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Test draft - players can only be picked from 3 nominated countries and decades

mr_mister

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So, a few years ago I did a couple of drafts that were pretty well received, one where all your players had to be picked from only 2 debut decades of your choice(eg Bradman would be the '20s if he was allowed, which he won't be for this draft) and a separate one where all players had to be picked from 2 countries of your choice.

Your first pick would decide the 1st country/decade that you were using, and then you could save up revealing your 2nd pick in either round 2 or round 9 if you wished(in other words, whenever you wanted). There was no limit to how many drafters latched onto a decade or country, so we had a lot of people digging into Australia's players for countries and the 1990s for the decades - the 1900s and Sri Lanka for example had far less people deciding to dip into them.


I want to combine the two ideas - where your whole XI can only be made up of players from 3 decades and 3 countries. I'm not sure if limiting it to 3 would make things too difficult, so am considering bumping it to 4 if enough people wish. That might make things too easy though, and I know I'd rather a draft be too hard rather than too easy, so am leaning toward 3.


Looking for 12-14 drafters, the more the merrier!
 
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mr_mister

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if people want to study how the last 2 drafts played out:



 

trundler

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Does this mean the three decade+country combo will look like one can eg only pick from 2000s Australia or Australia and the 00s to go with 2 more such combos?
 

AndrewB

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Does this mean the three decade+country combo will look like one can eg only pick from 2000s Australia or Australia and the 00s to go with 2 more such combos?
I was assuming you'd have 3 decades and 3 countries to combine however you like in 9 possible combinations.
 

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