GUIDES

Why a Captain Matters: Bowling changes, fields at the death, and holding a side together in a chase: what a T20 captain actually decides, and why the vice-captaincy is a real choice.
How IPL Auctions Work: Purse caps, retention and overseas-player limits: the mechanics behind a T20 franchise auction, and how the game puts you through the same calls.
How Real Careers Become In-Game Ratings: Every player is built from real career numbers. How an average and a strike rate become a rating, and the trick that makes a higher rating actually buy survival.
Why Your 99-Rated Star Still Gets Out: Peak seasons in T20 cricket look almost superhuman. Why CricArcade keeps its very best players clearly great without letting them become un-dismissable.
How a T20 Innings Is Modelled: Powerplay, middle and a death where everyone slogs: how 20 overs are shaped, calibrated to hundreds of thousands of real IPL deliveries.
Who Bowls This Over? The AI's Bowling Rotation: Pace at the death, spin through the middle, and a part-timer who tails off: how the engine picks a bowler for every over, and why it feels like captaincy.
One Engine, Five Formats: ODI, T20, online versus, the BBL and the super over run on the same engine, separated only by a handful of numbers. What actually changes between formats.
Mega Auctions and Mini Auctions: Why the IPL rebuilds itself from scratch every few years, what changes in between, and how a 20 crore purse became 120 crore.
IPL Retention, Season by Season: What it costs a franchise to keep a player, how the purse deduction works, and why the retention window is the most consequential hour of the IPL year.
The Right to Match Card: The auction mechanism that lets a franchise buy back a player it just lost, how the bidding actually works, and why it was withdrawn and then restored.
Overseas Player Rules in the IPL: Four overseas players in an XI, eight in a squad, and the four-chair puzzle every franchise has to solve: how the cap shapes an auction and a team.

IPL · SOLO CAPTAINCY

Pick a side, call the shots

You make a decision at every over boundary. Batting, you set the tempo. Bowling, you pick who bowls under the four-over cap and set the field. The AI captains the other side.

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