2018/19 New Zealand First-Class Season Draft

[Chewie]

I'm not going on holiday this year so hopefully I don't just disappear like last time I was part of this

 

[Howsie]

Kuggeleijn, Scott

 

[CharlesLara]

ahh I guess I'm too late for this? dammit/

This is the exact type of thread I live for! I'll be doing a few pet design projects over the summer, could be interested in following this draft as potential content.

 

[Raghav]

Am I also too late for this? I want to play.

 

[Kippax]

It seems there'll quickly be enough players to take the scoring system into a new thread and form a Division 2, that'd be fun. Introduce a nagging fear of relegation into all the old familiar and perennial names of the New Zealand domestic season threads.

 

[Kippax]

Latham and Wagner.

Howsie up.

 

[Howsie]

Southee, Tim

 

[Flem274*]

kippax subscribing to my theory of "Latham has a spin bowling strong country to tour followed by mighty Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at home to make him look better than he is 'he's turned a corner this summer' etc before crashing back to constant 40s against proper teams in pace bowling conditions next summer" I see

 

[Chewie]

How much do our teams have to resemble a proper team?

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Colin de Grandhomme will be my next selection please

Charter 77 so Far

Colin de Grandhomme
Trent Boult

 

[Chewie]

Doug Bracewell

 

[Kippax]

How much do our teams have to resemble a proper team?

* Only five of your first XI draftees (six including the 12th man, who comes in for injuries) can score more bowling points in the season than batting points. Otherwise, infringing players on your team will go to zero.

* Anyone you bat at No. 9-11 scoring more batting points in the season than bowling points, infringing players on your team will go to zero. Unless this was some kind of massive 'engine room' phenomenon.

* Your designated wicket-keeper will only score non-WK fielding points if he's making way for a gloveman with Test caps (Seifert for Watling, Conway for Blundell, but not Phillips for Horne, etc.)

 

[Kippax]

Phlegm Taylor
Athlai Williamson
Chewie Watling
Michaelf777 Boult
Howsie Kuggeleijn
Kippax Latham

Kippax Wagner
Howsie Southee
Michaelf777 CdG
Chewie D Bracewell
Athlai
Phlegm

 

[Athlai]

Gimme dat Blundell

 

[Chewie]

* Only five of your first XI draftees (six including the 12th man, who comes in for injuries) can score more bowling points in the season than batting points. Otherwise, infringing players on your team will go to zero.

* Anyone you bat at No. 9-11 scoring more batting points in the season than bowling points, infringing players on your team will go to zero. Unless this was some kind of massive 'engine room' phenomenon.

* Your designated wicket-keeper will only score non-WK fielding points if he's making way for a gloveman with Test caps (Seifert for Watling, Conway for Blundell, but not Phillips for Horne, etc.)

ok that makes sense I think - with that third option, I could choose Phillips as a normal bat however? Or in that case would I not receive WK points when he is WK?

And no requirement on having to have two people who traditionally open? And presumably no requirement on having a spin bowler?

 

[Athlai]

Yeah we should also get bonus points for best spinner. "The Jeetan Patel "You did your best" Award" - 100 points

 

[Howsie]

Doug Bracewell

Ah, should’ve taken him when I had the chance. Don’t know why I thought he’d fall to round 3

 

[Athlai]

Ah, should’ve taken him when I had the chance. Don’t know why I thought he’d fall to round 3

I was gonna grab him too.

 

[Kippax]

Yeah we should also get bonus points for best spinner. "The Jeetan Patel "You did your best" Award" - 100 points

Nah the Ajaz Patel 'I've topped the FC wicket-takers three seasons running' Award will fetch zero bonus points, this time around. Even Jeets averaged low 20s last season. Some may say we're overdue a squelchy summer of 2002/03 proportions, but I'll believe that when I see it.

ok that makes sense I think - with that third option, I could choose Phillips as a normal bat however? Or in that case would I not receive WK points when he is WK?

Yeah picking him as a normal bat who sometimes gets WK points, that's fine.

And no requirement on having to have two people who traditionally open? And presumably no requirement on having a spin bowler?

That 200 bonus points for King of the Openers is the only thing I'll use to entice drafters to select guys who actually open. No, no requirement for a spin bowler.

 

[Athlai]

Nah the Ajaz Patel 'I've topped the FC wicket-takers three seasons running' Award will fetch zero bonus points, this time around. Even Jeets averaged low 20s last season. Some may say we're overdue a squelchy summer of 2002/03 proportions, but I'll believe that when I see it.

Dragging 3 spinners on tour is always going to make it a gamble for who actually plays though.