Welcome to the ‘Built in their image’ draft, or the ‘We all dream of a team of ….s’ as I’m sure it’ll informally grow to be known as.
Pick a player, any player who you'd like to be the inspiration for your team in this draft. Once you've all picked your moulds, I will reveal the categories for the rest of the draft, but they will not be in your XIs.
The draft will then follow standard rules, whereby you can pick any player in the world who has not been picked previously in the draft, including those in the first round (i.e. you can't pick somebody else's inspiration, which also means any inspirations picked are ruled out of contention for being picked to play in the draft). By the end of the draft you must have picked your XI with players who fill the categories, with only one category crossed off per player (please say which category they fulfill and post evidence where necessary).
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List of those signed up (I'll double check with everyone that they are still up for it.)
Confirmed
Me
Draex
Nick
Nicholls
Robbie
Betty
Samie
Max_Powers
Red1977
Tubby
Drinks Sangria
PoetryInMotion
VivaBobbyGraham
We'll start once the basketball draft has finished and we have enough people for the draft.
Right so the categories are, (examples using Robbie Savage in brackets):
1. Someone of the same height as your inspiration pick (If you'd picked Robbie Savage you'd have to pick a player who was 1.85m)
2. Someone born in the same year as your inspiration pick (If you'd picked Robbie Savage you'd have to pick a player born in 1974)
3. Someone who shares their birthday with your inspiration pick, only the date not the year - wikipedia is a helpful tool for this (If you'd picked Robbie Savage you'd have to pick a player born on the 18th October e.g. finding footballers listed on this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_18#1901%E2%80%93present_2)
4. One of the top 25 teammates who your inspiration pick played most with, all this data can be found on transfermarkt.co.uk (
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/robbie-savage/gemeinsameSpiele/spieler/3797)
5. One of the top 25 opponents who your inspiration pick played most against, all this data can be found on transfermarkt.co.uk
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https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/robbie-savage/spieleGegeneinander/spieler/3797)
6. Someone who came through the same academy as your player. I'll accept any academy they played in up until their professional debut. (Robbie Savage's academies would include Brickfield Rangers, Lex XI, Manchester United and Crewe Alexandra)
7. Someone your inspiration pick played with in their professional debut season (For Robbie Savage this would include anyone in Crewe Alexandra's 1994-95 squad)
8. Anyone who played for your inspiration pick's national side when they were between the ages of 0 and 10. This is supposed to find someone your player was inspired by as a kid. (For Robbie Savage this would be anyone who played for the Welsh National Team between 1974 and 1984).
9. Anyone who played in your inspiration pick's International Debut (For Robbie Savage this would be anyone who played in the game between Wales and Albania on the 15th November 1995)
10. Anyone who played during your inspiration pick's final International cap (For Robbie Savage this would be anyone who played in the game between Wales and Poland on the 13th October 2004)
11. Anyone who played in a club cup final with your player, so major domestic cup finals and european finals, they don't have to have won the final (For Robbie Savage this would mean picking any member of the Leicester City side's who played in either the 1999 or 2000 cup final).
You can pick from any category in any round, but you must have crossed off all the categories by your last pick, or your teams will be void and the rest of your spaces will be filled up with Robbie Savages.
Hope that all makes sense. Any questions, let me know in here, or drop me a PM.