Draft Thread- Randomised test playing nations

[BeeGee]

I like this draft idea, since its nice and quick. Anyone who avoids Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in the last few rounds are going to have a good looking side. Actually, its probably good to avoid Bangladesh for the last 10 rounds!

Yep, the speed is it's strength. Only being able to have 10 participants is the one weakness, I guess.

In the future maybe this draft could be run with two separate groups of 10 people? At the end, the top 5 players from each group could play off in a finals competition?

That would allow more participants, but make the draft slower, so probably defeats the purpose.

 

[watson]

It is possible for someone to randomly get Zimbabwe/Bangladesh multiple times just because of bad luck. Therefore, the ability to create a good cricket team is pretty much out of the Drafters hands. I'm not sure that I like this complete reliance on good luck.

Perhaps there should be a maximum of one Zimbabwe player and one Bangladesh player per team. Should you get Zimbabwe or Bangladesh a second time then this automatically means that you get to select any player of your choice from any country once all the other Drafters have selected for the Round.

 

[honestbharani]

Jeez RSA is a difficult team to pick a 2nd player from.. Aubrey Faulkner coz leg spin bowling allrounders are just that damn rare..

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

It is possible for someone to randomly get Zimbabwe/Bangladesh multiple times just because of bad luck. Therefore, the ability to create a good cricket team is pretty much out of the Drafters hands. I'm not sure that I like this complete reliance on good luck.

Perhaps there should be a maximum of one Zimbabwe player and one Bangladesh player per team. Should you get Zimbabwe or Bangladesh a second time then this automatically means that you get to select any player of your choice from any country once all the other Drafters have selected for the Round.

True one can get multiple times BD/Zim and vice versa. This will create a lot of imbalance

 

[watson]

Just some light entertainment as we work our way to Round 3;

George Carlin - Modern Man - YouTube

 

[Coronis]

Well, this has slowed down.

 

[Cabinet96]

CW has just seemed so dead today. I mean, I was out all day and there were about four threads in Cricket Chat that had new posts in them when I got back.

 

[Howe_zat]

Gavaskar

 

[Red]

Round 1

howezat - Jack Hobbs
morgieb - Adam Gilchrist
Marcuss - Jacques Kallis
Cabinet - Garfield Sobers
Watson - Richard Hadlee
AZH - Sachin Tendulkar
Pothas - Imran Khan
Bee Gee - Muttiah Muralitharan
honestbharani - Andy Flower
Justo - Shakib Al Hasan

Round 2

Watson - Wally Hammond
BeeGee - Glenn McGrath
honestbharani - Aubrey Faulkner
Justo - Malcolm Marshall
Pothas - Martin Crowe
howezat - Sunny Gavaskar
Marcuss - Waqar Younis *
Cabinet - Kumar Sangakkara
morgieb - Heath Streak
AZH - Tamim Iqbal

* I chose for Marcuss as discussed earlier.

 

[Red]

There were 10 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

- honest bhirani
- Howezat
- AZH
- morgieb
- Watson
- Justo
- Bee Gee
- Marcuss
- Pothas
- Cabinet
Timestamp: 2013-06-16 06:31:25 UTC

Round 3
England- honest bharini
Australia- howezat
South Africa - AZH
West Indies- morgieb
New Zealand- watson
India- justo
Pakistan- Bee Gee
Sri Lanka- Marcuss
Zimbabwe- Pothas
Bangladesh- Cabinet

 

[watson]

Is that THE Asif Iqbal, or is there a Bangladeshi cricketer with the same name?

 

[Howe_zat]

Adam Gilchrist

 

[Howe_zat]

Is that THE Asif Iqbal, or is there a Bangladeshi cricketer with the same name?

He picked Tamim.

 

[Red]

Is that THE Asif Iqbal, or is there a Bangladeshi cricketer with the same name?

Sorry, he selected Tamim Iqbal. My mistake....

 

[Red]

Adam Gilchrist

Round 1....already gone...

 

[watson]

01.
02.
03.
04. Walter Hammond
05.
06. John R Reid
07.
08. Richard Hadlee
09.
10.
11.

 

[Justo]

01.
02.
03. Rahul Dravid
04.
05.
06.
07.
08. Shakib Al Hasan
09. Malcolm Marshall
10.
11.

 

[morgieb]

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Heath Streak
9.
10. Curtly Ambrose
11.

 

[Howe_zat]

Shane Warne

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

1.
2. Tamim Iqbal
3.
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11. Allan Donald