The "I played for X in FC draft"

[anil1405]

Now thats a Bradman'esque effort from Victor Ian in this thread.

No one can do a better job than Victor Ian in this aspect of providing insights, just like how no one could sneak past Bradman and my incredible team.

 

[watson]

I thought that I picked Sarfraz Ahmad, the current Pakistan keeper?

 

[jimmy101]

On second thought, after seeing Victor's FC stats, I might tinker my team a bit.

1 Graham Gooch
2 Martin Donnelly
3 Kane Williamson
4 Allan Border c
5 Polly Umrigar
6 Matthew Maynard
7 Adam Gilchrist +
8 Keith Miller
9 Ray Lindwall
10 Ken Higgs
11 Don Shepherd

12 Ben Stokes

Don't really need Stokes all that much tbh. I have Umrigar, Gooch & Border as 5th bowling options anyway. Maynard has a much higher FC ave than Stokes, & Umrigar has a much better FC bowling ave than Stokes. I'll keep Miller at 8, so he can concentrate on destroying all of your batting lineups in tandem with Lindwall!

 

[Victor Ian]

Bradman's top test score 334 is the same as the latent heat for melting ice. Not quite sure what that means but sounds cool.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Lol that is awesome

 

[Victor Ian]

Who is the Greatest All Time First Class player ever? Is it still Bradman by a long way or does Grace get close or even take the honours. Is it someone else entirely, such as that Mynn dude?

 

[AndrewB]

Sorry if this came up earlier (or is well known on the forum)... what are the "class" letters (atg, mtg and so on) above? (I'm guessing "atg" is "all-time great"?)

 

[Victor Ian]

iby = -1, it's bradman yeah
atg = 1, all time great (always mentioned in greatest discussions)
mtg = 2, most time great (mentioned in greatest in certain circumstances)
sta - 3, some times awesome (get's mentioned because of unsustained brilliance)
gok - 4, good ok (played a few games for their country)
jgt - 5, just got there (just made country team or was in the running)
ays - 6, are you serious (you poor c...)

They are accurate with a margin of error of 6. They are based on my gut feeling at the time, so don't read too much into them. (except in my team)

 

[mr_mister]

why did Tendulkar get an ays and not an atg? lol

 

[jimmy101]

Haha, yeah I was wondering what those ratings were about. Nice system Victor. Although I disagree with Umrigar getting an 'ays' rating. He was a quality player & would walk straight into any Test team if he were playing today!

 

[Victor Ian]

Tendulkar was a troll Umrigar is my own lack of knowledge and probably copied from a previous line.

 

[watson]

Bump - voting thread?

 

[jimmy101]

The public are just crying out for a vote here.

 

[Victor Ian]

How about I post up a vote thread? What are the usual conditions? pick 3? picks can be seen? time frame?

I guess other than the poll, I post everyone's final team below that?

 

[jimmy101]

Yep, just create a new thread with a vote that has the same amount of options as the number of players that participated in this draft. Post everyone's team's in the OP. Set the question to 'vote for the 3 best teams' and set the number of votes options to 3