Sheep Draft 2022

[weeman27bob]

• Australia: Richie Benaud, Allan Border, Don Bradman, Greg Chappell, Pat Cummins, Alan Davidson, Adam Gilchrist, Clarrie Grimmett, Neil Harvey, Dennis Lillee, Ray Lindwall, Glenn McGrath, Keith Miller, Bill O'Reilly, Ricky Ponting, Steve Smith , Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Steve Waugh
• England: Sydney Barnes, Ken Barrington, Ian Botham, Denis Compton, WG Grace, Wally Hammond, Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Alan Knott, Herbert Sutcliffe, Fred Trueman, Hedley Verity
• India: Jasprit Bumrah, Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar,Vinoo Mankad, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar
• New Zealand: Richard Hadlee, Neil Wagner
• Pakistan: Shoaib Ahktar ,Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Waqar Younis
• South Africa: Allan Donald, Aubrey Faulkner, Trevor Goddard, Jacques Kallis, Dudley Nourse Vernon Philander, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Shaun Pollock, Mike Procter, Kagiso Rabada, Barry Richards, Dale Steyn, Hugh Tayfield
• Sri Lanka: Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakarra
• West Indies: Curtly Ambrose, Ian Bishop, Joel Garner, Gordon Greenidge, George Headley , Michael Holding, Brian Lara, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts, Viv Richards, Garry Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Courtny Walsh, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell
• Zimbabwe: Andy Flower

 

[weeman27bob]

@honestbharani @JOJOXI

 

[weeman27bob]

Round 10

Trundler	Jim Laker
Bitmap	Joe Root
Himannv	Geoffrey Boycott
Teuton	Rahul Dravid
honestbharani	Rishabh Pant
RIS	AB de Villiers
AndrewB	Arthur Morris
Fuller Pilch	KS Ranjitsinhji
JOJOXI	James Anderson
L&L	Javed Miandad
Ataraxia	Shakib Al Hasan

 

[weeman27bob]

Our first round where everyone has picked unique players!

 

[trundler]

Well that's no fun.

 

[CricAddict]

Round 10

Trundler	Jim Laker
Bitmap	Joe Root
Himannv	Geoffrey Boycott
Teuton	Rahul Dravid
honestbharani	Rishabh Pant
RIS	AB de Villiers
AndrewB	Arthur Morris
Fuller Pilch	KS Ranjitsinhji
JOJOXI	James Anderson
L&L	Javed Miandad
Ataraxia	Shakib Al Hasan

Who is the steal here? Laker?

 

[weeman27bob]

• Australia: Richie Benaud, Allan Border, Don Bradman, Greg Chappell, Pat Cummins, Alan Davidson, Adam Gilchrist, Clarrie Grimmett, Neil Harvey, Dennis Lillee, Ray Lindwall, Glenn McGrath, Keith Miller, Arthur Morris, Bill O'Reilly, Ricky Ponting, Steve Smith , Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Steve Waugh
• Bangladesh: Shakib al-Hasan
• England: James Anderson, Sydney Barnes, Ken Barrington, Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Denis Compton, WG Grace, Wally Hammond, Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Alan Knott,Jim Laker, KS Ranjitsinhji,Joe Root, Herbert Sutcliffe, Fred Trueman, Hedley Verity
• India: Jasprit Bumrah, Kapil Dev, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar,Vinoo Mankad, Rishabh Pant, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar
• New Zealand: Richard Hadlee, Neil Wagner
• Pakistan: Shoaib Ahktar ,Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Waqar Younis
• South Africa: AB de Villiers, Allan Donald, Aubrey Faulkner, Trevor Goddard, Jacques Kallis, Dudley Nourse Vernon Philander, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Shaun Pollock, Mike Procter, Kagiso Rabada, Barry Richards, Dale Steyn, Hugh Tayfield
• Sri Lanka: Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakarra
• West Indies: Curtly Ambrose, Ian Bishop, Joel Garner, Gordon Greenidge, George Headley , Michael Holding, Brian Lara, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts, Viv Richards, Garry Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Courtny Walsh, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell
• Zimbabwe: Andy Flower

 

[weeman27bob]

What do people want to happen after you draft a full team, given that hb is likely to get there this round.

I think the options are:

1. You can keep drafting players to your "squad". You keep drafting your squad until the last player has 11 players. The vote is then some combination of how good your team/squad is.
2. You don't make any more selections
3. You make selections, they don't go into your team but do block other drafters
4. You make selections, they don't go into your team but do block other drafters, but I also won't wait for those people if they haven't submitted picks.

I think 1 is bad because you'd have needed to know that from the start. The original plan was 2. but someone (I think maybe Teuton?) was keen on 3 when they PMed me. I think maybe 4 is the best one?

What do people think?

 

[Line and Length]

Option 4 makes sense.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

4 is an upgrade on 3.

2 is flawed, as the last player in the game will get all of the remaining players they want.

1 is flawed as it is a big change from what we started with and gives hb (or others with a full teams) a big advantage.

4 it is.

Also, one question.
Can we pick cricketers who didn't play a test? OP says everyone is eligible (including Bradman). Does that mean all cricketers or all test cricketers?

 

[Teuton]

I was thinking 1, with the vote only taking into account your best XI. Happy with 4 though.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I've only got 4 players picked at this stage, so whatever option we go with I'll be a while.

 

[Jarquis]

Not in the draft but once people have finished their teams, they get to pick a player to block.
If multiple people block the same player then they effectively block the block and that player can be picked, unless they are then also picked by multiple players.

 

[ataraxia]

Not in the draft but once people have finished their teams, they get to pick a player to block.
If multiple people block the same player then they effectively block the block and that player can be picked, unless they are then also picked by multiple players.

That sounds fun, and in the spirit of the draft.

 

[Himannv]

1 or 4.

 

[honestbharani]

I am ok with any of those options really. I am not great at being a spoilsport but I will try.

 

[Himannv]

Just don’t block Katich k.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

2 is flawed, as the last player in the game will get all of the remaining players they want.

It's possible that the last player in the game has been counting on this with their strategy so far however.

Not in the draft but once people have finished their teams, they get to pick a player to block.
If multiple people block the same player then they effectively block the block and that player can be picked, unless they are then also picked by multiple players.

This admittedly does sound fun.

 

[weeman27bob]

Not in the draft but once people have finished their teams, they get to pick a player to block.
If multiple people block the same player then they effectively block the block and that player can be picked, unless they are then also picked by multiple players.

We'll go for this approach then.

 

[weeman27bob]

Just waiting on @JOJOXI for the end of Round 11