Silent Auction Draft

[weeman27bob]

Should probably have been a bit more aggressive there, Vaas isn't really that useful for my team.

Should be able to score a quality opener now though.

 

[kyear2]

Miscalculation in the last round and no funds left.

Missed out on the best batting talent round for the draft.

 

[Dan]

Tactically grabbing a **** player last round for $1 gives me some hope of grabbing a decent player here.

That or I end up with a bench-warming leg-spin duo from the 1940s, in Colin McCool and Doug Ring. At least they know how to cut the oranges and mix the Powerade.

 

[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 Chaminda Vaas 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 $400,000 $254,400 $200,000 $2,775,000 $80,000
TOTAL	$11,755,956

 

[Red]

I'll finish this tomorrow morn lads. On work's coin too!

 

[Dan]

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 Chaminda Vaas 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 $400,000 $254,400 $200,000 $2,775,000 $80,000
TOTAL	$11,755,956

Grabbing one of the openers and shifting Close to 6 would definitely improve your side -- I've seen worse top orders than Boycott/Hobbs/Hazare/Ranatunga/Styris, especially when you bat relatively deep.

And given your funds remaining, I think you're getting one of the openers

 

[weeman27bob]

A line up of

1. Boycott
2. Hobbs
3. Hazare
4. Ranatunga
5. Styris
6. Close
7. Watkins
8. Titmus
9. Vaas
10. More +
11. Hall

Bowling attack struggles a bit, but it's actually a solid batting team.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Dynamo Morpork

Name [HR][/HR]	Value [HR][/HR]	Test career [HR][/HR]	Batting [HR][/HR]	Bowling [HR][/HR]
Marvan Atapattu Mohsin Khan Andrew Jones Inzamam-ul-Haq Robin Smith Trevor Goddard Chris Cairns Jeff Dujon + James Franklin/A N Other Merv Hughes Courtney Walsh Gus Logie	$759,490 $550,000 $710,000 $2,100,000 $770,000 $1,600,000 $1,500,000 $1,800,000 $650,000 $1,900,000 $2,650,000 $1	90 Tests 1990-2007 48 Tests 1978-86 39 Tests 1987-95 120 Tests 1992-2007 62 Tests 1988-96 41 Tests 1955-70 62 Tests 1989-2004 81 Tests 1981-91 31 Tests 2001-13 53 Tests 1985-94 132 Tests 1984-2001 52 Tests 1983-91	5,502 runs @ 39.02 2,709 runs @ 39.10 2,922 runs @ 44.27 8,830 runs @ 49.60 4,236 runs @ 43.67 2,516 runs @ 34.46 3,320 runs @ 33.53 3,322 runs @ 31.94 808 runs @ 21.71 1,032 runs @ 16.64 936 runs @ 7.54 2,470 runs @ 35.79	n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 123 wickets @ 26.22 218 wickets @ 29.40 wicketkeeper 82 wickets @ 33.97 212 wickets @ 28.38 519 wickets @ 24.44 n/a
TOTAL	$14,989,491

 

[Red]

Final Round

Ohno - JP Duminy - $1

Morgieb - Sunil Gavaskar - $1,830,000

Nufan - Dale Steyn - $200,001

Samuel Vimes - Bobby Peel - $10,509

Dan - Matthew Hoggard - 199,999

Weeman - Jack Hobbs - $3,244,044

Cammo - Doug Ring $12,007

kyear - David Williams - $1


Well played boys. Post up your final XIs and I'll put up a voting thread shortly.

 

[Dan]

Missed out on Dale Steyn by $3. Damn you n00fers.

Dominic Cork or Matthew Hoggard as a third seamer? Both pretty similar bowlers with pretty similar records, but Cork with the bonus batting.

 

[Dan]

Dan's XI

Name [HR][/HR]	Value [HR][/HR]
Colin Milburn Salman Butt Charlie Macartney (6) Zaheer Abbas Darren Bravo Stanley Jackson (5) * Daniel Vettori (4) Ian Healy + Mitchell Johnson (2) Dominic Cork (3) Jack Cowie (1) --- Matthew Hoggard Doug Ring	$600,000 $700,000 $2,000,000 $1,800,000 $1,400,000 $900,000 $1,600,000 $1,800,000 $1,700,000 $500,000 $1,800,000 --- $199,999 $1
TOTAL	$15,000,000

Relatively happy with how this XI has come out. World-class opening bowlers, more than handy third seamer, one of the highest quality spinners up for grabs to keep things tight, and Jackson/Macartney are more than capable of churning out 10 overs of quality each per day.

Hoggard's off cutting the oranges and warming the bench, and is more than capable of coming into the XI for a quick without dropping off quality too much. Doug Ring is also very familiar with sitting on the bench while gun teams win everything.

Meanwhile an opening partnership of two unfulfilled talents (Butt was getting pretty good before he got banned), followed up by the man I would argue is close to the best non-Bradman #3 of all time, one of Pakistan's best ever and a Lara clone. Jackson averages nearly 50 in Tests, and the side bats to 10 (Cork has a FC double ton FFS; should arguably bat above Mitch).

And in Healy I have a classy 'keeper.

Pretty frustrated that I've missed out on Dale Steyn by $3 to NUFAN (WAFC), because that would have given me a ludicrously aggressive fast bowling attack (Steyn--Cowie--Johnson would be epic to watch).

 

[NUFAN]

What an absolute steal! My side is epic considering how it started. Will post later.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I bid 10k for Bobby Peel...

200k for Steyn tho, yikes.

 

[Red]

I bid 10k for Bobby Peel...

200k for Steyn tho, yikes.

Edited, you're right. Apologies to you and ohno (who hopefully hasn't read this yet!)

 

[Red]

Final Round

Ohno - JP Duminy - $1

Morgieb - Sunil Gavaskar - $1,830,000

Nufan - Dale Steyn - $200,001

Samuel Vimes - Bobby Peel - $10,509

Dan - Matthew Hoggard - 199,999

Weeman - Jack Hobbs - $3,244,044

Cammo - Doug Ring $12,007

kyear - David Williams - $1


Well played boys. Post up your final XIs and I'll put up a voting thread shortly.

Fix'd after **** up with ohno and SV.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

**** Bobby peel would of made my side that much more incredible. Duminy can join the benches and really happy with this.

Bill Ponsford
Mark Taylor*
Lindsay Hasset
Greg Chappell (6)
Norm O'Neill
Chandu Borde (5)
Freddie Flintoff (3)
Don Tallon +
Harbhajhan Singh (4)
Sylvester Clarke (2)
Bob Willis (1)

JP Duminy
Geriant Jones


Three of Australia's greatest up the top, with the best batsmen not named Hobbs coming in behind them, which hopefully can provide a platform for O'Neill and Borde to play their shots, before Flintoff and Tallon give it a thump. The bowling isn't quite so good, but i have two of the quickest ever in Willis and Sylvers, plus the spinners turn it different ways and capable of tearing teams apart on helpful pitches. Add in Taylors captaincy and the multitude of gun fielders and this is my strongest draft so far.


Thankyou for all the trouble of organising this Monk, definitely one of the better drafts.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

No regrets on Chappell, except maybe shaving of 500k. Chances are Chappell is going to be one of the 3-4 elite batsmen in this.

Perhaps, but give me 6 decent batsman ahead of Chappell + Imrul Kayes and co. every day

The beauty of hindsight

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Dynamo Morpork

Name [HR][/HR]	Value [HR][/HR]	Test career [HR][/HR]	Batting [HR][/HR]	Bowling [HR][/HR]
Marvan Atapattu Mohsin Khan Andrew Jones Inzamam-ul-Haq Robin Smith Trevor Goddard (5) Chris Cairns (3) Jeff Dujon + Bobby Peel (4) Merv Hughes (2) Courtney Walsh (1) Gus Logie James Franklin	$759,490 $550,000 $710,000 $2,100,000 $770,000 $1,600,000 $1,500,000 $1,800,000 $10,509 $1,900,000 $2,650,000 $1 $650,000	90 Tests 1990-2007 48 Tests 1978-86 39 Tests 1987-95 120 Tests 1992-2007 62 Tests 1988-96 41 Tests 1955-70 62 Tests 1989-2004 81 Tests 1981-91 20 Tests 1884-96 53 Tests 1985-94 132 Tests 1984-2001 52 Tests 1983-91 31 Tests 2001-13	5,502 runs @ 39.02 2,709 runs @ 39.10 2,922 runs @ 44.27 8,830 runs @ 49.60 4,236 runs @ 43.67 2,516 runs @ 34.46 3,320 runs @ 33.53 3,322 runs @ 31.94 427 runs @ 14.72 1,032 runs @ 16.64 936 runs @ 7.54 2,470 runs @ 35.79 808 runs @ 21.71	n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 123 wickets @ 26.22 218 wickets @ 29.40 wicketkeeper 101 wickets @ 16.98 212 wickets @ 28.38 519 wickets @ 24.44 n/a 82 wickets @ 33.97
TOTAL	$15,000,000

Thought the batting looked strongest for the most parts of the draft but with the last pick I think I've made the bowling the strongest. Walsh-Hughes-Peel-Cairns-Goddard is an attack to match most around. No superstar in the batting and a slightly weak top 3, but picked up enough allrounders to stay competitive IMO.

Thanks for the draft Monk, was fun. Shame Bradman didn't pop up

 

[morgieb]

morgieb's XI

Name [HR][/HR]	Value [HR][/HR]	Test career [HR][/HR]	Batting [HR][/HR]	Bowling [HR][/HR]
Michael Slater Sunil Gavaskar Roy Fredericks Javed Miandad Polly Umrigar Keith Fletcher Rod Marsh + Richie Benaud (4) Michael Kasprowicz (3) Allan Donald (1) Ernie Jones (2) --- Greg Ritchie Ray Price	$1,250,000 $1,830,000 $900,000 $3,000,000 $700,000 $300,000 $1,000,000 $2,500,000 $300,000 $3,000,000 $100,000 --- $50,000 $70,000	74 Tests from 1993-2001 125 Tests from 1970-1987 59 Tests from 1968-1977 124 Tests from 1976-1993 59 Tests from 1948-1962 59 Tests from 1968-1982 96 Tests from 1970-1984 63 Tests from 1952-1964 38 Tests from 1996-2005 72 Tests from 1992-2002 19 Tests from 1894-1902 --- 30 Tests from 1982-1987 22 Tests from 1999-2013	5312 runs @ 42.83 10122 runs @ 51.12 4334 runs @ 42.49 8832 runs @ 52.57 3631 runs @ 42.22 3272 runs @ 39.90 3633 runs @ 26.51 2201 runs @ 24.45 445 runs @ 10.59 652 runs @ 10.68 126 runs @ 5.04 --- 1690 runs @ 35.60 261 runs @ 8.70	1 wicket @ 10.00 1 wicket @ 206.00 7 wickets @ 78.28 17 wickets @ 40.11 35 wickets @ 42.08 2 wickets @ 96.50 n/a 248 wickets @ 27.03 113 wickets @ 32.88 330 wickets @ 22.25 64 wickets @ 29.01 --- n/a 80 wickets @ 36.06
TOTAL	$15,000,000

I'm OK with this. Really good Top 4 for this draft - Gavaskar and Miandad are obvious guns, and Slater and Fredericks are nice, aggressive bats. Benaud is a quality all-rounder here and Donald should be gun as the main spearhead. Fletcher and Umrigar aren't dire, Marsh is a decent keeper, Jones was fairly highly regarded IIRC and Kasprowicz is a fine option for that 3rd quick role.

 

[Camo999]

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 (3)
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 JB Statham $22,011 (1)
11 Shoaib Akhtar $2,200,006 (2)

12 KCG Benjamin $40,002
13 DT Ring $12,007

Total $14,986,448

Cap $15,000,000

Spare $13,552

Picking up Statham late was an unexpected bonus. Statham / Shoaib / Miller / Lock are all guns. Plenty of flair with De Silva / Miller / Pataudi in the middle order. Reasonable opening pair.

Selection dilemma with Gomez v Ring. I'll go with Gomez as the default for some extra batting but Ring handy to have in the squad for variety. Dan, I reckon you got McCool instead of Ring?? Kenny to come in when Shoaib is suspended / injured.

Of the slightly weaker spots Reid at #3 has a surprisingly sensational record (no doubt helped by teaching geography instead of making the 84/5 Windies tour!) and Junior Murray's slowest test 100 is probably still quicker than any other ton by a keeper in this draft. I like to think he paved the way for Gilchrist.