2015/2016 Plunket Shield Draft

[Hurricane]

1 Latham Yet to play plunket
2 Woodcock 305 @61 1 wicket @55
3 Duffy 70@17.50
4 Will Young 129@43
5 Matt Taylor has not played
6 Leopard has not played
7 Seifert 100@25
8 Clarkson has not played
9 Johnstone 2 wickets @16.5
10 Milne 4 wickets @11
11 Mathieson 5 wickets @63


Most havn't played. I may get the wooden spoon. Not fussed I got to pick some up and comers. Seifert dissapointing.

 

[Athlai]

Team filler, no thriller and WPWB

R Hira 141 @ 23.50 - 2 W @ 40.50
BS Smith 686 @ 62.36
GH Worker 610 @ 61 - 7W @ 72.14
M Pollard 284 @ 31.55
S Wells 226 @ 20.54 - 13 W @ 40.84
AM Ellis 411 @ 37.36 - 24 W @ 19.12
BJ Watling 273 @ 54.60
M Craig 61 @ 12.20 - 15W @ 32.20
D Bracewell 79 @ 26.33- 9W @ 20.77
LV van Beek 205 @ 29.28 - 17 W @ 22.76
B Arnel 68@ 17 - 24 W @ 44.41

Test Stats
BJ Watling 260 @ 23.63
M Craig 165 @ 41.25 - 10 W @66.60
D Bracewell 167 @ 23.85 - 14 W @ 49.64

Feeling pretty positive about my cynical line up. Only the Hira gamble hasn't really come off IMO.

 

[Kippax]

 

[Kippax]

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[HeathDavisSpeed]

Nailed it with the batsmen. Presume I barely snagged a point with the bowlers.

 

[Hurricane]

1 Latham Yet to play plunket
2 Woodcock 305 @61 1 wicket @55
3 Duffy 70@17.50
4 Will Young 129@43
5 Matt Taylor has not played
6 Leopard has not played
7 Seifert 100@25
8 Clarkson has not played
9 Johnstone 2 wickets @16.5
10 Milne 4 wickets @11
11 Mathieson 5 wickets @63


Most havn't played. I may get the wooden spoon. Not fussed I got to pick some up and comers. Seifert dissapointing.

I assume I got the wooden spoon. Meh - my fault for taking too many long shots.

 

[Athlai]

Did Popli bring Heef to victory there?

 

[Kippax]

No official count done yet, but yeah Heef's bowlers (McCone, McClenaghan, Hutchinson, Quinn, Rance) were a bit more middling and serviceable than he's making out.

 

[Athlai]

I demand a recount. Specifically to know I'm better than both Phlegm and Howsie.

 

[Kippax]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_TAcJKGifeZDi81_4Df2fjQbF9E_y6Ubmwtyufu0du0/edit#gid=0

Thanks to Google Sheets, you can make like New Zealanders and chip in, to get the results faster.

 

[Kippax]

How the top 5 leaderboard looked after 4/8 rounds (the two October rounds being pre-draft)....

 

[Athlai]

I for one think we should the pre draft rounds

 

[Kippax]

Yeah that was pretty poor because it wasn't discussed at all before we began picking, but I decided it's unlikely Ben Smith would've gone as low in the draft as he did, if the majority of us were picking under the assumption of the October rounds counting.

 

[Athlai]

Whatever gets me ahead of Phlegm and Howsie

 

[Hurricane]

I reckon if I pick the exact same team next year I will finish mid table. Clarkson should play for a start, and Seifert is due - it is his make it or break it year.

 

[Kippax]

Such a nail-biter in the end, it should probably head to a recount by fresh scrutineers. Especially seeing a Howsie victory is kind of like a Trump victory.

 

[Athlai]

Tastle it I suppose.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Can't win **** with batsmen. That's the key. Any the paucity of genuine all-rounders certainly helps when there's so few that are capable of doing well in both facets (Ellis, Kugglejuggle, Astle)

 

[Kippax]

Yeah Phlegm picked up a Grobbelaarbargain in the sixth round. Howsie benefiting from being the only one who'd touch Devcich.

I tried to cover that angle with CdG and Neesham, but it didn't pay off as well as I hoped.

 

[Kippax]

After all my NZ domestic viewing, I came sixth. Thanks a lot, Craig Cachopa! My captain was doing the job remotely from South Africa too, which didn't help.