Diminishing Draft

[anil1405]

Getting Gilchrist was part of my masterplan

It was also part of 15 other masterplans.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Tiger O’Reilly
@Pothas

 

[CricAddict]

Tiger O’Reilly
@Pothas

That's a bit of an unique pick with him having just 144 wickets.

 

[Teuton]

I'm next but you can skip me then.

 

[Line and Length]

I'm next but you can skip me then.

@honestbharani up then.

Is it just me or has drafting slowed right down (just 3 selections in last 24 hours)

 

[shortpitched713]

@honestbharani up then.

Is it just me or has drafting slowed right down (just 3 selections in last 24 hours)

There was a significant spell of site downtime, of around 12 hours, this morning for mine.

giving me grief tonight

cant connect to server for periods

www.cricketweb.net

 

[JOJOXI]

@CricAddict

Think it would be fair to give @Pothas a couple more hours - reportedly down 8am to 8pm GMT according to a post in the thread shortpitched713 linked to.

Patience posted 5.18AM GMT so CricketWeb was up roughly for 2hrs 42 before being down and 2hrs 43 since being up equalling 5hrs 25 in total. 35 more mins for 6 hours but even then would require someone checking if CW was up every minute so up to you in the end but a few extra hours might be fair?

 

[JOJOXI]

Also see @Teuton is online and presumably no need to skip him anymore now its morning time in Aus?

 

[Teuton]

Yeah I can pick whenever my turn comes now

 

[Pothas]

Thanks for waiting everyone.

Greg Chappell

 

[CricAddict]

@Teuton

 

[Teuton]

Ravi Ashwin

 

[Teuton]

@honestbharani

 

[CricAddict]

@honestbharani up then.

Is it just me or has drafting slowed right down (just 3 selections in last 24 hours)

Like others have pointed out, it is due to the downtime L&L. The drafting speed has been just about right till that point imo, though I expect it to slow down as rounds go on and it gets more and more challenging.

 

[honestbharani]

James Anderson

 

[Fuller Pilch]

@shortpitched713

 

[CricAddict]

Just mapped the picks so far into categories so that you all have an idea of the next picks. You can only move left to right and top to bottom in this table.

Runs/Wickets	<800	<700	<600	<500	<400	<300	<200	<100
<16000					ataraxia, srbhkshk		Patience
<15000
<14000				Teuton		JOJOXI
<13000		honestbharani			Line and Length
<12000						Bitmap
<11000						trundler
<10000
<9000					FullerPilch, kingkallis
<8000	Pothas
<7000	AndrewB
<6000					Cricaddict	ankitj
<5000				shortpitched713
<4000
<3000
<2000
<1000

 

[shortpitched713]

Andy Flower

@ataraxia

 

[shortpitched713]

What kind of a freak gets Marshall, Steve Smith and Gilchrist in first three rounds? How did the rest of you even let that happen?

Literally had no chance to stop him. Ended up getting the little bro versions of the S Smith and Gilly picks, but would have picked either if I had the chance. And picking Gilly with my second pick at ~5700 runs when I had no other batsmen picked yet on my team, would have been a "bold move" in this format, to say the least. Otherwise I think Gilly isn't even a bad first pick in a vanilla format, but alas, earwax.

Am totally happy with my S Pollock pick though.

 

[ataraxia]

Since he seems to still be on a break, it won't lose a vote to take Himannv's nemesis, thanks Kumar Sangakkara