Ascending batting average draft (tests)

[trundler]

Yep, In.

Let's do debut 1893 onwards, as ataraxia suggested.

Minimum 4 tests imo (just to keep the two Saffers in).

And let's do the alphabet draft format as pothas and ankit suggested in the other thread?

That's the format, yes.

I know test averages shot up in the 1890s but guys like Trumper and Hill blur things a bit imo. It's more fun if somebody has to pick Kim Hughes (a fine player no doubt) to jump ahead of the queue.

 

[Pothas]

Maybe just had to have played post WWI?

 

[AndrewB]

in

 

[weldone]

I know test averages shot up in the 1890s but guys like Trumper and Hill blur things a bit imo.

I think WG and Lohmann blur things a bit, maybe Trumper and Hill too as you said (but they are middling choices in drafts anyways), but definitely not Hobbs, Barnes, Sutcliffe, etc. Don't see any reason to leave out the last of these 3 groups in this draft tbh. Shall we do it on consensus basis?

 

[trundler]

Sutcliffe debuted post War, Hobbs in 1908. Hobbs went on to play a decade after the war so there's that. I'm leaning towards played after the war.

 

[Line and Length]

I'm in

 

[mr_mister]

In and ready to cause more chaos

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Yes please

 

[Jarquis]

In please.

 

[honestbharani]

In

 

[Coronis]

In

 

[ankitj]

We got 12+ sign ups. We can start rolling IMO.

 

[StephenZA]

In if space.

Can someone explain the 'alphabetical draft' rule everybody keeps going on about?

 

[kingkallis]

In

 

[trundler]

**** yeah, lads.

Just woke up. Will get this rolling today.

 

[trundler]

Round 1 is latest join date first

Minimum 4 tests played after WW1

8 hours per pick. If you time out you become inactive

Lowest average makes next pick first

 

[trundler]

Round 1:

Line and Length

Ataraxia

Trundler

Teuton

Mr_mister

AndrewB

Coronis

StephenZA

Red Hill

Fuller Pilch

Ankitj

Marcuss

KingKallis

Weldone

Pothas

Honestbharani

 

[AndrewB]

In if space.

Can someone explain the 'alphabetical draft' rule everybody keeps going on about?

It means that after Round 1 there aren't any more rounds; whoever's most recent pick has the lowest average gets to pick next.

 

[honestbharani]

I honestly think R1 should be randomized given we go by different criteria from R2.

 

[trundler]

I honestly think R1 should be randomized given we go by different criteria from R2.

Reverse alphabetic draft had round 1 reversed from the alphabetic one so I'm continuing that tradition