Competitions EFC Board List Management Game

[eth-dog]

As a few of you may remember, last year we had a list management or bid game during the off-season which Jade ran (kudos mate, it was fantastic). The best summary I can give you is this:

• Each member will have a budget of $10 million to spend on a list between 25 and 30 players. Once you've won a player you cannot delist them. If you exceed this budget at the end of the FA period you're disqualified
• The minimum you can spend on a player is $50,000
• Bids are sent to me via PM by midnight the day the list is scheduled to be put up.
• There will be a 2 day trade period starting immediately after the last day of bidding
• After the trade period you'll get 2 days to pick up "free agents" ie. players who haven't been bid on when their list have been put up. eg. last game Jack Steven wasn't bid on when his list went up, and as such I took him as a FA. Each FA will cost $50,000.
• Winner will be determined by an anonymous vote by the participants and myself. Each participant will send me a 3-2-1 vote on who they think has the best list outside of their own. I will also have a 3-2-1 vote, and if it's a tie, my votes determine the winner.
• I will put up the new list every day (except weekends) between 7 and 10 am, along with the results of the previous list.
• Each list will contain 25 players, except the last list which will contain 45 (because there were 820 players on an AFL list this season)
• This will take about 8-9 weeks to run, you need to be on every weekday in that time, because if I don't receive your bid that night before midnight, you won't get any player from that list.
• Please remember to have fun, it's only a game after all .
• I'm looking at 10 participants for this game. Please post below if interested

Players:
1. Loonerty
2. fodzilla
3. Jade
4. Ben the Gooner
5. BrewSmackerVeiny
6. boncer34
7. efcboy
8. Ashton Agar
9. Drummer_19
10. Bengali Bomber

 

[Loonerty]

Keen as a bean.

Behold the Mightily Mediocre FC

B Suban Rivers A. Johnson

HB Pittard B. Reid Yarran

C Rohan Goddard Sidebottom

HF Menzel Waite White

F Walters Carlisle Crameri

Foll Minson Kennedy C.Beams

INT Paine Murdoch J. Thomas Colquhoun

DEPTH:
Lycett
Dawes
T. Lynch (GC)
C Morton
Pedersen
Ashby
Sexton
Didak

That pasted better than I thought.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

I'll play.

 

[Jade]

I'd compete, but not run it - pain in the ass.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

I've got exams, so I'm definitely in.

 

[BrewSmackerVeiny]

.....

 

[Loonerty]

I've got exams, so I'm definitely in.

Same boat here
No better thing for some good procrastination

 

[boncer34]

In

 

[efcboy]

I'll do it

 

[Ashton Agar]

In like Flynn

 

[Drummer_19]

The term you're looking for is auction draft. I'm in.

 

[Drummer_19]

Might want to lower the amount of players on the daily lists even if it makes it go a bit longer. It's a lot to process whilst trying to bid appropriate amounts.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

I'd compete, but not run it - pain in the ass.

If it's too much drama, I remember there was a regular draft version a couple of years ago that seemed to go alright.

 

[Drummer_19]

Also what's the criteria for judging - are we drafting purely for player output during the 2014 season?

 

[Jade]

If you're interested I'll send you the file I used last year to keep track of everything.

 

[raskolnikov]

My team so far:

Backs: Greg Broughton.....Luke Brown.......Brendan Whitecross

Halfbacks: Nick Smith.....Sam Reid.... Brad Sewell

Centres: Joel Selwood....Chris Judd...Jack Trengove

Half Forwards: Jimmy Bartel.......Drew Petrie....Jeremy Howe

Forwards: Aaron Black.....Jack Riewoldt.....Brandon Matera

Midfielders: Mike Pyke......Liam Shiels.......Tom Liberatore

Interchange: Colin Garland....Josh Caddy......Luke Dahlhouse.....Matt de Boer

Emergencies: Lachlan Dalgleish....Robin Nahas...Mark Baguley...Jackson Merrett... Jimmy Gwilt....Max Gawn... Matt Jones

 

[eth-dog]

Also what's the criteria for judging - are we drafting purely for player output during the 2014 season?

A mix of 2013 output, prospects of 2014 and a balanced list.

If you're interested I'll send you the file I used last year to keep track of everything.

Would be interested. Does it take up much space software wise?

 

[monty1104]

I'd have liked to defend by (unofficial and self proclaimed) title, but looks like I've missed the boat.

Hope it runs till then end of the game this time

 

[monty1104]

I'll be a judge though!

 

[eth-dog]

Might want to lower the amount of players on the daily lists even if it makes it go a bit longer. It's a lot to process whilst trying to bid appropriate amounts.

Fair call. 25 per list and the last one as 45 possibly. I just don't want people to lose interest too quickly, we saw that last time

I'd have liked to defend by (unofficial and self proclaimed) title, but looks like I've missed the boat.

Hope it runs till then end of the game this time

Those matches were the real flaw of the game (no offense Jade), so it should be alright. And the judges will be the contestants plus me, sorry mate

 

[monty1104]

Fair call. 25 per list and the last one as 45 possibly. I just don't want people to lose interest too quickly, we saw that last time


Those matches were the real flaw of the game (no offense Jade), so it should be alright. And the judges will be the contestants plus me, sorry mate

Boo

See this is what happens now I have a real job. I miss fun stuff.

 

[Drummer_19]

A mix of 2013 output, prospects of 2014 and a balanced list.

Right, so just for example I wanted to pay a bunch for someone like O'meara based on the jump I think he'll make in year 2 that would be fine and would be taken into account rather than just thinking purely on his 2013 season? Or is just picking a team off what they did in 2013 and not taking futures into account with judging.

 

[eth-dog]

Right, so just for example I wanted to pay a bunch for someone like O'meara based on the jump I think he'll make in year 2 that would be fine and would be taken into account rather than just thinking purely on his 2013 season? Or is just picking a team off what they did in 2013 and not taking futures into account with judging.

Option a, both would come into play.

 

[eth-dog]

What do people think about having a list today? If 5 of the contestants like this by midday I'll put the list up, if not I'll start tomorrow.

 

[GUMBLETRON]

Fair call. 25 per list and the last one as 45 possibly. I just don't want people to lose interest too quickly, we saw that last time

Why not trim it to just filling out a best 22/22+3 then? Would almost halve the number of required picks. I also imagine trying to compare a list of 25 and a list of 40 wouldn't be easy.