Scorecard Draft II

[Furball]

What's wrong with pre-1900 players exactly? Seems a pretty stupid rule.

 

[Cevno]

Last time we kept going there again and again and ended up stuck there till someone decided to pick a lesser player to help get out from that era.

Those who don't have to pick from there also end up being helped while some have to pick 3/4 players from there who are pretty unknown.
Also last time due to being stuck there for a time some time periods in 1900's got ignored to an extent.

 

[honestbharani]

in too.. and support some sorta rule to get us out of the black hole that the pre 1900 era became for us in the last draft..

 

[ankitj]

In

 

[Howe_zat]

How did you end up getting stuck in the 19th century?

Spoiler

Was the DeLorean playing up again?

 

[G.I.Joe]

How did you end up getting stuck in the 19th century?

Spoiler

Was the DeLorean playing up again?

In. Good stuff, Himmanv!

Also in favour of randomising alternate rounds and no restrictions at all on the time periods. Fine with the 10 Test rule. In favour of a 12 hours per pick time frame, and participants who don't end up picking when its their turn should mandatorily end up at the end of that particular round (and the next, if the next round is a mirror image round), rather than pick whenever they turn up. It wasn't pleasant last time when there doubts on the intentions of latecomers, would rather we avoid that sort of controversy by having this rule in place.

I'd want to see alternate round randomisation, to prevent a situation where a participant suffers more than the others just for having to (almost) always pick after another specific participant who's particularly good at deliberately excluding players with his scorecard selections. IMO we'll see the scorecard exclusions used as a tactic a lot more this time round now that we've got a hang of the game. Plus true randomisation (with the NUFAN fix) adds to the fun because you never know which period you'll have to select from next!

Also in favour of letting as many people in as possible. I loved that we had 18 (?) participants last time.

EDIT: Also in favour of letting Bradman stay.

 

[smash84]

In

 

[Jarquis]

Also in favour of randomising alternate rounds and no restrictions at all on the time periods. Fine with the 10 Test rule. In favour of a 12 hours per pick time frame, and participants who don't end up picking when its their turn should mandatorily end up at the end of that particular round (and the next, if the next round is a mirror image round), rather than pick whenever they turn up. It wasn't pleasant last time when there doubts on the intentions of latecomers, would rather we avoid that sort of controversy by having this rule in place.

I'd want to see alternate round randomisation, to prevent a situation where a participant suffers more than the others just for having to (almost) always pick after another specific participant who's particularly good at deliberately excluding players with his scorecard selections. IMO we'll see the scorecard exclusions used as a tactic a lot more this time round now that we've got a hang of the game. Plus true randomisation (with the NUFAN fix) adds to the fun because you never know which period you'll have to select from next!

Also in favour of letting as many people in as possible. I loved that we had 18 (?) participants last time.

All of this. All of it.

 

[Howe_zat]

I'd want to see alternate round randomisation, to prevent a situation where a participant suffers more than the others just for having to (almost) always pick after another specific participant who's particularly good at deliberately excluding players with his scorecard selections. IMO we'll see the scorecard exclusions used as a tactic a lot more this time round now that we've got a hang of the game. Plus true randomisation (with the NUFAN fix) adds to the fun because you never know which period you'll have to select from next!

A good point, actually. NUFAN fix?

 

[G.I.Joe]

A good point, actually. NUFAN fix?

Yeah, last year NUFAN pointed out a fatal flaw in going with a simple snake in this draft, wherein a player with two consecutive picks could set up a selection for himself on his second go. He later suggested a fix for it in post #185. Read on from about this post when we were discussing whether or not to randomise alternate rounds - http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/47447-scorecard-draft-5.html#post2274652

All of this. All of it.

wub

 

[Himannv]

In so far:

01. Himannv
02. Marcuss
03. weeman27bob
04. Cevno
05. GingerFurball
06. weldone
07. Howe_zat
08. marc71178
09. salman85
10. honestbharani
11. 8ankitj
12. G.I.Joe
13. smalishah84

 

[Jarquis]

Nah, if we're not snaking then we can have more than 12...
Loved my team from the first one..

 

[Himannv]

True. The 12 participants idea came in because I planned it to be a snaking order. I could always randomize alternate rounds if thats what people prefer.

 

[Himannv]

In, but can we clarify the 1900 rules - is it they can't have played any games before 1900 or they can't have played all their games before 1900?

Updated the rules. I think that should give us a fair leeway to pick a few 1890/1900 greats.

 

[Himannv]

Using this as a randomizer: RANDOM.ORG - List Randomizer

Ok, just going to start this now. Any number of participants can join and when they do come in they get added to the bottom. Going to use the NUFAN fix alternate round randomizing technique. No Bradman, no more changes. Edited my first post one more time. Time to start.

Round 1 order

01. salman85
02. smalishah84
03. Marcuss
04. Cevno
05. Howe_zat
06. honestbharani
07. marc71178
08. 8ankitj
09. weldone
10. weeman27bob
11. Himannv
12. GingerFurball
13. G.I.Joe

salman to pick from this test: 2nd Test: West Indies v India at Bridgetown, Jun 28-Jul 2, 2011 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[ankitj]

Why the 10 test cutoff?

And we all know who Salman will pick

 

[Spark]

Signups all occuring when I'm asleep

 

[weldone]

By the way, one request from my side. Since I don't have access to cricinfo in my office, can we do this using howstat scorecards plaese?

HowSTAT! Match List Menu

 

[Somerset]

Any room for one more to compete in the draft?

 

[G.I.Joe]

Salman's time is up. smalishah has 2 hours 10 minutes to go before Marcuss is up.