CricketGem

CricketGem runs private fantasy cricket leagues for groups of friends and colleagues. A league fills its squads once, with a live auction or a snake draft, and CricketGem then scores every match and keeps a live leaderboard, team breakdowns and player stats, so everyone always knows who's ahead and why. It started as the score tracker for one friends' league, the Rollick Fantasy League, whose organiser was tired of updating spreadsheets the morning after every match. There are no payments, prizes or wagering.

What it does

• Runs the auction or draft: a live bidding room with a shared timer, purses and squad limits, or a turn-by-turn snake draft.
• Computes fantasy points using a transparent, versioned scoring system covering batting, bowling, fielding, and Player-of-the-Match bonuses. The full rule table is published at /scoring-rules.
• Maps player performances to team ownersbased on the league's auction or draft, then adds every innings up into a live leaderboard. Scorecards are fetched automatically after each match.
• Drill-downs into match-by-match breakdowns, per-player totals, and per-team rosters.
• Any number of leagues: every league has its own squads, and all of them share the same scoring engine.
• Shareable snapshots — owners can generate an image of the current standings to post in the group chat.

How scoring works

Each scorecard row becomes a per-player performance. Points are awarded for runs (with bonuses for boundaries, sixes, and milestones), wickets (with bonuses for hauls), dot balls, maidens, catches, stumpings, and run-outs. Strike rate and economy rate contribute bonuses or penalties once a minimum balls-faced / overs-bowled threshold is met, so cameo scores don't accidentally trigger bonuses. The Player of the Match gets a flat bonus.

All rules live in a single config object, rendered publicly at /scoring-rules so the league's rule set is never a mystery.

Who it's for

This site exists for a specific group of friends running their own IPL fantasy leagues. It is not a betting or gambling product: there are no cash prizes, no wagers, no entry fees, and no transactions anywhere on the site. Standings are for bragging rights only. See the terms for more.

How the data flows

• An organiser logs match scorecards into a Google Sheet.
• The server pulls the sheet, normalises each innings, and runs it through the scoring engine.
• Results are cached and surfaced on the league page as a leaderboard, a per-team view, and a per-player view.
• The sheet is the single source of truth — nothing is stored about visitors.

Tech stack

• Next.js App Router on Vercel
• React 19, server components for page metadata
• Google Sheets API as the data source
• Vercel Analytics + Speed Insights + Microsoft Clarity
• No user accounts, no login, no personal data stored

Privacy & data

We don't collect names, emails, or personal information from visitors. Analytics is anonymous and used to understand traffic patterns and keep the site fast. Full details are in the privacy policy.

Explore

• Home
• Scoring rules
• How to play / join
• Contact

Contact

Questions, bugs, or requests? Email mpruthvisasank@gmail.com.