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GB: Wicket-Keepers

bugssy

Cricketer Of The Year
thats all nsw is doing. only has 1 keeper at the moment so will need to get another in a draft pick

me and blewy had a long talk about this situation
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
What if all the keepers have gone by then? Those managers with more than 2 keepers have you all over a barrel! ;)
 

Rich2001

International Captain
marc71178 said:
What if all the keepers have gone by then? Those managers with more than 2 keepers have you all over a barrel! ;)
Not really Marc, because those teams own them therefore if there was none left GB would have to generate some for those with only one WK.... and we have all seen how most of the random player can turn out.

A top WK avgeraging 60+ in both forms isn't much to ask is it??? :saint:
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
I guess the random player should be fixed to be below a certain standard though, or those that knowingly break the rules could benefit ahead of those that stick to them.
 

Rik

Cricketer Of The Year
marc71178 said:
I guess the random player should be fixed to be below a certain standard though, or those that knowingly break the rules could benefit ahead of those that stick to them.
I'm asking him so I can get the advantage of knowing what I have to pick at the end. It's not illegal and it's not dissimilar to your tactics during the FWC.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Erm how exactly?

You know you have to have 2 keepers for this by the end of the trading - if you don't then you have broken the rules - I don't see how you can have a random keeper generated, who could turn out to be a world beater.

In the FWC, the rule quite clearly stated a cut-off point, and therefore no rules were broken.
 

Neil Pickup

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"2 WKs by the end of the draft or 2 WKs by the end of the post-draft trading?" was answered by GB with "2 by the end of the trading".

Therefore, those with 3+ WKs will be in a v.strong trading position. If you've knowingly not picked a second wickie (and there's plenty in the draft) in hope of a 50/60 random - IMO that's cheating.

There are enough to go round in the draft, and it someone ends with <2 WKs, a random with averages <10 ought to be allocated.
 
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Blewy

Cricketer Of The Year
Neil and Marc are 100% correct in what they say, as there will be no random keepers generated for those who fail to pick one up...

So if a team only has 1 keeper they will have to trade with someone who has 3.....
 

Sriram k

Total Cricket Moderator
Have you counted the total number of keepers...?If every team has to have 2 then there have to be atleast 60 keepers in the whole database.Besides ppl ahead in the draft could delibrately pick more than 2 keepers so that they can take advantage of a team that has failed to get 2 keepers.
I think the way to go would be to generate the keepers with very poor avgs for teams that arent able to get the 2 keepers instead of getting them to trade 4 1.

Sriram
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
But surely that helps even the thing out Aditya, and gives those ahead in the draft a benefit (which is quite right when you consider that's the idea of the draft)
 

The Argonaut

State Vice-Captain
Before round 3 and 4 of the draft have been run there was 45 wicket keepers available. I think that should be plenty for everybody. There should be no excuses.
 

Rik

Cricketer Of The Year
marc71178 said:
Erm how exactly?

You know you have to have 2 keepers for this by the end of the trading - if you don't then you have broken the rules - I don't see how you can have a random keeper generated, who could turn out to be a world beater.

In the FWC, the rule quite clearly stated a cut-off point, and therefore no rules were broken.
And there are no rules being broken here...I'm just seeing if one of my players is classed as a keeper so I know if I need to get a keeper in the last round...yet you still find a problem?
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
I slightly misunderstood your post as it came in respose to my suggestion to limit the ability of any emergency replacements...
 

Rik

Cricketer Of The Year
marc71178 said:
I slightly misunderstood your post as it came in respose to my suggestion to limit the ability of any emergency replacements...
Yeah ok
 

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