P-Nut
fan of well-known French footballer Fabinho
Normally goes up when the final of the last draft finishes so should be up Wednesday afternoon / eveningWill it start soon?
Normally goes up when the final of the last draft finishes so should be up Wednesday afternoon / eveningWill it start soon?
@Tuppet do you mind, or would you prefer to be after the final? Don't want to affect your on-going draftGet the thread fired up today bro the final is scheduled for today and there would be some questions or the new people to understand the sheep format etc. @green_smiley
Yeah, it was all set on Saturday. I don't like drafts starting while another is still on, but we could do with people being forewarned.I meant don't give out any criteria or anything but just to notify everyone so that they are ready and clear on everything before the thing starts.
Not that I recall. In other sports forum, we have had Cricket and NBA drafts only.Has there ever been a Rugby Union draft on here?
That could be decent.
No because I don't watch Rugby and no one else starts new drafts.Has there ever been a Rugby Union draft on here?
That could be decent.
Bet you that you will play a Rugby Draft if it ever startsNo because I don't watch Rugby and no one else starts new drafts.
Pioneer of Cricket, NBA and Sheep drafts [/signature]
Post it here anyways. Good to have some discussions and it'll get pulled up again when it's time for a new one.I had an idea for a new draft for you lot, but you've already gone ahead with the next one, so never mind.
You are probably right.Bet you that you will play a Rugby Draft if it ever starts
Have you done a 'won nothing' draft, yet? Where the draft picks are literally from players who haven't won a team trophy?Post it here anyways. Good to have some discussions and it'll get pulled up again when it's time for a new one.
Good idea of course. I already suggested this idea but please look at the repliesHave you done a 'won nothing' draft, yet? Where the draft picks are literally from players who haven't won a team trophy?
Massive pool of players who probably have never been drafted before and the chance to do something quite a bit removed from the norm.
There are some excellent teams to be had if the drafters know what they're doing.
Just a thought.
My opinion don't matter but instead of a 'Reserve Draft', I strongly recommend a 'Loser Draft': all the players who have never won a major trophy like the Champions League, the World Cup, The Euro and the Copa America. So refreshing
These draft ideas nowadays seems to be so complicated...
Can we just plan a no rules draft? Just no restrictions, no banned players and no research...pure GOAT team building?
Good idea of course. I already suggested this idea but please look at the replies
Boring? Harder, sure, but boring? How so?Its less fun without GOAT's to be honest. Even if not GOAT's, removing everyone who has won something makes it way too boring.
Personally, of course. To each his ownBoring? Harder, sure, but boring? How so?
It would be full of Spurs players.
Fair play. Didn't know it had been proposed before.
Boring? Harder, sure, but boring? How so?
It would be full of Spurs players.
We do try to mix the pools up. Although your average draft will typically be all-time with some sort of set of restrictions, I tend to prefer the more niche stuff focusing in on specific decades or leagues. Think we looked at a reserve reserve draft, which might have been all the players unpicked from one of the first all-time drafts and from the pool of the follow-up reserve draft. Even a suggestion before about collating every player that has been picked onto a banned list and then running it from there.
Fair play. Didn't know it had been proposed before.
Boring? Harder, sure, but boring? How so?
Well, I think you risk scraping the proverbial bottom a little too much if you stick strictly to no trophies. We're talking about 200+ players.Have you done a 'won nothing' draft, yet? Where the draft picks are literally from players who haven't won a team trophy?
Massive pool of players who probably have never been drafted before and the chance to do something quite a bit removed from the norm.
There are some excellent teams to be had if the drafters know what they're doing.
Just a thought.
Sounds interesting.We do try to mix the pools up. Although your average draft will typically be all-time with some sort of set of restrictions, I tend to prefer the more niche stuff focusing in on specific decades or leagues. Think we looked at a reserve reserve draft, which might have been all the players unpicked from one of the first all-time drafts and from the pool of the follow-up reserve draft. Even a suggestion before about collating every player that has been picked onto a banned list and then running it from there.
200 players from the thousands you can pool from throughout all of history and even currently active, though.Well, I think you risk scraping the proverbial bottom a little too much if you stick strictly to no trophies. We're talking about 200+ players.
The pool is sufficiently large to include some very interesting individual players, and building interesting XIs isn't impossible either, but sustaining the interest of a full roster of managers and a bunch of neutrals might be a stretch.
I'd like to see the «reserve-reserve» draft myself. We already have the blueprint for this: Block the all-time pool and the pool for the reserves draft. You get a pool where the most shiny names have probably featured once or twice without getting much attention - and a significant number of players who probably haven't been picked before at all.
Don't think any have tapered off in recent years.I would think the squads could be very good and I would have thought the draft followers are loyal? Do drafts tend to taper off?
Don't get me wrong, I'd be all for it myself. I'm just not sure how well it'd go down in the mainstream.I just think it would be interesting to see a draft with [almost] an entire ensemble of unpicked players.
Interesting idea.. The thing with it is you have to agree on the teams before hand so as to avoid duplicate players
@Edgar Allan Pillow That's an interesting idea. You would probably need to circulate the classic teams in advance as you'd need to block the members of those teams. The issue would be would too many quality players be blocked to prevent defeating the classic sides
Thanks for the comments, lads! I was giving some thought on that already...Yes, I like the basic idea.
Might be challenging to make it work in a format with many managers, however. Ending up with one winner could be tricky, as the managers wouldn't be eliminating each other directly.
As a particular challenge, I definitely like it, though. And it would generate a different kind of match thread discussion, you'd think. The manager having to defend his choices against the input of various neutrals rather than bickering with one (biased) opponent.
You could also have it as a last man standing type draft.. Let’s say in R1 only 6 managers win their round and the other 2 are won by the legend teams. Next round could be these 6 teams against legend teams and so on till you have 1 team standingThanks for the comments, lads! I was giving some thought on that already...
4xR1 teams (I'll randomize and 16 managers will face one of these 4 teams)
4x QF teams (whoever clears will be randomized to these 4 teams)
2x SF teams (whoever clears will be randomized to these 2 teams)
2x Final teams (whoever clears will be randomized to these 2 teams)
All 14 'legend' teams will be announced before, but each round opponents will be a surprise. I can add 4 wild card teams to make it difficult to predict.
There can be multiple winners here. Whoever clears all 4 rounds will be deemed winners of this draft. There can be no winners too which would be funny
All players in these 12 teams chosen will be blocked. Idea is to make sure we restrict each team to 1 or 2 GOATs.
I like that idea, although 'won nothing' might be a bit too punitive. Never won a league title/European Cup/World Cup/Euros (and equivalents for other continents of course) would still thin the usual pool down massively, and allow for rarely-featured players who won the odd domestic cup.Have you done a 'won nothing' draft, yet? Where the draft picks are literally from players who haven't won a team trophy?
Massive pool of players who probably have never been drafted before and the chance to do something quite a bit removed from the norm.
There are some excellent teams to be had if the drafters know what they're doing.
Just a thought.
Aye, I'd still like to see that reserve-reserve draft myself, and I still nurse some residual bitterness towards @Edgar Allan Pillow for pissing all over the idea here:I'd like to see the «reserve-reserve» draft myself. We already have the blueprint for this: Block the all-time pool and the pool for the reserves draft. You get a pool where the most shiny names have probably featured once or twice without getting much attention - and a significant number of players who probably haven't been picked before at all.
Another British-Irish Draft would be good to do at some stage. I'd favour a date of birth cut off this time to avoid the more intractable problems in comparing across eras. I generally don't mind those discussions but it played a particularly prominent role in the previous British draft so there's little point rehashing the same stuff. Maybe players born post 1st January 1937, which would include Charlton but exclude Duncan Edwards.
Just to improvise, I think it would be more competitive if 2 drafted teams face against the same opposition.What do you all think of a "Can you beat them? draft"!
Rather than playing with each other, we'll draft teams who will 'play' a match against some legendary teams. At end of snake draft, Draft Mod will allocate real life good/great teams to all playing managers. For example, the team Chester drafted will play against Arsenal Invincibles.
R1 match will be Chester All Time vs Invincibles.
If voters deem his team to be victorious, he progresses to next round. Next round he gets a relatively harder team to bear. For example, Milan early 2000s
R2 will be Chester All Time vs Milan 03-07
and so forth....
Opinions?
Now that's an even better idea. I'd be down for a draft like this.Just to improvise, I think it would be more competitive if 2 drafted teams face against the same opposition.
Voting would be to decide the team which is better equipped to win against the legendary team.