Draft idea: Silent auction

[AndrewB]

I don't think spinners are all that hard to get and there are certainly enough good ones to fill 7 teams. Agree about openers though; there aren't that many great ones. Managed to snag Len Hutton for a reasonably low bid in the first round.

A $1 bid would have been enough to secure Tendulkar in round 1, and that's just mind blowing IMO. I think auction drafts probably work better with a more restricted player list. I assumed at least one person would bid 990K on Bradman and fill in the rest of their team with decent players, so it's astounding that weldone managed Bradman, Sobers, Gilchrist, Warne, Steyn, Garner, etc. It's an auto win for him really.

I did wonder about a similar type of draft but with the 11 players to bid for specified for each round.

 

[weldone]

1. Geoff Boycott
2. Graham Gooch
3. Donald Bradman*
4. AB de Villiers
5. Mahela Jayawardene
6. Garry Sobers (5)
7. Adam Gilchrist+
8. Harold Larwood (3)
9. Shane Warne (4)
10. Joel Garner (2)
11. Dale Steyn (1)

Should I push Sobers higher up the order? What do people think about possible 4-5-6 in my team? I am open-minded in that aspect here.

 

[ankitj]

1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Graeme Pollock
4. Sachin Tendulker
5. Dudley Nourse
6. Andy Flower +
7. Kapil Dev * (5)
8. Shaun Pollock (3)
9. Fred Trueman (2)
10. Bill O'Reilly (4)
11. Glenn McGrath (1)

 

[ankitj]

No takers for Greg Chappell!

 

[kingkallis]

CricZo XI

1. Jack Hobbs /
2. Sunil Gavaskar /
3. George Headley /
4. Jacques Kallis / o
5. Wally Hammond / o
6. Frank Worrell / o
7. Denis Lindsay + /
8. Malcolm Marshall o /
9. Jim Laker o
10. Michael Holding o
11. Curtly Ambrose o

 

[ankitj]

You can play Kallis at 5. Not sure if Hammond played at 5 much?

And you really don't need to mark 7 bowlers when your top 5 are so good

 

[AndrewB]

Here's the bids made in Round 1:

ankitj:
Jack Hobbs: 92,341
Gordon Greenidge: 4
Rahul Dravid: 13,042
Graeme Pollock: 65,785
Jacques Kallis: 75,367
Dudley Nourse: 17
Andy Flower: 34,079
Imran Khan: 261,023
Bill O'Reilly: 169,085
Fred Trueman: 65,785
Glen McGrath: 223,472

Himannv
Len Hutton: 10,000
Bill Lawry: 3
Wally Hammond: 50,001
Steve Smith: 10,000
Allan Border: 10,000
Keith Miller: 325,001
Imran Khan: 325,001
Alan Knott: 3
Richard Hadlee: 250,001
Fred Trueman: 19,000
Allan Donald: 990

weldone
Barry Richards: 11,426
Sunil Gavaskar: 11,427
Donald Bradman: 469,000
Ricky Ponting: 13
Brian Lara: 11,427
Garry Sobers: 258,097
Adam Gilchrist: 192,903
Imran Khan: 11,427
Shane Warne: 11,427
Curtly Ambrose: 11,426
Dale Steyn: 11,427

marc71178
Herbert Sutcliffe: 50,000
Barry Richards: 75,000
Steve Smith: 25,000
Brian Lara: 100,000
Viv Richards: 80,000
Gary Sobers: 200,000
Alan Knott: 15,000
Imran Khan: 155,000
Richard Hadlee: 100,000
Muttiah Muralitharan: 50,000
Glenn McGrath: 150,000

kingkallis
Jack Hobbs: 100,000
Sunil Gavaskar: 80,000
Ricky Ponting: 50,000
Wally Hammond: 80,000
Jacques Kallis: 100,000
Richard Hadlee: 100,000
Wasim Akram: 80,000
Malcolm Marshall: 200,000
Bill O'Reilly: 80,000
Fred Trueman: 50,000
Curtly Ambrose: 80,000

oblongballs
Sanath Jayasuriya: 95,000
Rahul Dravid: 15,000
Ricky Ponting: 178,800
Viv Richards: 100,000
Kevin Pietersen: 150,000
Mohammad Yousuf: 20,000
Shakib Al Hasan: 85,000
Mark Boucher: 20,700
Wasim Akram: 285,500
Matthew Hoggard: 30,000
Simon Jones: 20,000

harsh.ag
WG Grace: 2000
Bruce Mitchell: 2000
Don Bradman: 256,000
Michael Clarke: 2000
Michael Hussey: 1000
Garry Sobers: 256,000
Adam Gilchrist: 156,000
Imran Khan: 166,000
Waqar Younis: 2000
Shane Bond: 1000
Muttiah Muralitharan: 156,000

 

[AndrewB]

Round 2 bids:

marc71178
Sachin Tendulkar: 150,000
Aubrey Faulkner: 100,000
Ian Botham: 185,000
Alan Davidson: 125,000
Jim Laker: 25,000
Sydney Barnes: 150,000

ankitj
Virender Sehwag: 3
Sachin Tendulkar: 376,142
Ian Botham: 10,011
Shaun Pollock: 55,617

harsh.ag
Sachin Tendulkar: 277,000
Kumar Sangakkara: 277,000
Rohan Kanhai: 3,000
Dennis Lillee: 277,000

Himannv
Neil Harvey: 10,000
Stan McCabe: 3
Les Ames: 49,001
Clarrie Grimmett: 20,000

kingkallis
George Headley 90,000
Frank Worrell 80,000
Les Ames 40,000
Jim Laker 50,000
Dennis Lillee 100,000

weldone
Virender Sehwag 1
Graham Gooch 1
AB de Villiers 1
Mahela Jayawardene 1
Joel Garner 28,571
Harold Larwood 28,571

 

[weldone]

Wow, got Sobers by a margin of just 2k!

 

[Himannv]

$1 on Miller would've been enough.

 

[ankitj]

Wow, got Sobers by a margin of just 2k!

Got Sehwag by margin of $2 $3 vs. $1

 

[kingkallis]

KP fetched $50,000 more than Viv in the first Round

 

[kingkallis]

You can play Kallis at 5. Not sure if Hammond played at 5 much?

And you really don't need to mark 7 bowlers when your top 5 are so good

Both Headley and Hammond were mammoth @ No.3, averaging staggering 70+. Kallis averaged 61 and played @ No.4 but can be shifted to 5 as you mentioned.

Batting order will be...

Hobbs
Gavaskar
Headley
Hammond
Kallis
Worrell
Lindsey
--
Marshall
Laker
Holding
Ambrose

 

[ankitj]

When do we put up the vote?

 

[AndrewB]

Can do - I think marc71178 still needs to confirm his batting order.

With only 7 teams involved, should it be "choose the best two teams" rather than the usual three?

 

[marc71178]

Wouldn't change it from what you put to be honest.

 

[weldone]

Can do - I think marc71178 still needs to confirm his batting order.

With only 7 teams involved, should it be "choose the best two teams" rather than the usual three?

Maximum 2 imo, even 1 can work with this small number of participants

 

[weldone]

can't wait for this voting - have never won a draft, feels like this is the first time I may at least come close

 

[AndrewB]

Poll now up. Thanks to all who took part, and good luck!