I am thinking of doing an auction type draft - in which I would just be doing the admin sort of stuff to make things fair where I would put say 5 to 6 players over a 24hr timespan. I would try to include one opener, one middle order batsman, one allrounder, one keeper, one pacer and one spinner in each 24hr round. For later rounds this might become 5 rather then 6 if player pool has less spinners etc.
All competitiors would have a purse of $100m and would email me with any bids they want to make for any of the players in that round (you could bid for all 6 players in that round or none or anything in between.) The amount of any successful bid will be removed from purse in exchange for that player. You will have final squads of 11 but if you have 11 players and money left you could bid for a 12th, 13th etc. and have that 12th or 13th player replace another player/s in your squad if you thought that would improve your team. The player taken out of squad would not go back up for sale.
If there is sufficient interest rules would be
* Players who debuted after 1950 would be eligible
With nature of this draft I am probably looking at only 8 competitors to take part so player pool isn't too massive as 8x11 = 88 spots and am probably looking at quite a few more players given the draft nature of this would mean players go unpicked through strategy/holding back spending potentially.
Squads will be voted on as usual at end of draft.
I will add an email I will set up specifically for this draft in next post along with list of players in draft. If you could post here and email me if you want to take part along with any players you want added to draft (once I post initial list) who fit post 1950 debut criteria. You can ask for an unlimited amount of players to be added pre-draft within reason, once the draft has started each player can request a maximum of 3 new additions to the player pool (lets say you've suddenly realised you lack a #3 batsman and the ones that you would have bought have already gone up for auction you could add a new #3 to the draft). You can do that via email as well so not to give away any tactics/people you will bid for.
Each round would end once I have all bids/non-bids from every player and each new round would start once players from that round are added to squads/money amounts update - I would post that in here when this is the case
I hope this post has covered most things if not feel free to ask for clarifications. I will be away for much of tomorrow so might be slow with replies but aim to have a preliminary list of players up in the next hour.
EDIT - To ensure equity any additions to draft once its started have to be submitted within opening 7 rounds to ensure no one adds players to the draft once most individuals have already finalised squads.
All competitiors would have a purse of $100m and would email me with any bids they want to make for any of the players in that round (you could bid for all 6 players in that round or none or anything in between.) The amount of any successful bid will be removed from purse in exchange for that player. You will have final squads of 11 but if you have 11 players and money left you could bid for a 12th, 13th etc. and have that 12th or 13th player replace another player/s in your squad if you thought that would improve your team. The player taken out of squad would not go back up for sale.
If there is sufficient interest rules would be
* Players who debuted after 1950 would be eligible
With nature of this draft I am probably looking at only 8 competitors to take part so player pool isn't too massive as 8x11 = 88 spots and am probably looking at quite a few more players given the draft nature of this would mean players go unpicked through strategy/holding back spending potentially.
Squads will be voted on as usual at end of draft.
I will add an email I will set up specifically for this draft in next post along with list of players in draft. If you could post here and email me if you want to take part along with any players you want added to draft (once I post initial list) who fit post 1950 debut criteria. You can ask for an unlimited amount of players to be added pre-draft within reason, once the draft has started each player can request a maximum of 3 new additions to the player pool (lets say you've suddenly realised you lack a #3 batsman and the ones that you would have bought have already gone up for auction you could add a new #3 to the draft). You can do that via email as well so not to give away any tactics/people you will bid for.
Each round would end once I have all bids/non-bids from every player and each new round would start once players from that round are added to squads/money amounts update - I would post that in here when this is the case
I hope this post has covered most things if not feel free to ask for clarifications. I will be away for much of tomorrow so might be slow with replies but aim to have a preliminary list of players up in the next hour.
EDIT - To ensure equity any additions to draft once its started have to be submitted within opening 7 rounds to ensure no one adds players to the draft once most individuals have already finalised squads.
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