Sheep Draft version 4.0

[NUFAN]

FINAL TEAMS

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 (4)

BeeGee's flock
1. Arthur Morris
2. Gordon Greenidge
3. Glenn Turner
4. Ken Barrington
5. Mushtaq Mohammad
6. Craig McMillan
7. John R Reid * +
8. Eric Atkinson
9. David Brown
10. Ian Bishop
11. Bruce Reid

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

Justo
1. Bill Lawry*
2. Terry Jarvis (***)
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Vijay Merchant
5. Ronnie Irani (6) (***)
6. Trevor Chappell (5) (***)
7. Brendon McCullum +
8. Daniel Vettori (4)
9. Paul Reiffel (3)
10. Joel Garner (1)
11. Courtney Walsh (2)

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

AZH
1. Conrad Hunte
2. Herbie Taylor
3. Bob Cowper
4. Norm O'Neill
5. Peter May*
6. Bev Congdon
7. Jack Blackham+
8. Ray Lindwall
9. Fred Trueman
10. Frank Tyson
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

HONEST HUNKS
1 Graham Gooch (c)
2 virender Sehwag
3 Gary Kirsten
4 Ted Dexter
5 Sir Clyde Walcott (wk)
6 Doug Walters
7 Wasim Raja
8 Mitchell Starc
9 Dale Steyn
10 Joey Palmer
11 Bishen Bedi

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

F-UP CricZo XI
1 Sunil Gavaskar /
2 Bob Simpson / o
3 David Boon /
4 Gundappa Vishwanath /
5 Allan Border ( c ) / o
6 Carl Hooper / o
7 Wayne Phillips ( + )
8 John Inverarity / o
9 Micheal Holding o
10 Morne Morkel o
11 Shoaib Akhtar o

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

Voting
Select the 3 best teams in order. You can't vote for your own team and either email me your picks or post them in here. If you don't vote you lose 3 points to your score and if its a tie I decide

 

[fredfertang]

Monk first for me by a short head

Really difficult after that - by the width of a fag paper Watson followed by Pothas

 

[watson]

I kind of like the idea of a surprise final result revealed by NUFAN with a drum roll, rather than watching a slow count - VOTES E-MAILED.

 

[Pothas]

Monk
AZH
Fred - Close for 3rd but can't ignore Dolly and Larwood.

 

[NUFAN]

4 votes in, 2 on here and 2 via email.

BTW, if anyone votes for the same person those votes do not count.































I'm joking

 

[Justo]

1. Monk
2. AZH
3. Pothas

 

[kingkallis]

AZH
Monk
Pothas

 

[morgieb]

AZH
Monk
Pothas

Watson unlucky.

 

[Himannv]

Monk, AZH and Fred in no particular order.

 

[BeeGee]

AZH
Monk
Fred

 

[BeeGee]

I love this draft. NUFAN, you're a genius for coming up with this format.

I love the fact it's not just a mad dash for ATGs and you get to look at a lot more 2nd and 3rd tier players and those interesting, obscure diamonds in the rough types.

Awesome.

 

[watson]

I love this draft. NUFAN, you're a genius for coming up with this format.

I love the fact it's not just a mad dash for ATGs and you get to look at a lot more 2nd and 3rd tier players and those interesting, obscure diamonds in the rough types.

Awesome.

Actually there is always a mad dash for the ATGs every round, it's just that the system makes getting them difficult.

I would hazard a guess and say that Andy, Monk, and Pothas are 'natural risk takers' in real life.

 

[Red]

Actually there is always a mad dash for the ATGs every round, it's just that the system makes getting them difficult.

I would hazard a guess and say that Andy, Monk, and Pothas are 'natural risk takers' in real life.

Actually have an academic interest in risk taking, because I work a lot with adolescents. But I'm ten years past the real risk taking time of life!

 

[Red]

Monk first for me by a short head

Really difficult after that - by the width of a fag paper Watson followed by Pothas

McCabe- I knew he'd win you with the width of a fag paper!

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Monk, Fred and Pothas

Watson missing out only just

 

[Red]

Pothas, AZH & Fred

 

[NUFAN]

I love this draft. NUFAN, you're a genius for coming up with this format.

I love the fact it's not just a mad dash for ATGs and you get to look at a lot more 2nd and 3rd tier players and those interesting, obscure diamonds in the rough types.

Awesome.

Now I know how Kerry Packer felt.


Its actually really fun for me watching the draft take place and seeing whether a really good pick becomes a great pick or not.

 

[watson]

The other good think about the Sheep Draft is that it allows from some interesting twists of fate.

For example, Andy's original selection for 12.1 was Ian Botham. But Botham was banned so then Rae Lindwall was drafted instead.

Ironically, the banning of Botham handed Andy an inherently stronger team because Lindwall-Trueman-Tyson looks so impressive when lined up against eachother.

In short, a banning probably caused more votes - which is delighfully counter-intuitive.

 

[Spikey]

AZH
Pothas
Fred

 

[NUFAN]

FINAL RESULTS

FIRST

AndyZaltzHair 20

SECOND

Monk 19

THIRD

Pothas 13

Thanks everyone for playing and congrats AZH on the narrow but deserving win.