Draft idea - bid for position

[AndrewB]

New bids from JOJOXI and trundler received. honestbharani - you can still correct your bid if you want.

 

[ataraxia]

*bump*

 

[AndrewB]

OK, that's 24 hours - here are the bids:

ankitj : 200004, 91003, 91003, 91003, 91003, 91003, 91003, 91003, 91003, 35986, 35986
ataraxia : 200122, 200122, 200122, 126035, 65236, 60204, 57889, 50112, 40154, 2, 2
Pothas : 275100, 210100, 150020, 150010, 100020, 50010, 30010, 20010, 10010, 3010, 1700
kingkallis : 335000, 310000, 170000, 56000, 41000, 22000, 21000, 20000, 9000, 8100, 7900
honestbharani : 200000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000, 33000, 33000, 33000
StephenZA : 300005, 200001, 150010, 100901, 100005, 39050, 35005, 35001, 20010, 20005, 7
trundler : 250006, 100004, 100002, 100002, 74997, 74997, 74997, 74997, 74997, 74997, 4
Line and Length : 108000, 91000, 89000, 89000, 89000, 89000, 89000, 89000, 89000, 89000, 89000
JOJOXI : 256472, 180505, 180005, 100003, 90002, 70003, 70002, 50002, 1003, 1002, 1001

So the picking order is:

kingkallis (2 picks)
StephenZA
Pothas
JOJOXI
trundler
Pothas
ataraxia (3 picks)
ankitj
StephenZA
honestbharani
JOJOXI (2 picks)
kingkallis
Pothas
StephenZA
Pothas
ataraxia
Line and Length
StephenZA
Pothas
StephenZA
trundler
JOJOXI
trundler (2 picks)
honestbharani (7 picks)
ankitj (8 picks)
Line and Length
JOJOXI
Line and Length (9 picks)
trundler (6 picks)
JOJOXI (2 picks)
ataraxia (3 picks)
kingkallis
ataraxia
Pothas
JOJOXI
kingkallis
ataraxia
StephenZA
ankitj (2 picks)
StephenZA (2 picks)
honestbharani (3 picks)
Pothas
kingkallis (2 picks)
StephenZA
Pothas
StephenZA
kingkallis
Pothas
kingkallis (3 picks)
Pothas (2 picks)
JOJOXI (3 picks)
StephenZA
trundler
ataraxia (2 picks)

 

[AndrewB]

Do people think 8 hours per block of picks is enough, or should people get longer to make multiple picks? (Or we could just make it 12 hours per block, say).

 

[Red]

Sorry guys I'll give this a miss this time.

 

[JOJOXI]

Smart strategy from Line and Length I think - makes it interesting seeing all the bids now - kind of gave up hope of the very first pick with my second email to AndrewB - Might've gone more aggressive with early bids in hindsight.

Tough to say re eight hour bids, I might suggest 9 or 10 - just on off chance someone before you bids soon after you go to sleep but I'm more then happy with 8 if that is the majority view, I haven't been caught out with 8 hours myself so far and it seems to be working okay on the whole in the DDD draft. Although if you've got someone with 8 picks after you might be more damaging to miss your turn due to sleeping etc. Sounds like most have some kind of list whether on paper, pc or a more complicated excel sheet so I'm content with a fixed amount of time regardless of turns but just my 2 cents. What do others think?

 

[trundler]

I don't think we'd be in a rush with this one because of the massive blocks of picks so I'd be inclined to just wait on people

 

[Pothas]

Yep agree with that.

Looking forward to see how the KingKallis v Line and Length approach plays out.

 

[JOJOXI]

Yep agree with that.

Looking forward to see how the KingKallis v Line and Length approach plays out.

Think KingKallis works as long as you get the very first picks, don't want to bid 300k on a spot and find yourself with 3rd and 4th pick overall but once the first couple big picks are out the way you've got a nice spread of ATGs so if you can't get those very early picks ensuring you can draft a side almost full of ATGs is a nice way to go. Having 9 picks too it will be interesting who Line and Length goes far. I can imagine my plans being scuppered with 9 picks from Line and Length and 6 from Trundler immediately before my 2 picks

 

[kingkallis]

Sir Don Bradman
Sir Garfield Sobers

I might still struggle to draft other 9 ATG players.

 

[ankitj]

Remember those class toppers in school days who after topping the class still crib about not getting even higher grades?

 

[kingkallis]

honestbharani played it really well here as by the time 42nd ATG is picked - he will have at least 8 of those under his team.

I can already see Faoud Bacchus coming in to open with Andrew Hudson and Don sitting in the dug out with pads on knowing he will be going in the middle in few minutes.

 

[StephenZA]

Jacques Henry Kallis

 

[Pothas]

Imran Khan

 

[Line and Length]

3 great all rounders in the first 4 picks

 

[StephenZA]

Poo

I think you may have just jumped the queue... JOJOXI is next.

 

[trundler]

Ah poo. Could you edit your post quoting me

 

[JOJOXI]

Sydney Barnes

 

[trundler]

Sir Paddles. Richard Hadlee

 

[Pothas]

Shane Warne