Taboo Draft

[zaremba]

1.
2.
3. Ponting
4. Jayawardene
5.
6.
7. Parks (w)
8. Tate
9. Laker
10. Thomson
11. McGrath

Like many others, I'm struggling for batsmen

 

[Pothas]

Hampshire legend George Brown (Keeper) who also happens to have 626 first class wickets.

 

[uvelocity]

deleted and moved (I picked early by accident)

 

[Pothas]

Err hate to break it to you but think it was Zaremba's turn...

 

[uvelocity]

are you jerkin my gherkin? his last round pick wasn't it. pick again zaremba! please!

 

[kingkallis]

So whose turn is it? Can I pick now since uvelocity made his pick?

Zaremba uncle, you should have picked twice - ARGH!

 

[zaremba]

Blimey this is obviously way beyond me.

Sorry.

So, who is taboo for me then?

 

[uvelocity]

batsman (cabinet) and keeper (pothas) uimm

 

[Himannv]

Yeah Batsman and Keeper are taboo.

This gets a bit complicated when people miss their turn.

 

[zaremba]

Not sure I did miss my turn that time though, did I? After me it was Pothas, and then me again. But you uvelocity jumped in. Sorry if I've misunderstood. But if I'm right, I get to pick a batsman I think?

Edit: I get it now. Not sure this is much fun now - it's been a while since I've been able to pick a batsman and this now starts to look like an exercise in watching my team get more and more distorted with surplus bowlers. My fault for picking McGrath over Lara in the first round I suppose.

Anyway let me ponder and I will pick shortly

 

[uvelocity]

yeah I was out of order, early, so I really should delete that pick, wait for you, and then pick. But it shouldn't affect what you pick. I was counting ahead that I'd get a batsman and got excited.

 

[zaremba]

Yep I'm up to speed now mate, have edited previous post and will now briefly consider whom to pick

 

[zaremba]

Johnny Wardle (spinner)

 

[uvelocity]

a batsman hurrah!

Stephen Fleming (Batsman) sc00bs

*Stephen Fleming sc00bs
Vin00 Mankad howzat
+ Rod Marsh 46 cans
Chris Lewis prat without a hat / cocaine smuggling
Shane Warne ***ting
Shoaib Akhtar nandrolone
Saeed Ajmal chucka
Mohammad Asif match fixing

yeah it's not that fun if you have a sucky team, but the rules can be tweaked for next time to make for a fairer game maybe

 

[zaremba]

Yeah, it's wrong of me to moan - it's the same for everyone, and frankly I should have seen this coming and gone for a batsman in round 1 when I had the chance. A rule tweak next time might be a good idea though.

Here's a suggestion to ameliorate the problem: how about in the 12th round we can all have a free pick? I say that because it's pretty clear that lots of people are going to be left with some horribly unbalanced teams - which is no fun really - purely because they just didn't get the chance to pick enough batsmen. One or two people will be ok, but that's mainly because the draw favoured them. I realise that there are downsides to changing the rules as we go along, but it's to deal with a problem that has only fully been appreciated as the process has unfolded, and it's probably the lesser of two evils. It's also not as though people are going to be picking Bradman or Hammond in round 12 either, it would just allow a bit more balance to people's teams.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Yeah, it's wrong of me to moan - it's the same for everyone, and frankly I should have seen this coming and gone for a batsman in round 1 when I had the chance. A rule tweak next time might be a good idea though.

Here's a suggestion to ameliorate the problem: how about in the 12th round we can all have a free pick? I say that because it's pretty clear that lots of people are going to be left with some horribly unbalanced teams - which is no fun really - purely because they just didn't get the chance to pick enough batsmen. One or two people will be ok, but that's mainly because the draw favoured them. I realise that there are downsides to changing the rules as we go along, but it's to deal with a problem that has only fully been appreciated as the process has unfolded, and it's probably the lesser of two evils. It's also not as though people are going to be picking Bradman or Hammond in round 12 either, it would just allow a bit more balance to people's teams.

I do feel bad for having not thought out the format fully before we started. I don't blame people for losing interest for no fault of theirs; the format is far too restrictive. I have no problems with implementing your suggestion.

 

[kingkallis]

So who is picking now??

 

[uvelocity]

you tiger with batsman and spinner as tab00

kingkallis
Spikey
Himannv
Jager

 

[kingkallis]

Ok so lemme go for my wicket keeper. Dave Richardson will keep wicket for my team.

CricZo XI

1. Sir Len Hutton /
2.
3. David Gower /
4. Javed Miandad /
5.
6.
7. Dave Richardson +
8. Sir Richard Hadlee o /
9. John Snow o
10. Micheal Holding o
11. Bhagawath Chandrashekhar o
12.

 

[zaremba]

I should say I've got a bloody awesome bowling line up:

McGrath
Thomson
Tate
Laker
Wardle

Not sure there are many conditions in which that attack wouldn't do well.