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These games have been successful in the past - I am capping the entrants at 14 so get in quick.
If you have been sitting on the sidelines watching these Wrighty games in the past and thinking I will enter next year then let this be your year.
Each year we have a hoot playing these games. The game thread will be very active. It will give us something to do while we wait for next pre-season to roll around.
This is likely to run over the Christmas Holidays so please enter if you will be either in town or have access to your phone on the holiday.
2024 Sheep Forum Game Summary RULES – by Wrighty
We have 11 contestants. There will be 22 rounds. Each contestant will take a turn as round master for two rounds when it is you turn.
Each contestant gets a bidding war chest. Once you spend it - it is gone. No Loans. No Do overs. Spend Wisely. No trading or selling players to earn back dollars.
Qualifying players are League Players who have played at least one test match since 1980 for England, NZ, or Australia. Tonga, Samoa.
Round master asks a qualifying question and there is one round of silent auction and one round of open auction.
There will be a sheep aspect in that if you bid on someone no one else does not only will you get that player for free but also you will get a $400K refund and bonus. It is called a sheep pick or more accurately a black sheep pick. If the question the round master poses is pick a Canberra Raiders player who also plays tests (and in all questions they must have played tests) then most contestants will be “like sheep” and bid on Meninga if you bid on some lesser player who no one else does or a good player who no one else thinks of it is called picking a black sheep and as mentioned you will get a payout of $400K.
There will be 22 rounds you need to bid in every round or you will be infracted. You can stop bidding in the final few rounds if you have a full squad and are happy with it.
The objective of the game is to pick the best well balanced league team you can ideally with each player in their natural position. We will then having a voting thread at the end to determine the winner. You can’t vote for your own team in the voting thread.
In some drafts we have picked a best 13 in some a best 17. In this case we have 22 rounds. In some cases you might not manage to get any players in a particular round so you might be challenged to put together a 17 in their ideal positions within 22 rounds. For now I am going to propose you will be judged on your starting 13 and a bench of two people rather than a bench of four people. I am happy to get and would welcome input on this issue of how big the teams should be 13? 15? or 17? For now lets go with 15 If the game finishes and you have less than 15 Wrighty will personally assign you some nuffy filler players to round out your squad. Don’t let that happen to you as I won’t give you anyone good (or that terrible) It will be a bland player like Phoenix Crossland for example and yes he is eligible now he has played a test.
How big to make the salary cap or war chest. Let’s go with $12 Million which Is close to the real life NRL salary cap for 2025. That will make money tight in this game and incent people to try for black sheep picks.
The drafting order will be randomised and in reverse snake. If you don’t know what reverse snake is ask and one of the experienced players should be able to help.
I will publish the drafting order for the 22 rounds about two weeks before the game starts so you can start strategizing in earnest.
Oh and an extra nugget the round master for each round gets a bonus $400K that they have to spend or forfeit in that round and is only available to them in that round.
We need a sister thread for everybody to track their picks and keep a running tally of their remaining budget to be updated after each round or you will be infracted. That way I as moderator and all your competitors can see how much money you have left which is valuable intelligence for everyone.
The Auctions – each round master must host both a silent auction round and an open auction draft.
The Silent Auction will run for 12 hours and you will use an invisible tag that Tajhay will teach everyone how to use so that only myself and tajhay can see your bid. I will announce the winners of the silent draft after the 12 hours are up. You are allowed to bid on up to three different players. Minimum bid is 100K and bids must go up in multiples of 10K after that. When you bid on two or three different players you must list them in order of preference. You will only be awarded one player per round and if you win two or more you get your highest ranked preference. If you are the round master and you have the bonus $400K you must bid $400K at least on each and every player you bid on rather than totalling your bids to $400K of this makes sense.
Both the silent and open auction will run from between 8am – 10am each morning – whenever the round master makes their post with the question. Please do this by 10am at latest when it is your turn. The silent auction will close 12 hours later as mentioned. There is no advantage for being first to bid.
The open auction will close approximately 12 hours later. However I am going to program the thread with tajhay’s help to randomly lock at a secret time known only to me during the final hour. This is to stop people from waiting to the last second to gesumpt somebody. Again minimum bid $100K bid in increments of $10K in the open auction you can compete on up to three players and if you win more than one you only get the one you bid the most for. As you will only get one. Open to input on this.
When you are round master decide what your question is and whether you will initially run your silent auction or your open auction. The next time you are round master you will run the other version of whatever you didn’t do the first time.
When you are choosing a question there must be at least 25 players who meet this criteria or you will be infracted. Be careful on this as the other contestants are knowledgeable and will know and will protest. Do your homework when picking a question. The questions can not be negative or have exceptions in anyway…e.g can not have this question…pick any Canberra Raider except Mal.
Once a player is obtained by a contestant they can not be picked by anyone else. That player can not be given away, traded away, or sold.
Final few rules:
These games have been successful in the past - I am capping the entrants at 14 so get in quick.
If you have been sitting on the sidelines watching these Wrighty games in the past and thinking I will enter next year then let this be your year.
Each year we have a hoot playing these games. The game thread will be very active. It will give us something to do while we wait for next pre-season to roll around.
This is likely to run over the Christmas Holidays so please enter if you will be either in town or have access to your phone on the holiday.
2024 Sheep Forum Game Summary RULES – by Wrighty
We have 11 contestants. There will be 22 rounds. Each contestant will take a turn as round master for two rounds when it is you turn.
Each contestant gets a bidding war chest. Once you spend it - it is gone. No Loans. No Do overs. Spend Wisely. No trading or selling players to earn back dollars.
Qualifying players are League Players who have played at least one test match since 1980 for England, NZ, or Australia. Tonga, Samoa.
Round master asks a qualifying question and there is one round of silent auction and one round of open auction.
There will be a sheep aspect in that if you bid on someone no one else does not only will you get that player for free but also you will get a $400K refund and bonus. It is called a sheep pick or more accurately a black sheep pick. If the question the round master poses is pick a Canberra Raiders player who also plays tests (and in all questions they must have played tests) then most contestants will be “like sheep” and bid on Meninga if you bid on some lesser player who no one else does or a good player who no one else thinks of it is called picking a black sheep and as mentioned you will get a payout of $400K.
There will be 22 rounds you need to bid in every round or you will be infracted. You can stop bidding in the final few rounds if you have a full squad and are happy with it.
The objective of the game is to pick the best well balanced league team you can ideally with each player in their natural position. We will then having a voting thread at the end to determine the winner. You can’t vote for your own team in the voting thread.
In some drafts we have picked a best 13 in some a best 17. In this case we have 22 rounds. In some cases you might not manage to get any players in a particular round so you might be challenged to put together a 17 in their ideal positions within 22 rounds. For now I am going to propose you will be judged on your starting 13 and a bench of two people rather than a bench of four people. I am happy to get and would welcome input on this issue of how big the teams should be 13? 15? or 17? For now lets go with 15 If the game finishes and you have less than 15 Wrighty will personally assign you some nuffy filler players to round out your squad. Don’t let that happen to you as I won’t give you anyone good (or that terrible) It will be a bland player like Phoenix Crossland for example and yes he is eligible now he has played a test.
How big to make the salary cap or war chest. Let’s go with $12 Million which Is close to the real life NRL salary cap for 2025. That will make money tight in this game and incent people to try for black sheep picks.
The drafting order will be randomised and in reverse snake. If you don’t know what reverse snake is ask and one of the experienced players should be able to help.
I will publish the drafting order for the 22 rounds about two weeks before the game starts so you can start strategizing in earnest.
Oh and an extra nugget the round master for each round gets a bonus $400K that they have to spend or forfeit in that round and is only available to them in that round.
We need a sister thread for everybody to track their picks and keep a running tally of their remaining budget to be updated after each round or you will be infracted. That way I as moderator and all your competitors can see how much money you have left which is valuable intelligence for everyone.
The Auctions – each round master must host both a silent auction round and an open auction draft.
The Silent Auction will run for 12 hours and you will use an invisible tag that Tajhay will teach everyone how to use so that only myself and tajhay can see your bid. I will announce the winners of the silent draft after the 12 hours are up. You are allowed to bid on up to three different players. Minimum bid is 100K and bids must go up in multiples of 10K after that. When you bid on two or three different players you must list them in order of preference. You will only be awarded one player per round and if you win two or more you get your highest ranked preference. If you are the round master and you have the bonus $400K you must bid $400K at least on each and every player you bid on rather than totalling your bids to $400K of this makes sense.
Both the silent and open auction will run from between 8am – 10am each morning – whenever the round master makes their post with the question. Please do this by 10am at latest when it is your turn. The silent auction will close 12 hours later as mentioned. There is no advantage for being first to bid.
The open auction will close approximately 12 hours later. However I am going to program the thread with tajhay’s help to randomly lock at a secret time known only to me during the final hour. This is to stop people from waiting to the last second to gesumpt somebody. Again minimum bid $100K bid in increments of $10K in the open auction you can compete on up to three players and if you win more than one you only get the one you bid the most for. As you will only get one. Open to input on this.
When you are round master decide what your question is and whether you will initially run your silent auction or your open auction. The next time you are round master you will run the other version of whatever you didn’t do the first time.
When you are choosing a question there must be at least 25 players who meet this criteria or you will be infracted. Be careful on this as the other contestants are knowledgeable and will know and will protest. Do your homework when picking a question. The questions can not be negative or have exceptions in anyway…e.g can not have this question…pick any Canberra Raider except Mal.
Once a player is obtained by a contestant they can not be picked by anyone else. That player can not be given away, traded away, or sold.
Final few rules:
- If you get infracted three times you get eliminated.
- No Collusion with other players. If I detect team work going on I will mod kill both of you. This game must be every man or lady for themselves.
- No chat outside the thread. No PMs. This is critical. If someone approaches you in a chat message YOU MUST TELL ME and I will infract them. If you don’t tell me and I learn of it or suspect I will go straight to three infractions and mod kill both of you.
- I would prefer questions and protests to the moderator are also in the thread. If it is embarrassing for some strange reason then in rare cases you may PM me but again only me and no one else.
- Wrighty’s decisions are final and I reserve the right to change the rules as suited.
- You are all New Zealanders so be easy and good natured during this game even you get stung. And what I mean by this is that this could get very strategic and you could get played by someone. If that happens wear it on the chin and play on and take it in good humour.
- This game will be easier for those who have played before. But think it through and try to have a strategy. Have your wits about you. And Good Luck.
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