PCPL - Discussion Thread (All Owners READ!!)

[pal]

No. According to Simbazz, you are allowed to choose between players once you have won bids on 5 or more players, which, incidentally, was never stated until earlier today. The original rules simply said that if you won a bid, you have the rights to that player, and you can choose to keep or reject him.

We were actually disappointed with how high you guys bid on players like KP and Tendulkar, so we were planning to give them to you anyways, but now we have been forced to bid on other players to make the total up to 5, in order to reject a few.

Here is the original rule:

4. This year we're going to try to help out owners out by ensuring that if you win an auction, you will have full rights to that international player's signature.

There's no qualification that you need to win the bids for 5 players. It's also in the singular form (if you win an auction, you have full rights to the player which allows you to keep or reject him), so it should apply to individual players.

 

[Highlander999]

I specifically asked Rohit and he said you guys wanted all three, KP, Smith and Sachin.

 

[pal]

We didn't even bid for Smith again after your final bid, which should indicate that I had no intention of keeping him.

I had a clear plan for the bidding process - to keep one of the two batsmen (KP or Sachin) and one of the two bowlers (Murali or Zaheer), depending on which two ended up going cheaper. That was in accordance with the original rules and I intend to adhere to them.

I can't speak for Rohit, because I don't know anything about your conversations. But, in our conversations, we both agreed to rudiments of the above plan.

 

[Highlander999]

Actually, you will find that I made no further bids on KP and Sachin after 10 million as I was aware you wanted one/both of them. Meanwhile I put a 10 million bid on Smith only for Rohit to put another bid on him forcing the price up. This is what I said to Rohit:

Me: I won't go for KP or Sachin if you leave me Smith. This way, we both win

Him: But we have the money, hence we already won

Me: So you going to take all three????

Him: Wait and watch.

So basically I should have forced the prices up for you guys, but I backed off. Would have been nice to see the same decency shown in return.

 

[pal]

I can't speak for cricketman, obviously; this is probably a conversation better suited for you two. Still, I think it would be a stretch to consider the comment 'Wait and watch' as a commitment to buying all three players.

I also think that Rohit made the right move in bidding for Smith. At that point, we had three equal bids of 10.2 million on three batsmen. If you had bid again for any two of these players, and I had no reason to believe you wouldn't, we would have simply gone for the cheaper of the three. As it happened, you bid again for Smith and didn't for KP and Sachin, which puts in the position we're in now.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

But you can't bid for a 5'th player now because I think that rule applied only for 5 simultaneous bids, not win 4 and then bid another just to reject a player. All upto Simon though.

 

[Abhas]

Why is Murali's Bid closed already ??

 

[nightprowler10]

Pal, from the rules in the bidding forum:

Teams may not bid on more players after they have won 4 auction.

To my understanding, the 5 bids were only mentioned in cases where teams end up winning 5 bids (like if you've won three and are bidding on two more and end up winning both).

EDIT: I see your 5th bid was deleted so I presume the issue is resolved?

 

[barmyarmy]

To my understanding, the 5 bids were only mentioned in cases where teams end up winning 5 bids (like if you've won three and are bidding on two more and end up winning both).

EDIT: I see your 5th bid was deleted so I presume the issue is resolved?

That was indeed the intention as far as I understand. The quoted part was however added later to clarify.
For anyone keeping score DD and CC have spent 74m on tier 1 players meaning more prize money for all the other teams. As last season DD actually outspent CC.

 

[barmyarmy]

I have posted the rest of the second tier as requested by the PCPL management.

 

[Simbazz]

Thanks Colin, means a lot not having to do those when I've got this Uni work! Wednesday and I'll be free!!

 

[Highlander999]

Pfff. First year uni student and work. Biggest oxymoron wondering around

 

[Cricketman]

'Wait and watch' was not at all implying that I wanted all three batsman.

The original rules were very vague and unclear - we had a plan to bid for as many as possible, pick the best values from there. But once we had trapped in four wins, a surprise was sprung and we weren't allowed to bid for any more.

 

[barmyarmy]

Pfff. First year uni student and work. Biggest oxymoron wondering around

Someone's learnt a new word!

@ Cricketman - if you were unsure you should have asked for clarification. Buying every player and then choosing was clearly against the spirit of the PCPL.

 

[Highlander999]

Hey I used that in my English A Level exam