WHY do they say this?

[marc71178]

Lara - WAG.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Lara has such a meteoric rise.

 

[GIMH]

I really appreciate the patience of the people fighting the good fight for Bradman in this thread. Tendulkar>Bradman is a view I have absolutely no patience for, It's an even more dire view than saying the rules were changed to accommodate Murali or saying the earth is flat. Something which deserves to be met with ridicule and not well-structured argument tbh.

It is arrogant to unequivocally state that the earth is not flat. Have you ever actually been able to compare the earth to something flat? Until we have the earth and a flat object next to each other, the jury will remain out.

 

[smash84]

I really appreciate the patience of the people fighting the good fight for Bradman in this thread. Tendulkar>Bradman is a view I have absolutely no patience for, It's an even more dire view than saying the rules were changed to accommodate Murali or saying the earth is flat. Something which deserves to be met with ridicule and not well-structured argument tbh.

haha.......haven't seen you so angry in a while

Fair cop, RTQ. Still, I'd take issue that Yuvraj has barely played for India. Yuvraj has played plenty of Test cricket for the world to have worked out that he's really not very good at it.

Anyway, back to graphs, I did the real one (+ Jacques Kallis, who never gets included in discussion of the Ponting/Lara/Tendulkar generation because he can bowl). Make of it what you will.

What to make of this graph.........except that the yellow lines dip ominously towards the end.......and Tendy's rebirth

 

[vcs]

haha.......haven't seen you so angry in a while



What to make of this graph.........except that the yellow lines dip ominously towards the end.......and Tendy's rebirth

Integrate the curves.. the one with the maximum area under it wins.

 

[smash84]

Integrate the curves.. the one with the maximum area under it wins.

good one

 

[Teja.]

Lara - WAG.

Neil Pickup - WAG

 

[Teja.]

It is arrogant to unequivocally state that the earth is not flat. Have you ever actually been able to compare the earth to something flat? Until we have the earth and a flat object next to each other, the jury will remain out.

Well played.

 

[Shri]

Sanga missing from Neil's graph.

 

[Teja.]

Sanga missing from Neil's graph.

Would need a bigger graph to accommodate Sanga's peak tbh.

 

[Shri]

Would need a bigger graph to accommodate Sanga's peak tbh.

Fairly confident my 'peak' is better than any of these ****s'.

 

[centurymaker]

Fair cop, RTQ. Still, I'd take issue that Yuvraj has barely played for India. Yuvraj has played plenty of Test cricket for the world to have worked out that he's really not very good at it.

Anyway, back to graphs, I did the real one (+ Jacques Kallis, who never gets included in discussion of the Ponting/Lara/Tendulkar generation because he can bowl). Make of it what you will.

This graph is flawed. It uses a player's rating after his last test each year as points/plots and then joins them up.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Umm, how does that mean it's flawed? The ratings are cumulative anyway, so it is in fact taking into account basically all of the tests that player has played.

 

[honestbharani]

This graph is flawed. It uses a player's rating in the last test of each year as points/plots and then joins them up.

The rating points a player has AT the last test of the year is NOT the same as the rating points he has got for THAT match alone.. All it basically means is how they finished the year which is a decent enough indicator.. The only better thing would be to get some kind of an average rating of a player over a year and use it.. But it is not like the rating of a player at the end of the year is ONLY indicative of his form during that test or whatever, it is accumulated throughout the year and as such, is fair enough..

 

[honestbharani]

Umm, how does that mean it's flawed? The ratings are cumulative anyway, so it is in fact taking into account basically all of the tests that player has played.

STFU.. stealing my thunder by explaining what I said in 3 lines in 1 line.. Don't you have no decency?

 

[centurymaker]

actually Tendy's bad run of form lasted almost 4 years

year 2002 16 matches avg 55.68
year 2003 5 matches avg 17.00
year 2004 10 matches avg 91.50
year 2005 6 matches avg 44.40
year 2006 8 matches avg 24.27
year 2007 9 matches avg 55.48

 

[centurymaker]

The rating points a player has AT the last test of the year is NOT the same as the rating points he has got for THAT match alone.. All it basically means is how they finished the year which is a decent enough indicator.. The only better thing would be to get some kind of an average rating of a player over a year and use it.. But it is not like the rating of a player at the end of the year is ONLY indicative of his form during that test or whatever, it is accumulated throughout the year and as such, is fair enough..

Thats what i meant but it's flawed
what if a player starts a year with a rating of 750 and then sustains a rating of 800-850 from march to november and then dips off to 750 by the end of december? The graph will plot that as 750!!!
It's basically only taking into accout a player's rating after the last test he played each year.

 

[sledger]

Haha @ this thread.

 

[honestbharani]

year 2002 16 matches avg 55.68
year 2003 5 matches avg 17.00
year 2004 10 matches avg 91.50
year 2005 6 matches avg 44.40
year 2006 8 matches avg 24.27
year 2007 9 matches avg 55.48

The minnow non-minnow break up around that time would be interesting..

 

[GIMH]

Thats what i meant but it's flawed
what if a player starts a year with a rating of 750 and then sustains a rating of 800-850 from march to november and then dips off to 750 by the end of december? The graph will plot that as 750!!!
It's basically only taking into accout a player's rating after the last test he played each year.

Yep, of all the things in that thread THAT is flawed. Not the graph with the randomly drawn lines or a bunch of clowns arguing that Tendulkar is on Bradman's level

Oh here's one for you Tendy fans - there are a couple of poor years there for him - what was Bradman's lowest ever average for a calendar year?