Partnerships draft

[Howe_zat]

A draft in which you pick two players at a time. We draft 6 rounds for a team of 12.

Rules:

1. The players must have played at least one test together for the same team.
2. The time span between their first and last match together (in years) decides the order for the next round. So it's advantageous to pick players seen as long-term partnerships in Test cricket than those who just played one test together but had separate careers.
3. For the above rule, post the years they played together when you make a pick e.g. "Joe Bloggs and John Doe (1959-1971)"

Players:

Howe
Battlers
Jimmy
OS
Red Hill
Watson
Shri
Morgie

 

[Howe_zat]

Also let me know if you think Bradman should be banned (i.e. if he's an automatic first pick, he should go)

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Yeah in and no to Bradman

 

[jimmy101]

Yeah I'll jump in this one

 

[OverratedSanity]

I'll play. Confused about rule 2 though. Does it mean that whoever picks the longest span in round 1 gets to pick first in round 2?

 

[Red]

Sure

 

[watson]

Nice idea. In.

 

[Howe_zat]

I'll play. Confused about rule 2 though. Does it mean that whoever picks the longest span in round 1 gets to pick first in round 2?

yes exactly.

 

[Shri]

I don't understand it but I am in.

 

[Howe_zat]

FTR a useful statsguru tool here will be (from a player's profile page) to click 'player analysis menu/filter' and go advanced, then put their partner's name into 'match involving players'. Then the filtered line on the stats page will show the span. Here is Srinath with Dravid, for example, which comes out to 1996-2002.

 

[Howe_zat]

I'll start this once we get to 10 drafters.

 

[morgieb]

I'm in.

 

[kingkallis]

In

 

[mr_mister]

In baby

 

[Pothas]

In

 

[AndrewB]

In if you'll accept 12 drafters.

 

[Howe_zat]

s'fine. capping it there though.

Let's kick off. no Bradman.

Round 1

Battlers
Shri
Morgie
mr_mister
kingkallis
AndrewB
OS
Jimmy
Howe
Watson
Pothas
Red Hill

 

[watson]

2. The time span between their first and last match together (in years) decides the order for the next round. So it's advantageous to pick players seen as long-term partnerships in Test cricket than those who just played one test together but had separate careers.

Do we count the 4 or 6 years of the two wars (?)

Total Test matches played together would be another way of doing it.

 

[mr_mister]

Depends do you want to benefit modern or old players more

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Hutton & Hammond
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