Draft Thread- Randomised test playing nations

[Howe_zat]

Dudley Nourse and Denis Compton

 

[Howe_zat]

Hobby
Sunny
Compy
Noursy
-
Brendy
Devi
Tatendy+
Warney
Freddy
-

Would like a specialist captain for that #5 spot. Perhaps Lloyd or Waugh if I can wangle it

 

[watson]

The OP - Compy in, Noursy on ice ?

Each day I will put each participant's name in to a randomiser, and the order they come out in determines which nation each participant gets to choose from that particular day. Each participant chooses any player who has played at least one test for that nation. The round closes when I randomise the next round (at least 24 hours). If someone hasn't chosen by the time I post the next round, they must wait until the completion of the draft to choose from players unselected from the particular nation they missed.

England
Australia
South Africa
West Indies
New Zealand
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Zimbabwe
Bangladesh


Note- It's obviously possible that you might choose multiple times from Bangladesh. Conversely, it's also possible you'll choose multiple times from Aust or Eng.

Draft will be completed in 12 days once participants are finalised. Participants only need to be able to log on and select once every 24 hours.

Post if keen.

 

[Pothas]

Alan Davidson

 

[Howe_zat]

That's ****ed up. I already missed out on picking Richards just for coming to pick as soon as someone reminded me.

We've never disallowed people from catching up before.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah don't see why catching up is not allowed.

Up to Monk though I guess.

 

[Jarquis]

Rangana Herath

 

[watson]

Morgieb - George Headley
Watson - Barry Richards
Honest B - Shoaib Akhtar
BeeGee - Chris Cairns
Justo - Alistair Campbell
AZH - Robiul Islam
Howe - Denis Compton
Pothas - Alan Davidson
Marcuss - Rangana Herath
Cabinet -

 

[morgieb]

Catching up when you next picks is usually the policy IIRC. Why are the rules different here?

 

[watson]

Catching up when you next picks is usually the policy IIRC. Why are the rules different here?

In typical Drafts you only get to pick every 2-7 days because the selections are one at a time, 12 hours at a time. So you quite literally don't really know when you are up next unless you keep checking.

In this style of Draft there is no guess work. Picks are made once every 24 hours because there is no waiting for everyone else to take their turn. Simple.

I guess it's simplicity means that the Draft can, and should, be moved along quickly rather than slowly. But I'm only second guessing Monk here.

 

[BeeGee]

Catching up when you next picks is usually the policy IIRC. Why are the rules different here?

The only question is one of timing on the current round. If Howe had posted his SA catch up pick before watson (and chosen Richards) who gets precedence?

Personally I don't have a problem with catch up picks as long as they're made after the current round pick, which is exactly how things have panned out here with watson picking first, then Howe with his catch up pick.

 

[Red]

That's ****ed up. I already missed out on picking Richards just for coming to pick as soon as someone reminded me.

We've never disallowed people from catching up before.

Yeah don't see why catching up is not allowed.

Up to Monk though I guess.

In typical Drafts you only get to pick every 2-7 days because the selections are one at a time, 12 hours at a time. So you quite literally don't really know when you are up next unless you keep checking.

In this style of Draft there is no guess work. Picks are made once every 24 hours because there is no waiting for everyone else to take their turn. Simple.

I guess it's simplicity means that the Draft can, and should, be moved along quickly rather than slowly. But I'm only second guessing Monk here.

I decided not to do catch up picks because of the nature of the draft. It was stated at the outset that you only need to come on once every 24 hours in this draft to make your pick (unlike a normal draft when it can be very random, and you may not get to pick for quite a few days). I figured it's a simpler way to run a quick draft. And I stated it in the opening post.

 

[Jarquis]

New round?

 

[Red]

Round 1
Howe_zat - Jack Hobbs
morgieb - Adam Gilchrist
Marcuss - Jacques Kallis
Cabinet - Garfield Sobers
Watson - Richard Hadlee
AZH - Sachin Tendulkar
Pothas - Imran Khan
Bee Gee - Muttiah Muralitharan
honestbharani - Andy Flower
Justo - Shakib Al Hasan

Round 2
Watson - Wally Hammond
BeeGee - Glenn McGrath
honestbharani - Aubrey Faulkner
Justo - Malcolm Marshall
Pothas - Martin Crowe
Howe_zat - Sunny Gavaskar
Marcuss - Waqar Younis *
Cabinet - Kumar Sangakkara
morgieb - Heath Streak
AZH - Tamim Iqbal

Round 3
Watson- John R Reid
Justo- Rahul Dravid
morgieb- Curtly Ambrose
Howe_zat- Shane Warne
AZH- Allan Donald
BeeGee- Wasim Akram
Pothas- Dave Houghton
Cabinet96- Mushfiqur Rahim
Honest Bharini- Jim Laker
Marcuss- Mahela Jayawardene

Round 4
Bee Gee - Len Hutton
Cabinet - Dennis Lillee
Justo - Graeme Pollock
Pothas - Viv Richards
Morgieb - Shane Bond
AZH - Anil Kumble
Marcuss - Javed Miandan
honest bharini- Sanath Jayasuriya
Howe_zat - Brendan Taylor
Watson - Mohammed Rafique

Round 5
Howezat - Fred Trueman
Marcuss - Bill O'Reilly
AZH - Mike Procter
BeeGee - Michael Holding
Morgieb - Stewie Dempster
Justo - VVS Laxman
Watson - Majid Khan
Pothas - Aravinda de Silva
Honest bharini - Murray Goodwin
Cabinet - Mahmudullah

Round 6
Pothas - Sydney Barnes
Honest Bharini - Keith Miller
Cabinet - Dale Steyn
BeeGee - Clyde Walcott
AZH - Martin Donnelly
Howezat - Kapil Dev
Watson - Hanif Mohammad
Marcuss - Marvin Atapattu
Morgieb - Grant Flower
Justo - Khalid Mashud

Round 7
Howe - Tatenda Taibu
Morgieb - Greg Chappell
Watson - Joel Garner
Pothas - Shaun Pollock
Marcus - Les Ames
AZH - Farokh Engineer
BeeGee - Younis Khan
Honest B - Nasir Hossain
Justo - Thilan Samaraweera
Cabinet – select at end of draft from NEW ZEALAND

Round 8
Watson - Fazal Mahmood
HonestB - Brian Lara
BeeGee - Herbert Sutcliffe
AZH - Habibul Bashar
Pothas - Virender Sehwag
Justo - Chaminda Vaas
Marcuss - Graeme Hick
Morgieb - Ricky Ponting
Howe – select at end of draft from SOUTH AFRICA
Cabinet – select at end of draft from NEW ZEALAND

Round 9
Morgieb - George Headley
Watson - Barry Richards
Honest B - Shoaib Akhtar
BeeGee - Chris Cairns
Justo - Alistair Campbell
AZH - Robiul Islam
Howe - Denis Compton
Pothas - Alan Davidson
Marcuss - Rangana Herath
Cabinet - Select at end of draft from INDIA

 

[Red]

There were 10 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
1. - Bee Gee
2. - AZH
3. - morgieb
4. - Howezat
5. - honest bhirani
6. - Cabinet
7.- Pothas
8. - Marcuss
9. - Watson
10. - Justo

Timestamp: 2013-06-25 00:46:13 UTC

Round 10
England- Bee Gee
Australia- AZH
South Africa- morgieb
West Indies- howezat
New Zealand- honestbharini
India- cabinet
Pakistan- pothas
Sri Lanka- marcuss
Zimbabwe- watson
Bangladesh- justo

 

[watson]

01. Barry Richards
02. Hanif Mohammad
03. Majid Khan
04. Walter Hammond
05.
06. John R Reid
07. Paul Strang
08. Richard Hadlee
09.
10. Faisal Mahmood
11. Joel Garner

12th. Mohammad Rafique

 

[BeeGee]

01. Sir Len Hutton *
02. Herbert Sutcliffe
03. Younis Khan
04. Ken Barrington
05.
06. Sir Clyde Walcott +
07. Chris Cairns
08. Wasim Akram
09. Michael Holding
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Glenn McGrath

 

[watson]

There's a sure thing ("SaddleUp") running at Flemington this afternoon at 4pm. You should definitely put some money on it BeeGee because you're bound to win.

 

[BeeGee]

There's a sure thing ("SaddleUp") running at Flemington this afternoon at 4pm. You should definitely put some money on it BeeGee because you're bound to win.

I've certainly been lucky with the randomizer.

 

[Justo]

Another Lamb to throw to the wolves.

01. Habibul Bashar
02. Alistair Campbell
03. Rahul Dravid
04. Graeme Pollock
05. VVS Laxman
06. Thilan Samaraweera
07. Shakib Al Hasan
08. Khaled Mashud +
09. Chaminda Vaas
10. Malcolm Marshall
11.

3 x Bangladesh, 2 x Sri Lanka and 1 x Zimbabwe now .