The Greatest Test Match Batsmen Analysis Results

[Brook's side]

I’m sure he thanks you for this extra material to laugh at too.

Great comment Keith.

 

[Coronis]

Great comment Keith.

It Gilchrist for some reason was one of the few players I awarded 5 bonus points???.....for...

"essentially for a consistent record of match winning or saving innings and/or for notable feats of batting bravery. I also gave the bonus to Len Hutton for playing much of his career whilst effectively partly disabled and unable to turn his wrists after an accident during the war, and to Ranjitsinhji for being arguably the first superstar of the game who drew crowds in their thousands whenever he batted, and who developed the art of batsmanship considerably."

Mate, you’re inviting ridicule when you attempt a statistical analysis and then add this bs.

 

[Brook's side]

Mate, you’re inviting ridicule when you attempt a statistical analysis and then add this bs.

I thought similar when I saw what I'd done.

Thinking about it though, I can see where I was coming from.

It's all very well to be averaging 50, but someone who's averaging 45 but's there over and again when it really matters arguably adds more to the team. I think I took the view that regardless it can't be ignored.

Short of doing an analysis that would take a human about 5 years, the best I could come up with was to award bonus points which were in the region of 7% of the higher overall scores. It's inaccurate, but I felt that it was better than nothing and that I couldn't let the likes of Border, Waugh, Lara go without some recognition of the fact that when they were needed, they showed up.

All the more so when the distribution between points for average, strike rate and consistency are pretty arbitrary anyway. There was actually a lot more 'science' that went into the bowling, but the batting made for some pretty charts where I colour coded each batter's performance in each country.

In fact, it's perhaps the case that the in-category results are of more value than the combined results, because those are each based on an actual considered and reasoned analysis.

Without the bonus points though, these would be the overall 'results ('old' positions in brackets)':
1 (1) DG Bradman (AUS)
2 (2) KF Barrington (ENG)
3 (3) SPD Smith (AUS)
4 (4) RG Pollock (SA)
5 (5) ED Weekes (WI)
6 (6) GS Chappell (AUS)
7 (7) JB Hobbs (ENG)
8 (9) SR Tendulkar (IND)
9 (12) GS Sobers (WI)
10 (16) JE Root (ENG)
11 (17) JH Kallis (ICC/SA)
12 (8) AR Border (AUS)
13 (18) H Sutcliffe (ENG)
14 (21) GA Headley (WI)

 

[Brook's side]

There's too many English in there.

 

[ataraxia]

I thought similar when I saw what I'd done.

Thinking about it though, I can see where I was coming from.

It's all very well to be averaging 50, but someone who's averaging 45 but's there over and again when it really matters arguably adds more to the team. I think I took the view that regardless it can't be ignored.

Short of doing an analysis that would take a human about 5 years, the best I could come up with was to award bonus points which were in the region of 7% of the higher overall scores. It's inaccurate, but I felt that it was better than nothing and that I couldn't let the likes of Border, Waugh, Lara go without some recognition of the fact that when they were needed, they showed up.

All the more so when the distribution between points for average, strike rate and consistency are pretty arbitrary anyway. There was actually a lot more 'science' that went into the bowling, but the batting made for some pretty charts where I colour coded each batter's performance in each country.

In fact, it's perhaps the case that the in-category results are of more value than the combined results, because those are each based on an actual considered and reasoned analysis.

Without the bonus points though, these would be the overall 'results ('old' positions in brackets)':
1 (1) DG Bradman (AUS)
2 (2) KF Barrington (ENG)
3 (3) SPD Smith (AUS)
4 (4) RG Pollock (SA)
5 (5) ED Weekes (WI)
6 (6) GS Chappell (AUS)
7 (7) JB Hobbs (ENG)
8 (9) SR Tendulkar (IND)
9 (12) GS Sobers (WI)
10 (16) JE Root (ENG)
11 (17) JH Kallis (ICC/SA)
12 (8) AR Border (AUS)
13 (18) H Sutcliffe (ENG)
14 (21) GA Headley (WI)

Well the obvious solution would be to not place any bonus points for non-statistical reasons and let others do so as they wished, using this analysis as a means rather than an end.

 

[Brook's side]

Well the obvious solution would be to not place any bonus points for non-statistical reasons and let others do so as they wished, using this analysis as a means rather than an end.

A readers' bonus points column! Nice!

 

[Ali TT]

I’m sure he thanks you for this extra material to laugh at too.

Glad to know people can still find something to laugh about even in the most trying of circumstances.