I usually like taking risks in first attempts. That's how I managed to get Cruyff 74 in a round where he was the absolute glaring obvious stand out name.The guy who passed did so because he avoided the obvious and went Beckham 98. Some picked up Maradona 82 or Zidane 98 (the years are a nightmare with that one) but by the third round some ended up with the likes of Igor Chislenko to avoid a sheep
Yep, we just ranked everyone else from 1 to 17 and 1st ranked team got 17 points, and so on and the points were added and the final rankings were announced.Where's the difference between Igor Chislenko and a sheep
They didn't play any games at the end of that draft, or am I missing something? It looks like they just voted who drafted the strongest team in the end?
Are we doing the same? Or do we play games at the end? And if we play games, are there reinforcements?
I'm always in favour of a tournament. Much more entertaining than the dull rankings. Also, doing rankings is a farce because comparing 15 teams on the same scale is virtually impossible for anyone.
In a couple of days? Whenever everyone is ready. I don't have any problem starting when you guys are ready.
That's my point! There's no way you would ever list him as your third pick if you submitted three in advance, is there? At that stage you have to ask yourself: will I ever play this fecker? And if the answer is no you may as well have a stab at the obvious ones and see if you hit the jackpot!Where's the difference between Igor Chislenko and a sheep
I think you should strongly consider the setup I had suggested, all eliminated players in a pool and apply the same logic as for the banned list: everyone gets a pick and a block (three stages as well, although those who have picked already can carry on blocking). Max 1 player reinforcement per round. High stakes shit
Is there a theme at all? Like the worldcup theme in the draft you linked to? Or is it completely random throughout the whole draft and basically another alltime draft?
Any suggestions for a theme then? It looks like we're going to have 16 managers again (if we go by the list of interested participants Aldo posted earlier), so the player pool must be big enough and it needs to give Aldo enough options for the draft rounds. Most of the big names will most likely be blocked out, so maybe it'll lead to some interesting teams with less known players anyway?
This is a brilliant idea!
The penalty of missing 3 picks is a sheep player. The theme sould apply to all managers involved.
Yeah I know that, I mean to think of an idea to make this a penalty and not apply it to everybody.
What people have asked about re: theme is whether there's some sort of POOL theme/definition. E.g. World Cup players and peak, or Champions League players, etc.
That was a World Cup draft and the pool wasn't considered large enough to allow for interesting questions such as "pick players sent off" or "pick player who scored in a final", to broaden it a wee bit more versions of one player were allowed. I agree, I don't like it, but it won't be another WC draft so I doubt it will be in scope.
No, wrong. Three stages of 24 hours can't take 5 days, it takes three and spreads over four. Has been like that since the beginning of time (literally).
3 picks of 24 hours + one more day for sheep picks and Aldo to announce the results of R1 picks, right?
It won't be something as concentrated as the World Cup one was, won't be all time either.
Don't worry about the first doubt. That was a World Cup Draft and the mod in there allowed people to pick different versions of the players for different World Cups. No duplicates based on anything over here.
I liked Crappy's idea for the sheeps a lot. The managers create a criteria for the position and force the manager with the sheep to pick a bad player himself, for example 'Pick a striker who played more than 10 worldcup games but didn't score' or something like that. If we choose the sheeps that way at the end and several players have a sheep in the same position, we can use again the 3 attempts draft thing (or even more attempts if they fail and block the few decent players available within that criteria).
The bit in bold is actually done in Day 2 after announcing the result of the first stage. Allows people (including those who haven't got a successful pick) to get started on research early, which should make it very manageable.
I've seen it done a few different ways and the best seems to be one of the first round pass managers (RNGd) gets selected to pick a sheep and just picks it.
Nah the next criteria was given after the round was over. Always the case in both formats of the sheep draft.
Welcome Pippa!!I think it's interesting that in a draft where much of the points centred on positions and "how to get the best out of your players", not a single word was brought up about Stoichkov being played out of position through the entire draft; he of course played as a second striker for Bulgaria in 1994.
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Welcome up, mate.I think it's interesting that in a draft where much of the points centred on positions and "how to get the best out of your players", not a single word was brought up about Stoichkov being played out of position through the entire draft; he of course played as a second striker for Bulgaria in 1994.
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Well there was double standards with that. Ultimately there was a relaxing of approach from the managers as the tournament grew on, especially compared to the strictness of the Thuram debate beforehand.I think it's interesting that in a draft where much of the points centred on positions and "how to get the best out of your players", not a single word was brought up about Stoichkov being played out of position through the entire draft; he of course played as a second striker for Bulgaria in 1994.
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I'm not too sure about this, given one man's 4-2-3-1 is another's 4-4-1-1 and another's 4-2-1-3.
