Auction draft II - ODI

[weldone]

round 8 bids and round 9 nomination sent...

 

[Somerset]

round 8 bids and round 9 nomination sent...

Ditto. Terrible round of players it must be said, particularly with my stretched budget.

 

[weldone]

Deadline of 7pm Tuesday please.

You are referring to UK time zone, I presume (asking this because as you know I'm considering changing my bids).

 

[weldone]

Bids changed (mail sent from a different email id). marc kindly communicate to me (in this thread) if you don't receive it.

 

[marc71178]

You are referring to UK time zone, I presume (asking this because as you know I'm considering changing my bids).

I do, yes and received your changes.

So far 6 in - Blakus, Joe, pskov and cevno not yet received.

 

[Cevno]

Bids sent.

Vettori was a pretty value for money buy the previous round.
A good spinner with a very good economy rate and a very decent bat.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Bids sent.

Vettori was a pretty value for money buy the previous round.
A good spinner with a very good economy rate and a very decent bat.

Daniel Vettori (Team Cevno) - Bowling ave - 31.22, ER - 4.14, Batting ave - 17.07, Price ~ $700,000+
Roger Harper (Team G.I.Joe) - Bowling ave - 34.31, ER - 3.97, Batting ave - 16.03, Price ~ $1

 

[Cevno]

My team so far-

S Gavaskar

M Clarke
K Pietersen
M Amarnath


A Flintoff
D Vettori


Reserves

1) T Chappell

 

[Cevno]

Daniel Vettori (Team Cevno) - Bowling ave - 31.22, ER - 4.14, Batting ave - 17.07
Roger Harper (Team G.I.Joe) - Bowling ave - 34.31, ER - 3.97 Batting ave - 16.03

Played in completely different Era's.

In 2000's the economy of 4 is excellent while in the 80's it was normal.

Besides there is a differnce of 3 in the averages and of more than 5 in the strike rate which is pretty big in their respective era's ,specially if you count the fact that Vettori has played more than twice the number of matches.

Besides if we are relying on stats then , Tony gray (WI ) >> Glenn Mcgrath,Dennis Lillee.

 

[G.I.Joe]

It's okay to be jealous, Cevno.

 

[Noble One]

Played in completely different Era's.

In 2000's the economy of 4 is excellent while in the 80's it was normal.

Besides there is a differnce of 3 in the averages and of more than 5 in the strike rate which is pretty big in their respective era's ,specially if you count the fact that Vettori has played more than twice the number of matches.

Besides if we are relying on stats then , Tony gray (WI ) >> Glenn Mcgrath,Dennis Lillee.

Need to factor in the superiority in the fielding of Harper. Simply a freak, more than made up for being an average spinner.

 

[Cevno]

Need to factor in the superiority in the fielding of Harper. Simply a freak, more than made up for being an average spinner.

agreed.

But then need to factor in the captaincy of Vettori as well as him playing his home matches in not exactly spin friendly conditions in new zealand.

 

[Cevno]

It's okay to be jealous, Cevno.

 

[Noble One]

agreed.

But then need to factor in the captaincy of Vettori as well as him playing his home matches in not exactly spin friendly conditions in new zealand.

Surely the same applies for Harper. Don't recall many raging turners in the Windies during the late 80's and early 90's.

Overall I think we can say both are pretty useful cricketers. My team would take either of the two.

 

[honestbharani]

Daniel Vettori (Team Cevno) - Bowling ave - 31.22, ER - 4.14, Batting ave - 17.07, Price ~ $700,000+
Roger Harper (Team G.I.Joe) - Bowling ave - 34.31, ER - 3.97, Batting ave - 16.03, Price ~ $1

lol.. there s the small matter of runs and wickets..

 

[Himannv]

Team so far:

1.
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3.
4.
5. Jonty Rhodes
6. Shakib al Hasan
7. Robin Singh
8.
9. Andy Roberts
10. Joel Garner
11. Muthiah Muralitharan

 

[weldone]

Daniel Vettori (Team Cevno) - Bowling ave - 31.22, ER - 4.14, Batting ave - 17.07, Price ~ $700,000+
Roger Harper (Team G.I.Joe) - Bowling ave - 34.31, ER - 3.97, Batting ave - 16.03, Price ~ $1

I don't see anything abnormal there. Everyone will admit (I'm sure, even you) that Daniel Vettori is a much better player in any form of the game than someone like Roger Harper. And just for the sake of debate, if you take statistics on the face value then also there is not any difference between their ER's (considering the eras they played in) and between their batting averages. 31 is an acceptable average for a spin bowler, while 34 is a shade above that. A difference of 3 points between bowling averages is not something very minute. Add to that their longevity as ODI players which is a point almost always overlooked while analysing statistics.

700,000 is not even a good price as per standards of this thread, and if I had to take Vettori in my team (I would do that if I missed all of Murali, Saqlain, Warne, Kumble, Qadir, Mendis, Hogg, Harbhajan and probably Shakib) I would have paid him something as little as 700,000 and play him in my XI. As per Harper, I would have never kept him in my playing XI (as I'm sure I would get a better spinner than him) and it doesn't make sense to me to waste anything much more than $1 on a reserve player.

 

[marc71178]

The following have been drafted in round 8:

Z Abbas - Blakus
Noor Ali - Pskov
G Boycott - Himannv
H Gibbs - Noble One
B Haddin - Cevno
H Kanitkar - weldone
VVS Laxman - Somerset
Javed Miandad - honestbharani
W Porterfield - G.I.Joe
S Tikolo - Pothas


For the record, I added Noor Ali, W Porterfield and S Tikolo.

The winning bids were (from lowest to highest) - $1, $3, $4, $50,000, $446,363, $611,109, $1,455,000, $1,470,000, $1,967,898, $2,200,111.


Round 9 is open with the following players available:

M Bevan
N Bracken
A Donald
C Gayle
B Hogg
D Jones
A Mathews
A Mendis
A Stewart
Waqar Younis

Deadline of 10am Saturday please.

 

[marc71178]

Players drafted so far:

Zaheer Abbas
A Agarkar
Wasim Akram
S al Hasan
Noor Ali
M Amarnath
M Bevan
S Bond
I Botham
M Boucher
G Boycott
N Bracken
C Cairns
T Chappell
M Clarke
AB de Villiers
Kapil Dev
MS Dhoni
A Donald
S Fleming
A Flintoff
A Flower
J Garner
S Gavaskar
C Gayle
H Gibbs
A Gilchrist
J Gillespie
B Haddin
R Hadlee
R Harper
I Harvey
M Hayden
B Hogg
M Holding
S Jayasuriya
D Jones
R Kanhai
H Kanitkar
J Kemp
Imran Khan
G Kirsten
L Klusener
N Knight
A Kumble
B Lara
VVS Laxman
B Lee
D Lillee
A Mathews
P Mbangwa
B McCullum
G McGrath
A Mendis
Javed Miandad
H Modi
M Muralitharan
Saqlain Mushtaq
A Parore
D Patel
K Pietersen
S Pollock
R Ponting
W Porterfield
R Price
J Rhodes
V Richards
A Roberts
K Sangakkara
V Sehwag
J Sharma
R Shastri
Robin Singh
G Smith
G Sobers
A Stewart
P Strang
S Tendulkar
G Thorpe
S Tikolo
P Utseya
M Vaughan
D Vettori
S Warne
S Watson
M Waugh
S Waugh
B Willis
Waqar Younis
Mohammad Yousuf

 

[Cevno]

Haddin.
Happy with him.

So that's the keeper sorted . And a good one at that .
Don't think there are anymore better keeper batsmen left anyway.