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The Points Table/Standings

GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Molehill said:
I don't think it's a quirk at all, it's a good system and makes sense to me.
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Broadly yes but I guess in football if you lose 5-0, 5-0, 1-0 your GD still gets worse. The ideal would be enabling this in cricket but just doesn’t work. So I think it is the best we have for that sort of thing.

I would personally take head to head first where possible but I suppose that gets messy where three or more are tied.
 
centurymaker

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
Probably not. If Afghanistan win, they will join the other 6 teams fighting for top 4.

At the moment only Netherlands, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka look out.
 
ankitj

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
GIMH said:
Broadly yes but I guess in football if you lose 5-0, 5-0, 1-0 your GD still gets worse. The ideal would be enabling this in cricket but just doesn’t work. So I think it is the best we have for that sort of thing.
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It would improve if they just divided GD by number of matches to start reporting average GD. It would reduce numerically, but would still mean the same thing because even a smaller average GD over larger number of games leaves you worse off as far as your ability to recover is concerned.

It's what happens with NRR too. They could just add up rather than average it but that only changes numerical value, not how difficult it gets to recover after every defeat.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
ankitj said:
It would improve if they just divided GD by number of matches to start reporting average GD. It would reduce numerically, but would still mean the same thing because even a smaller average GD over larger number of games leaves you worse off as far as your ability to recover is concerned.

It's what happens with NRR too. They could just add up rather than average it but that only changes numerical value, not how difficult it gets to recover after every defeat.
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Yeah makes sense. NRR of -2 after 1 game is easily recovered. After 5 it's not so easy.

So although the number improves, the position doesn't.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Feeling a bit more confident about England winning Saturday, then I think it's Sri Lanka? Hopefully we can win both and go into the India game without serious elimination pressures
 
Sunil1z

Sunil1z

International Regular
Aus and Pak are bogey Team of NZ .
So that leaves them with 2 out of 3 win against IND, SL and SA
 
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