What's in an Average?

[Esperance]

Who cares about averages. Not I.

 

[GGG]

Take any very good batsmans top 80 scores, get the average and there is a random chance that they could have played all 80 innings in a row, retired and be a Bradman. Then again random chance and statistics isn't my strong suit so I am probably speaking out of my ar$e.

 

[weldone]

Take any very good batsmans top 80 scores, get the average and there is a random chance that they could have played all 80 innings in a row, retired and be a Bradman. Then again random chance and statistics isn't my strong suit so I am probably speaking out of my ar$e.

Nah.

For getting a rough idea, the Statistically prudent way of doing an analysis is to randomly select 80 innings from the career of a batsman (say, Tendulkar) and calculate average. Then repete the same analysis many times (say 40000 times) and come up with a distribution of those 40000 averages for that batsman and see where in that distribution lies 99.94. If for Tendulkar, that is at 99.8%ile point of the distribution, that means we can say with roughly 99.8% confidence that Bradman > Tendulkar.

This will give a very rough idea as it ignores other things like quality of opposition, longevity etc.

 

[Esperance]

Averages are irrelevant, however.

 

[sledger]

You should never end a sentence with "however".

 

[Esperance]

You shouldn't post.

 

[Howe_zat]

You shouldn't post.

He says what we're all thinking!

 

[sledger]

Oh man, I totally just got F'd in the A.

 

[Furball]

this is a below average thread

Above average post.

 

[zaremba]

Who cares about averages. Not I.

You started a thread about them.

 

[Red]

Courtney Walsh > Dennis Lillee IMO

Ridiculous.

Definitely not a ridiculous suggestion.

I know.

 

[GIMH]

You should never end a sentence with "however".

Grammatical myth, this.

 

[sledger]

Grammatical myth, this.

Someone with an average understanding of grammar would say that.

 

[watson]

There are no absolute grammatical rules regarding the placement of the word 'however' in a sentence. However, despite the fact that I've just used 'however' at the beginning of the sentence it is generally accepted that it is best placed in the middle of sentence with commas either side.

GIMH > Sledger

 

[zaremba]

You should never end a sentence with "however".

So why did you?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

this is a below average thread

In the halcyon days of this forum a thread like this would make several people horny.

 

[Red]

Olden days are golden days.

 

[Eds]

 

[GIMH]

GIMH > Sledger

Yes

 

[weldone]

Ridiculous.

I know.

Rohan Kanhai > Tendulkar IMO

Ridiculous.

Also not a ridiculous suggestion.

I know.