Viral Draft - Voting Thread

[stephen]

Look mate I lost a draft with Marshall/Roberts/Imran/Warne as my attack because most people don't know who Armstrong and Cameron were. It's okay.

I don't really care about winning or losing, I'm just confused as to how well known and recent players who were excellent are being dismissed as "meh".

 

[stephen]

That's 2 drafts in a row with 0 votes. I blame BOTM.

Your batting is actuality quite good. It's your numbers 6 down who let the side down. Though you provably didn't deserve zero votes.

 

[honestbharani]

You're focusing on one guy out of six though. Two of my batsmen were regulars in the greatest batting lineup of all time and one of them is one of only 6 players who averaged 50+ over a reasonable number of tests. I just fail to see how a batting lineup with Langer, Wessels, Martyn and Chanderpaul can be considered anything other than top notch when you've got a bloke at 3 who only played 17 tests because he couldn't handle the ball bouncing over waist high.

I agree that there is one or maybe two batting lineups that are better than mine, I am flabbergasted that anyone would consider this batting lineup less than top notch, especially with a tail that includes Imran and Marshall.

I mean you praised a batting lineup that had Bevan batting 5, Botham 6 and Peter Taylor at 7. Now I do consider Bevan to have been better than his record suggests, but we really can only go on his record and he averaged 30. Peter Taylor was a good bowler but was not a good enough batsman to bat higher than 8 regularly.

Anyway I don't mean to disparage other posters sides, because this draft was 90% luck and 10% hard work but calling a side with an ATG opener, an ATG number 5 and two other extremely good batsmen "meh" is just a bit strange *by the standards of this draft*.

I have no idea how you got that I am rating any of those line ups ahead of yours. I simply think given how good your bowling is, the batting felt a bit meh. I guess you are literally taking my feedback on every side here but a lot of that is relative. Ataraxia's decent, yours is better but the meh was mainly because you are batting someone well out of position at an important spot like #3 and the chasm between the quality of your bowling side and the quality of your batting side is pretty wide.

 

[Teuton]

Time to wrap this up.
It looks like a 3-way tie between kingkallis, stephen & I.
So for a tiebreaker I will count Kohli's 15th post in 5 years which indicated that they wanted to vote for kk, michael & hb so that means kingkallis is the winner. Thanks everyone for taking part.

 

[stephen]

Time to wrap this up.
It looks like a 3-way tie between kingkallis, stephen & I.
So for a tiebreaker I will count Kohli's 15th post in 5 years which indicated that they wanted to vote for kk, michael & hb so that means kingkallis is the winner. Thanks everyone for taking part.

Thanks for running it. It had a very different flavor to most drafts which was fun.

 

[kingkallis]

Another very close contest.

Thank you teuton for running this amazing draft. Thank you Kohli for your vote.