Ascending batting average draft (tests)

[ankitj]

• Coronis - Bill Bowes (4.66), Mohammad Abbas (7.23), Clarrie Grimmett (13.92), Wally Grout (15.08), Keith Miller (36.97), Tamim Iqbal (38.64), Marvan Atapattu (39.02)
• StephenZA - Muttiah Muralitharan (11.68), Zaheer Khan (11.95), Patrick Cummins (17.02), Fanie de Villiers (18.89), Wilfred Rhodes (30.19), Peter Kirsten (31.3), Quinton de Kock (39.12)
• Pothas - Dale Steyn (13.59), Fazal Mahmood (14.09), Rangana Herath (14.52), Shaun Pollock (32.31), Mushtaq Mohammad (39.17)
• Ankitj - Courtney Walsh (7.54), Stuart MacGill (9.69), Jack Cowie (10), Richard Hadlee (27.16), Imtiaz Ahmed (29.28), Shakib Al Hasan (39.40)
• Line and Length - Glenn McGrath (7.37), Frank Tyson (10.95), Nathan Lyon (12.27), Alan Davidson (24.59), Alec Stewart (39.54)
• AndrewB - Jasprit Bumrah (2.9), Bill O'Reilly (12.81), Ray Lindwall (21.15), Maurice Tate (25.48), Ian Healy (27.39),Tony Greig (40.43)
• Marcuss - Mohammad Asif (5.64), Wayne Daniel (6.57), Jim Laker (14.08), Imran Khan (37.69), Michael Atherton (37.69), Les Ames (40.56)
• Trundler - Bert Ironmonger (2.62), Fred Trueman (13.82), Wes Hall (15.73), Peter Pollock (21.67), Jonny Waite (30.4), Charlie Macartney (41.78)
• srbhkshk - Joel Garner (12.44), Neil Wagner (12.5), Andy Roberts (14.94), Anil Kumble (17.77), Andrew Flintoff (31.77), Jeff Dujon (31.94) , Mark Waugh (41.81)
• Red Hill - Bruce Reid (4.65), Dennis Lillee (13.71), Harold Larwood (19.4), Godfrey Evans (20.49), Graeme Swann (22.09), Desmond Haynes (42.29)
• KingKallis - Brett Schultz (1.5), James Anderson (9.67), Kagiso Rabada (11.43), Richie Benaud (24.4), Rod Marsh (26.5), Ben Stokes (38.58), Ian Chappell (42.42)
• Mr_mister - Neil Adcock (5.41), Lance Gibbs (6.97), Michael Holding (13.79), Don Tallon (17.13), Ian Botham (33.54), Jack Gregory (36.96), Graham Gooch (42.58)
• Weldone/JOJOXI - Waqar Younis (10.2), Shane Warne (17.33), Tim Southee (17.38), Kapil Dev (31.05), Brendon McCullum (38.64), Aravinda de Silva (42.98)
• Fuller Pilch - Curtly Ambrose (12.4), Alec Bedser (12.75), Hugh Tayfield (16.90), Vernon Philander (24.04), Chris Cairns (33.53), Gordon Greenidge (44.72)
• Teuton - Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (4.07), Shoaib Akhtar (10.07), Bob Willis (11.51), Wasim Akram (22.64), Alan Knott (32.75), Frank Woolley (36.07), Alastair Cook (45.35)
• Ataraxia - Allan Donald (10.68), Derek Underwood (11.56), Shane Bond (12.92), Mike Procter (25.11), Syed Kirmani (27.04), Dave Nourse (29.78), Bob Simpson (46.81)
• Honestbharani - Malcolm Marshall (18.85), Hedley Verity (20.90), Mitch Starc (22.27), Ravi Ashwin (28.10), Trevor Goddard (34.46), Shane Watson (35.19), Asif Iqbal (38.85) Adam Gilchrist (47.60)

 

[ankitj]

jojo > hb > coronis

It's coronis > Jojo > HB

 

[Teuton]

my mistake. turns out the list i'm working off has neither 3 decimal points nor up-to-date stats from the last year or so

 

[JOJOXI]

Just to double check as not sure if that is in response to Teuton before or after Coronis's last pick is it Coronis again and then me?

 

[mr_mister]

I didn't know batting average data was kept anywhere to 3 decimal places

 

[Teuton]

And that was my reasoning behind the post War thing. A 48 average batsman for 39 just ain't right.

There are prob enough of them that it just would have been a trade-off though - ie most teams will have 1 (elite) player averaging in the 30s (or low 40s), so it would have just been a choice of the imran/s.pollock/kapil/botham/miller group or trumper/grace/hill/noble or QdK/etc or a very good batting allrounder shakib/stokes/greig/macartney.

 

[Teuton]

I didn't know batting average data was kept anywhere to 3 decimal places

not kept anywhere - could just be worked out in case of a tie (ie McCullum & Tamim are both listed as 38.64). Actually I don't recall if a rule was set for tied averages.

 

[Coronis]

Marvan Atapattu (39.02)

 

[honestbharani]

So weldone, then me, right?

 

[mr_mister]

weldone from beyond the grave

 

[JOJOXI]

Aravinda de Silva (42.98)

 

[honestbharani]

Adam Gilchrist (47.60)

 

[ataraxia]

There are prob enough of them that it just would have been a trade-off though - ie most teams will have 1 (elite) player averaging in the 30s (or low 40s), so it would have just been a choice of the imran/s.pollock/kapil/botham/miller group or trumper/grace/hill/noble or QdK/etc or a very good batting allrounder shakib/stokes/greig/macartney.

Which rather makes my Nourse pick quite unusual and cheap.

 

[ankitj]

@Coronis up again

 

[ankitj]

Adam Gilchrist (47.60)

I'm glad Gilchrist didn't slip through to Pothas or that would have been the endgame. I expect Gilly to be the differentiator in batting line-ups apart from whoever gets Bradman.

 

[Pothas]

This is upsetting.

 

[honestbharani]

Well, you took Mushy

 

[trundler]

not kept anywhere - could just be worked out in case of a tie (ie McCullum & Tamim are both listed as 38.64). Actually I don't recall if a rule was set for tied averages.

I've just been calculating them to a third decimal place in case of a tie. If for example Atherton had averaged 37.692 he'd have been ineligible for Marcuss.

 

[ankitj]

Sorting by averages on statsguru will show you who is higher even if it displays only 2 decimals.

 

[Coronis]

VVS Laxman (45.97)