Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Odd, Sutcliffe's overall standardised is 62.79 yet his peak average is 59.41? Hill and McCabe big (and welcome) surprises there.
Yeah, if I change the parameters to at least five years, it gives me this:This could be due to a bug I haven't found yet, but it's possible for it to be true without that.
For example, take this four number long list:
10, 10, 1, 10
The average of all these numbers is 7.5, but the the biggest "peak of three" you can get averages out to only 7. It could just be a quirk in his career such that he never had a period of five years running that averaged out to be more than his actual career standardised average.
1. DG Bradman (Aus) - 110.09 (13 Jun 1930 - 10 Jun 1938) - 6.15 years
2. JB Hobbs (Eng) - 72.08 (11 Mar 1910 - 31 Dec 1920) - 5.20 years
3. WR Hammond (Eng) - 67.77 (23 Jun 1928 - 31 Mar 1933) - 5.04 years
4. IVA Richards (WI) - 65.07 (23 Jan 1976 - 30 Jan 1982) - 5.25 years
5. C Hill (Aus) - 64.73 (13 Dec 1897 - 11 Dec 1903) - 5.52 years
6. SJ McCabe (Aus) - 64.08 (10 Feb 1933 - 24 Jun 1938) - 5.17 years
7. H Sutcliffe (Eng) - 63.88 (19 Dec 1924 - 2 Dec 1932) - 6.62 years
8. AD Nourse (SA) - 62.51 (20 Jan 1939 - 7 Jun 1951) - 5.20 years
9. L Hutton (Eng) - 62.26 (22 Jul 1948 - 30 Mar 1954) - 5.28 years
10. KF Barrington (Eng) - 61.78 (17 Aug 1961 - 19 Jan 1968) - 5.58 years
11. GA Headley (WI) - 61.72 (11 Jan 1930 - 21 Jan 1948) - 5.14 years
12. RN Harvey (Aus) - 60.96 (31 Dec 1949 - 17 Dec 1954) - 5.17 years
13. SR Tendulkar (Ind) - 60.49 (11 Feb 1993 - 25 Mar 1998) - 5.14 years
14. PBH May (Eng) - 60.29 (12 Aug 1954 - 18 Jun 1959) - 5.03 years
15. ED Weekes (WI) - 60.20 (27 Mar 1948 - 17 Mar 1954) - 6.17 years
16. HM Amla (SA) - 60.04 (3 Jan 2010 - 2 Jan 2015) - 5.01 years
17. AB de Villiers (SA) - 60.01 (3 Jan 2009 - 20 Feb 2014) - 5.15 years
18. KC Sangakkara (SL) - 59.86 (26 Mar 2006 - 3 Nov 2011) - 5.34 years
19. Hanif Mohammad (Pak) - 59.61 (11 Oct 1956 - 31 May 1962) - 5.10 years
20. GS Sobers (WI) - 59.60 (16 Feb 1962 - 13 Jan 1967) - 5.00 years
21. CL Walcott (WI) - 59.41 (24 Jun 1950 - 30 May 1957) - 5.45 years
22. B Sutcliffe (NZ) - 59.24 (21 Mar 1947 - 24 Dec 1953) - 5.00 years
23. BC Lara (WI) - 59.06 (13 Mar 1999 - 25 Nov 2005) - 5.40 years
24. JH Kallis (SA) - 58.90 (15 Mar 2002 - 2 Jan 2008) - 5.04 years
25. SM Gavaskar (Ind) - 58.83 (23 Jan 1975 - 29 Jan 1980) - 5.17 years
26. WM Woodfull (Aus) - 57.58 (26 Jun 1926 - 29 Jan 1932) - 5.05 years
27. HW Taylor (SA) - 57.52 (13 Dec 1913 - 16 Feb 1923) - 5.00 years
28. V Kohli (Ind) - 57.30 (14 Nov 2013 - 12 Oct 2018) - 5.09 years
29. RB Kanhai (WI) - 56.69 (31 Dec 1958 - 22 Aug 1963) - 5.13 years
30. RG Pollock (SA) - 56.48 (6 Dec 1963 - 19 Feb 1970) - 5.53 years
What I don't get is how Herb Taylor didn't get the same score on the first list given it's telling me it took an exact five year period for him this time, so there's definitely *some* sort of bug in there somewhere, but I can't pinpoint where.