The 90s and 00s banlisted draft thread

[stephen]

The order for round 1 is:

1. Matt79
2. metallics2006
3. Stephen
4. Somerset
5. bunny
6. Marc71178
7. BoyBrumby
8. GingerFurball
9. Blakus
10. NUFAN

Round 2:

1. NUFAN
2. Blakus
3. GingerFurball
4. BoyBrumby
5. Marc71178
6. bunny
7. Somerset
8. Stephen
9. metallics2006
10. Matt79

 

[NUFAN]

Is the order going to be the same for the whole comp? Does each pick have 24 or 12 hours?

 

[stephen]

Is the order going to be the same for the whole comp? Does each pick have 24 or 12 hours?

a) no I will be randomly generating the order in rounds 1,3,5,7,10 and reversing them in 2,4,6,8,11 and round 9 will be random with no "counterbalance" round.
b) 24h - though hopefully it'll be much faster than that.

 

[Athlai]

Why round 9 if you don't mind me asking? Wouldn't round 11 be the fairest to have a randomized order as everyone has already had their best picks?

 

[stephen]

Why round 9 if you don't mind me asking? Wouldn't round 11 be the fairest to have a randomized order as everyone has already had their best picks?

Round 9 because it is the last of the "regular" rounds. It should have the least impact on each team because it is effectively the last pick.

Round 10 and 11 are very very important rounds and so to keep it as fair as possible keeping those two as "mirror" rounds is the way to go.

Just a reminder - the rules state that in round 10 each player MUST pick someone from the nominated "team of the 90s" and in round 11 each player MUST pick someone from the nominated "team of the 00s". See my original post to find out what those teams were.

 

[Athlai]

Whoops sorry missed that bit about the team from the 90s/00s.

Very good idea for a draft.

 

[stephen]

Whoops sorry missed that bit about the team from the 90s/00s.

Very good idea for a draft.

Thanks

It's really a variation on a draft I was a part of earlier this year, with a number of other things thrown in.

 

[Shri]

If you don't mind me asking, what is the game format for which we are supposed to pick players? Tests or ODIs?

 

[stephen]

Tests

 

[Matt79]

Can't believe I get to take the new cherry. Am going to **** it up for sure - every other draft I've been right at the end of the first round after all the obvious guys have gone.

I'll say Andy Flower

 

[Shri]

Need to get a keeper first up when the decent ones are still available, so:

MS Dhoni

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6. MS Dhoni
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11.

 

[NUFAN]

I would have put big money on Andy Flower being the first picked or at worst second pick. Picking Flower gives the team extra depth.

 

[stephen]

Courtney Walsh

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5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
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11. Walsh

 

[Blakus]

Yeah if I had been first I would of picked Flower too.

 

[stephen]

Yeah if I had been first I would of picked Flower too.

It was a pretty obvious pick. I reckon that this will get much more difficult beginning in round 2.

 

[Matt79]

Glad I didn't fluff it in y'all's estimation.

 

[Somerset]

Can't believe I get to take the new cherry. Am going to **** it up for sure - every other draft I've been right at the end of the first round after all the obvious guys have gone.

I'll say Andy Flower

NO, anyone but Flower!

 

[Somerset]

Was hoping to select one of Dhoni and Andy Flower but I'll have to settle for Waqar Younis.

 

[bunny]

Ian Bishop (the most underrated bowler of the 90s).

 

[marc71178]

Since Walsh has gone, I'll go for the other under-rated 2nd man of the period - Jason Gillespie.