STBR Stats

In international cricket, there's always great excitement when someone reaches something-thousand test runs, or something-hundred wickets, plays their one hundredth test, or scores their 100th international century. And so on.

Here's a quick look at some upcoming milestones (both good and bad) for the Popped Collars players.

Carrying on from yesterday when I said I had some ideas for things to check out with partnerships, here's just one of those ideas. Do our batsmen perform better or worse when they are in with their regular batting partner? For example, surely Brad and Sanjit drag each other down and up respectively.

Just a quick little one today. Partly because I don't have so much time, and partly because I'm running out of more exciting ideas. A few people have asked before about partnership stats, so here's a start.

There's a bunch of other things I can think of to do with the partnership numbers - I'll check them out on the weekend. For the moment, here's the basics for our most common batting pairs (at least 5 times batted together)

Another story from a few games back. Xavier bats with fill-in player Asif. Xavier plays a fairly regular kind of innings, except that he doesn't face many balls, and Asif continually gets run out off the few balls he does face. Xavier ends up with a score of 5, despite only losing 1 wicket himself. The claim is that this is the lowest score made by someone only getting out once.

Here are the highest and lowest scores, sorted by number of wickets lost...

Here's something interesting that happened a couple of weeks ago:
Popped Collars batted first with Jules and X posting the highest partnership for the team. When the opposition came into bat, they successfully chased that high skin, but lost all of the other three.

Has such a thing happened before?

With 2 consecutive weeks with no game for the Popped Collars, we all need something to fill the indoor cricket void. So here we go, with 7 short posts - 1 per day for the next week, leading up to our next game (presumably) next Tuesday night.

Today's Stat of the Day, as requested by Brad, is to look at the team's results based on how many players we have.

Eight players is a full team, and most of the time we have had that many. Although it does often feel that we have a disproportionately good record when we are missing players - which should be a disadvantage.
Here's what the stats tell us:

First season for the Popped Collars at Lyneham (or back at Lyneham) was a very mixed affair for the team, as we saw in the post the other day summarising the team's performances. Today we look at the individual players, and find a similar trend. We will also find out whether Rian was actually any good, and deserving of the competition MVP.