Rob Eastaway

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More or Less · More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego · 30 Nov 2012 podcast

So they will tend to deaden over your career or average moves less and less the more matches that you've played.

One other flaw is that you can actually distort your average by having plenty of innings that are not out.

So it would be possible for a really hopeless batsman coming in at the end to score one run and be out and then for his next 99 innings get one not out, one not out.

And he'd end up with an average of 100, which might imply he's a great batsman.

In fact, he just strung together a whole series of not out innings.

Well, that's a really interesting point.

And cricketers would argue that either way.

So a consistent back, it's nice to have someone you know you can rely on, a good solid back.

base for the team to build their innings around someone who scores 50 every time and someone like Andrew Strauss who's now retired was a good consistent batsman but then yes they're unlikely to be the ones who do the spectacular match winning performance as Kevin Peterson did last week with his 186.

If you're playing against a really strong side like Australia, then it's going to be harder to score runs than if you're playing against one of the weaker sides like Bangladesh.

So what you'd really want to do is adjust the runs for the context of the game to say who's it against and what proportion of the team's runs are you actually scoring against.

Yeah, there is some truth in that.

If you look at just proportion of teams runs scored, for example, Kevin Peterson's close to 15% of, you know, when he plays, he scores about that, whereas Ian Bell is 12.5%.

So there's quite a gap there.

He's about average, as it were.

One way you'd look at this would be looking at a player's scores and looking at what's called the standard deviation of those scores, how much they tend to fluctuate from the average.

And Peterson is actually fairly middling in terms of that.

In the long run, the cricket statistics don't lie that a batsman's average over his whole career gives a pretty good indication of how good he is.

I think cricket is a harder sport for the analysts to work off data from and make decisions on compared to other sports, partly because the number of data points is actually rather small.

You don't play that many innings.

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