Reverse Alphabetic Draft

[kingkallis]

Are we doing 11 rounds or 12?

 

[weldone]

Are we doing 11 rounds or 12?

11. Otherwise, Bradman can't be 10th pick.

 

[trundler]

George Headley. My batting lineup needs an alpha.

 

[ankitj]

Yeah I know right. Trying to guess what will be left after your next pick is painful.

My favourite thing about this draft is that the intensity builds as you progress. At the start everyone is all chill, picking the next ATG they spot, but by the end you're nerves are shot as you wait and hope that you can get that one guy you've been hanging out for, only to see it grabbed by the person in front of you.

The best part of this draft is the risk takers.

We try and strategize next few picks and the drafter ahead of you will make a drastic jump and will push you back to the drawing board!

We can do variants of this. For example debut chronological draft. Both for ODIs and tests. I'll be happy to run it

 

[trundler]

Or a draft where you pick one from each decade starting with 1890s (excluding 1910s and 1940s).

 

[ankitj]

Or a draft where you pick one from each decade starting with 1890s (excluding 1910s and 1940s).

This has been done a couple of times probably. And wouldn't allow jumping forward kind of tactics.

I am thinking of an ODI draft where you pick 11 players from about 45 debut years. One player from each year allowed. More wiggle room given 45 slots instead of 26 but still enough room for tactics.

 

[trundler]

Oh yeah, you're right but it'd be cool moving into richer eras and planning around it. Sounds like a basic idea so probably done. Up for the debut draft though.

 

[Pothas]

Everyone's favourite:

Sunil Gavaskar

 

[AndrewB]

An idea I had a while ago (though I hadn't thought of the twist of getting rid of rounds which it would also fit with) is to that you have to pick your side in the order of their batting averages, lowest first.

 

[kingkallis]

An idea I had a while ago (though I hadn't thought of the twist of getting rid of rounds which it would also fit with) is to that you have to pick your side in the order of their batting averages, lowest first.

I remember participating in one such draft. I think it was called Average Draft. Could not find it on CW though.

 

[Pothas]

I like the average idea. Getting rid of rounds is the thing though, makes it so much better.

 

[stephen]

I have an idea for a draft- like game that I was planning on running after this.

The basic idea is that everyone submits a team to me via email and you score points for how many players you have in common with everyone else. The 11 most popular players form the team for that round (those players can't be picked in future rounds). People score 1 point for each player they picked who made it into the side. After 5 rounds the person with the most points wins.

It would be short, sharp and a bit of a different type of game to change things up from drafts.

 

[stephen]

An idea I had a while ago (though I hadn't thought of the twist of getting rid of rounds which it would also fit with) is to that you have to pick your side in the order of their batting averages, lowest first.

I love that idea and it's great that it can be used in conjunction with the rotating player order (which IMO is something that adds real tactical spice to a draft).

 

[trundler]

We have to do the low average draft next

 

[stephen]

• SillyCowCorner1: Frank Worrell, Dan Vettori, Kumar Sangakkara, Ian Redpath, Bobby Peel, Makhaya Ntini, Mudassar Nazar, Javed Miandad
• Teuton: Younis Khan, Bob Willis, Gary Sobers, Andy Roberts, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Morris, Imran Khan
• ankitj: Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, KS Ranjitsinhji, Muttiah Muralitharan, Clive Lloyd, Len Hutton
• kingkallis: Clyde Walcott, Herbert Sutcliffe, Barry Richards, Glenn McGrath, Harold Larwood, Rohan Kanhai, Michael Holding
• weldone: Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn, Joe Root, Graeme Pollock, Mahmudullah, Jack Hobbs
• trundler: Shane Warne, Victor Trumper, Bob Simpson, Jack Russell, Malcolm Marshall, Jacques Kallis, George Headley
• AndrewB: Kane Williamson, Hedley Verity, Steve Smith, Mike Procter, Keith Miller, George Lohmann, Alan Knott, Matthew Hayden
• honestbharani: Everton Weekes, Chaminda Vaas, Frank Tyson, Shakib Al Hasan, ​Kagiso Rabada, Eddie Paynter, Mushtaq Mohammed, Brian Lara, Wally Hammond
• ataraxia: Steve Waugh, Derek Underwood, Glenn Turner, Viv Richards, Bill Ponsford, Bert Oldfield, Ray Lindwall, Richard Hadlee
• stephen: Zaheer Abbas, Bill Woodfull, Sachin Tendulkar, Shoaib Akhtar, Ricky Ponting, Dudley Nourse, Jim Laker, Kapil Dev, Adam Gilchrist
• pothas: Waqar Younis, Hugh Tayfield, Graeme Smith, Shaun Pollock, Dennis Lillee, Virat Kohli, Mahela Jayawardene, Sunil Gavaskar

 

[stephen]

I like the average idea. Getting rid of rounds is the thing though, makes it so much better.

I personally think that the combination of something non- cricket related with the mixed up player order is what works for this draft. Because you can't just follow a set strategy of building your pace attack first and then moving on to openers and finally filling in your middle order. You're forced to mix things up.

It was the way HB drafted in the classic draft that gave me the idea tbh.

 

[ataraxia]

Another draft idea would be to continue this same series of drafts but players picked previously in the series are ineligible to be picked again.

 

[Teuton]

Keen to get these drafts finished quickly and move onto new ideas.

SCC times out in a bit over an hour.

 

[stephen]

Scc has timed out. Teuton is up.

 

[Teuton]

Mike Hussey