Silent Auction Draft

[Red]

Dan Vettori.

Haha. Would've been good but no.

 

[Red]

R5 players available

Dick Lilley
George Duckworth
Bill Ponsford
Nawab of Pataudi
Robin Smith
Keith Fletcher
Arjuna Rantaunga
Graham Dilley
Ravi Ratnayeke
Mitchell Johnson
Morice Bird
Eddie Hemmings

 

[ohnoitsyou]

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Greg Chappell
Norm O'Neill
Chandu Borde
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Don Tallon
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Budget remaining: $9,566,000

This is hard

 

[Dan]

1. C Milburn
2.
3. C Macartney
4.
5.
6.
7. D Vettori
8.
9.
10.
11. J Cowie

$9mil remaining for 7 players. Not unhappy with this.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Dans team the one to beat so far

 

[Dan]

I reckon yours is looking pretty good ONIY; I was willing to pay big money for Borde if I missed out on Roberts/Vettori. Sounds a seriously good cricketer. Plus you've got a gun 'keeper in Tallon -- wicketkeeping options may well be the decider between sides here.

Very happy with Vettori though -- while not an ATG spinner, he may well be one of the very best dished out in this draft (inb4 Murali and Warne pop up in consecutive rounds) and gives the flexibility of being able to bat anywhere from 6 to 8.




Another anecdote/clue about the player in Monk's Guess-A-Quote:

I boycotted my cricket club's most recent presentation night, where he was the guest speaker, protesting that club funds would be funnelled into the wallet of such a ****.

 

[watson]

Just wondering what would happen if the majority of people need bowlers during the last round but the randomiser selects mainly batsman like it has here?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

I reckon yours is looking pretty good ONIY; I was willing to pay big money for Borde if I missed out on Roberts/Vettori. Sounds a seriously good cricketer. Plus you've got a gun 'keeper in Tallon -- wicketkeeping options may well be the decider between sides here.

Very happy with Vettori though -- while not an ATG spinner, he may well be one of the very best dished out in this draft (inb4 Murali and Warne pop up in consecutive rounds) and gives the flexibility of being able to bat anywhere from 6 to 8.

Another anecdote/clue about the player in Monk's Guess-A-Quote:

I boycotted my cricket club's most recent presentation night, where he was the guest speaker, protesting that club funds would be funnelled into the wallet of such a ****.

Still need 3 top order bats and 4 bowlers though, and hey look how many of them popped out this round...

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Just wondering what would happen if the majority of people need bowlers during the last round but the randomiser selects mainly batsman like it has here?

The one person who has a complete team/empty wallet would create a huge amount of fuss if we got an extra round or two i would imagine

 

[Dan]

IIRC we're going for 13 rounds already anyway, to try and offset that problem.

I'm aiming to be done in 11, but that'll obviously change depending on who pops up over the next few rounds.

 

[kyear2]

sent.

 

[morgieb]

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. Greg Ritchie - $50,000
7. Rod Marsh - $1,000,000
8.
9.
10. Ernie Jones - $100,000
11. Ray Price - $70,000

$13,780,000 left to spend.

 

[Camo999]

Another anecdote/clue about the player in Monk's Guess-A-Quote:

I boycotted my cricket club's most recent presentation night, where he was the guest speaker, protesting that club funds would be funnelled into the wallet of such a ****.

Morgie must like Greg Ritchie almost as much as I like Junior Murray to have dropped $50k for him! Was it Fat Cat?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

1. Marvan Atapattu (SL) - 1970-, RHB/LB, 90 Tests 1990-2007, 5,502 runs @ 39.02 - price $759,490
2.
3.
4. Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) - 1970-, RHB/SLA, 120 Tests 1992-2007, 8,830 runs @ 49.60 - price $2,100,000
5.
6.
7. Jeff Dujon (WI) - 1956-, RHB/WK, 81 Tests 1981-91, 3,322 runs @ 31.94 - price $1,800,000
8.
9. Merv Hughes (Aus) - 1961-, RHB/RF, 53 Tests 1985-94, 1,032 runs @ 16.64, 212 wickets @ 28.38 - price $1,900,000
10.
11.
$8,441,510 left.

At least I've only drafted Test standard players so far.

 

[Red]

Just wondering what would happen if the majority of people need bowlers during the last round but the randomiser selects mainly batsman like it has here?

It's one of those things with this draft, there's a chance a few XIs will look pretty unbalanced.

 

[Red]

Morgie must like Greg Ritchie almost as much as I like Junior Murray to have dropped $50k for him! Was it Fat Cat?

Yeh, you win. Interested to know what's at the heart of Dan's issue with Fat Cat.

Here's a topical question for y'all. If they'd played the same amount of tests in the same era, who would've had the better test record out of Greg Ritchie and Mark Cosgrove?

 

[Dan]

Yeh, you win. Interested to know what's at the heart of Dan's issue with Fat Cat.

Being an un-funny racist egocentric prick, basically.

 

[Red]

Just waiting on a couple of emails....

 

[morgieb]

Sent.

Seems to be a very high proportion of "decent" Test-level cricketers that round.

 

[Red]

Sent.

Seems to be a very high proportion of "decent" Test-level cricketers that round.

Interestingly, the randomizer chose 11/12 of the top 12 it chose who had played 10+ tests.