STBR Stats

Following on from yesterday's match-report, today I present some specific stats, facts and figures from the match. A few records were set, or came very close to being set - mostly of the unsuccessful variety. However, several goals were achieved and milestones reached during the game to ensure that it wasn't all bad... just the result of the game was. The individual performances are shown in the "stat of the week" section on the left of the page.

During the one-season lifetime of our Friday night team, GG, there was often a need for our players to compete among themselves - because the opposition were not providing any challenge. The most common game was for the batters in a particular pair to see who could hit the most sevens in their four overs.

On the other side of the coin, Popped Collars, our "pro team", are occasionally excited about (or bagging out the opposition for) playing "pro-style indoor" - that is, hitting lots of safe twos.

So today I'm going to check out the most of each scoring shot that has been achieved by a batsman in an innings.

First things first - I'm moving house this week, and so the cricket scorecards are all packed away, and so I'm still using stats that are a few weeks behind. But that's fine.

This week's question comes from someone on the team. I don't remember who, and it took me a long time to remember what it was. The question was this:

Who has been out the most times while still mangaging to make a positive score?

Note: I've just realised I'm getting all the stats for this weeks posts from a version of my database that is a few games behind. But that's fine, we'll just pretend I wrote it a few weeks ago. I'll make sure I check which version I'm using in future...

...And now for a look at the performance of batsmen on jackpot balls.

In recent posts I've looked at "Going For The 9" and "Rage" (multiple types). Today we investigate the validity of another common catch-cry of the Popped Collars team, by finding out who truly holds the title of "Jackpot Master"

As a continuation from the previous post, we're now looking at which bowlers recover best from a bad delivery. What are people's stats on the ball after they get hit for seven?

There's some very interesting results here.

We all know that rage is a big part of life among the Popped Collars players. Captain Brad leads from the front in the raging stakes - the most famous being the time he played it safe on the final ball of a skin by leaving the ball alone, only to be given out LBW, and lose the skin.

While there are no stats kept on actual rage levels reached by players during the game, we can assume that - when batting - the rage builds in any player after they lose a wicket. So in this - the first of 5 mini-blogs for the week - I will look at which batsmen perform the best on the ball after they lose a wicket.