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Athlai · Apr 11, 2014

Who won the mystery drafts? We even had simmage in those days. Good times.

Prince EWS · Apr 11, 2014

ohnoitsyou said:
And here we get into the reasons behind peoples votes.

Yeah exactly. Too much gaming.

At the end of the day I rarely partake in drafts on here anymore for a number of different reasons so my opinion can be taken with a pinch of salt, but I don't think people should be playing to win the popular vote as such.

Red · Apr 11, 2014

Prince EWS said:
Yeah exactly. Too much gaming.

At the end of the day I rarely partake in drafts on here anymore for a number of different reasons so my opinion can be taken with a pinch of salt, but I don't think people should be playing to win the popular vote as such.

Agree with this. It feels like results of voting are generally skewed towards whoever gets the most impressive looking 3 quicks plus two openers who don't look ****. I think excellent middle orders are overlooked, and I feel like spinners are overlooked also. Overemphasis is placed on having a 5th bowler too.

watson · Apr 11, 2014

Athlai said:
Who won the mystery drafts? We even had simmage in those days. Good times.

Whether or not the Draft Winners deserve to be the winners or not might be beside the point. People seem to enjoy looking back and reminiscing about old Drafts.

Consequently, it might be nice if the results were in one thread, in one place, as a memory jogger.

NUFAN · Apr 11, 2014

Draft manager sounds like a good achievement to add to my resume.

watson · Apr 11, 2014

NUFAN said:
Draft manager sounds like a good achievement to add to my resume.

Yes, you should take your Sheep Draft 4.0 Excel spreadsheet to your next job interview

Twas a damned good Draft from memory.

NUFAN · Apr 11, 2014

Haha yeah, maybe I should.

I'm probably due a new sheep draft one of these days. Kind of not that excited about cricket at the moment, feels like ages since there has been a match that I've been slightly interested in.

Howe_zat · Apr 11, 2014

kyear2 · Apr 11, 2014

Monk said:
Agree with this. It feels like results of voting are generally skewed towards whoever gets the most impressive looking 3 quicks plus two openers who don't look ****. I think excellent middle orders are overlooked, and I feel like spinners are overlooked also. Overemphasis is placed on having a 5th bowler too.

For once Monk I disagree, all of the great teams have somewhat of a template in common. Great opening combination, Elite ATG No. 3(/4) and at least two ATG bowlers. The rest of the middle orders were good but hardly word beating, so I imagine people take their ques from those teams. Some of the teams with amazing middle orders, didn't always do that great because they often lacked the (fast) bowling to back them up.

Windies mid '80s
Greenidge, Haynes, Richards, Marshall, Holding, Garner
Aussies '2000's
Hayden, Langer, Ponting, Warne, McGrath
Invincibles
Morris, Barnes, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller
S/A
Richards, Barlow, Pollock, Procter, Pollock

G.I.Joe · Apr 11, 2014

Calling dibs on the draft after Howe's.

Howe_zat · Apr 11, 2014

Scorecard Draft IV?

HeathDavisSpeed · Apr 11, 2014

Worst Player Draft criminally neglected.

G.I.Joe · Apr 11, 2014

Howe_zat said:
Scorecard Draft IV?

Yeah. Your linkage clinched it. Am currently reminiscing over the good times we had.

G.I.Joe · Apr 11, 2014

I mean it wasn't a difficult choice to go back to the scorecard draft considering the smashing success of the taboo draft :ph34r:

uvelocity · Apr 11, 2014

i liked the tab00 draft

Howe_zat · Apr 11, 2014

G.I.Joe said:
I mean it wasn't a difficult choice to go back to the scorecard draft considering the smashing success of the taboo draft

I notice it was followed by a quick draft.

G.I.Joe · Apr 11, 2014

uvelocity said:
i liked the tab00 draft

Yeah it was fun. Could be worth a sequel with better categorisation of players.

marc71178 · Apr 11, 2014

watson said:
Fron now on will do I think. Otherwise it becomes too much homework and hardwork, and besides, where do you draw the chronological line?

Start from ALFTA if you're going to do it properly IMO.

BeeGee · Apr 11, 2014

ohnoitsyou said:
And here we get into the reasons behind peoples votes.

I usually sneeze at my computer screen and pick the team(s) with the biggest booger(s) on it.

The nose knows.

BeeGee · Apr 11, 2014

Howe_zat said:
Watson if you would like to construct this - just for fun, ofc - here are some drafts to put on it

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cri...ft-vote-debate-thread-everyone-come-vote.html - Jan 2009
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/43081-families-draft-voting-thread.html - June 2009
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/47270-auction-draft-ii-odi-voting-thread.html - July 2010
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/48000-scorecard-draft-vote-here-else.html - Sept 2010
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/48556-pre-war-cricket-draft-voting-thread.html - Oct 2010
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/48618-left-hander-s-draft-voting-thread.html - Nov 2010
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/49346-calendar-draft-voting-thread.html - Jan 2011
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/49447-alphabetical-draft-voting-thread.html - Jan 2011
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/51961-odi-mystery-draft-voting-thread.html - June 2011
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/52890-scorecard-draft-ii-voting-thread.html - August 2011
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/53609-modern-era-draft-voting-thread.html - Oct 2011
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/54905-generation-draft-voting-thread.html - Dec 2011
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/55857-scorecard-draft-iii-voting-thread.html - March 2012
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/56563-quiz-draft-voting-thread.html - April 2012
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/57314-taboo-draft-voting-thread.html - July 2012
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/57370-quick-world-odi-atg-xi-draft-voting-thread.html - July 2012
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/58389-auction-draft-simple-format-voting-thread.html - Nov 2012
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/58953-real-time-draft-voting-poll.html - Jan 2013
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/59104-cw-random-player-auction-draft-voting-thread.html - Feb 2013
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/60727-mystery-box-draft-voting.html - Sept 2013
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cri...-real-time-draft-sept-2013-voting-thread.html - Sept 2013
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/62326-budget-draft-voting-thread.html - Feb 2014

Add this one: http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/60113-voting-thread-randomised-test-playing-nations.html

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