KiWiNiNjA
International Coach
I know that adding a batsman's average to his strike-rate isn't a new thing, but I was just listen to Simon Doull talk about it while commentating a T20 game and decided to make a thread about it. Being a big baseball fan, I see a lot of similarities to OPS (On-base plus Slugging), which is one of the more commonly used (and basic) batting statistics going around the sabermetric community.
Batting Average = On-base Percentage
Strike-Rate = Slugging Percentage
APS as a cricket statistic will not only show how many runs a batsman generally scores, but also how fast they score at. The main flaw with this is that the Average and Strike-Rate have equal weighting. In the sabermetric community they use wOBA (weighted on-base average) to get around this problem.
I suppose my questions are....
(1) Do you think a statistic like APS (or wAPS) could be useful/meaningful to cricket?
and
(2) Would you like to see new statistics come into the game more?
Top T20 Batsman sorted by APS (Qualification: 1500 runs)
Batting Average = On-base Percentage
Strike-Rate = Slugging Percentage
APS as a cricket statistic will not only show how many runs a batsman generally scores, but also how fast they score at. The main flaw with this is that the Average and Strike-Rate have equal weighting. In the sabermetric community they use wOBA (weighted on-base average) to get around this problem.
I suppose my questions are....
(1) Do you think a statistic like APS (or wAPS) could be useful/meaningful to cricket?
and
(2) Would you like to see new statistics come into the game more?
Top T20 Batsman sorted by APS (Qualification: 1500 runs)
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Player M I NO Runs Avg S/R APS
CH Gayle 84 83 10 2929 40.12 153.11 193.23
ME Trescothick 67 66 5 2120 34.75 157.27 192.02
V Sehwag 80 79 4 2099 27.98 159.01 186.99
KA Pollard 121 106 22 2169 25.82 159.95 185.77
YK Pathan 101 91 12 2118 26.81 158.65 185.46
SE Marsh 61 60 8 2289 44.01 138.22 182.23
LRPL Taylor 120 112 23 2950 33.14 147.42 180.56
A Symonds 93 85 19 2141 32.43 147.35 179.78
SR Watson 74 71 10 1909 31.29 144.84 176.13
Shahid Afridi 100 90 5 1598 18.8 157.12 175.92
SK Raina 96 93 15 2692 34.51 140.79 175.3
DA Warner 115 115 8 3335 31.16 142.88 174.04
ML Hayden 47 47 5 1522 36.23 137.48 173.71
AD Brown 79 79 2 1758 22.83 149.87 172.7
KP Pietersen 64 63 7 1819 32.48 138.74 171.22
AC Gilchrist 82 82 2 2156 26.95 144.02 170.97
JA Morkel 157 129 48 2285 28.2 142.36 170.56
Abdul Razzaq 96 86 21 1856 28.55 142 170.55
BB McCullum 121 120 14 3434 32.39 137.36 169.75
Azhar Mahmood 100 88 22 1761 26.68 142.82 169.5
DJ Hussey 163 158 29 4085 31.66 137.35 169.01
MEK Hussey 65 57 13 1793 40.75 128.25 169
LE Bosman 69 67 3 1792 28 140.65 168.65
DPMD Jayawardene 106 103 17 2631 30.59 136.81 167.4
LJ Wright 102 87 10 1797 23.33 143.76 167.09
MJ Prior 72 67 5 1586 25.58 140.47 166.05
ST Jayasuriya 99 98 6 2159 23.46 141.94 165.4
Shoaib Malik 81 77 24 2061 38.88 126.51 165.39
MS Dhoni 102 92 29 2165 34.36 130.5 164.86
MH Wessels 79 69 12 1532 26.87 137.89 164.76
SR Tendulkar 60 60 8 2069 39.78 124.71 164.49
DI Stevens 107 100 27 2223 30.45 133.99 164.44
RG Sharma 102 96 18 2577 33.03 131.21 164.24
AB McDonald 72 66 23 1554 36.13 128 164.13
MJ Lumb 107 107 6 2225 22.02 141.99 164.01
OA Shah 123 116 26 3062 34.02 129.52 163.54
AC Voges 85 80 11 2135 30.94 132.6 163.54
DL Maddy 79 78 8 2113 30.18 132.97 163.15
RV Uthappa 99 93 14 2042 25.84 137.04 162.88
BJ Hodge 129 126 20 3806 35.9 126.9 162.8
CL White 102 97 23 2184 29.51 132.52 162.03
Mohd. Hafeez 75 73 5 1751 25.75 135.52 161.27
Yuvraj Singh 95 92 12 2159 26.98 133.93 160.91
M van Jaarsveld 105 95 15 2209 27.61 133.07 160.68
KC Sangakkara 101 97 8 2775 31.17 129 160.17
JEC Franklin 85 75 20 1805 32.81 127.2 160.01
MJ Guptill 68 64 6 1824 31.44 128.45 159.89
SB Styris 126 117 16 2598 25.72 133.84 159.56
HJH Marshall 70 68 5 1549 24.58 134.81 159.39
RN ten Doeschate 120 103 23 2149 26.86 132.4 159.26
V Kohli 89 80 13 2056 30.68 128.33 159.01
H Masakadza 54 53 8 1618 35.95 122.94 158.89
MR Ramprakash 63 63 10 1719 32.43 125.01 157.44
SM Ervine 89 83 19 1593 24.89 132.41 157.3
HD Ackerman 55 55 7 1811 37.72 119.53 157.25
EJG Morgan 80 73 11 1633 26.33 130.64 156.97
SC Moore 80 74 10 1753 27.39 129.56 156.95
KD Karthik 91 80 15 1701 26.16 130.64 156.8
Misbah ul-Haq 72 63 19 1564 35.54 120.86 156.4
DR Smith 82 78 8 1526 21.8 134.56 156.36
AB de Villiers 89 82 16 1942 29.42 126.02 155.44
DM Benkenstein 90 81 16 1682 25.87 129.38 155.25
ND McKenzie 77 73 20 1808 34.11 120.45 154.56
MN van Wyk 59 55 8 1529 32.53 122.02 154.55
ML Pettini 75 71 5 1715 25.98 128.08 154.06
GC Smith 81 81 6 2282 30.42 123.55 153.97
P Mustard 90 85 4 1992 24.59 128.68 153.27
NM Carter 97 94 2 1528 16.6 136.67 153.27
AW Gale 71 64 9 1590 28.9 124.21 153.11
HH Gibbs 121 118 9 2914 26.73 126.25 152.98
M Vijay 70 68 2 1764 26.72 125.73 152.45
G Gambhir 91 89 11 2319 29.73 122.37 152.1
IJL Trott 77 72 16 2082 37.17 114.9 152.07
JP Duminy 106 101 23 2534 32.48 119.41 151.89
C Kieswetter 69 67 10 1648 28.91 122.89 151.8
TM Dilshan 98 95 13 2231 27.2 124.49 151.69
JH Kallis 88 87 15 2625 36.45 114.52 150.97
RWT Key 73 73 9 1659 25.92 124.45 150.37
MW Goodwin 88 82 11 2003 28.21 121.54 149.75
SR Patel 90 84 14 1797 25.67 123.33 149
SJ Croft 75 68 10 1554 26.79 122.07 148.86
JHK Adams 78 70 11 1578 26.74 120.55 147.29
PD Trego 94 85 11 1707 23.06 124.05 147.11
S Badrinath 87 72 21 1570 30.78 116.12 146.9
JO Troughton 83 77 8 1617 23.43 122.77 146.2
R Dravid 69 62 6 1605 28.66 117.23 145.89
JA Rudolph 71 65 9 1656 29.57 115.64 145.21
L Vincent 86 86 9 1959 25.44 119.23 144.67
JC Hildreth 100 95 14 1833 22.62 117.8 140.42
RS Bopara 108 97 11 2111 24.54 115.54 140.08
Z de Bruyn 103 90 26 1965 30.7 108.68 139.38
JL Denly 76 73 4 1761 25.52 113.17 138.69
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