Players who we may lose to the hundred

[IlfordEagle]

whoever is the Lord's coach (and the CEO's of each county) would know that: that Lawrence's salary price was £60,000 to play in the event, they would also know the prices of their other locals.  For the sake of argument say Malan and Bopara wanted £75k, Delport and Harmer wanted £100k and Vasconceles only £50k. They would have considered their options and decided to choose Lawrence and forsake an 8th round pick, rather than choose any of their other options to employ an alternative local 'icon' player, and miss out on another round later this month.

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Pardon??

[Andy]

Clever people, those Japanese.

[mawallace]

Okay I'll try to explain it. Later this month there is going to be a players draft.

Every player has named his price

When picking a player the team has to miss out on a round of the draft. The idea is that the better players will be picked up in the earlier rounds of the draft and you are left with the less good players at the latest stage.

Dan's price is one of the lower bands and therefore  they have foregone one of the later rounds of picking a player.

If Ravi had put himself into a higher bracket then the team would have lost out on the opportunity to pick a player in one of the earlier rounds of the draft.

So by picking Dan they have picked a reasonable player and left their options open as to picking good players in the draft from the pool across the country. 

[Slogger]

Okay I'll try to explain it. Later this month there is going to be a players draft.

Every player has named his price

When picking a player the team has to miss out on a round of the draft. The idea is that the better players will be picked up in the earlier rounds of the draft and you are left with the less good players at the latest stage.

Dan's price is one of the lower bands and therefore  they have foregone one of the later rounds of picking a player.

If Ravi had put himself into a higher bracket then the team would have lost out on the opportunity to pick a player in one of the earlier rounds of the draft.

So by picking Dan they have picked a reasonable player and left their options open as to picking good players in the draft from the pool across the country.

Thanks for the explanation
Sounds like utter twaddle to me.

[squarelegumpire]

Okay I'll try to explain it. Later this month there is going to be a players draft.

Every player has named his price

When picking a player the team has to miss out on a round of the draft. The idea is that the better players will be picked up in the earlier rounds of the draft and you are left with the less good players at the latest stage.

Dan's price is one of the lower bands and therefore  they have foregone one of the later rounds of picking a player.

If Ravi had put himself into a higher bracket then the team would have lost out on the opportunity to pick a player in one of the earlier rounds of the draft.

So by picking Dan they have picked a reasonable player and left their options open as to picking good players in the draft from the pool across the country.

Thanks for the explanation
Sounds like utter twaddle to me.

Hmmm. Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad!

[smandlej]

I keep reading this in a vain attempt to understand it.  However, I can't quite grasp the example of Ravi.  I do understand the theory of selecting players by price, as it were, but surely it wouldn't matter if you had picked Ravi at, say, £85,000 if he was actually the player that you wanted to spend £85,000 on and therefore didn't mind missing out on that round of the draft because you didn't want any of the other players at that price?

After all, surely the teams will want to get a number of the players from their constituent counties to have any chance of attracting existing supporters to the matches?

Although I suppose it would matter if you had your sights set on all-rounder Fred Bloggs at £100,000 because you would prefer him to Ravi, leaving Ravi as a fall-back if you were unsuccessful with Bloggs.  But then you might be unsuccessful with Ravi and end up with an inferior all-rounder at a lower price.

I think I need to lay down in a darkened room.

Lynda

[squarelegumpire]

I keep reading this in a vain attempt to understand it.  However, I can't quite grasp the example of Ravi.  I do understand the theory of selecting players by price, as it were, but surely it wouldn't matter if you had picked Ravi at, say, £85,000 if he was actually the player that you wanted to spend £85,000 on and therefore didn't mind missing out on that round of the draft because you didn't want any of the other players at that price?

After all, surely the teams will want to get a number of the players from their constituent counties to have any chance of attracting existing supporters to the matches?

Although I suppose it would matter if you had your sights set on all-rounder Fred Bloggs at £100,000 because you would prefer him to Ravi, leaving Ravi as a fall-back if you were unsuccessful with Bloggs.  But then you might be unsuccessful with Ravi and end up with an inferior all-rounder at a lower price.

I think I need to lay down in a darkened room.

Lynda

No, Lynda, you need to forget about it, and and apply to something which is more useful and makes more sense. Such as Latin irregular verbs.

[bwildered]

Can Fred Bloggs revalue himself after finding the eight franchise unwilling to pay his over inflated demand , which would leave him left on the shelf and the trudge of county cricket ?

[bobw]

Who cares about any of this anyway?

[Andy]

Can Fred Bloggs revalue himself after finding the eight franchise unwilling to pay his over inflated demand , which would leave him left on the shelf and the trudge of county cricket ?

Could this Bloggs open the batting for us?

[nat]

Who cares abount any of this anyway?

Not me.

[essexfan548]

I don't care about the 100 either -

However, I do care if it affects Essex's results [e.g. someone gets injured] and if the team spirit is damaged.

[neil]

Don Topley cares

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/don-topley-why-we-must-support-the-hundred-1-6306560

I don't care to the extent that there is no team in there I'd support. As a, sadly, mainly cricket watcher on TV these days, I am interested in it and will watch it.

I think this is rather a generational thing. Younger cricket fans I know are much more up for it than me and my fellow veterans.

[LeedsExile]

If Don Topley is in favour that is another reason to despise the thing.

[nat]

If Don Topley is in favour that is another reason to despise the thing.

Agreed.