"Bid for position" ODI draft (voting thread)

[weeman27bob]

I think Ankit made a better metric in the actual thread.

I think his was much more of a relative metric, but you're right that it was better. Some of us small brain people need something more straightforward though.

 

[weldone]

I think his was much more of a relative metric, but you're right that it was better. Some of us small brain people need something more straightforward though.

I think in this case ranking by median bid (6th bid) maybe a straightforward yet relatively accurate reflection of everyone's relative advantages.

 

[weeman27bob]

Drafter	5th pick	6th pick	Median pick
ataraxia	23	24	23.5
Mags	34	38	36
weldone	39	40	39.5
Michaelf7777777	43	70	56.5
kingkallis	44	68	56
JOJOXI	45	62	53.5
weeman27bob	51	52	51.5
Himannv	58	75	66.5
ankitj	61	63	62
honestbharani	86	87	86.5
Line and Length	100	107	103.5

 

[kingkallis]

It'll be interesting to see how similar the bidding strategies of the winning teams are - whether they're similar or very different because you can only have one good team for each style of strategy

Honestly speaking, I had no bidding strategy at all!

Weldy, Sam may share theirs.

 

[Himannv]

Honestly speaking, I had no bidding strategy at all!

Weldy, Sam may share theirs.

weldone probably had a strategy but I definitely didn't.

 

[Himannv]

Oh yeah, I did have a plan to pick ABdV if I got a position nearer to the top first up (I figured 4th pick was a reasonable one to aim at). Picked Kohli and Tendulkar so the plan flew out the window

 

[weldone]

My bidding strategy was basically grab:
1 elite player preferably batsman/sobers/wasim/or one among the 2 elite keepers (ended up being Sobers),
1 semi-elite player (ended up being better than semi-elite with Gilchrist),
4 ATGs including two opening bowlers (Waqar, Marshall, Abbas, Rashid because of his additional batting),
1 to plug any potential shortcoming in side-balance from the first 6 (first 6 had 4 bowlers covered - so i went with a batsman pietersen),
and the last 4 ATVGs together to end up with a balanced team (think a top opener in amla, two late-order bashers including a 6th bowler in miller, maxwell, and the left-arm variety of johnson were perfect for the balance).

I looked at the test match draft bids to get an idea where to plug the bids number-wise to get who i want.

 

[ankitj]

Drafter	Average pick
Line and Length	78.5
Himannv	65.5
honestbharani	65.0
weldone	55.2
kingkallis	63.0
JOJOXI	59.2
ankitj	61.5
Michaelf7777777	56.4
Magrat Garlick	58.8
ataraxia	54.7
weeman27bob	53.3

I'm not sure this actually means anything useful

Can you post median too?

Edit: and if you have the data, chart for each drafters position for each pick just for kicks.

 

[weeman27bob]

Can you post median too?

Edit: and if you have the data, chart for each drafters position for each pick just for kicks.

Median is on this page already, unless I've misinterpreted.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

weldone, sorry for the out of turn joke. I don't think kingkallis was aware of all the nuances.

Just for both of our sakes I've put weldone on ignore and will recuse myself of any action taken against him for a while

 

[weeman27bob]

 

[weeman27bob]

 

[weeman27bob]

I'm not sure the first chart is particularly useful and I think the second one is even less useful.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

who doesn't love a bit of spaghetti

 

[JOJOXI]

Voteless yet again. ?

Not anymore!

 

[Line and Length]

Not anymore!

3 votes!

No need for any more sympathy. I'm happy.

 

[ataraxia]

I still think ataraxia had the best bidding strategy picking those first 6 players around the top for around 150k each. But in my estimate he made a slight error of judgement in not picking a gun pace bowler among his first 6 picks (those 6 picks were all spinner, allrounders and batsmen iirc).

My picks weren't the best mainly because I don't really care about ODI ATGs and I've never played an ODI draft before. Just thought I might play because the BFP draft format is really interesting.

 

[kingkallis]

Congratulations @weldone for winning this. I will have to try harder next time

 

[honestbharani]

congrats @weldone... defeating the Kallis of CW drafts.

 

[weldone]

Thanks all