i'll be in it sportz

If possible, I'd like to get at least 12 people involved. Preferably more.

I've decided that if I can, I'll try to organise an "auction" or "sale" type situation so we could buy the very best horses. Then there'll be a "draft" to choose the rest. People who miss out in the auction will get first choice in the draft. I think this will make it very interesting. Choosing a stable may be even more exciting than the competition itself.

I'd like you to tell me how regularly you come on this site, and what time or what day you're most likely to use it. If we're going to have an auction, I have to make sure that everyone's got an opportunity to get a winning bid in for the horses. I'm thinking of closing off the auctions at say 8 o'clock at night, or something like that. Would that suit everyone?

Really need to know how many competitors there will be before I actually announce the final set of rules.

But basically, it will work like this. In January, we'll choose our initial stable of around 10-12 horses. There will also be two further trading periods in the comp where we will add a couple more horses (before the Blue Diamond and before the Golden Slipper). Anyway, the person whose stable of horses has earned the highest amount of total prizemoney in the period from January 26 to April 14 will be the winner.

yup im in

Excuse this old head sportz, but I can't quite get it around how this comp. would play out [?]

OK, we have a stable of horses and then what? We add up the winnings of our stable? What about if we have some lightly raced horses set for certain goals and others have a go for [short term] cash stable?

How does it pit one player against another when really in the end it's just horses against horses and luck of how the original draw [regardless of how fair] pans out?

Not quite sure what the problem is, Crash.

We choose a stable of horses we think will earn the most prizemoney during the Autumn. You wouldn't really want to choose some horse that isn't likely to run in any of the big feature races. We are looking to snare the winners of big feature races like the Australian Cup, Australian Guineas, Golden Slipper, BMW, AJC Derby, Doncaster etc etc. And if we can't get the winner, then we're trying to find the placegetters of these big races. Basically it's just crystal ball stuff trying to predict which horses are going to race well in the big races during the Autumn.

And yes, luck does play a part with certain horses being injured or retired or whatever. But that's half of the fun.

Did you read my earlier post at the top of this page?

I'm going to use an "auction" type principle for selecting the top horses. If someone is extra keen to buy one of the top horses, then they can always outbid everyone else and buy that horse. Of course, that'll probably mean they have less left in their salary cap for other horses. So it all evens out in the end. The "draft" type situation is for choosing all the remaining horses in the stable and I will arrange it so that people who missed out in the auction will get first pick in the draft. All in all, I think it'll be very interesting.

Its basically the same as the fantasy football comps that are run during the football season. I know they run one on the afl, where you choose a team of players (can be from any of the teams in the comp), and you can sub different players at different stages of the year. Goals and stats equate to points. If a player gets injured your not gunna get any points. So like sportz said, luck plays a big part in it. Oh and a hell of alot of research might help to

g'day sportz i'm in haven't been on here for a while am on holiday back after chrissy this comp sounds great i've been thinking about an auction type comp for a while and i think this will be a great one

I'll give it ago me and a couple of mates did this a few years back now and we put in $20 each week to back the horses in our stable throught the comp and the person with the highest income won the comp and took the winnings I ended up winning can't remember how much it was in the end but it was up near $1000 was a nice little pickup.