Silent Draft

[AndrewB]

Round 7 successful bids:
honestbharani: AB de Villiers ($105,000)
stephen: Matthew Hayden ($24,999), Ken Barrington ($105,001)
ankitj: Rahul Dravid ($4), Younis Khan ($6)

Nobody bid for Dempster or any of the bowlers.

Picks to date:
honestbharani: (11): Don Bradman, Shane Warne, Aubrey Faulkner, George Headley, Virender Sehwag, WG Grace, Clyde Walcott, Shaun Pollock, Alan Davidson, Fred Trueman, AB de Villiers
mr_mister: (11): Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Sydney Barnes, Wally Hammond, Kumar Sangakkara, Dennis Lillee, Charles Macartney, Jack Gregory, Andy Flower, Allan Donald, Hugh Tayfield
milenko47: (11): Garry Sobers, Adam Gilchrist, Vinoo Mankad, Viv Richards, Ray Lindwall, Herbert Sutcliffe, Bill Ponsford, Maurice Tate, Wilfred Rhodes, Clarrie Grimmett, Graeme Pollock
ankitj : (10): Sachin Tendulkar, Steve Smith, Malcolm Marshall, Glenn McGrath, Alan Knott, Bill O'Reilly, Muttiah Muralitharan, Frank Worrell, Rahul Dravid, Younis Khan : $6,102 remaining
Red Hill: (11): Shakib Al Hasan, Mike Procter, Kapil Dev, Barry Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Stan McCabe, Les Ames, Harold Larwood, Wasim Akram, Curtly Ambrose
stephen: (11): Farokh Engineer, Jacques Kallis, Keith Miller, Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, Arthur Morris, Everton Weekes, Richie Benaud, Matthew Hayden, Ken Barrington

 

[honestbharani]

Question: if we have another round, its basically Ankit choosing whomever he wants from the options you give?

 

[honestbharani]

Honest Hunks


WG Grace (vc) (4)
Virender Sehwag (7)
Don Bradman (c)
George Headley
Clyde Walcott (backup wk)
AB De Villiers (wk)
Aubrey Faulkner (6)
Shaun Pollock (2)
Alan Davidson (1)
Shane Warne (5)
Fred Trueman (3)

Love this side. 3 of the greatest ever and the Black Bradman and probably the most stylish batsman of the Ws and the first (and so far, ONLY) 360 degree player. One of the greatest ever fast bowlers and two line and length merchants who are more than capable with the bat too. In addition to the mercurial Sehwag at hte top and one of the finest allrounders of all time at 7. To be captained by the greatest batsman of all time. 7 bowling options, 4 seamers and 3 spinners, can play anywhere in the world and be awesome.

 

[ankitj]

Dravid will be my makeshift opener.

Overpriced XI:

–
Rahul Dravid
Steven Smith
Sachin Tendulkar
Younis Khan
Frank Worrell [5] *
Allan Knott +
Malcolm Marshall [1]
Bill O'Reilly [3]
Muttiah Muralitharan [4]
Glenn McGrath [2]

 

[stephen]

Stephen's superstars.

Hayden
Morris
Barrington
Weekes
Kallis (6)
Miller (2)
Botham (3)
Imran (4)
Engineer+
Benaud (c) (5)
Hadlee (1)

This side has has more ATG bowling options than any other side. The plan is that the middle order grind the opposition down by anchoring the tail, all of whom have at least two centuries to their names.

The tail is simply the best tail in history. The middle order has three batsmen who average over 55. The openers are two of the best left handed openers in history. This side would be very difficult to beat and would always have the firepower to take 20 wickets, regardless of the surface.

Bowling- wise, Hadlee opens with Miller, Botham bowls first change and Imran acts as the old ball specialist. Benaud and Kallis can fill in the other overs. Obviously on spinning wickets Benaud can take on a bigger role.

And nobody can say they have a better looking side. Miller, Engineer, Imran and even Benaud were all Adonises.

 

[stephen]

Question: if we have another round, its basically Ankit choosing whomever he wants from the options you give?

Yeah IMO he should get a random unpicked player from the rounds so far.

 

[ankitj]

Why random? That was not the rule.

 

[honestbharani]

Whomever Andy picks is random too though, Ankit. TBH, I am ok for Ankit to choose one of the unpicked players, but this being an Auction draft, I dunno if that makes it unfair on the guys who did do the auctions well and got the playes we got.

 

[Jarquis]

ankitj should just get whoever he wants because the alternative is Andrew posting list after list after list and him refusing to bid until the player he wants comes up anyway

 

[ankitj]

ankitj should just get whoever he wants because the alternative is Andrew posting list after list after list and him refusing to bid until the player he wants comes up anyway

I didn't know this alternative but that'd be a good trick

 

[honestbharani]

I feel the idea I gave is better Juz let him choose whom he wants out of the unselected pool so far.

 

[stephen]

Yeah picking someone who was already rejected could work. So long as he doesn't get Ponting haha.

 

[stephen]

I guess this is the problem without a pre defined end state.

 

[AndrewB]

I didn't know this alternative but that'd be a good trick

Don't forget the rule (inspired by your comment) that you have to bid for at least one player in each round...

 

[AndrewB]

Round 8 "long lived" XI to pick from:

Colin McDonald
Bill Brown
Frank Woolley
Reg Simpson
Bob Wyatt
John R Reid
Wilfred Rhodes
Tiger Smith
Alec Bedser
Sonny Ramadhin
Norman Gordon

(You can post your pick here).

 

[ankitj]

Why can't you have Gordon Greenidge and Bruce Mitchell as openers in your XI? They must be next in pecking order.

Give me 5 minutes.

 

[ankitj]

I'll go Bill Brown for $1

Overpriced XI:

Bill Brown
Rahul Dravid
Steven Smith
Sachin Tendulkar
Younis Khan
Frank Worrell [5] *
Allan Knott +
Malcolm Marshall [1]
Bill O'Reilly [3]
Muttiah Muralitharan [4]
Glenn McGrath [2]

 

[AndrewB]

Thanks to all who took part. I think it's clear that I should have spent more time thinking through possible issues before I launched this, but nevertheless I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Poll is now up.

 

[stephen]

Thanks to all who took part. I think it's clear that I should have spent more time thinking through possible issues before I launched this, but nevertheless I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Poll is now up.

There were a couple of ways that it could be improved. With only 6 players there were probably too many ATG players who were too similar. Mixing in a few more ordinary players could have spiced things up. Also ending the game after 7 rounds would have meant there was enough time for everyone to get their players and still have a few players who weren't drafted.

But overall it was a well run draft. Thanks for playing everyone.

 

[stephen]

Also, according to game theory, the highest bidder should pay the second highest bid for each player. This creates the fairest/truest price. It doesn't work quite so well with multiple- lot auctions but the theory still applies.