Brisbane Lions board drafting game

[Warwick]

I thought it might be interesting if we had a drafting game. My idea was to see who could draft the best team of 22 from all 100 Brisbane Lion players since 1997. The only rule i have so far is:

• Each team is allowed to draft a maximum of 3 extra players who either played for the bears or Fitzroy (in the 90's). The rest of your 22 must be made from the 100 BL players.

The 100 players to have represented the lions are:

1. Michael Voss
2. Justin Leppitsch
3. Nigel Lappin
4. Alastair Lynch
5. Jason Akermanis
6. Simon Black
7. Shaun Hart
8. Mal Michael
9. Chris Johnson
10. Luke Power
11. Jonathan Brown
12. Marcus Ashcroft
13. Clark Keating
14. Craig McRae
15. Martin Pike
16. Chris Scott
17. Darryl White
18. Richard Champion
19. Brad Scott
20. Des Headland
21. Craig Lambert
22. Matthew Kennedy
23. Daniel Bradshaw
24. Tim Notting
25. Robert Copeland
26. Beau McDonald
27. Blake Caracella
28. Jamie Charman
29. Jarrod Molloy
30. Ashley McGrath
31. Richard Hadley
32. Jed Adcock
33. Justin Sherman
34. Matthew Clark
35. Aaron Shattock
36. Steven Lawrence
37. Brad Boyd
38. Jared Brennan
39. Adam Heuskes
40. Adrian Fletcher
41. Brett Voss
42. Michael Rischitelli
43. Scott McIvor
44. Andrew Bews
45. Josh Drummond
46. Jason Roe
47. Craig Bolton
48. Troy Selwood
49. Joel MacDonald
50. Shane O’Bree
51. Anthony Corrie
52. Matthew Moody
53. Tristen Lynch
54. Danny Dickfos
55. Ben Robbins
56. Nathan Chapman
57. Damien Cupido
58. Cheynee Stiller
59. Ben Fixter
60. Rhan Hooper
61. Mitch Clark
62. Joel Patfull
63. Dylan McLaren
64. Dion Scott
66. Daniel Merrett
67. Cameron Wood
68. Wayde Mills
69. Marcus Picken
70. Trent Bartlett
71. Scott Bamford
72. Andrew Gowers
73. Martin Pask
74. Shane Clayton
74. John Barker
75. Martin McKinnon
76. Scott Harding
77. Shane Morrison
78. Rory Hilton
79. Trent Knobel
80. Jayden Attard
81. Nick Trask
82. Mick Martin
83. Nathan Clarke
84. Jason Gram
85. Marcus Allen
86. Daniel Pratt
87. David Calthorpe
88. Shannon Rusca
89. Luke Weller
90. Llane Spaanderman
91. Tom Logan
92. Nick Carter
93. Brent Green
94. Derek Wirth
95. Colm Begley
96. Stefan Carey
97. Darren Bradshaw
98. Travis Baird
99. Leigh Ryswyk
100. Michael McLean

Reply to this thread if you are interested. Unfortunately, there is only room for 4 more teams, so be quick. If 5 more people really want to play, we will make it best 18. First in, best dressed. I will post the draft order when we have enough participants. Good luck.

 

[toddy]

im in warwick.

 

[Grimreepah]

So how does it work? Do you take turns picking players? And how is the winner decided?

 

[Warwick]

So how does it work? Do you take turns picking players? And how is the winner decided?

Not sure how the winner is decided as such. Maybe have a poll on the Den after the game has finished where everyone can vote for their favourite team?

Basically just works the same way as the draft, i.e it would go something like this:

First round (say there were 4 people):

Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4

Team 4
Team 3
Team 2
Team 1

Team 3
Team 1
Team 4
Team 2

Team 2
Team 4
Team 1
Team 3

Therefore, in each round you pick up 4 players, so there would be around 5 rounds. The order changes around a bit within the round to allow equality.

I'm open to any suggestions however to make it better.

 

[Grimreepah]

And a team is one person. Is that right?

Now IMO (sorry to be pedantic) having pick 1 in round one is far more advantageous than have the last pick in round 2. I think you need some sort of tossing of the coin so to speak to decide what the team order is.

I presume that we are picking players based on when they were at their prime.

By the way - I'm in.

Obviously part of the skill (in terms of when the best side is being judged in the Den) is picking players for a team, so it's not necessarily just a matter of picking best available.

 

[Warwick]

And a team is one person. Is that right?

Correct.

Now IMO (sorry to be pedantic) having pick 1 in round one is far more advantageous than have the last pick in round 2. I think you need some sort of tossing of the coin so to speak to decide what the team order is.

The order i put was just one round (4 players per round). Each round is made up of 4 "mini-rounds". To make it fairer we could swap the mini-rounds around in the next round. (That made sense while i was typing it ). We will have to have a virtual toss of the coin to see who is which team.

I presume that we are picking players based on when they were at their prime.

Yep.

By the way - I'm in.

Good stuff. If we don't get at least 1 more player, we could postpone it to another night.

Obviously part of the skill (in terms of when the best side is being judged in the Den) is picking players for a team, so it's not necessarily just a matter of picking best available.

Exactly. Although you could do whatever you like, but the eventual winner will be judged on who has the best "team" (i.e. a team with 22 midfielders will not win).

 

[Grimreepah]

The list provided is a list of Brisbane Lions players only. right?

You wouldn't know where I can get a list of the Bears and Fitzroy players who played in the 90s would you? Or is finding such a list part of the challenge?

 

[Warwick]

The list provided is a list of Brisbane Lions players only. right?

You wouldn't know where I can get a list of the Bears and Fitzroy players who played in the 90s would you? Or is finding such a list part of the challenge?

Yeah that is just BL players. If you go to finalsiren.com there are team sheets from every year. I just made it players from the 90's so most people have seen them play.

 

[toddy]

I think it should be part of the game, you have to do research..

 

[Grimreepah]

I think it should be part of the game, you have to do research..

Know where to find stuff hey

I can't get the info, so I'll have to go from memory. Naturally I will start as underdog.

 

[toddy]

No i only started supporting from when Lions were formed so my knowledge isnt very good. I think Warwick has a pretty good memory so he would start favourite.

 

[Warwick]

No i only started supporting from when Lions were formed so my knowledge isnt very good. I think Warwick has a pretty good memory so he would start favourite.

The psychological testing starts already (therefore Grim is favourite ).

 

[Grimreepah]

The psychological testing starts already (therefore Grim is favourite ).

I wouldn't dare start with the mind games. You're far too clever for me.

 

[Warwick]

I wouldn't dare start with the mind games. You're far too clever for me.

The man's good. The man is very good.


But it isn't going to work...

 

[toddy]

Current Odds:

Warwick- $1.75
Grimreepah- $1.90
Toddy- $2.50

 

[Grimreepah]

I think Warwick has a pretty good memory so he would start favourite.

Yeah, he knows his stuff, so it will be a good challenge for us.

 

[Ashli]

Current Odds:

Warwick- $1.75
Grimreepah- $1.90
Toddy- $2.50

Oh so you overprice yourself so that you get a higher return ey...

 

[Grimreepah]

Current Odds:

Warwick- $1.75
Grimreepah- $1.90
Toddy- $2.50

I'll have two bob on toddy thanks. That's great value.

 

[Warwick]

Oh so you overprice yourself so that you get a higher return ey...

Ashli we need another female to play to even it up (2 guys, 2 girls). Wanna give it a shot?

 

[Ashli]

Um... Ok... can I have a couple lifelines seeing as i was only 8 when the Lions were formed and only 1 1/2 in 1990

 

[Grimreepah]

Um... Ok... can I have a couple lifelines seeing as i was only 8 when the Lions were formed and only 1 1/2 in 1990

Claiming underdog status hey. Enough with the mind games already

ps. I always thought Warwick was a fella.

 

[Ashli]

Claiming underdog status hey. Enough with the mind games already

Haha nope! Just stating the facts!

 

[Warwick]

Um... Ok... can I have a couple lifelines seeing as i was only 8 when the Lions were formed and only 1 1/2 in 1990

I'm not all that much older. Don't worry too much about the bears, fitzroy players if you don't want too because you only get a maximum of 3, and you don't need to pick any of them.

www.footywire.com gives you information on players' heights etc, and you are quite welcome to ask questions about the position certain players played (i'm not too sure myself with some of them looking at that list of 100 ).

So Warwick, toddy, Grimreepah, Ashli... are we all ready to play?

 

[Warwick]

Claiming underdog status hey. Enough with the mind games already

ps. I always thought Warwick was a fella.

That sort of backfired didn't it? I was referring to someone else.


Anyway, how are we going to decide who are teams 1-4?

 

[Grimreepah]

So Warwick, toddy, Grimreepah, Ashli... are we all ready to play?

Lets go champ