ODI Draft - Ascending Batting Average

[weldone]

Haha nobody wants meme players from me.

 

[trundler]

Gordon Greenidge (45.03)

Look, normally I would've overthought this but since you lot have decided to self-combust I just need to fill in each role.

 

[mr_mister]

meh, i still maintain it was my only chance of winning. i often prioritise limply but safely finishing my teams trying to avoid having passengers rather than being ATG heavy and i almost never win so I thought I'd try the Red HIll method this time

also you stole Gilchrist from me ****

 

[Pothas]

You have also pegged it back pretty well and if nobody had followed you would have been able to take your pick of the best players of all time.

 

[trundler]

Some of you are going to end up with 2 meme players

I would've jumped the gun and taken Hussey if someone else hadn't to annoy mister lol

 

[Pothas]

Probably but I just couldn't be bothered to plod on through.

Said it already but this should have been on the alphabet format.

 

[weldone]

kk -> fullerpitch -> ll

 

[trundler]

Probably but I just couldn't be bothered to plod on through.

Said it already but this should have been on the alphabet format.

I will do the test version of this on that format but I reckon we should add on a couple off restrictions such as country wise or date wise

 

[Pothas]

Yeah I think we should at least be wanting to avoid the early years at least. Want Bradman as an option though.

 

[weldone]

I will do the test version of this on that format but I reckon we should add on a couple off restrictions such as country wise or date wise

Definitely keep Bradman in the test format as some people suggested, and a minimum test match criteria (so no Andy Gantaume).

 

[ankitj]

I will do the test version of this on that format but I reckon we should add on a couple off restrictions such as country wise or date wise

Why country or date? I think going in order of averages is good enough.

 

[trundler]

Why country or date? I think going in order of averages is good enough.

To limit the pool and eliminate those early era players. 1920-2020 with a minimum of 10 games imo. 2 per country is maybe too restrictive so let's scrap that.

 

[ankitj]

...here we go again

Teams with poor bowling (a bunch of pie chuckers to fudge over 10 overs and a merely OK bowler to cover another 10 overs) don't usually win my vote. You may or may not agree with that philosophy.

 

[anil1405]

In hindsight, one additional rule I should have introduced was making it mandatory for drafters to pick their keeper by Round 6 (and stick with him as the keeper of your side). That way a base would have been set for the team before anyone decided to go berserk.

Another rule that comes to mind is probably restricting drafters to pick just one batsman who averaged 47+ or maybe setting a limit for total team average. But then there have been many drafts with a fixed set of total batting average that you cannot exceed. Maybe the, only one 47+ batsman, would have worked and made the draft more sane. Having said that the winner could be a drafter who has no ATG batsman in his team.

 

[anil1405]

kk > fuller > ll (Round 9) > teuton > me

 

[anil1405]

Round 8:

StephenZA - ABdV (53.50)
Anil1405 - Hashim Amla (49.46)
Ankitj - Dean Jones (44.61)
HB - David Warner (45.60)
LL - Jacques Kallis (45.11)
Pothas - Joe Root (51.06)
Mr_mister - Faf (47.47)
Trundler - Gordon Greenidge (45.03)
Teuton - Saeed Anwar (39.21)
Weldone - Mark Waugh (39.35)
KK -
Fuller Pilch - Jason Roy (42.39)

Round 9:

LL - Zaheer Abbas (47.62)
Teuton - Tillakaratne Dilshan (39.27)
Anil1405 - Virat Kohli (59.33)
Fuller Pilch -
Ankitj -
HB -
StephenZA -
Pothas -
Trundler -
Mr_mister -
Weldone -
KK -

Teams:

* Teuton*- Glenn McGrath (3.83), Makhaya Ntini (8.65), Brad Hogg (20.25), Imran Khan (33.41), Andy Flower (35.34), Yuvraj Singh (36.55), Martin Crowe (38.55), Saeed Anwar (39.21), Tillakaratne Dilshan (39.27)
* LL*- Muttiah Muralitharan (6.8), Lasith Malinga (6.83), Courtney Walsh (6.97), Shahid Afridi (23.57), Chris Wakes (25.02), Virender Sehwag (35.06), Quinton de Kock (44.65), Jacques Kallis (45.11), Zaheer Abbas (47.62)
* HB*- Joel Garner (9.19), Andy Roberts (10.04), Sunil Narine (11), Mitchell Johnson (16.11), Shane Watson (40.54), Ben Stokes (40.63), Steve Smith (42.46), David Warner (45.60)
* StephenZA*- Allan Donald (4.31), Richard Hadlee (21.61), Shaun Pollock (26.45), Ravi Jadeja (31.88), Brian Lara (40.48), Angelo Mathews (41.94), Rohit Sharma (49.27), ABdV (53.50)
* Fuller Pilch*- Imran Tahir (7.85), Shane Bond (16.22), Mohammad Amir (18.15), Kapil Dev (23.79), Abdul Razzaq (29.7), Alex Carey (34.00), Greg Chappell (40.18), Jason Roy (42.39)
* Anil1405*- Jasprit Bumrah (3.8), Dennis Lillee - (9.23), Rashid Khan (19.25), Andrew Flintoff (32.01), Shakib al Hasan (37.86), Kumar Sangakkara (41.98), Michael Hussey (48.15), Hashim Amla (49.46), Virat Kohli (59.33)
* Pothas*- Michael Holding (9.09), Wasim Akram - (16.52), Daniel Vettori (17.33), Ian Botham (23.21), Sanath Jayasuriya (32.36), James Faulkner (34.4), MS Dhoni (50.53), Joe Root (51.06)
* Mr_mister*- Shoaib Akhtar (8.95), Anil Kumble - (10.53), Chaminda Vaas (13.68), Paul Reiffel (13.97), Sachin Tendulkar (44.83), IVA Richards (47), Jonny Bairstow (47.15), Faf (47.47)
* Ankitj*- Curtly Ambrose (10.65), Shane Warne - (13.05), Malcolm Marshall (14.92), Ian Bishop (16.2), Jos Buttler (40.88), Lance Klusener (41.1), Matthew Hayden (43.80), Dean Jones (44.61)
* KK*- Mitchell Starc (11.59), Saqlain Mushtaq- (11.85), Brett Lee (17.81), Chris Cairns (29.46), Brendon McCullum (30.41), Carl Hooper (35.34), Chris Gayle (37.83)
* Trundler*- Saeed Ajmal (7.04), Craig McDermott (7.08), Nathan Bracken (11.7), Darren Gough (12.42), Adam Gilchrist (35.89), Andrew Symonds (39.75), Ricky Ponting (42.04), Gordon Greenidge (45.03)
* Weldone*- Dale Steyn (9.35), Waqar Younis (10.3), Bob Willis (10.37), Harbhajan Singh (13.3), Jacob Oram (24.09), Aravinda de Silva (34.9), Mushfiqur Rahim (36.31), Mark Waugh (39.35)

 

[ankitj]

Mark Waugh (39.35)

So KK's clock started ticking from here?

Edit: probably after trundler picked. That will be more fair.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

KK timed out.

Jason Roy (42.39) please

 

[mr_mister]

Teams with poor bowling (a bunch of pie chuckers to fudge over 10 overs and a merely OK bowler to cover another 10 overs) don't usually win my vote. You may or may not agree with that philosophy.

I got the impression a few pages back that PEWS had influenced this opinon of yours but he wasnt referring to drafts so...

 

[Red]

Sachin is a handy ODI bowler. But you are kidding if you think he can do a 5th bowlers' job.

yeh he's no symonds