ATG Draft - Batting Averages

[mr_mister]

athers was gonna be my go-to choice in the unlikely event someone beat me to stewart. its good to see these 2 poms finally get a go in a draft game!

 

[Red]

Might be the first time I've seen Atherton drafted I think.


Urgh.

 

[mr_mister]

he's good

 

[cnerd123]

Might be the first time I've seen Atherton drafted I think.


Urgh.

The 20 - 40 average range doesn't have many good players lol. Earlier picks got the ATG allrounders so I had to make do with what's left.

 

[OverratedSanity]

The 20 - 40 average range doesn't have many good players lol. Earlier picks got the ATG allrounders so I had to make do with what's left.

20-25 and 25-30 have plenty of awesome players tbf.

 

[mr_mister]

The 20 - 40 average range doesn't have many good players lol. Earlier picks got the ATG allrounders so I had to make do with what's left.

theres still some pretty decent all rounders left

 

[cnerd123]

Dont want a team full of bowlers tho; and thats what you will get given >20 is likely to be all bowlers.

Atherton a good batsman for that average range.

 

[Zinzan]

Malcolm Marshall 18.85

<5.00
5.01-10.00
10.01-15.00
Malcolm Marshall
20.01-25.00
25.01-30.00
30.01-35.00
Victor Trumper
40.01-45.00
45.01-50.00
>50.01

 

[NUFAN]

The good thing about this draft is how unpredictable it has been so far. I don't know the rationale of some of the selections ahead of Marshall.

 

[OverratedSanity]

The good thing about this draft is how unpredictable it has been so far. I don't know the rationale of some of the selections ahead of Marshall.

Probably because there are loads of great bowlers almost as good as him in his average bracket.

Edit: Wait there actually aren't

Good question.

 

[mr_mister]

Probably because there are loads of great bowlers almost as good as him in his average bracket.

that.

 

[OverratedSanity]

that.

I checked that and Nufan's right.

For some reason I took 10-20 as one bracket.

 

[Zinzan]

The good thing about this draft is how unpredictable it has been so far. I don't know the rationale of some of the selections ahead of Marshall.

Cheers, makes me feel better as I'm not sure Victor Trumper, although value in the 35-40 range, was the best utilisation of my first pick.

 

[NUFAN]

I checked that and Nufan's right.

For some reason I took 10-20 as one bracket.

I didn't check. Just thought it seemed weird seeing arguably the best bowler take as long it took to be picked.

Cheers, makes me feel better as I'm not sure Victor Trumper, although value in the 35-40 range, was the best utilisation of my first pick.

I don't think he is a bad pick at all. I think he has a good case of being the best/more highly praised batsman to average under 40 in Test history.

I'm looking forward to seeing who everyone slots in at number 6 and 7 in their batting order - perhaps even number 5 in the order..

 

[Zinzan]

^ Oh yeah, Trumper is good value, but in hindsight the likes of Imran or Miller would have been better value picks in the 35-40 range.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

I'm looking forward to seeing who everyone slots in at number 6 and 7 in their batting order - perhaps even number 5 in the order..

I took number 6 first (Sobers) to have the flexibility to go either up or down the order.

 

[NUFAN]

I took number 6 first (Sobers) to have the flexibility to go either up or down the order.

I can't see how you could possibly bat Sobers down at 6 in this draft.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah with all the other averages being so low, I don't see the point of Sobers down the order. If you want to pick him on tthe strength of his batting, that's fair enough but batting him low doesn't make sense. And his bowling isn't as valuable here as in other drafts.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Yeah with all the other averages being so low, I don't see the point of Sobers down the order. If you want to pick him on tthe strength of his batting, that's fair enough but batting him low doesn't make sense. And his bowling isn't as valuable here as in other drafts.

I've always thought how fun it would be to not let Sobers bowl and just focus on batting. But I would hate to be the Captain who told him he's not bowling. He seemed to take such pride in bowling

 

[mr_mister]

the interesting thing here is that world class bowlers are found in 7 categories where world class batsman are found in like... 4 max