Silent Auction Draft

[Red]

Can we bid the same and have an order of preference or just bid a dollar difference?

I'm imagining people are just going to bid everything they have left on the players they want. That's fine.

In that case, put them in order of preference. If two participants bid the same amount for the same player, I'll just randomise it to see who gets him.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Thats what, 8 bowlers, 6 of which are test class.

 

[Dan]

5 of them were absolutely world class at some point in their careers. What a round to finish.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Bill Ponsford-$1,835,000
Mark Taylor-$1,732,000
Lindsay Hasset-$1,220,000
Greg Chappell-$3,210,000
Norm O'Neill-$600,000
Chandu Borde-$400,000
Freddie Flintoff-$2,100,000
Don Tallon $1,224,000
Harbhajhan Singh-$450,000
Sylvester Clarke-$1,832,000
-

Geriant Jones $1

Remaining: $396,999.

 

[NUFAN]

Yesss. I have more cash than dan and ONIY

 

[watson]

It's ONIYs lucky day - 5 quality quicks for Round 12.

 

[weeman27bob]

Weeman's Terrible Team

Name [HR][/HR]	Value [HR][/HR]
Geoffrey Boycot Brian Close Vijay Hazare (6) Arjuna Ranatunga Scott Styris Allan Watkins Fred Titmus Kiran More + Ben Hilfenhaus Wes Hall Kyle Mills	$2,100,500 $350,000 $2,144,455 $851,000 $1,400,000 $1 $1,200,500 $254,400 $200,000 $2,775,000 $80,000
TOTAL	$11,355,956

Apologies to Dan for stealing his format, but it was the easiest way to go.

Can't say this has gone particularly well for me. I've got a lot of decent players, just not a lot of very good players. The bowling is alright, and probably better than most real life bowling attacks around today, but the batting is shocking. As a result of that I think I'm going to have to blow $3.5 million on David Warner in the last round.

 

[morgieb]

morgieb's XI

Name [HR][/HR]	Value [HR][/HR]
Michael Slater Roy Fredericks Greg Ritchie Javed Miandad Keith Fletcher Rod Marsh + Richie Benaud (4) Michael Kasprowicz (3) Allan Donald (1) Ernie Jones (2) Ray Price (5)	$1,250,000 $900,000 $50,000 $3,000,000 $300,000 $1,000,000 $2,500,000 $300,000 $3,000,000 $100,000 $70,000
TOTAL	$12,470,000

Price and Ritchie the main weak links. Other than that it looks fairly solid.

 

[Camo999]

Some interesting line ups. Mine turned out reasonably well balanced at least - I like the flair of De Silva / Miller / Pataudi in the middle order. Bowling attack not too bad - Shoaib / Miller / Lock all quality. With my favourite 'keeper Junior Murray behind the stumps anything could happen. Only $47k left...

1 PA Jaques $186,001
2 KC Wessels $723,011
3 JF Reid $432
4 PA De Silva $2,400,504 (6)
5 KR Miller $6,000,435 (2)
6 *MAK Pataudi $833,333
7 GE Gomez $53,657 (5)
8 +JR Murray $1,100,046
9 GAR Lock $1,415,003 (4)
10 Shoaib Akhtar $2,200,006 (1)
11 KCG Benjamin $40,002 (3)


Total $14,952,430

Cap $15,000,000

Remaining $47,570

 

[Dan]

As a result of that I think I'm going to have to blow $3.5 million on David Warner in the last round.

****.

I wanted to rid myself of Salman Butt...

Oh well, hopefully I can snag one of the seriously good quicks for my remaining $200k to get rid of Dominic Cork.

 

[weeman27bob]

****.

I wanted to rid myself of Salman Butt...

Oh well, hopefully I can snag one of the seriously good quicks for my remaining $200k to get rid of Dominic Cork.

If you can convince me why one of the other players would be better for my team, I"m all ears.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Yeh, 13 rounds. Obviously if you can finalize your team in Rd 11 or Rd 12 that's ok. If you have no money left at some point you will get randomized, un-selected players for that round for $1.

Okay...

 

[Dan]

If you can convince me why one of the other players would be better for my team, I"m all ears.

Procter for Watkins would be a serious trade-up, IMO. Extra quick, deeper batting to offset Close up the top, captaincy material, and means Styris can play in his better role as a specialist bat without bowling much at all.

Boycott--Hazare--Ranatunga is strong enough to deal with, especially with morgieb batting Greg ****ing Ritchie at 3.

Plus Wes Hall and Mike Procter opening the bowling would mean Mills is less of a weak bowling link than he otherwise would be.


Sold yet?

 

[weeman27bob]

Thinking about it.

 

[Dan]

All irrelevant anyway tbh; someone else will outbid me for him even if you don't drop 3.5mil

 

[NUFAN]

Okay...

Yeah this. I would have definitely bid higher on Richie if I knew it was going to be just 12 rounds..

 

[NUFAN]

NUFKIT
1. (vc)
2. Navjot SIDHU
3. Kumar SANGAKKARA (C)
4. Ryan HINDS (6)
5. Jaques KALLIS (4)
6. Sanjay MANJREKAR
7. Frank WOOLLEY (5)
8. Neil JOHNSON (1)
9. Dick LILLEY+
10. Terry ALDERMAN (2)
11. Steve FINN (3)

Remaining budget: $397,000 approx

Thoughts guys?

 

[Dan]

NUFKIT
1. (vc)
2. Navjot SIDHU
3. Kumar SANGAKKARA (C)
4. Ryan HINDS (6)
5. Jaques KALLIS (4)
6. Sanjay MANJREKAR
7. Frank WOOLLEY (5)
8. Neil JOHNSON (1)
9. Dick LILLEY+
10. Terry ALDERMAN (2)
11. Steve FINN (3)

Remaining budget: $397,000 approx

Thoughts guys?

I'd be going:

1. Johnson (6)
2. Sidhu
3. Sangakkara
4. Kallis (4)
5. Woolley (5)
6. Manjrekar
7. Pellew
8. Lilley
9. A Quick (2)
10. Finn (3)
11. Alderman (1)

Unless you're really confident on grabbing Warner for your remaining budget, that is.

 

[Camo999]

Thoughts guys?

Is the other opener Nip Pellew? I'd switch him with Manjrekar in the order. Not a bad side. If Neil Johnson is opening the bowling I'd prob try to get a bowler this round and bench either Hinds or Johnson. I like that you've got Hinds batting above Kallis though. I'd prob keep him in the line up just for that. I know you like Terry at 10 but I'd never have him batting above 11 unless you somehow manage to get Bruce Reid.

 

[weeman27bob]

Not going to put any bids in until we establish whether this is the final round.