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  1. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty, the first hundred, from Grace to Worrell

    Happy New Year! Thanks for reading commenting, guys. Harvey's innings do show a relatively low number of 'important' innings by this definition overall, only around half the time. Harvey's numbers aren't greatly negative though - his career average was 48.41 so he isn't miles away from that in...
  2. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty, the first hundred, from Grace to Worrell

    In this follow up article I've reviewed the performances of 100 top batsmen in what I defined as important innings. This will be the first of four such reviews to bring us up to date. This first feature looks at batsmen from WG Grace to Frank Worrell. Zero to Sixty - the first hundred, from...
  3. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Hi Bolo, Merry Christmas! Thanks for your input, very much appreciated. As I said, I wasn't too concerned with the result, rather how the particular player performed based on the situation he was faced with when he came in. As regards what percentage to use, we did discuss that earlier and in...
  4. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    What I wanted to do here was to find out how a batsman performed based on the state of the match when he came to the crease, not the impact of that innings. That's what my match impact measure did.
  5. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    If you check the original discussion thread, I had initially proposed more quanta, but I didn't like it for various reasons.
  6. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    OK, I've updated the feature. I had missed innings for Sanga, Younis Khan and Graeme Smith. It didn't impact the feature that much, more Sanga than anything else. Sorry about that, boys and girls. Later I'll post the batsman review.
  7. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Cheers. 17 years - as my dad says, she had a good innings.
  8. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Sadly my cat died over the weekend so it will be a little while longer checking this.
  9. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

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  10. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Wasn't my intention to suggest a batsman is better in that regard, simply for comparison purposes. When I summarise all batsmen I'll note e.g. batsmen who averaged over 50 for both. For example, suppose Bradman had turned out to be 90 for important innings and 110 for regular, I wouldn't for a...
  11. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Oops, short-changed him about 75 innings! I'll have to check the others also, will update shortly.
  12. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Let me check this - CricketArchive changed its format and I had to append two separate lists, I may have messed that up.
  13. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Cheers - our features are edited in Wordpress and tables have to be added as html code, at least that’s my understanding.
  14. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Pressure! J/K, should be within the next week. The biggest issue time-wise is it takes so long to format tables in our clunky editor.
  15. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    Not sure what you mean by missing - he doesn't make the first list as his 5199 important runs is below my cut-off. My next article will review all of the batsmen though, and of course his numbers will be discussed then.
  16. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    A discussion on the forum following my feature on batting impact, notably highlighting Tom Graveney and Hanif Mohammad, which chiefly involved, myself, Bolo and Starfighter, regarding whether or not the phenomenon of 'clutch' ability even existed and could be shown objectively, or was it simply...
  17. chasingthedon

    New feature: Zero to Sixty; Important Runs in Test Cricket

    A discussion on the forum following my feature on batting impact, notably highlighting Tom Graveney and Hanif Mohammad, which chiefly involved, myself, Bolo and Starfighter, regarding whether or not the phenomenon of 'clutch' ability even existed and could be shown objectively, or was it simply...
  18. chasingthedon

    When do runs become important, and is this different to clutch?

    That’s exactly what I plan to do. As you say, it’s the ultimate measure.
  19. chasingthedon

    When do runs become important, and is this different to clutch?

    I'm inclined to agree with you. Clutch is much more suited to small moments in a match, which I think is why it's so popular in baseball, where the potential outcomes are both restricted and instantaneous.
  20. chasingthedon

    When do runs become important, and is this different to clutch?

    Thanks for commenting. No, I think you've grasped it completely, and your explanation of the mechanism behind the proportions is spot on too. I also agree with you on the small sample issue, but there may be something in looking at the important runs across a complete career.

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