Quality control draft

[mr_mister]

So, this draft will be quite rigid in structure. But hopefully still fun.

Your team will be divided into 4 distinct categories, 5 batsmen, 1 AR, 1 WK and 4 bowlers


min 1 test played

5 Batsmen have to bat in the top 5

AR and WK have to bat 6 or 7 (no rules as to who bats where)

4 Bowlers have to bat from 8-11


*Your 5 batsmen have to come from 5 groups. Test batting average range of under 35, 35-40, 40-45, 45-50 and 50+.

*Your 4 bowlers have to come from 4 groups. Test bowling average range of under 23, 23-27, 27-31 and 31+.

*Your AR can be anybody. This means you can play Imran/Hadlee here and not waste a valuable top tier bowling slot. Likewise with Sobers/Kallis and batting slots.

*Your WK has no extra rules either



If anyone can spot a flaw or oversight in the rules, let me know. Its possible I made one here



No bradman, 8 hour draft times. Random reverse order

 

[Teuton]

I'm in

 

[morgieb]

Seems interesting, I'm in.

 

[Burgey]

I love how every single draft excludes Bradman. Not being derisory about it, but on a site all about cricket and where cricket tragics come to discuss this sort of stuff, it kind of says it all about the bloke and where he stands as a player.

 

[mr_mister]

he really is worth 2 atg players

 

[Teuton]

Just a suggestion - the bowling thresholds look a tad low or narrow if you want a wide spectrum of picks..The rules have us picking 2 batsmen averaging in the 30s (ie some mediocre players) but can pick all bowlers averaging in the 20s (generally better than mediocre).
Happy to go with whatever you reckon though.

 

[mr_mister]

widened the bowling out to 31+ for the final category

 

[mr_mister]

my concern was there are at least a few really good batsmen averaging under 40 in tests and hardly any really good bowlers averaging over 31.


maybe it should be 30+?

 

[Red]

In. Like it.

 

[ankitj]

In.

 

[ankitj]

*Your AR can be anybody. This means you can play Imran/Hadlee here and not waste a valuable top tier bowling slot. Likewise with Sobers/Kallis and batting slots.

Do we have to announce whether we are treating a player as an AR or a specialist at the time of picking or can we wait till the end?

 

[mr_mister]

in my view, yes you should announce it. but others should comment on it before we decide

 

[Teuton]

I'll vote for not having to announce, to allow for flexibility and tactical agility.

 

[kingkallis]

In!!

 

[The Battlers Prince]

In

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

In

 

[AndrewB]

In

 

[bagapath]

In

 

[AndrewB]

You say the all-rounder can be anybody, does that mean you could pick a 6th specialist batsman who never bowled?
Or alternatively you could pick an all-rounder as a low-averaging "batsman" and two batsman with 50+ averages who never bowled with one of them masquerading as an "all-rounder"?

 

[Teuton]

Geez why let everyone in on a great tactic haha