Season 2 Draft Discussion

[Dan]

Yes.

Thought so.

 

[Prince EWS]

Is it sad that I'm sitting here trawling through every country's first class stats for the previous season in order to come up with a list of people worth picking? I have about 20 different Cricinfo tabs open right now..

Be careful with the South African ones. Not all the matches count.

 

[weeman27bob]

Sehwag
Smith
-
-
Hussey
Bresnan
Rahim
Bravo
-
Sammy
Russell

Shaping up for a decent-ish team.

 

[Eds]

Bresnan at 6. Hmm..

 

[weeman27bob]

Bresnan at 6. Hmm..

Clearly haven't been paying much attention to last season's games.

And then I took it a step further.

 

[Eds]

Not sure it'll work in the long-term tbh. Particularly if your lower order are all bowlers as well.

 

[weeman27bob]

Not sure it'll work in the long-term tbh. Particularly if your lower order are all bowlers as well.

Worst case scenario really.

 

[Dan]

Be careful with the South African ones. Not all the matches count.

Yeah, that frustrating three-day competition that is basically made irrelevant by Franchise cricket, but still retains FC status. Managed to avoid falling into that trap though.

May be willing to take a risk on one of them though, but only as a last resort back-up player.

 

[Cabinet96]

Is it sad that I'm sitting here trawling through every country's first class stats for the previous season in order to come up with a list of people worth picking? I have about 20 different Cricinfo tabs open right now..

I hope not.

 

[Howe_zat]

Bresnan at 6. Hmm..

Lol at this already being explained to you once in the linked thread.

 

[Cevno]

Don't know if it was answered finally earlier, but is the database updated till the end of the draft or start of the draft ?

 

[Prince EWS]

Don't know if it was answered finally earlier, but is the database updated till the end of the draft or start of the draft ?

End of the draft. Regardless of what everyone wants.

 

[Eds]

Lol at this already being explained to you once in the linked thread.

Yeah but in that lineup he just had a strange batting order - he had the right ratio of batsmen:all-rounders:bowlers. Now, he's just going to have a really long tail.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah but in that lineup he just had a strange batting order - he had the right ratio of batsmen:all-rounders:bowlers. Now, he's just going to have a really long tail.

He's got Bravo listed at 8 with Sammy at 10 and Russell at 11. That's not a long tail; that's just thinking Bresnan is a gun bat.

 

[weeman27bob]

Yeah but in that lineup he just had a strange batting order - he had the right ratio of batsmen:all-rounders:bowlers. Now, he's just going to have a really long tail.

Depends on who I pick up really.

5.Hussey
6. Drafted Batsman
7. Bravo
8. Bresnan
9. Rahim
10. Sammy
11. Russell/ Drafted Spinner

That doesn't seem like too long a tail.

I mean I'll admit that Bresnan at six through to Russell at 10 would be a fairly long tail

Although if you look at the averages:

Bresnan: 40, 28 in FC
Bravo: 31, 30 in FC
Sammy 17, 23 in FC
Russel: 2, 27 in FC

It wouldn't be the worst tail in the world.

 

[Eds]

Depends on who I pick up really.

5.Hussey
6. Drafted Batsman
7. Bravo
8. Bresnan
9. Rahim
10. Sammy
11. Russell/ Drafted Spinner

That doesn't seem like too long a tail.

No, that's a fantastic tail. Would probably end up the best in the competition, from 8-11, batting-wise.

 

[morgieb]

Weak bowling though.

 

[Eds]

I'm going to bed. Furball wants Imran Tahir. Ben Cutting as reserve.

 

[Jarquis]

I had his picks too

 

[Cabinet96]

Spark edited his pick into the first post, but didn't post it.