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Regarding Don bradmans statistical equivalence in soccer

DoomDivine

Cricket Spectator
I read that don bradman was a staggering 4.4 standard deviations from the mean. And pele was 3.7 standard deviations from the mean, who had a goals per game ratio of 0.93.
It is said that a baseball batter would need to maintain a career batting average of .392 over his career and a basketball player would have to score 43 points per game to exert a similar level of dominance.
Then whats the equivalent for "Goals per game" in soccer for this?
Is it like saying scoring 3 to 4 goals per game over an entire career, to be considered of statistical equivalence to bradman's 99.94. I have been wanting to know this for a long time, so can anyone work this out?
 

sayon basak

International Captain
This could be an attempt:
Average top 50/100/200 goalscorer's Goals per match. And then Average top 50/100/200 batters Run per match.

Then, set that Average run per match= Average goals per match and work from that.

Yeah I know, too simple, but better than nothing.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
I read that don bradman was a staggering 4.4 standard deviations from the mean. And pele was 3.7 standard deviations from the mean, who had a goals per game ratio of 0.93.
It is said that a baseball batter would need to maintain a career batting average of .392 over his career and a basketball player would have to score 43 points per game to exert a similar level of dominance.
Then whats the equivalent for "Goals per game" in soccer for this?
Is it like saying scoring 3 to 4 goals per game over an entire career, to be considered of statistical equivalence to bradman's 99.94. I have been wanting to know this for a long time, so can anyone work this out?
The answer is Tranmere’s record away to Arsenal
 

DoomDivine

Cricket Spectator
Ok can anyone work out the soccer equivalent of 43 points by a player in an NBA game, how rare is it for an NBA player to score 43 points in a game, is like scoring 4 goals in a match?
 

weeman27bob

International Vice-Captain
Ok can anyone work out the soccer equivalent of 43 points by a player in an NBA game, how rare is it for an NBA player to score 43 points in a game, is like scoring 4 goals in a match?
In the NBA this season there's been about 450 games and 20 times a player has scored 43 points or more so c.4% of games.

In the Premier League this season there's been 178 games and one occasion where a player has scored 4+ goals.

So it's much rarer than 43 points for an NBA player.
 

DoomDivine

Cricket Spectator
I think its more or less equivalent to scoring a hattrick, in the premier league this season there have been 7 hattricks in 179 games, for a percentage of 3.9 percent, and last season there were 380 games played and 17 hattricks scored, so about the same 4.4 percent.

In the NBA this season there's been about 450 games and 20 times a player has scored 43 points or more so c.4% of games.

In the Premier League this season there's been 178 games and one occasion where a player has scored 4+ goals.

So it's much rarer than 43 points for an NBA player.
 

DoomDivine

Cricket Spectator
In the NBA this season there's been about 450 games and 20 times a player has scored 43 points or more so c.4% of games.

In the Premier League this season there's been 178 games and one occasion where a player has scored 4+ goals.

So it's much rarer than 43 points for an NBA player.
Can you pull out last seasons nba stats for the total number of players who scored 43 points a game?
 

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