Diminishing Draft

[CricAddict]

Perhaps as a compromise you could do the 16 teams together, but make it 5 votes each. That won't give you any extra work and will probably make voting easier (I know I'd find it easier picking 5 rather than 3).

Sure. I will go by this for the voting thread. 5 out of 16 it is then. If possible, please copy and paste your write-ups to the voting thread too once it is created, so that new voters outside of the drafters can read through them.

@ankitj Yes, a knock-out tourney of voting could be fun but it could be difficult to seed and pair the teams. Once the voting is done, we can request @shortpitched713 to do the knock-outs in simming and see those results too.

 

[Teuton]

I'm sure I posted mine earlier. Just didn't have time for a write-up

 

[CricAddict]

I'm sure I posted mine earlier. Just didn't have time for a write-up

Sorry missed it. Have added now.

 

[honestbharani]

Sure. I will go by this for the voting thread. 5 out of 16 it is then. If possible, please copy and paste your write-ups to the voting thread too once it is created, so that new voters outside of the drafters can read through them.

@ankitj Yes, a knock-out tourney of voting could be fun but it could be difficult to seed and pair the teams. Once the voting is done, we can request @shortpitched713 to do the knock-outs in simming and see those results too.

If he has the time even the sim can be done as groups and then knockouts.

And i would suggest 6 out of 15 for the poll coz i like even numbers ?

 

[shortpitched713]

For the sim, the last time, I did a double round robin format. So each team plays each other team twice, once home and away. And then whoever leads the standings at the end would be the winner. It leads to a nice metric assload of games, that whoever wants can look through the logs. This time, it should be something like 240 games, so unless my computer melts or something that should be a pretty satisfying amount of simming for everyone.

 

[kingkallis]

Can we be of some help?

 

[srbhkshk]

Can we be of some help?

Yes, and to be precise what we need to do is to absolutely keep nagging him every second hour so that he quickly does it out of irritation if nothing else.

(PS - I might be pretty excited about the SIMing and might be wanting for it to happen real quick)

 

[shortpitched713]

Lol, the person to nag right now is @JOJOXI , as I believe he is the only one at this point, who has not submitted a round XI pick.

I'm not going to sim until the voting is complete anyway, as I don't want to be influencing the results of that. The sim is supposed to be just a fun little sideline.

 

[shortpitched713]

Also, @Patience and Accuracy+Gut to submit his full team order. I mean, I was able to piece it together from his last pick, and previous post with preliminary team order, but it would be nice if he confirms for us.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Also, @Patience and Accuracy+Gut to submit his full team order. I mean, I was able to piece it together from his last pick, and previous post with preliminary team order, but it would be nice if he confirms for us.

The team-
Bill Lawry
Stewie Dempster
Charles Macartney
Kevin Pietersen
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Clive Llyod*
Rishabh Pant+
Keith Miller
Imran Khan
Mike Procter
Tiger O’Reilly

 

[JOJOXI]

Bill Brown
Conrad Hunte
Rahul Dravid
Norm O'Neill
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ben Stokes (c)
MS Dhoni (wk)
Ray Lindwall
Harold Larwood
Shane Warne
Ian Bishop

 

[shortpitched713]

No one picked Jason Holder, and that makes me a bit sad.

 

[Line and Length]

No one picked Jason Holder, and that makes me a bit sad.

And another Jason (Gillespie) went unclaimed.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

No one picked Jason Holder, and that makes me a bit sad.

Unfortunately another one for the home track bully thread. Seems very talented though but has really really struggled in Australia and NZ.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

And another Jason (Gillespie) went unclaimed.

Ironically if he'd taken fewer than 150 wickets he probably would've been snapped up in the last round.

 

[shortpitched713]

Speaking of few wickets guys. No Lohmann! :O

While maybe kind of understandable, I was sure someone would snap him up in the late desperation rounds.

 

[Line and Length]

Apart from players like Bradman, Hobbs, Barnes and Sutcliffe, I rarely consider pre WWII players in drafts. I shudder to think how Grace would cope with current pace men.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Apart from players like Bradman, Hobbs, Barnes and Sutcliffe, I rarely consider pre WWII players in drafts. I shudder to think how Grace would cope with current pace men.

I shudder how they'd cope with him.

 

[shortpitched713]

I shudder how they'd cope with him.

If the stories about Grace's sportsmanship (or lack thereof) are true, seldom without fisticuffs I think.

 

[shortpitched713]

The sim is done and dusted now. I'm pretty sure everyone has made up their minds in the poll, so no harm in posting the results now, is there?