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MPL 2019 Player’s Draft

 

• 1.0: New players joining the MPL in 2019, will be part of the MPL 2019 Draft.
• 1.1: The team that finished sixth in MPL X (2018 season), at the end of the round-robin format will have the first pick in the MPL 2019 Draft.
• 1.2: The team that finished fifth in MPL X, at the end of the round-robin format will have the second pick in the MPL 2019 Draft.
• 1.3: The team that lost the Eliminator in MPL X, will have the third pick in the MPL 2019 Draft.
• 1.4: The team that lost Qualifier-2 in MPL X, will have the fourth pick in the MPL 2019 Draft.
• 1.5: The team that lost MPL X Final, will have the fifth pick in the MPL 2019 Draft.
• 1.6: The team won the MPL X Final, will have the sixth pick in the MPL 2019 Draft.
• 1.7: All other new players in MPL 2019 will be part of the Player’s Auction.
• 1.8: New player’s selected one through three in the draft will cost their team $10.
• 1.8: New player’s selected four through six in the draft will cost their team $8.
• 1.9: A team may choose to forgo their draft pick – not pick a player in the draft.

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The 2018 season of the MathWorks Premier League (MPL), will be it’s 10th edition. We also have a ‘special announcement’ this season. Hence the 2018 season of the MPL will be referred to as ‘MPL X’.

Player’s Auction

• 1.0: Each of the six teams in MPL X will get a purse of $101 to start with.
• 1.1: The ‘Average Stock Price’ (from MPL 2017) of the captain of each of the six teams, and the player retained by the captains of the six teams is deducted from the purse of each team.
• 1.2: With current enrollments at 81 players, three of the six teams will be able to form a squad of 14 players, while the other three teams will form a squad of 13 players.
• 1.3: At the start of the Player’s Auction, the team to nominate the first player will be chosen randomly.
• 1.4: The player nominated will be auctioned off via open-bidding.
  • 1.4.1: Each of the six teams will bid and counter-bid each other, until one team emerges with a bid than no other team raises.
  • 1.4.2: Thus, the team that bids the highest will receive the services of the player who was auctioned.
• 1.5: The team to the immediate left of the team that nominated the first player, will then nominate a player for open-bidding.
  • 1.5.1: 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 will then apply.
• 1.6: Do note, that the next player nominated for open-bidding is by the team to the immediate left of the team that nominated the previous player, and not by the team that the player joined.
• 1.7: The pattern of the team to the left nominating a player for open-bidding will continue until each team has had a chance to nominate a player on three different occasions.
  • 1.7.1: Thus 18 player’s will be part of the open-bidding process.
• 1.8: After the open-bidding auction format for the first 18 players, we will move to a silent bidding format for the remaining players in the general auction.
• 1.9: Starting with the 19th player in the general auction, through to the end of the auction, a player will be nominated randomly by the Auctioneer.
  • 1.9.1: Silent bidding will ensue.
  • 1.9.1: Once all the six bids are in, the Auctioneer will reveal the individual bids.
  • 1.9.3: If multiple teams submit the same bid for a player, these teams alone will enter an open-bidding auction for the services of the nominated player.
    • 1.9.3.1: The team to submit their bid first, gets the opening bid at that price, while the other team(s) will be required to raise their bid to stay in the auction for the player.
• 1.10: If all teams pass on a player – by bidding $0 for the player – the player will move to the end of the auction. This player will be held from the auction till all the other players have been nominated at least once.
• 1.11: All the players need to be bought at a min. price of $1.  This means that if a team has 7 players in the squad and $20 left in its pool, then the maximum it can bid for the 8th player is [$20 – (min players – current players + 1) => 20 – (14 – 7) + 1 => $14].

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When the decision was made that a new team will be formed, I was really excited at the prospect of having the opportunity to captain the new team.

Though I had lingering loyalty towards the Incredibles, it was easy to set that aside once I was discarded by the Incredibles. It was now an opportunity to lead a new team to the title of MPL champions.

As the captain of the 5th team, I had the whole pool of players available after the other 4 captains had picked theirs.  There were plenty of good players left in the pool  and the following were by top 5- Pritish, Dipesh, Anil, Anuj and  Koundi. 

Dipesh was an obvious choice as he has consistently performed brilliantly as a bowler and has been the top pace bowler in the last 2 MPLs (only second to Rafeeq in the overall standings). He is also a left hander (valuable commodity in the MPL) and a solid striker of the ball.

My second decision was made easy by Rohith’s decision to not retain Anil.  Anil is an excellent bowler, batsman and fielder and can single handedly win games for Transformers. I expect Anil  to be vying for MVP  crown this year en route to lifting the MPL trophy with the Transformers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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