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Ascending batting average draft (tests)

trundler

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I think Philander and Cairns would be too.
Oh definitely but I wouldn't see the 4th or even 3rd seamer getting much of a go when Ambrose can run through a lineup in 10 overs and Bedser can bowl unchanged for a whole session. Who gets the new ball is interesting.
 

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
Aye to knockouts.

One way to do it can be to create 4 groups (3×4 + 1×5). Put all groups to vote asking each voter to name top 2 from each group (please don't make us rank all teams). That gives you 8 teams that you can do head to head knockouts between.
 

srbhkshk

International Captain
One minor change I'll suggest in Ankit's format is to put the groups out one by one rather than all at the same time, basically getting people to read 200 names at the same time is what I am trying to avoid.
 

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
For seeding, use total of batting averages for each team. Here are the ranks:

RankDrafterTotal Avg
1JOJOXI412.10
2Fuller Pilch411.97
3Pothas407.70
4Honestbharani406.89
5AndrewB404.16
6Line and Length401.00
7Marcuss387.60
8Red Hill384.44
9Ankitj377.29
10Trundler373.89
11Teuton371.49
12srbhkshkk368.73
13Ataraxia367.48
14Coronis364.84
15StephenZA361.75
16Mr_mister359.35
17KingKallis346.21

So the groups can be:

Group 1: JOJOXI, Red Hill, Ankitj, Mr_mister, KingKallis
Group 2: Fuller Pilch, Marcuss, Trundler, StephenZA
Group 3: Pothas, Line and Length, Teuton, Coronis
Group 4: Honestbharani, AndrewB, srbhkshkk, Ataraxia

If that's agreeable to everyone, @trundler can get started.
 

ataraxia

International Coach
1. RB Simpson* / o
2. WM Lawry /
3. CL Walcott /
4. A Flower /
5. SJ McCabe / o
6. AW (Dave) Nourse / o
7. MJ Procter o /
8. SMH Kirmani + /
9. SE Bond o
10. DL Underwood o
11. AA Donald
 
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trundler

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Voting thread is up lads.

Will probably start the thread for the debut draft in my afternoon. Let's have another mega draft..
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
1. RB Simpson* / o
2. WM Lawry /
3. CL Walcott /
4. A Flower /
5. SJ McCabe / o
6. AW (Dave) Nourse / o
7. MJ Procter o /
8. SMH Kirmani + /
9. SE Bond o
10. DL Underwood o
11. AA Donald
I really like this team.
 

trundler

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Bowling looks venomous. Proven ATG opening duo. Walcott and McCabe both 2 of the fastest scorers in the history of the game. Solid and dependable Flower at 4. A quirk I like is that Kirmani keeps to Underwood. He kept to Chandra with distinction.
 

Jarquis

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Vaughan was much better opening but Atherton would look so out of place at 6.

I considered Barrington ahead of Hutton but a Atherton/Vaughan combo isn’t winning many votes and Hutton is certainly the better/more highly regarded player.

Could probably switch Dravid and Richardson but that’s much of a muchness

Atherton
Hutton
Vaughan
Richardson
Dravid
Border

Might be closest to the best option maybe?
 

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