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Champions Trophy 2025 Fantasy Auction Draft

CricAddict

International Coach
Auction draft is back again and this time, it will be for the Champions Trophy. For those who didn't play it last time, below are the rules.

General guidelines
1. 8 squads of 15 makes it a total of 120 players in the database to pick from and hence, the draft can have a maximum of 10 participants only who will each be picking a squad of maximum 12 players.

2. Everyone will have $1000 at the start of the draft. I will put up one country squad each day and everyone can send me their bids for all 15 players or less (0-15) privately through pm. You win the player if your bid is the highest. If there are two equal highest bids, that player goes into the unpicked pool. Any unbid player will also go into the unpicked pool. Auction for unpicked pool will be held as the 9th round at the end of 8 rounds for the 8 country squads.

3. This draft will not have a voting and winner will be determined by the actual runs and wickets that their players get. The points will get auto-calculated live as each match goes on in a shared spreadsheet.

Auction guidelines

1. Each owner starts with $1000
2. Country squad will be put up for auction in each round one by one. You can pick 0-12 players from the squad not exceeding the purse you have
3. Your bid for that round will be rejected if total amount of your bids exceed the money that you have on hand
4. Highest bidder for a player gets the player. If two or more had done equal highest bids, then no one gets the player and the player goes to the unpicked players pool
5. After all squads have been auctioned, the unpicked players pool will be auctioned in 1-3 rounds depending on the number of players in the pool
6. One wicketkeeper is mandatory. Rest of the make-up of the side is up to you
7. You cannot bid anymore once your quota of 12 has been filled up even if you have money on hand. This is to ensure that all 10 owners get 12 players out of the possible 120 players
8. You will have a maximum of 24 hours to bid players in each round after I post the players for bidding
9. You cannot bid in decimals

The auction will start next Monday (January 13th) since all countries need to release their CT squads by January 12. Please let me know by then if you are in. Obviously, I will not be able to participate in this since I receive the bids. Book your names at the earliest for the draft if you are interested.

Points system will be as below.

Runs1
Wickets25
Catch5
Stumpings10
Man of the match30
Man of the Series50
100s20
5 fers20

Fantasy Hall of Fame (ICC tournaments)

Women Commonwealth 2022 - @Teuton
Women World Cup 2022 - @ataraxia
Men's World Cup 2023 - @Shri
 

CricAddict

International Coach
Those who played before, please let me know if you have any suggestions for any changes/improvements. Those who haven't, please let me know if you have any clarifications.
 

Silver Silva

International Regular
Can I suggest having a similar structure of how you choose your squad like the one @Teuton has in his fantasy draft ?

Maybe something like 3 BAT'S (Any type bat), 3 BOWL'S (Any type bowlers) ,2 WK's , 3 AR's , 1 ANY
 

CricAddict

International Coach
In so far
1. Silver Silva
2. Kenneth Viljoen
3. Bitmap
4. Capt Luffy
5. HB
6. Teuton
7. Ataraxia
8. Himannv
9. L&L
10. JOJO
 
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CricAddict

International Coach
Can I suggest having a similar structure of how you choose your squad like the one @Teuton has in his fantasy draft ?

Maybe something like 3 BAT'S (Any type bat), 3 BOWL'S (Any type bowlers) ,2 WK's , 3 AR's , 1 ANY
It is easier to keep such a structure when the database is much bigger like the one Teuton has. But here since it is limited to 120 exactly for 10 drafters, structuring will become very arduous and strenuous if they have to force fit.

But point taken.

In addition to 1 wicketkeeper, let me mandate 3 bats along with 5 bowlers as well. The 5 bowlers can be of any combination of Bowl plus AR. No specific AR mandate.

This will ensure some kind of team structure with at least 3 proper batsmen and 5 players being able to bowl. For the classification, I will use Teuton's DB.
 
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capt_Luffy

International Coach
It is easier to keep such a structure when the database is much bigger like the one Teuton has. But here since it is limited to 120 exactly for 10 drafters, structuring will become very arduous and strenuous if they have to force fit.

But point taken.

In addition to 1 wicketkeeper, let me mandate 3 bats along with 5 bowlers as well. The 5 bowlers can be of any combination of Bowl plus Any. No specific AR mandate.

This will ensure some kind of team structure with at least 3 proper batsmen and 5 players being able to bowl. For the classification, I will use Teuton's DB.
Does 5 bowlers means any level of bowlers?? I mean, does Sikander Raza makes it? If he doesn't, then I am afraid taking 5 bowlers (50 overall, hence 6.125 from each team) will be very strenous. I suggest something akin to 3 bowlers (2 pacers, 1 spinner) and 3 batsmen (1 opener, 2 MO, or just vanilla really) shall be enough.
 
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CricAddict

International Coach
Does 5 bowlers means any level of bowlers?? I mean, does Sikander Raza makes it? If he doesn't, then I am afraid taking 5 bowlers (50 overall, hence 6.125 from each team) will be very strenous. I suggest something akin to 3 bowlers (2 pacers, 1 spinner) and 3 batsmen (1 opener, 2 MO, or just vanilla really) shall be enough.
5 bowlers is not limited to just BOWL. You can have 5 AR also in there or any mix of BOWL plus AR and so, Raza makes it since he is an AR. This gives more flexibility than mandating 3 bowlers. Some people might prefer to #batdeep and so, not be keen on taking 3 pure bowlers.
 

CricAddict

International Coach
In so far
1. Silver Silva
2. Kenneth Viljoen
3. Bitmap
4. Capt Luffy
5. HB
6. Teuton
7. Ataraxia
8. Himannv
9. L&L
10. JOJO

Great. That's 10 for this draft. Let's have fun! I will start the auction on 13th January post release of the squads.
 

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