All time British+Irish Fantasy Draft

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Welcome to all time British+Irish or Home Nations as some call it, fantasy draft.

This draft will be AUCTION based.

Players Eligible -
  • All players who born in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland are eligible.
  • All players who represented any of these nations are also eligible.
  • Players who may have secured citizenship or passport of the these nations but did not represent them at national level are NOT eligible.

Restrictions for playing 11 -
  • A maximum of 6 players who are only eligible for England can be part of playing 11 at any point in the match.
  • A squad can not exceed 15 players, which means you will need to discard players going forward.

Auctions Rules
  • Every manager will have 300m in the bank at the start.
  • Auction will be round based with a total of 10 rounds. Each round will have a theme.
  • A total of 12 players will go for sale in each round. These players can be nominated by PM by all managers (and certain neutrals) in play. First 12 players received via PM will be chosen.
  • A player may bid for as many players as he like in any round.
  • Each team must buy a minimum of 12 players and can buy maximum of 14 players.
  • Minimum starting bid is 10m.
  • Any winning bid must be unchallenged for 12 hours straight for it to go through.
  • NO trading/transfers are part of the game. Once you buy someone, he counts as a part of your squad.
  • Colluding by private messages to not bid for certain players counts as CHEATING. Any such incident brought to notice will result in expulsion from the game. It is left to managers to observes this rule in right spirit.
  • A minimum of 2m increments are required for new bids for first 4 hours of listing of a player. From 4-10 hours it is 5m minimum increment. For last 2 hours a minimum of 10m increment.
  • At no point the total cost of the squad and amount used to bid for players should exceed 300m. Any bid that result in such a violation will be deemed invalid and the player will be docked 5m from his budget

Example of one round of auction -
Let's say 6 managers are participating- Crappy, Annah, antohan, Gio, Viva, harms. Nominated players - George Best, Duncan Edwards, Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore, Dennis Law, Gordon Banks

Auction Starts -

Round 1 - Marquee Players (Bid times in GMT)

Best-
Edwards-
Law-
Banks-
Moore-
Charlton-


First Bids -

Round 1 - Marquee Players (Bid times in London Time Zone. 24 hr format)

Best- crappy 100m (20.00)
Edwards- crappy 40m (20.00)
Law- Annah 30m (20.05)
Banks-
Moore-
Gio 20m (20.00)
Charlton- viva 50m (20.10)

Bid escalations with in first 4 hours - 2m raises by harms

Round 1 - Marquee Players (Bid times in London Time Zone. 24 hr format)

Best- crappy 100m (20.00)
Edwards- crappy 40m (20.00)
Law- harms 32m (20.45)
Banks-
Moore-
Gio 20m (20.00)
Charlton- harms 52m (20.45)

Bid escalations between 4 -10 hours of bid time - 5m raises by gio

Round 1 - Marquee Players (Bid times in London Time Zone. 24 hr format)

Best- crappy 100m (20.00)
Edwards- crappy 40m (20.00)
Law- gio 37m (02.45)
Banks-
Moore-
Gio 20m (20.00)
Charlton- gio 57m (20.45)

Bid escalations in last 2 hours of deadline - 10m raised by antohan

Round 1 - Marquee Players (Bid times in London Time Zone. 24 hr format)

Best- antohan 110m (07.00)
Edwards- antohan 50m (07.30)
Law- harms 32m (20.45)
Banks-
Moore-
Gio 20m (20.00)
Charlton- harms 52m (20.45)

Auction Rounds
  1. Marquee players
  2. World Cup Stars (must have been part of a WC squad)
  3. FA cup Winners
  4. Premier League Stars
  5. Goal Keepers
  6. Defenders + MFs
  7. Wingers + Forwards
  8. Non Premier League Stars
  9. Any eligible player (Not unsold players)
  10. Unsold/Any Eligible player
  11. Snake Draft Pick 1 - (Bid any amount of money left to get a pick number)
  12. Snake Draft Pick 2 - (Bid any amount of money left to get a pick number)

Match Day Rules

To be Updated. In short 16 teams will be part of knockout format

Reinforcement Rounds
  • Reinforcements will also be done via similar auction format
  • Each team will receive a bonus of 50m upon winning any round
  • They will also retain the balance from last round
  • A maximum of 2 players can be bought by team in the auctions after R16, QFs and only one after semis.
  • Each manager part of auction in reinforcement round will get to nominate 3 players by sending a PM to a neutral. All players nominated will be part of a single auction round for reinforcement.
SPOTS LEFT FOR MANAGERS - 10
  1. Crappy
  2. Gio
  3. Lynk
  4. Skizzo
  5. Raaes
  6. Edgar
  7. MJJ
  8. Barney/Joga Bonito
  9. Annah
  10. Cal
  11. Stobzilla
  12. SirAF
 
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Group A

Gio - 278m 1. Jimmy Greaves 30m, 2. Tom Finney 72m 3. Ashley Cole 36m 4. Davie Meiklejohn 10m 5. Des Walker 34m 6. Alan Morton 29m 7. Alex James 21m 8. Gordon Banks 10m9. George Young 16m 10. Alan Mullery 10m 11. Willie Miller 10m 12. David Platt 10m

Stobzilla - 286m 1. Jimmy Johnstone 38m; 2. Alan Hansen 40m 3. Johnny Giles 50m 4. Eddie Gray 40m 5. Kevin Ratfcliffe 15m 6. Peter Reid 15m 7.Danny McGrain 28m 8. Ron Springett 10m9.Alan Shearer 20m 10. Teddy Sheringham 10m 11. Mike England 10m 12. Stuart Pearce 10m

Crappy - 269m 1. Irwin 42m, 2. Rush 30m 3.Wayne Rooney 20m 4. Bale 30m 5. Rio Ferdinand 55m 6. Jim Baxter 47m 7. Andy Goram 10m 8. Phil Neal 15m 9.Patsy Gallacher 10m10. Steve Bruce 10m

Group B

Annah - 260m 1. George Best 95m, 2. Stanley Matthews 52m, 3. Danny Blanchflower 63m 4. B. Collins 10m 5. Jim Leighton 10m
6. McCracken 10m 7. Hardwick 10m 8. Ron Burgess 10m 9. Stan Mortensen 10. Bill Slater 11. Mel Hopkins 12. Kenny Sansom


SirAF- 260m 1. Giggs 70m, 2. Hurst 10m, 3. Gary Lineker 25m 4. Trevor Brooking 18m 5. Steven Gerrard 33m 6. Joe Hart 10m 7. John O'Shea 10m 8. Ledley King 25m 9. Leighton Baines 15m 10. Michael Carrick 14m 11.Terry Butcher 16m 12. Alex Ferguson 10m 13. Sandy Jardine 23m [REMOVED: Gary Pallister]

Raees (-5m) - 288m 1. Denis Law 58m, 2. Dave Mackay 49m, 3. Alan Ball 17m 4. Billy Bremner 47m 5. Sol Campbell 37m 6.Eddie Hapgood 10m7. Billy McNeill 18m 8. Ray Clemence 10m9.Raich Carter 12m 10. Cliff Jones 10m 11. Peter Lorimer 10m 12. Bob Crompton 13. Paul Reaney 10m


Group C

Skizzo
- 300m 1. John Charles 42m, 2. Bobby Moore 52m 3. Neville Southall 15m 4. Paul Ince 26m 5. Gary Neville 30m6. David Beckham 50m 7. Frank Lampard 15m 8. Bobby Lennox 20m9.Ian Wright 10m 10. Tony Dunne 10m 11. Mark Lawrenson 10m 12. Bobby Murdoch 20m


Lynk - 295m(-5m)1. Roy Keane 75m 2. Pat Jennings 30m 3. Billy Meredith 30m 4. Tony Adams 35m 5.John Terry 39m6.Barry 10m 7. Duff 10m 8. Fowler 14m9. Waddle 10m 10. V. Anderson 16m 11. Ivor Allchurch 10m 12. J. Carey 16m


Chesterlestreet - 284m 1. Duncan Edwards 69m,2. Billy Wright 30m, 3. Roger Byrne 27m; 4.Johnny Haynes 30m 5.William R. Dean. 45m 6. W. Woodburn 10m7. Jack Kelsey 10m 8.Pat Crerand 20m 9. Cliff Bastin 12m 10. Alex Jackson 19m 12. Leonard Shackleton 12m

Group D

MJJ
- 258m - 1. Bobby Charlton 66m, 2. Bryan Robson 60M, 3. Kenny Dalglish 49m 4. Ray Wilson 10m 5. Harry Gregg 10m 6. Alex Raisbeck 10m 7. Nat Lofthouse 10m 8. Jack Charlton 12m 9. P. Beardsley 10m 10. Lee Dixon 10m 11. Phil Thompson 10m 12. G. Hoddle 10m

Barney - 265m 1. Paul Scholes 67m, 2. Graeme Souness 56m 3. Jimmy Armfield 15m 4. John Greig 17m 5. Ronnie Simpson 10m 6. John Barnes 20m 7. Kevin Keegan 10m 8. Neil Franklin 21m9. Billy Liddell 19m 10. Jimmy McGrory 22m 11. David O' Leary 10m 12. B. Auld 10m 13. Wilf Mannion 10m

EAP - 285m 1. Paul Gascoigne 46m, 2. Norbert P. Stiles 45m, 3. Paul McGrath 45m 4. Michael Owen 16m 5.Liam Brady 49m6. Shay Given 14m 7.George Cohen 12m 8. Wes Brown 10m 9. Tommy Gemmell 12m 10. Sparky Hughes 10m 11. Emlyn Hughes 12m 12. McManaman 14m

Schedule

Matchday 1:
Group A
Gio vs Stobz - Draw
Group B Annah vs SirAF
Group C Skizzo vs Lynk
Group D MJJ vs Barney

Matchday 2:
Group A
Gio vs Crappy
Group B Annah vs Raees
Group C Skizzo vs Chester
Group D MJJ vs EAP

Matchday 3:
Group A
Stobz vs Crappy
Group B SirAF vs Raees
Group C Lynk vs Chester
Group D Barney vs EAP
 
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We are going to be short on WC stars and foreign league players here aren't we? :p

It's a great draft idea and could unearth some gems and get some of the underappreciated British players their due.

However in saying that, I would have personally preferred an all South American draft. It is your draft idea and you should be the one who gets the final say though.
 

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We are going to be short on WC stars and foreign league players here aren't we? :p

It's a great draft idea and could unearth some gems and get some of the underappreciated British players their due.

However in saying that, I would have personally preferred an all South American draft. It is your draft idea and you should be the one who gets the final say though.
Round themes are just an idea right now. Suggestions welcome for viable ones
 

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Happy to take part if this gets off the ground.
We are going to be short on WC stars and foreign league players here aren't we? :p

It's a great draft idea and could unearth some gems and get some of the underappreciated British players their due.

However in saying that, I would have personally preferred an all South American draft. It is your draft idea and you should be the one who gets the final say though.
Keen on a South American one at some point. Anto would hump us all, but it would be tasty nonetheless.
 

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If people think All time Home nation draft does not have enough talent pool then they need to come up with additional criteria. Those who have played in English league could also be made eligible with a restriction like say 2 in starting 11

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A minimum of 2m increments are required for new bids for first 4 hours of listing of a player. From 4-10 hours it is 5m minimum increment. For last 2 hours a minimum of 10m increment.
This is a brilliant rule. I won't play, but I'm really looking forward to learn a lot more about British football.
 

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If people think All time Home nation draft does not have enough talent pool then they need to come up with additional criteria. Those who have played in English league could also be made eligible with a restriction like say 2 in starting 11

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Or you limit it to 8 managers.
 

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Sounds great, but I feel a little worn out after 2 drafts in a row.
I agree with Balu about the increasing bids rule, it's brilliant, and it will definitely speed things up.
 

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I've always wanted to take part in one of these, but I'd probably get wrecked by old time vets.
 

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Didn't get the alert for this...but I'm in. Had a lot of fun researching unfamiliar players in the last draft, look forward to having to do it even more so this time around.
 

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If people think All time Home nation draft does not have enough talent pool then they need to come up with additional criteria. Those who have played in English league could also be made eligible with a restriction like say 2 in starting 11

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I like this. Like Seria A of old, they can choose 3 'foreign quota' players with an extra condition that all 3 must be of different nationalities and played at least a season (min 10 games) in EPL.

Let me think on this a bit more.

I think this could get very interesting.
 

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20 post in and the thread is still about football?

What's going on?
 

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I'm in. Need to study the rules carefully though .. never seen an auction one in action.
 

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Wow who'd have thought Barney was going to hop in. At least some of the Pool players of the 70s and 80s might get their fair due and more exposure with someone hyping them up. The likes of Hansen, Souness, Keegan etc never get the credit they deserve here imo. So long as he doesn't repeatedly mention a certain Stevie Me.

We already have 2 first timers in already. Wouldn't hurt to invite more who frequently vote in the draft games

@Invictus @devilish
 

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Oh and I can't play in this one but willing to play as an assistant manager if anyone wants me.
 

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I'm now @BarneyLFC assistant manager.

Our masterplan includes allocating half our budget on Stevie G. Once we get our hands on him its game over for all of you :D
 
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