Sheep Draft version 5.0

[ohnoitsyou]

^^^ How do you know that's happened ONIY?

Well im 90% certain. Balance of probabilities

 

[fredfertang]

what, the team with the most sheep doesn't win?

a moral victory for sure

 

[Riggins]

you missed me in the last question noofers - don't want anyone snaking marto.

 

[Red]

****. Tried to outclever everyone by going for Harris over others and it seems I just outclevered myself!

 

[adub]

****. Tried to outclever everyone by going for Harris over others and it seems I just outclevered myself!

+3

 

[NUFAN]

RESULTS

9b Pick a Cricketer who played a Test in the 1980s (1 Jan 1980 to 31 Dec 1989)

PASS
Riggins
ohnoitsyou
fredfertang
Valer
Monk
adub
morgieb
uvelocity

FAIL
Spikey (Steve Waugh, chosen in 9a)
Watson (Ian Botham, chosen in 9a)
weeman27bob, Pothas (Waqar Younis)


10b Pick a Cricketer who played in the last Test or current Test that his country took part in (as at 24 June)

PASS
watson
fredfertang
morgieb
weeman27bob
Riggins
uvelocity
Valer
ohnoitsyou
adub
Spikey
Monk
Pothas

FAIL
nil


11b Pick anyone who has played an odd number of Tests

PASS
fredfertang
Monk
weeman27bob
watson
ohnoitsyou
Spikey
Pothas
morgieb
Riggins
adub
uvelocity

FAIL
Valer (Joel Garner chosen in 9a)

 

[adub]

Happy with that.

 

[weeman27bob]

If I don't have the best spin bowling attack I'll cry.

Already have Murali, Bedi and Frank Woolley, as well as just picking up another spinner.

 

[watson]

Still one round to go so I've taken a calculated risk that has some reasonable odds of sneaking through, but could just as easily fail.

SENT

 

[adub]

Was really struggling for quicks, but despite missing out on Harris and Vernon in that last lot I'm really happy with the two opening bowlers I pick up to compliment Collinge.

Just a shame I have 3 sheep in the top 6 whose averages are all lower than my no.9.

We'd both be in better place if we'd sorted out Barrington and Sanga between ourselves Bob...

 

[adub]

Still one round to go so I've taken a calculated risk that has some reasonable odds of sneaking through, but could just as easily fail.

SENT

Do you want a wool breed or a meat breed?

 

[weeman27bob]

Was really struggling for quicks, but despite missing out on Harris and Vernon in that last lot I'm really happy with the two opening bowlers I pick up to compliment Collinge.

Just a shame I have 3 sheep in the top 6 whose averages are all lower than my no.9.

We'd both be in better place if we'd sorted out Barrington and Sanga between ourselves Bob...

Would happily take either right now. Definitely missing a top quality batsman.

 

[watson]

Was really struggling for quicks, but despite missing out on Harris and Vernon in that last lot I'm really happy with the two opening bowlers I pick up to compliment Collinge.

Just a shame I have 3 sheep in the top 6 whose averages are all lower than my no.9.

We'd both be in better place if we'd sorted out Barrington and Sanga between ourselves Bob...

If you want to make a competitive team then you have to take risks by picking players that everyone wants because they are great.

It's easy to avoid sheep by picking second-rate players, but where's the fun in that? A team made-up with a majority of second-rate players is for cowards. The fact that you have 3 sheep adub means that at least you've 'had a go'.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

If you want to make a competitive team then you have to take risks by picking players that everyone wants because they are great.

It's easy to avoid sheep by picking second-rate players, but where's the fun in that? A team made-up with a majority of second-rate players is for cowards. The fact that you have 3 sheep adub means that at least you've 'had a go'.

The interesting thing about this draft has been the disproportionate amount of fails on decent rather than great players though.

 

[adub]

and the number of absolute champions that have either had 1 or 0 picks. Sobers in Q1 just the start.

 

[Red]

Wow! Totally didn't expect to get who I picked for the 2nd rd of Q10.

 

[Pothas]

Why weeman? Why?

 

[weeman27bob]

Why weeman? Why?

I'm assuming someone already took the player I wanted, but if they haven't I will cry.

 

[watson]

Hoping to improve on Sheep Draft 4.0;

Monk's Baaaaa
1 Alaistair Cook
2 Charles Bannerman
3 Stan McCabe (average of 70 at #3)
4 Greg Chappell *
5 Martin Moxon
6 Ken "Slasher" McKay
7 Mike Procter
8 Godfrey Evans +
9 Alan Davidson
10 Waqar Younis
11 Erapalli Prasanna

Watson's XI
01. Colin McDonald
02. Aamer Sohail (6)
03. Vijay Manjrekar
04. Sachin Tendulkar
05. Bill Edrich (5)
06. Tiger Pataudi*
07. Jim Parks+
08. Andy Roberts (2)
09. Curtly Ambrose (1)
10. Peter Heine (3)
11. Subhash Gupte

Morgie
1. Amiss
2. Atherton
3. Trott
4. Lloyd
5. Cowdrey
6. Pietersen
7. Warne
8. Bari
9. Thomson
10. Anderson

Spikey
1 Geoff Boycott
2 Shoaib Mohammad
3 Rohan Kanhai
4 Bill Ponsford
5 Mark Waugh
6 Arjuna Ranatunga
7 Peter Burge (+)
8 Jason Gillespie
9 Rev. Wes Hall
10 David O'Sullivan
11 Tom Richardson

Pothas
1 Majid Khan
2 Andrew Strauss
3 Hashim Amla
4 Zaheer Abbas
5 AB de Villiers+
6 Tony Greig
7 Nathan Astle
8 Dennis Lillee
9 Alec Bedser
10 Bob Willis
11 Stuart MacGill

Fred
1. Archie Jackson
2. Bob Barber
3. Graeme Pollock
4. Basil D’Oliveira
5. *Bill Alley
6. Eddie Paynter
7. +Tiger Smith
8. Harold Larwood
9. Bill Voce
10. Brian Statham
11. Bob Appleyard

 

[Riggins]

jesus christ i hope my team never gets published