So the highest Series II winners is seed 9, the lowest 12. The highest second place is seeded 13 and the lowest 16, while the highest III winner is ranked 41, and so on until we reach the last team to fill the quota.

The first round cup draw is done simply by putting the highest seed against the lowest, the second against the next lowest and so on. If the highest seeded teams wins then they will play the lowest remaining seed in the next round.

If however, they lose, then the lowest seed still is the lowest seed; the seeding is fixed for the whole competition and so it doesn't take the seeding of the league champion. Therefore they will play the highest remaining seed in the next round.

However the tie will always be played at the lower seeds ground.

Friendlies

If you are knocked out of a cup then your players needn't sit the second matchday out. Instead you can challenge any team (including foreign sides) who are also no longer involved in their countries cup to a home or away friendly. Simply go to such a teams Pavilion page and the option is the bottom right hand corner. On the otherhand you can accept challenges from other teams by going to the Challenges page in the pavilion drop down menu, where all applications are listed for you to accept or reject.
Obviously a friendly match doesn't attract such a large crowd as a competitive match, nor provide the same level of experience to players due to the lower stakes, but it will help keep them in good touch.

Reaching a Result

In either the cup competition or in a play off match, where an outright result must be reached, in the event of a tie the first decider called upon is wickets remaining, the team with the greater number remaining being the winner. If this is unable to decide matters, then the scores after 15 overs are compared for runs, and then wickets as well.

Prize Money

Teams finishing 1st down to 4th are awarded Prize Money at the end of the season. The amount is currently TBA but will effected by at what level the division is. Promoted sides will receive an additional bonus, auto promoted sides receiving the larger.

The cup winners and runners up will also receive some prize money.