One per decade draft | Poll open, see post #113 for team list

ahmedleo414 · May 2, 2020

I love the drafts that people have come with and I was thinking, what would be another cool draft. So I came up with One per decade draft. What does this mean?

Hopefully the rules can explain it better.

You can only draft one player on your team from one decade
One decade is a period of 10 year, to keep it simple here is how the decades will be broken up as examples:
- 1890-1899 1890s
- 1900-1909 1900s
- 1970-1979 1970s
- (i'm sure you can figure out the rest)
So, you can pick only players who have played test matches during one decade.
- Meaning if a player played his first match in 1989 and his final match in 1990. He is ineligible for selection because according to the dates he has crossed decades
I want to only have a maximum of 6 users for this draft, including myself. (this is my first time doing a draft, so i want to make sure everything is organized and if I do another draft, i can open it up to more people)
As per usual, there is a 24 hour limit for picking

I hope you guys understand the rules and if there are any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer.

Participants:

Decades used:

ahmedleo414: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Yash.: 1900s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
VC the slogger: 1870s, 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2010s
Bevab: 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1920s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
blockerdave: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Aislabie: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

Draft order:

blockerdave Charlie Griffith 1960s
VC the slogger Barry Richards 1970s
ahmedleo414 Bob Cowper 1960s
Bevab Mark Richardson 2000s
Yash. Jimmy Cook 1990s
Aislabie Ryan Harris 2010s
Bevab Madhav Apte 1950s
blockerdave Marcus Trescothick 2000s
Yash. Wasim Jaffer 2000s
ahmedleo414 Adam Voges 2010s
VC the slogger Frank Tyson 1950s
Aislabie Shane Bond 2000s
Aislabie Fanie de Villiers 1990s
blockerdave Hedley Verity 1930s
Yash. Josh Hazlewood 2010s
Bevab Ernest Tyldesley 1920s
VC the slogger Stan McCabe 1930s
ahmedleo414 Tony Greig 1970s
Aislabie Tony Gray 1980s
ahmedleo414 Eddie Paynter 1930s
Bevab Reginald Foster 1900s
VC the slogger Jack Gregory 1920s
blockerdave Lee Irvine 1970s
Yash. Geoff Lawson 1980s
Aislabie Percy Fender 1920s
Bevab Brian Booth 1960s
ahmedleo414 Matthew Hoggard 2000s
blockerdave Frank Foster 1910s
VC the slogger Ranji Hordern 1910s
Yash. Max Walker 1970s
VC the slogger Jofra Archer 2010s
ahmedleo414 Vinod Kambli 1990s
Bevab Brian McMillan 1990s
Aislabie Seymour Nurse 1960s
Yash. Barry Knight 1960s
blockerdave Charlie Hallows 1920s
ahmedleo414 Chris Tavaré 1980s
Yash. Russell Endean 1950s
VC the slogger Colin Bland 1960s
blockerdave Dave Houghton 1990s
Bevab Billy Bates 1880s
Aislabie Collie Smith 1950s
blockerdave Karun Nair 2010s
ahmedleo414 Ernie Toshack 1940s
Bevab Gregor MacGregor 1890s
Aislabie Ross Edwards 1970s
Yash. Jack Young 1940s
VC the slogger Charles Bannerman 1870s
Bevab Kyle Abbott 2010s
blockerdave Roy Dias 1980s
Aislabie Jack Fingleton 1930s
ahmedleo414 Jack Saunders 1900s
VC the slogger Michael Bevan 1990s
Yash. Stewie Dempster 1930s
ahmedleo414 / Albert Trott 1890s
VC the slogger Tom Richardson 1890s
Bevab Somachandra de Silva 1980s
Yash. Jack Russell 1920s
Aislabie Andy Ganteaume 1940s
blockerdave Dick Spooner 1950s
VC the slogger Taslim Arif 1980s
ahmedleo414 Tiger Smith 1910s
Yash. Reggie Duff 1900s
Aislabie Frank Iredale 1890s
blockerdave Arthur Fielder 1900s
Bevab Mohammad Nissar 1930s

Yash. · May 2, 2020

VC the slogger · May 2, 2020

Its like you read my mind, I was thinking of starting the same next based on a former league theme of mine.

In, although I’m curious as to whether players will have their overall stats taken into account or just stats acquired during a particular decade?

The latter would give people incentives to pick a certain player from what one could call their dominant decade, such as Sachin Tendulkar averaging 58.00 in the 90s at his peak compared to 35.83 in the 80s as a prodigy, 53.20 in the 2000s and 50.01 during the 2010s thanks to one outstanding year which otherwise masked his struggles during the final phase of his career.

ahmedleo414 · May 2, 2020

VC the slogger said:
Its like you read my mind, I was thinking of starting the same next based on a former league theme of mine.

In, although I’m curious as to whether players will have their overall stats taken into account or just stats acquired during a particular decade?

The latter would give people incentives to pick a certain player from what one could call their dominant decade, such as Sachin Tendulkar averaging 58.00 in the 90s at his peak compared to 35.83 in the 80s as a prodigy, 53.20 in the 2000s and 50.01 during the 2010s thanks to one outstanding year which otherwise masked his struggles during the final phase of his career.

So the point is to have their overall stats into account.. however for this draft players like Sachin would not be eligible since he has played in multiple "decades"

Sachin's first test was in 1989 and last test was in 2013 - so that's 4-decades as per the rules of this he would not be eligible to be picked by anyone

A player such as Martyn Moxon, however would be eligible since he played his first test in 1986 and last test in 1989, so as a player of the 1980s someone can pick him on their team. You can and are encouraged to consider their First Class career stats when picking players, rather than simply relying on the Test stats.

I hope that made it a little more clear, I am thrilled to have you in this draft!

VC the slogger · May 2, 2020

ahmedleo414 said:
So the point is to have their overall stats into account.. however for this draft players like Sachin would not be eligible since he has played in multiple "decades"

Sachin's first test was in 1989 and last test was in 2013 - so that's 4-decades as per the rules of this he would not be eligible to be picked by anyone

A player such as Martyn Moxon, however would be eligible since he played his first test in 1986 and last test in 1989, so as a player of the 1980s someone can pick him on their team. You can and are encouraged to consider their First Class career stats when picking players, rather than simply relying on the Test stats.

I hope that made it a little more clear, I am thrilled to have you in this draft!

Well, that does simply things a great deal and could make for some really interesting picks. :thumbs

ahmedleo414 · May 2, 2020

I thought so! Also keep in mind you can only pick one player per decade... So you can't have two players from the 1990s in the same team

Bevab · May 2, 2020

I'm in.

blockerdave · May 2, 2020

Aislabie · May 2, 2020

This sounds brain-melty. I'm in

ahmedleo414 · May 2, 2020

Okay, so here is the draft line-up after running it through random.org, good luck to everyone

blockerdave · May 2, 2020

So before I take my first go, let me check I understand this right...

I have to pick a player that only featured in one decade, e.g. debut and last test both in the same decade?

And moreover I can only pick one such player from each decade?

ahmedleo414 · May 2, 2020

Correct

blockerdave · May 2, 2020

Great, so - I'll take Charlie Griffith. Played exclusively in the 1960s, gives me a lethal fast bowler and useful lower order batsman.

@VC the slogger

VC the slogger · May 3, 2020

Barry Richards, who played his first Test in 1970, and last Test in 1970 as well.. Will do a more detailed writeup later.

ahmedleo414 · May 3, 2020

Since I have the next pick I will go with Bob Cowper active in test from 1964-1968 so he's my pick from the 1960s

Stats|Matches|Runs|HS|Batting Ave|100s/50s
First-Class |147|14,915|307|53.78|26/58
Test |27|2061|307|46.84|5/10

Here is his bio from cricinfo:

"A stockbroker and merchant banker too intelligent and ambitious to linger long in a game offering such modest financial rewards, Bob Cowper renounced Test cricket at 28, though not before he had built an impressive portfolio of achievement as a left-hand batsman and finger-spinner. His 12-hour 307 against England at Melbourne in February 1966 was the highest Test innings and the only triple-century on Australian soil until Matthew Hayden's 380 in 2003-04. His fertile cricket imagination and sense of injustice at the lot of the average Australian cricketer left a strong impression on Ian Chappell, in time a militant campaigner for the rights of his comrades."

@Bevab go ahead with your next pick

One per decade draft | Poll open, see post #113 for team list

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ahmedleo414

Yash.

VC the slogger

Bevab

blockerdave

Aislabie

ahmedleo414

The Butcher

Yash.

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VC the slogger

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ahmedleo414

The Butcher

VC the slogger

PlanetCricket Forever

ahmedleo414

The Butcher

Bevab

Staff Member

blockerdave

ICC Chairman

Aislabie

Test Cricket is Best Cricket

ahmedleo414

The Butcher

blockerdave

ICC Chairman

ahmedleo414

The Butcher

blockerdave

ICC Chairman

VC the slogger

PlanetCricket Forever

ahmedleo414

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