Taboo Draft

[Valer]

Using King Kallis's metric of top 5 batters / bowlers

Top 5 bat avg of avg 55.6
Top 5 Bowl avg of avg 20.1

Note in both cases the FC results are stronger before you complain about sample size.

 

[ankitj]

Stats for my team:

Top 5 bat avg: 67.43
Top 5 bowl avg: 12.11

 

[kingkallis]

Do mention number of tests your players played as well

 

[ankitj]

2,500 tests cumulative.

 

[kingkallis]

Yeah right

 

[Valer]

Firstly Woodfull to captain... (Must have been asleep the first time)

My stats are actually accurate

Bat
46
60.73
58.45
60.83
52

Bowl
29.07
20.53
10.75
16.53
23.91


I've excluded tests played as I don't think its a good metric for my team due to the lack of test cricket played at the time many of them played -- Hence the usage of FC stats to alievate sample size concerns. As for career length I have a mean of 11.6 and a min of 7 (years).

 

[kingkallis]

My players played 800+ games....and the lowest is 42, by Dave Richardson, a fine fine keeper!

 

[G.I.Joe]

kingkallis' writeups at the end of a draft are always so good to go through

 

[kingkallis]

Thank you Joe. Does that mean I have at least one vote now?

 

[weldone]

I am too lazy for a writeup. But the balance and strength of my team should fetch me a few votes. I am pretty solid in almost all departments, but had to sacrifice the bowling part a little because of the nature of this draft (because I had to pick batsmen in early rounds).

The part of my team that I am most fond of (and can't stop mentioning it time and again) is the middle-order. Dravid, Lara, Harvey and Ranji make a divine combo.

 

[Valer]

My players played 800+ games....and the lowest is 42, by Dave Richardson, a fine fine keeper!

WG Grace for example only played 22 tests... Can you see why I find # of Tests a terrible representitive of longevity?

Fwiw my team played 416 tests and 3.4k FC matches. Given modern FC:Test ratios that's ~1k tests.

 

[kingkallis]

Are you telling me that Hutton, Illingworth, Holding, Hadlee, Snow, Miandad, Gower didnt play enough FC games?

My players played 3960 FC games, sir!

 

[Valer]

Are you telling me that Hutton, Illingworth, Holding, Hadlee, Snow, Miandad, Gower didnt play enough FC games?

My players played 3960 FC games, sir!

No just # of games is not a good metric. I certainly didn't mean to imply that your team hasn't played enough FC cricket.

3423 (+116 if you've included the 12th man) --> 3960 isn't that much of diffrence... Over double the number of tests is.

 

[kingkallis]

Add 300 more games for Billy Bates, my 12th man

 

[Jager]

So it's just Spikey's pick and then voting, right? Looking forward to finding a winner in this.

 

[Cevno]

Did we have a vote for this?

 

[kingkallis]

Nothing yet, dunno why people stopped taking interest in this...

 

[G.I.Joe]

I'll put up the poll in a couple of days. Been a bit busy.

 

[kingkallis]

Sounds good and dont forget to add write up on voting one Joe

 

[kyear2]

Just too many drafts going on at the moment