Vineet Raj Kapoor is one of the early entrants to the world of web and has been riding the wave ever since the days of Archie and Gopher. He left his high profile job as a Commercial Manager with Hutch in 1996 to start his own companies – VirtualSoft Technologies and VirtualCity Informatics. Today his interests range from Animation, to New Media and Visual Communcations – and supplemented with his high skills in creative writing he’s already a leading expert in the field of e-branding!
Born in 1966, BE (Mechanical), MBA (Marketing & Finance). Worked previously in Tata Sons, and Hutch before venturing out.
Special interest: Is a Poet, Writer, Photographer, Artist, founder member of different alumni associations
Member:
- ASCI (Administrative Staff College of India),
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers,
- Bombay Productivity Council,
- UBS Alumni Association (Secretary, Chandigarh Chapter)
He has a passion for cricket which is more devoted towards innovations. Even 30 years ago at school, his mind was working on cricket algorithms when he created a dice based system for playing fantasy cricket. This was far superior to the usually played book cricket, and it had scope for realistic scores, partnerships, mode of dismissal and used to maintain fantasy cricket records. He also created cards based cricket which was again a very different approach to those existing. In fact, his only purpose of playing fantasy (or book cricket or dice cricket) was just to keep fine tuning his algorithms so that it keeps improving and giving more true results. He used to also setup up and play complete fantasy world cups (and olympics for that matter) including draws/ schedules of matches and many other issues.
Here are some of the observations the author made before the world cup which stood firmer than ICC’s own rating system. The article below was written during the Super 8 stage.
True to the Vineet’s Cricket Team Rankings, the first 6 teams made it to the second round (in sharp contrast to only 4 out of top 6 teams in ICC Rankings) with 2 teams Pakistan (7th) and India (8th) getting replaced by other teams.
I still expect my rankings to hold true and 4 Teams from 1-5 rankings (Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, England and Sri Lanka) to make the next round. Most like a toss up between England and Sri Lanka, with possibly Sri Lanka going through since Jayasuriya is passing through a very special period. Most likely even the lineup order would remain the same as my rankings.
This all points to a question, whether the ICC Ranking system holds true? They didn’t even acknowledge that a team called Ireland could be ranked, whereas, I had Ireland at No. 6 in my ranking!! ICC gives high ranking to India and Pakistan (in the top 6) whereas my rating was at 7 and 8 (at the edge of qualification).
My ranking system is based on the ranking of the players who represent the country in the previous year, and the performance of each one of them counts. And each Ball Counts! Which means a failed try would also be counted as much as a succesful debut, and each team member would need to contribute before the team can be ranked high.I would surely like your comments about what you think of all this?
The rankings can be checked here:
http://www.onedayers.com/cricket/odi/category/rankings/
Besides the Ranking system he has developed a unique format for a fantasy league as well as another unique cricket based fantasy game which would allow for a speculation portal. He has many ideas as well as keen interest and understanding to see them through.
Similarly, www.onedayers.com was the first portal to give IPL, ICL ratings before the start of the tournaments.
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