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Scorecard Draft

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Good Point.

Most others will not be giving the next drafter a chance to pick Bradman ,but you and Riggins can so just by placing the previous selection accordingly.
Exactly Cevno. It will still be hard to get Bradman, someone is bound to stuff it up before one of us on the end gets a chance.

I think we might struggle to spend much time before the 1960s tbh as some people will naturally favour the player they've seen over someone who they haven't.
 

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
I like the idea of randomizing every other time tbh..
Ya, now I too feel the same. Randomize it for every round, not only for odd rounds. (Because randomizing the odd rounds will also give advantage to somebody, for instance Riggins in round 2)...

So, we should randomize every round starting from round 2; wat say guys?
 

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
I like the idea of randomizing every other time tbh..
But then it could place someone at a serious disadvantage and someone at a big advantage.

Is there a Randomiser which generates a draft order with the sum of everyones positon in each round being equal?
 

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
Exactly Cevno. It will still be hard to get Bradman, someone is bound to stuff it up before one of us on the end gets a chance.

I think we might struggle to spend much time before the 1960s tbh as some people will naturally favour the player they've seen over someone who they haven't.
No, I think IF it goes to Bradman's time, it will surely go to Barnes' time as well...and once it goes there, it'll need huge efforts to come back...will be hilarious that, if happens...and extremely interesting, too.
 
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NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
We could easily make it that we have to go:
rnd 1 Michaelf7777777
rnd 1 Riggins
rnd 2 Michaelf7777777
rnd 2 Riggins

rnd 2 weldone
rnd 2 NUFAN
rnd 3 weldone
rnd 3 NUFAN

That's very fair and not too hard to work out.
 

Jamee999

Hall of Fame Member
Ugh, it's so much easier to follow and keep up with drafts if we use a snake, rather than randomising every round. If someone tactically getting Bradman is so bad, we should just say nobody can draft him.
 

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Ugh, it's so much easier to follow and keep up with drafts if we use a snake, rather than randomising every round. If someone tactically getting Bradman is so bad, we should just say nobody can draft him.
Haha yeah, who's that person with the signature that says that Bradman didn't exist cause the footage blurry.
 

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
No, I think IF it goes to Bradman's time, it will surely go to Barnes' time as well...and once it goes there, it'll need huge efforts to come back...will be hilarious that, if happens...and extremely interesting, too.
Crossing the second World war could be a hurdle.

But once we do that it would be hard to come back .
 

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Some interesting points being raised in the discussion that I hadn't thought of actually. We have till before the end of Round 2 to reach a consensus. I'm not very much in favour of removing Bradman from the draft, makes it seem contrived tbh.

Round 1:

NUFAN - Muttiah Muralitharan
weldone - Adam Gilchrist
Noble One - Glenn Mcgrath
Cevno - Curtly Ambrose
Blakus - Vivian Richards
Himmanv - Imran Khan
honestbharani - Richard Hadlee
kingkallis - Malcolm Marshall
GI Joe - Brian Lara
Shri - Kumar Sangakkara
pskov - Shane Warne
HeathDavisSpeed - Jacques Kallis
Somerset - Sachin Tendulkar
marc71178 - Wasim Akram
Marcuss - Waqar Younis
Jamee999 - Ricky Ponting
Michaelf7777777 - Andy Flower
Riggins

Round 2:

Riggins
Michaelf7777777
Jamee999
Marcuss
marc71178
Somerset
HeathDavisSpeed
pskov
Shri
GI Joe
kingkallis
honestbharani
Himmanv
Blakus
Cevno
Noble One
weldone
NUFAN

Riggins, remember you get two plays right now..
 

Himannv

Hall of Fame Member
kingkallis gave the best and most logical suggestion. Randomize every odd number round and you're sorted. Keeps everything fair as you cant blame the randomizer for your position anyway.
 

G.I.Joe

International Coach
We could easily make it that we have to go:
rnd 1 Michaelf7777777
rnd 1 Riggins
rnd 2 Michaelf7777777
rnd 2 Riggins

rnd 2 weldone
rnd 2 NUFAN
rnd 3 weldone
rnd 3 NUFAN

That's very fair and not too hard to work out.
That's an elegant solution too. Could be used in conjunction with the alternate round randomising if the majority of people insist on the randomisation. Keeps the sum of all positions overall almost equal too, as Cevno pointed out.
 
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weldone

Hall of Fame Member
Crossing the second World war could be a hurdle.

But once we do that it would be hard to come back .
Bradman played with too many pre-War greats to be ignored. That's why I said if it goes to Bradman's era, it'll surely go to Barnes' era at least; and there's huge chance of it staying there for a substantial period of time, which will be good fun.
 

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
That's an elegant solution too. Could be used in conjunction with the alternate round randomising if the majority of people insist on the randomisation. Keeps the sum of all positions overall almost equal too, as Cevno pointed out.
Ya that's a good solution. And if that's followed, then the need of randomizer vanishes altogether.

So, round 2 will start with Michael after Riggins makes his pick.
 
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weldone

Hall of Fame Member
Does it make sense to wait for this new (?) and irregular guy Riggins? Or, should we just go ahead with the following order in round 2 (according to NUFAN's procedure)?

Jamee999
Michaelf7777777
Marcuss
marc71178
Somerset
HeathDavisSpeed
pskov
Shri
GI Joe
kingkallis
honestbharani
Himmanv
Blakus
Cevno
Noble One
weldone
NUFAN
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
I wouldn't say it defies logic. It gives myself and Riggins an advantage since we are going first and last, it means we have two goes in a row so we can try and set it up for ourselves and get that star on our second selection.
Which is precisely why it should be randomized to be honest - that to me is a huge huge advantage.
 

kingkallis

International Coach
Which is precisely why it should be randomized to be honest - that to me is a huge huge advantage.
Marc, reversed and random are the only real and fair option!

I wont like if I come 15th or 16th in lets say 3-4 rounds....here if I am 15th in 1 round then I know that I am gonna be 2nd in very next one!
 
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pskov

International 12th Man
I would be in favour of either keeping the order as we have currently and have it snake each round OR randomise the order every two rounds with them reversing. Having odd rounds randomised with even rounds as a set order could end up with an unfair advantage for someone who is lucky and is always at the start of each round.

I'd also not object to removing Bradman, though it does present a quite interesting Mornington Crescent style challenge so would prefer him being kept in.
 

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