Decade/Country test draft

[JOJOXI]

An impressive line-up thus far.

Thanks, only thing in hingsight I might have gone for Waqar Younis instead of Mike Proctor and then looked at other options in terms of South Africans but reasonably happy with how draft has gone so far minus that. Was a bit worried when mr_mister went for McCullum as I planned to go for him or Watling but fortunately Watling remained unpicked. Some very good sides taking shape elsewhere now

 

[Shri]

guys i ****ed up

everyone cool with me changing one of my old picks so that I can get a player from 8 different test sides?

i am okay with my team being disqualified if not

 

[JOJOXI]

guys i ****ed up

everyone cool with me changing one of my old picks so that I can get a player from 8 different test sides?

i am okay with my team being disqualified if not

I would presume consistency re Honest Bharani earlier in draft with 3 Aussies dictates your last pick with that one being the illegal selection is the one you change? @mr_mister

 

[mr_mister]

I would presume consistency re Honest Bharani earlier in draft with 3 Aussies dictates your last pick with that one being the illegal selection is the one you change? @mr_mister

Yep that's the fairest way

 

[mr_mister]

Coronis timed out. Charles Macartney 1900s

G Greenidge
A Morris
C Macartney 5
S Tendulkar
G Pollock
-
B McCullum +
W Akram 1
H Verity 4
H Larwood 2
C Croft 3


Got my 8 decades down, just need one more country represented.

Was suprised to find Macartney was so good at 3. Played there in 20 of his 35 tests and averaged 59. He was shuffled around a lot; He opened the batting in 9 innings and bated 8/9/10 in 9 innings too.

If he got to play in his preferred spot full time he might have had a way better career average and be remembered even fonder

 

[Teuton]

Alec Bedser Eng 1940s

 

[trundler]

Brian Statham to round out my attack

 

[trundler]

Hobbs
-
Younis
Chappell
Kohli
Houghton+
Cairns
Benaud
Marshall
Tayfield
Statham

Love the 2 top drawer spinners. Houghton lets me play Cairns at 7 where he averaged 40+. Marshall and Statham and dat 3-5 look pretty good too. Oh and Hobbs.

 

[Shri]

Lohmann out

Shoaib Akhtar (Pak 1990s) in

1. Vinoo Mankad (Ind 1940s)
2. Bill Ponsford (Aus 1920s)
3. Viv Richards * (WI 1970s)
4. Jacques Kallis (SA 1990s)
5. Ab de Villiers + (SA 2000s)
6.
7.
8. Pat Cummins (Aus 2010s)
9. Derek Underwood (Eng 1960s)
10. Wes Hall (WI 1950s)
11. Shoaib Akhtar (Pak 1990s)

 

[Coronis]

Oops. I’llgo with Thilan Samaraweera (SL, 2000’s)

 

[AndrewB]

Was suprised to find Macartney was so good at 3. Played there in 20 of his 35 tests and averaged 59. He was shuffled around a lot; He opened the batting in 9 innings and bated 8/9/10 in 9 innings too.

If he got to play in his preferred spot full time he might have had a way better career average and be remembered even fonder

He averaged 26 before WW1 and 69 after it.
OTOH he took 24 wickets @ 17 in his first 8 Tests, 21 wickets @ 39 in his last 27.

 

[trundler]

Boggles my mind how some have switched roles and even disciplines at test and FC levels.

 

[Red]

Red Hill CC

Len Hutton ENG: 1930s
Bruce Mitchell SA: 1920s
Ricky Ponting AUS: 1990s *
Joe Root ENG: 2010s
Bert Sutcliffe NZ: 1940s
-
Kapil Dev IND: 1970s
Tatenda Taibu: ZIM: 2000s +
Alan Davidson: AUS: 1950s
Saeed Ajmal: PAK: 2000s
Joel Garner: WI: 1970s

Decades (8): 1920s (1), 1930s (1), 1940s (1), 1950s (1), 1970s (2), 1990s (1), 2000 (2), 2010s (1)

Nations (8): Eng (2), SA (1), AUS (2), NZ (1), IND (1), ZIM (1), WI (1), Pak (1)

 

[JOJOXI]

What is the order for the final round when we get to it?

 

[Line and Length]

Could we also include an update for the order to complete Round 10? I know I'm last and I'm picking after kingkallis.

 

[JOJOXI]

On my phone so unable to update along with picks but barring any catch up picks (it looks like there are.none currently outstanding) this is remaining order

R10
ataraxia
Shri
AndrewB
kingkallis
Line and Length

 

[mr_mister]

For the last round of my drafts i usually make it a free for all/first come first served with a 24 hr countdown leading up to it

I think it should be 24hr from the final round 10 pick

 

[Teuton]

Was suprised to find Macartney was so good at 3. Played there in 20 of his 35 tests and averaged 59. He was shuffled around a lot; He opened the batting in 9 innings and bated 8/9/10 in 9 innings too.

If he got to play in his preferred spot full time he might have had a way better career average and be remembered even fonder

The Aus team of the early 20s had a lot of allrounders so i think they shuffled the order a lot which was probably still pretty common up to then anyway. Between 3 & 8 they would typically have Macartney, Armstrong, Ryder, Gregory & Kellaway plus 1 specialist bat, 2 openers like Bardsley & Collins and the keeper Carter at 9.

Another reason why Gregory can be hard to place in modern context too. He was probably a bowling allrounder (he, McDonald & Mailey were the main bowlers from that era) who got shuffled up and down and finished with a very good batting average.

 

[Line and Length]

For the last round of my drafts i usually make it a free for all/first come first served with a 24 hr countdown leading up to it

I think it should be 24hr from the final round 10 pick

I think this is totally unfair on certain participants. As last pick I can make my selection while the majority are sleeping and be one of the few on deck 24 hours later.

The randomiser really disadvantaged honestbharani (highest pick in rounds 1,3,5 & 9 was 5th) and morgieb (only one pick higher than 11 in those odd numbered rounds). I know reversing the even rounds gives some balance but I would have preferred to see Round 11 offering some sort of compensation to those who were disadvantaged in earlier rounds. Conversely, the randomiser has been extremely kind to one participant who had 4 top 3 selections in the crucial odd numbered rounds.

Based on the earlier, odd numbered round positions and adding them up, the Round 11 draw might look like this (in the event of ties, the lowest Round 1 pick has priority)

morgieb (51 places)
honestbharani (51 places)
Trundler (41)
Fuller Pilch (41)
Line & Length (40)
mister_mr (39)
Andrew B (39)
Shri (39)
Coronis (34)
ataraxia (33)
Teuton (32)
Red Hill (32)
JOJOXI (31)
kingkallis (22)

I know I am not running this draft but it has been well conducted and interesting throughout and I would hate to see it end with an untidy, potentially unfair, free-for-all.

 

[Teuton]

We have done it before plenty of times to knock it over quickly and there's only a small chance that we are competing for the same players anyway. The player pool is normally pretty even when you get to R11.