With five Saturday teams and more than one hundred senior playing members, the club is bigger and better than ever before. Now, we have a fantasy league to match. As far as my research has told me, this is the biggest amateur club league in existence - anywhere in the world.

The theory behind it is threefold: firstly, it's just a good bit of intra-club competitive fun. Secondly, it's a great way of meeting other members of the club, continuing the great atmosphere around the place and keeping everyone involved in others' successes, with the 1s and 5s as interested in each other's results as their own. Thirdly, with a number of club legends having recently moved on to different parts of the globe, this is as good a way as any of keeping them updated with how teams and individuals are getting on. So wherever you are, please get involved!

The club is charging £10 to enter, with 50% of all entry money being put back into the prize money pot.

The link to the website is below - all very self-explanatory once you're there. Just press 'sign-up', enter an email address and a password, and you'll be free to create your team. £55m to spend, four batsmen, four bowlers, two all-rounders and one keeper. Captain scores double points and can be changed weekly. All rules and point-scoring info can be found on the site.

You get one free transfer per week once the season starts but unlimited transfers between now and 6th May. So please feel free to start having a play-around with your options sooner rather than later. You'll realise it's harder than it seems...

Naturally, there will always be a bit of debate over valuations. Rest assured, the badgers that we are, Matt Cracknell and I have not just plucked figures out of the sky - tempting though it was! We've spent ages coming up with formulae, first, to place players into batter, bowler, all-rounder and keeper categories; and then to rank them value-wise on last season's statistics. The formulae are completely team-neutral. As such, runs/wickets in the 1987 League are valued as totally equal to the Premier League. Cricket is cricket. There are, however, a handful of exceptions to the formulae where long-term enforced absence skewed the stats and, therefore, the valuations.

For what it's worth, the machine that is Andre Mishra topped last season's stats so starts alongside Tom Nicoll as the joint most valuable player, while you can snaffle up Steve Nurse in a juicy-looking £2m bargain.

We've tried to push this as close to football's highly successful Fantasy Premier League game - in look, selection, rules and point-scoring. For those that aren't familiar with the concept, treat it as a poor man's IPL auction!

I'd like to think that, as a club, we could hit, as a minimum, 60+ participants - not least for a very pleasant jackpot at the end of it all! If your email account looks after multiple Midd players, do please share this with them too. The link to the site is below, as are the club's bank account details for you to stick your £10 into.

http://north-middlesex.fantasyclubcricket.co.uk/

North Middlesex Cricket Club
Sort Code: 60-12-02
Account Number: 25630229
Reference: name
Amount: £10

If you're new to the club or didn't play last season and want to get involved, let me know and we'll get you uploaded with an appropriate valuation.

In the meantime, sign-up, think of an amusing team name, and put a side together. It's not easy, and it's not meant to be!