***Official*** India in New Zealand 2013/14

[straw man]

Probably a good tactic by India to lose four wickets to short balls on one of the fastest pitches in NZ in the first ODI. Now we're going to overbowl the short ball to a ridiculous degree on slower pitches for the rest of the series.

 

[Blocky]

Why do you persist with leg side ****?

 

[Jono]

yeee haw

 

[BackFootPunch]

Why is McClenaghan bowling length on leg stump? **** me dead.

 

[Blocky]

It still only takes history and nothing else into account. I'll trust my spidey sense.

And yet still accurately predicts most results, the creators of WASP are completely transparent that it doesn't take team form, who the batsman is, what the weather is like or anything other than the history of that format of cricket into account when it makes an assessment. It's a new form of analysis that's surely better than Ian Smith or Craig McMillan prattling on.

 

[Hurricane]

If I am skipper I bring Corey back. Kane will get smoked.

 

[Flem274*]

he's not ssaving anderson for the death is he?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Need another boundary here

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

And yet still accurately predicts most results, the creators of WASP are completely transparent that it doesn't take team form, who the batsman is, what the weather is like or anything other than the history of that format of cricket into account when it makes an assessment. It's a new form of analysis that's surely better than Ian Smith or Craig McMillan prattling on.

It's OK if you look at it as a signal of what has happened in the PAST. But I don't like it used as a predictor, because it's not predicting anything really.

 

[Blocky]

I'd get the bowlers on now, Williamson and Anderson, get them in and try get those three out as soon as they can. There is no point waiting on a wicket here.

 

[Mike5181]

Yes!

 

[Athlai]

Got him!!!!!

 

[BeeGee]

Mills!!

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Southee you ***y mother****er!

 

[Daemon]

****s sake. ****ing hell.

 

[Jono]

dang

 

[BackFootPunch]

I'm genuinely developing an immense dislike for Mitch. He just seems to be the antithesis of everything good about the game of cricket. I can't wait for the day he stops taking jammy ****ing wickets with his yuck 135km half-trackers and ****s right off.

 

[Hurricane]

Good a new batsman. He will hopefully need a few sighters to get in.

 

[Flem274*]

mills getting the job done at the death against the best odi chasers in the world.

 

[Blocky]

It's OK if you look at it as a signal of what has happened in the PAST. But I don't like it used as a predictor, because it's not predicting anything really.

It is, it's predicting what a team will likely score based on their current match situation - it adjusts dynamically as the match situation changes meaning you can use it as an indicator on how a team is placed to win a game. Could it be better? Yes. I know for a fact that they're already working on adjustments to bring more information about the current player and format into account but also you have to remember that NZC has part ownership of a lot of the statistical modelling in behind it and they won't want to release everything they know.