ODI Auction Draft

[anil1405]

Fair enough...makes it more interesting I suppose.

 

[weldone]

Come on guys, I have my list of 120 players ready and have the player order ready too. At least 110 of them have played at least one World Cup semifinal. Some people liked my test auction draft years ago; and there were a few who didn't enjoy it that much (mainly because they spent all their money way too early). I have rectified all the shortcomings of that approach, and this one is surely going to be far more interesting than that one.

We've got 9 drafters ready - need the last one before I ring the bell.

 

[kingkallis]

My system will be ready in lets say 2-3 days so lets wait for 2-3 more drafters to make things interesting.

 

[weldone]

Kk, my draft is meant for 10 drafters only (it won't work with 11 or 12). I have a way of keeping track of time and budget. We can merge with your system after the first few rounds.

 

[bagapath]

In

 

[weldone]

Participants:
Saint Kopite
morgieb
ohnoitsyou
kingkallis
Red Hill
longranger
anil1405
Pothas
watson
bagapath

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Weldone rings the bell indicating start of the draft. You can now bid on

1. Bishen Bedi (till GMT 0200 hrs 22-Nov)
2. Allan Border (till GMT 1100 hrs 22-Nov)
3. Dennis Lillee (till GMT 2000 hrs 22-Nov)

[Convert to your local time accordingly]

Happy Bidding!

 

[kingkallis]

Kk, my draft is meant for 10 drafters only (it won't work with 11 or 12). I have a way of keeping track of time and budget. We can merge with your system after the first few rounds.

My system is flexible so there wont be an issue even if you add or remove 1-2 players.

 

[weldone]

In case people didn't notice, the bidding time has already started (see post #26).

 

[kingkallis]

I'll start the bidding:

Border: 0.2m
Lillee: 0.3m

 

[watson]

Bedi = 0.05
Border = 0.3
Lillee = 0.8

 

[kingkallis]

ARGH!

Border: 0.4
Lillee: 0.9

 

[watson]

Border = 0.45
Lillee = 0.95

 

[Red]

Lillee- 3million

Border- 1million

Bedi- 0.5million

 

[watson]

Fold.

 

[weldone]

One precautionary health warning regarding multiple bidding - at any point if the sum total of all your outstanding bids on declared (but not finalized) players exceeds your balance then all those outstanding bids will be considered invalid.

Example: Drafter X has outstanding balance of 6 million. He places 3 bids of 2.52 mn each on 3 different players at the same time. None of the 3 bids will be considered valid. However, if he places bids of 2.52 mn, 2.52 mn and 0.96 mn respectively on the 3 players then they are perfectly valid bids.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Bedi= 0.6 mill

 

[Saint Kopite]

Weldone, what happens when we don't have eleven players after you have auctioned the 120 players?

 

[NUFAN]

Well you weren't wrong when you said they might not all be the best 120 ODI players including Bedi in this draft.

 

[kingkallis]

It seems Bedi is sold then.

 

[kingkallis]

Allan Border: 1.01 million