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January 11, 2011
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
In restless dreams I walked alone ...
posted by rcade at 04:37 PM on January 11, 2011
Hamilton Tiger-Cats choose Ivor Wynne
posted by tommybiden at 04:57 PM on January 11, 2011
Brady Hoke named Michigan football coach
posted by tommybiden at 05:43 PM on January 11, 2011
Bucks vs. Hawks postponed due to inclement weather. They probably would have played it in under the same conditions in Milwaukee... or China.
posted by tron7 at 09:46 PM on January 11, 2011
*cricket*
The Twenty20 internationals are on tonight.
posted by owlhouse at 12:15 AM on January 12, 2011
*cricket*
The IPL had their player auction last week, each team has a $9m cap and the price they "pay" in the auction for a player is converted exactly into the wage of the player.
Gautam Gambhir was the first player up for auction off an opening price of $200,000...
11:08 : Pune bids 210 for Gambhir. Mumbai bid 230,000. Pune raise to 240,000. Munbai raise further to 250,000. Pune go up to 260,000. Mumbai 270,000. Pune go up to 280 and Mumbai raise to 290,000. Mumbai raise Pune's bid of 300 by saying 325.
11:09 : Pune sprials Gambhir's bid to 400, Mumbai say 425 and Pune go up to 450,000.
11:10 : Mumbai say 475, Pune bid 500. Mumbai rise to 550, Pune goes up to 600,000 and Mumbai rise to 650,00. Pune bid 700. Mumbai go up to 750,000. Pune bid $800,000 for Gambhir. Delhi has not bid at all.
Kochi enters the bidding again at 850,000.
11:11 : Gautam Gambhir gets a $900,000 bid from Bangalore. A new bidder enters.
Kochi raises to 950 and Bangalore hit the $ 1 million mark for Gambhir.
11:12 : $1.1 ...1.2 million ... Kochi and Bangalore are bidding ...it's at 1.6 million now for Gambhir. Kochi have raised to 1.7 million for Gambhir. Bangalore bid 1.8 million for Gambhir. Kochi go up to 1.9 million for Gambhir.
11:13 : Kolkata enter the bidding at 2 million dollars. 2.1 million from Kochi. Kolkata have bid 2.2 million. Kochi raise the bidding to 2.3 million for Gambhir.
11:14 : Kolkata raise it to 2.4 million for Gambhir ...it's sprillaing out of control! Gambhir sold to Kolkata to $2.4 million dollars. A massive first sale at the auction!
I know it's purely a pipe dream, but I would love to see the NFL come back from a possible summer lockout with this kind of auction. I can't imagine the damage Daniel Snyder could do as he signs Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 08:35 AM on January 12, 2011
How many players on the squad, MrB, and they go $2.4M for one? Gautam Gambhir, is he cricket's version of Gretzky, Ted Williams and Bronko Nagurski rolled up in one?
posted by billsaysthis at 11:45 AM on January 12, 2011
Squads can have up to 30 players, although a number of them will be on about $20,000 a year.
Kolkata ended up spending $8.7m of their $9m cap, $4.5m of which went on two players : Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan who can bowl a bit to go with his batting, while Gambhir is a pure batsman.
The IPL plays a version of cricket called "T20" which is drastically different to the long "Test" form of the sport. In T20 each team bowls 20 overs, (ignoring illegal deliveries an over contains six deliveries, so each team has roughly 120 "pitches" to score as many runs as possible), and aggressive batting is valued.
With this in mind, Pathan's average "Strike Rate" in T20 is 163 - he'd score 163 runs from 100 deliveries faced, while Gambhir's Strike Rate is 124.
Indian players also tend to be over-valued because they bring in large amounts of interest and presumed ticket sales and merchandising revenue.
After signing those two, Kolkata paid $1.1m for South Africa's Jacques Kallis and then snapped up a gaggle of players for about $500,000.
One of my favourite parts about the auction is that the players set their own reserves and if bidding doesn't reach the amount the player thinks they're worth, then they go unsold.
As a result, best bowler of the recent Ashes, England's James Anderson set his own value at $400,000 and then went unsold.
I'd love to see what T.O. would set his own value at in an NFL auction.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 04:51 PM on January 12, 2011
Are those two players so good (and valuable from a marketing perspective) to be worth half the team's cap? Even the Heat got three superstars for their dosh. I suppose if your best batsmen can consume more of those 120 pitches you don't need as much depth there.
I read a NY Times article this morning which covered the auction. It explained that some of the non-Indian players were less valuable to teams because they may miss a chunk of the season due to national team commitments; cricket doesn't have the same international clearance calendar as soccer.
posted by billsaysthis at 11:58 AM on January 13, 2011
although a number of them will be on about $20,000 a year
With 'year' defined as the six weeks that the IPL runs for in April/May. Not a bad payday.
posted by owlhouse at 09:14 PM on January 13, 2011
*cricket*