Interesting observation. But the funny thing is last time some people were already complaining about factoring in RPI as they felt it would be unfair for the middle order batsmen. And the only way you can move the openers up is by further increasing the weightage of RPI.
I'm not surprised at all. for what it's worth
Giving openers a boost is a perfectly valid idea, especially ones like Smith and Cook that played half their games in countries where it's generally a tougher job. But RPI is not the way to do it. Factoring in RPI in any way just makes the results worse and less accurate. Just using Average is simply better.
any part in particular?That is a ridiculous post and horrific logic.
No, I am just reminding you of your very well mannered comments from the earlier post.
Oh well I'd be very happy to be called out and corrected if I said something as absurd as you said earlier, so don't hold back if it does arise
No, because I have learnt better manners for disagreeing with someone. And I am also not so narrow minded to not know that what might appear absurd to one may be meaningful to another.
Call a spade a spade. If you hadn't classified your erroneous assertions as "this is simple logic" I might have been less blunt.
Let it be erroneous. That still doesn't change anything.
You're acting like a child. If you put a methodology up for everyone to see then it is going to get critiqued. Pretty sure you even welcomed input. If you couldn't handle that you shouldn't have done it.
Not necessarily. This doesn't really prove anything, it could easily be just because the best batsmen bat 3 or 4 more than open.
You're right, but then one must ask why they bat there. They bat there because batting there is easier.