Sheep Draft V - Main Thread

Discussion in 'The Beautiful Game' started by lanman, Feb 18, 2014.

  1. lanman

    lanman BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 30, 2002
    Stage 2 Picks

    babaorum - Josef Bican
    Baggio in Turin - No Pick
    benni... - Diego Maradona
    Bestie - Romario
    El Mata - Ronaldo
    La-Maquina - Silvio Piola
    nicephoras - Alfredo Di Stefano
    Sammer's Hammer - Eusebio
    Stud83 - Paolo Maldini
    thebigman - Ronaldo
    Twenty26Six - Nilton Santos
    Vasu - Lothar Matthaus

    Stage 2 Blocks

    babaorum - Ferenc Puskas
    Baggio in Turin - No Block
    benni... - Paolo Maldini
    Bestie - Ronaldo
    Breitner'sWig - Paolo Maldini
    cr7torossi - Ferenc Puskas
    El Mata - Lothar Matthaus
    Excape Goat - Eusebio
    frasermc - Frank Rijkaard
    Karloski - Frank Rijkaard
    La-Maquina - Gabriel Batistuta
    Lucas Gomes - Diego Maradona
    Michaelf7777777 - Lothar Matthaus
    nicephoras - Eusebio
    PDG1978 - Alfredo Di Stefano
    Peru FC - Eusebio
    Polemarch - Ferenc Puskas
    Sammer's Hammer - Alfredo Di Stefano
    soccernutter - Ferenc Puskas
    Stud83 - Diego Maradona
    thebigman - Thierry Henry
    Twenty26Six - Silvio Marzolini
    Vasu - Obdulio Varela
     
  2. lanman

    lanman BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 30, 2002
    Stage 3 Picks

    Baggio in Turin - Roberto Ayala
    benni... - Alfredo Di Stefano
    El Mata - Thierry Henry
    nicephoras - Eusebio
    Sammer's Hammer - Ronaldo
    Stud83 - Duncan Edwards
    thebigman - Roberto Ayala
    Vasu - Obdulio Varela

    Stage 3 Blocks

    babaorum - Gordon Banks
    Baggio in Turin - Lothar Matthaus
    benni... - Ferenc Puskas
    Bestie - No Block
    Breitner'sWig - Paul Breitner
    cr7torossi - Eusebio
    El Mata - Diego Maradona
    Excape Goat - Diego Maradona
    frasermc - Diego Maradona
    Karloski - Cristiano Ronaldo
    La-Maquina - Eusebio
    Lucas Gomes - Alfredo Di Stefano
    Michaelf7777777 - Obdulio Varela
    nicephoras - Paolo Maldini
    PDG1978 - Ferenc Puskas
    Peru FC - Lothar Matthaus
    Polemarch - No Block
    Sammer's Hammer - Diego Maradona
    soccernutter - Diego Maradona
    Stud83 - Eusebio
    thebigman - No Block
    Twenty26Six - Diego Maradona
    Vasu - Ferenc Puskas
     
  3. Lucas...

    Lucas... Member+

    Dec 18, 2012
    Sorry, benni.
     
  4. Vasu

    Vasu Member

    Feb 25, 2009
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    I expected the stage 3 blocks to be much like that, full of the superstar names in the attacking positions. Not that Varela isn't a superstar, but I genuinely expected it to go through. Oh well.
     
  5. Karloski

    Karloski Member+

    Oct 26, 2006
    England
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Yep, michael took a chance and it paid off. Nice block.
     
  6. El Mata

    El Mata Member

    Nov 27, 2013
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Great. I have no sheeps left
     
  7. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Babaorum, who did you think was going after a keeper?
     
  8. babaorum

    babaorum Member+

    Aug 20, 2005
    Marseille
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Nicephoras. His GK was a sheep so I thought he would go for either Banks or Jennings to replace him. But he went for Eusebio instead.
     
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  9. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Then, I nominated a blocked player. My nominations were:

    1) Ruud Gullit
    2) Socrates
    3) Dennis Bergkamp
     
  10. Twenty26Six

    Twenty26Six Feeling Sheepish...

    Jan 2, 2004
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Crazy third round. Going to three rounds was the smartest move ever, lanman. The 5 round finale was too easy if you played it correctly.
     
  11. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid

    Only one person attended to draft Maradona in this round. There were many Maradona blocks.
     
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  12. PDG1978

    PDG1978 Member+

    Mar 8, 2009
    Club:
    Nottingham Forest FC
    I realised actually that instead of blocking Maradona and picking Wilkes, if I'd done the opposite, I would have drafted Maradona on pick 1. Surprising. Although I did block him on that pick just in case others were saving their Maradona blocks or leaving it to others - I thought there was a slight chance someone else might sneak him though. Kasparov or some great Chess player would maybe have picked Maradona and blocked Laudrup then followed up with blocks on Piola and Ronaldo or something like that :laugh:.

    Nicephoras did try Di Stefano on pick 2 but someone else had the block covered so mine was 'wasted' in theory. Or maybe not even Kasparov could work the picks out as it's impossible! Like I say, I was just generally playing safe and blocking off the major players, like soccernutter did and between us we'd have nearly stopped attempts on them - others did block them off completely I think. It would have been harsh to aim to stop certain drafters in their tracks, but blocking Laudrup, Piola and Ronaldo or something like that would have been perfect tactically in my position I suppose, if those were the calls I made (I might have guessed La Maquina was after an Italian but which one on which pick would be a tricky call!).

    Anyway, I like my team and wanted Wilkes (tried him in round 1 but Vasu blocked me). But if I'd got Maradona I'd have had to have a think about my setup with him and Cruyff together! Probably first choice would have been to stick Rocheteau up front with Kempes and have Cruyff and Maradona coming from behind them in a 4-2-2-2; Johan and Diego with the task of playing in unison/combining with each other, or at least separately carving up the opposing defences for the forwards. With both happy to play alongside each other and in form like this it could have been brilliant:



    Or it could have been a disaster, when they run into each other and start arguing:ROFLMAO:
     
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  13. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    I actually thought of drafting Maradona too. I do not know if he could play on the left behind Cubillas. I did not know what to do with Dirceu or Julinho. As I mentioned before, Pele never won a draft before. And I do not know if Maradona ever wins one before. Rivelino at least played on the left false wing position before.

    And I did not take the blocking seriously. I blocked C.Ronaldo on my 1st attempt because he was going to be my second pick. I intended to draft Gento for my third attempt if C.Ronaldo failed. After I took Rivelino, I started to think about the great players.
     
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  14. frasermc

    frasermc Take your flunky and dangle

    Celtic
    Scotland
    Jul 28, 2006
    Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
    Club:
    Celtic FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Scotland
    I'll have my tactics and formation write-up posted on the relevant thread at some point tomorrow.
     
  15. babaorum

    babaorum Member+

    Aug 20, 2005
    Marseille
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    I'll post my tactics and formation saturday or sunday. I'll be too busy to do it before.
     
  16. babaorum

    babaorum Member+

    Aug 20, 2005
    Marseille
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Ernst Needham -one of my picks- is probably somewhat unknown to many so here is how writer Alfred Gibson described him in 1906:

    "There is one thing which has made Earnest Needham stand out of the common run of halves; he is neither a constructive nor a destructive half-back alone; he is both at once. One moment you will see him falling back to the defence of his own goal, or checking the speedy rush of his wing; the next, he is up with his forwards, feeding them to a nicety, and always making the best of every opening. Where he gets his pace from is a mystery. He never seems to be racing, yet he must be moving at racing pace; he never seems to be exhausted, yet in a big game he is practically doing three men's work."

    "This is one of the secrets of his greatness for very seldom when he has the ball is he deprived of it, whilst the accuracy of his wing passes, and the telling force of his punches straight across the field to an unprotected wing, spell danger to any kind of defence."

    [​IMG]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_Needham_(ca._1901).jpg
     
  17. babaorum

    babaorum Member+

    Aug 20, 2005
    Marseille
    Nat'l Team:
    France
  18. babaorum

    babaorum Member+

    Aug 20, 2005
    Marseille
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    @comme

    I have to say that your 100 greatest X players of all time lists were quite helpful to find these two particular players.
     
  19. cr7torossi

    cr7torossi Member+

    May 10, 2007
  20. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    I would like to join, but I will be traveling.


    In fact, I probably will delay the judging part of this draft. I will be back on April 26th. I will see if I can do it with my smart phone.
     
  21. PDG1978

    PDG1978 Member+

    Mar 8, 2009
    Club:
    Nottingham Forest FC
    @frasermc - don't worry about that line! My first attempt also had two lines I thought I'd deleted around Cafu! The website has changed a bit and it took me several efforts to produce my line-up (I got the hang of it but preferred to write my backup formations directly on Big Soccer). It seems we now click on the line option then click where it starts and finishes for each player. I can understand your formation anyway, no problem.
     
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  22. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    My first thought was it was the estimated flight path of flight MAL 370.
     
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  23. frasermc

    frasermc Take your flunky and dangle

    Celtic
    Scotland
    Jul 28, 2006
    Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
    Club:
    Celtic FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Scotland
    Close. But it's actually a month by month graph of Tottenham's attempted Champions League placing for next season.
     
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  24. lanman

    lanman BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 30, 2002
    That's six tactics in - can I get a commitment from the rest as to when they will have their's up. I don't want to set an unrealistic deadline, but I don't want this to drag on.
     
  25. Karloski

    Karloski Member+

    Oct 26, 2006
    England
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Honestly, I've got a busy weekend....so not until after Easter weekend (Tuesday onwards). I think I've got a real shot at 1st this year...so don't want to rush it.
     

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