Next Draft - Ideas and Discussions

[Physiocrat]

id only ban messi....fenomeno is post peak and cristiano is okay to be in.

Depends if we go birthday post 1973 or form post 2000.

What do you think about the country restrictions?

 

[Šjor Bepo]

Depends if we go birthday post 1973 or form post 2000.

What do you think about the country restrictions?

im fine with everything

 

[Physiocrat]

im fine with everything

Two countries or one country restriction?

 

[Šjor Bepo]

Two countries or one country restriction?

either a free draft or the hardest possible so that would be 1

 

[Gio]

How about No Pace's draft idea? His cut off his 1995. So let's say typically players reach their prime by the age of 27 so that would mean putting a birthdate of on or after 1968, or we just go with form of the player post 1995. I prefer the birth route as we don't get the annoyance of some people treating players on their reputation pre-95 for their post 95 form.

@NoPace How does that sound?

Totally agree with this.

It can get a bit loose if you end up having to rate players whose peak spanned the late 90s and early 00s. Might be easier just having a date of birth cut-off alone (eg 1 Jan 1970 on)

 

[Physiocrat]

Totally agree with this.

It can get a bit loose if you end up having to rate players whose peak spanned the late 90s and early 00s. Might be easier just having a date of birth cut-off alone (eg 1 Jan 1970 on)

How about this -

Any player born on or after 1973. Career peak.

One player per country in the starting XI.

Messi, R9 (as it would be peak R9) and CR7 banned.

@NoPace @Šjor Bepo

 

[NoPace]

How about this -

Any player born on or after 1973. Career peak.

One player per country in the starting XI.

Messi, R9 (as it would be peak R9) and CR7 banned.

@NoPace @Šjor Bepo

I think we could get pretty wild with restrictions if anyone has a creative idea because depth should be really strong with everyone knowing lots of modern players.

 

[Physiocrat]

I think we could get pretty wild with restrictions if anyone has a creative idea because depth should be really strong with everyone knowing lots of modern players.

Do you not think one player per country would mix it up enough?

 

[NoPace]

Do you not think one player per country would mix it up enough?

I'll defer to more experienced draftees like yourself, just think we can get crazy with restrictions if we want, though a 21st century canon (minus Messi) makes sense to do too.

But in general, I'm a bit exhausted with say Modric vs Iniesta debates and prefer to argue about things like Khedira vs Carrick or whatever.

 

[Physiocrat]

Anyone any ideas for additional restrictions? One that could work is one player per club. So Scholes would use just Utd but CR7 (if not blocked entirely) would use up Sporting, Utd, Real, Juve and that Saudi side. This could get rather tough given how often players have played for multiple big clubs these days.

 

[Šjor Bepo]

Anyone any ideas for additional restrictions? One that could work is one player per club. So Scholes would use just Utd but CR7 (if not blocked entirely) would use up Sporting, Utd, Real, Juve and that Saudi side. This could get rather tough given how often players have played for multiple big clubs these days.

we can pick club version of someone....so you pick Inter Ronaldo and he blocks just Brazil and Inter not all the clubs he played in.

 

[Physiocrat]

we can pick club version of someone....so you pick Inter Ronaldo and he blocks just Brazil and Inter not all the clubs he played in.

That would be much less crazy. That said, how good are voters at distinguishing versions of players at different clubs? For instance, I would be surprised if the Spurs Modric was rated much lower than the Real Modric.

R9 is an easy one to deal with as the versions of him are quite distinct which isn't true with that many other players.

 

[Himannv]

Also ban all current players. Have seen enough of them recently.

 

[Physiocrat]

Any other thoughts on the millennium draft? @NoPace What do you think about banning current players? If we like that idea, the easiest thing to do is to ban players born after certain date.

I like the idea that each player blocks one club and one country. It makes it hard but not crazy. Then we have the quota of one club and one country in the starting XI.

 

[Šjor Bepo]

Any other thoughts on the millennium draft? @NoPace What do you think about banning current players? If we like that idea, the easiest thing to do is to ban players born after certain date.

I like the idea that each player blocks one club and one country. It makes it hard but not crazy. Then we have the quota of one club and one country in the starting XI.

let your balls drop, decide and fire up the thread

 

[2mufc0]

How about a Euros draft? Hasn't been done in a long time and it's the right moment.

 

[Gio]

How about a Euros draft? Hasn't been done in a long time and it's the right moment.

Shout

 

[Šjor Bepo]

How about a Euros draft? Hasn't been done in a long time and it's the right moment.

id be down but we should really play nopace draft first, poor guy trying for years to play a "modern" draft and we always choose something else

 

[2mufc0]

Is there much interest in modern drafts? Plenty of modern players would be available for a Euros draft too.

 

[Physiocrat]

let your balls drop, decide and fire up the thread

Problem is, I can't run it for a couple of weeks as I am away. I just wanted to help nail down a concept for NoPace's draft.

 

[Himannv]

Fire up the Euros Draft while we wait for the Physio ball drop.

 

[2mufc0]

Will post it shortly.

 

[Edgar Allan Pillow]

@Enigma_87 is the new @Gio with 4 wins in past 8 drafts including back to back in past 2!