The "What Is He Smoking" Draft

[stephen]

In 10 minutes Marcus times out.

 

[stephen]

@morgieb is up

 

[morgieb]

Mine says I need to achieve goal 3. Anyone else got goal 3?

Holy **** that's a throwback

Anyway, Sachin Tendulkar

 

[stephen]

Banned players:

Glenn McGrath, Don Bradman, Imran Khan, Garfield Sobers, Steve Smith, Adam Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall, Shakib Al Hasan, Richard Hadlee, Keith Miller, Jack Hobbs, W. G. Grace, Jacques Kallis, Sydney Barnes

R2:

ankitj: Bill O'Reilly
honestbharani: Aubrey Faulkner
AndrewB: Len Hutton
kingkallis: Curtly Ambrose
Pothas: Brian Lara
Himannv: Dale Steyn
trundler: Fred Trueman
Marcuss - Keith Miller
morgieb - Sachin Tendulkar
ataraxia - Barry Richards
weeman27bob - Ian Botham
@Michaelf7777777
JOJOXI
srbhkshk

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Holy **** that's a throwback

Himannv to pick Charmander

 

[ataraxia]

Taking a punt at Barry Richards.

 

[weeman27bob]

Ian Botham

@Michaelf7777777

 

[Jarquis]

Keith Miller

 

[ataraxia]

Banned players:

Glenn McGrath, Don Bradman, Imran Khan, Garfield Sobers, Steve Smith, Adam Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall, Shakib Al Hasan, Richard Hadlee, Keith Miller, Jack Hobbs, W. G. Grace, Jacques Kallis, Sydney Barnes

Keith Miller

Have another.

 

[stephen]

Have another.

He can try for a banned player. It's highly unlikely he'll get him though, given he's banned.

His selection will stand unless he decides to change it.

 

[stephen]

Taking a punt at Barry Richards.

Sometimes when you take a punt you hit the jackpot. Other times you lose all your money.

 

[JOJOXI]

He can try for a banned player. It's highly unlikely he'll get him though, given he's banned.

His selection will stand unless he decides to change it.

Now wondering if second round is only 'banned' players allowed or something like that. ?

 

[stephen]

Now wondering if second round is only 'banned' players allowed or something like that. ?

I'm only saying that making a pick that would violate rules in other drafts may not violate rules in this draft, depending on the rule for the round.

For a banned pick to be valid in a particular round would require me to explicitly override the ban list for that round.

 

[Jarquis]

Murali then

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Viv Richards will be my selection please

 

[JOJOXI]

Kapil Dev please

 

[JOJOXI]

@srbhkshk - then we get to find out how many of us have been smoking some questionable stuff...

 

[srbhkshk]

Wally Hammond

 

[ataraxia]

@stephen to do the big reveal...

 

[stephen]

For this round, we will encode the alphabet a=1, b=2, c=3... z=26. All players whose name starts with an odd number are valid.

Players who select an invalid player will get the player from the letter 1 down (e.g. B -> A) who has played a minimum of 10 tests who has the closest* batting average to the player selected.

*Without exceeding

Banned players:

Glenn McGrath, Don Bradman, Imran Khan, Garfield Sobers, Steve Smith, Adam Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall, Shakib Al Hasan, Richard Hadlee, Keith Miller, Jack Hobbs, W. G. Grace, Jacques Kallis, Sydney Barnes, Brian Lara, Len Hutton, Aubrey Faulkner, Fred Trueman, Sachin Tendulkar, Barry Richards, Ian Botham, Wally Hammond

R2:

ankitj: Bill O'Reilly
honestbharani: *Ross Edwards
AndrewB: *Sunil Gavaskar
kingkallis: Curtly Ambrose
Pothas: *Rohan Kanhai
Himannv: Dale Steyn
trundler: *John Snow
Marcuss - Muttiah Muralitharan
morgieb - *Virender Sehwag
ataraxia - *Qasim Umar
weeman27bob - *Corey Anderson
Michaelf7777777 - *Neville Quinn
JOJOXI - Kapil Dev
srbhkshk - *Gordon Greenidge