STBR Stats

It's Grand Final week - Popped Collars take on It's On Like Donkey Kong at 6:50pm today in the "B-Grade" decider.
Also, in last weeks' blog, I may have incorrectly quoted our overall win/loss percentage. In an attempt to rectify that, and to see what chance we have of winning tonight's big game, here are a few quick Popped Collars win percentages.

Last week, Popped Collars won a thrilling game, getting home by just 2 runs after Gareth safely wafted at the final ball wide outside the off stump, while Rian invoked Gandhi at the other end. When the stats were compiled, it turned out that only 2 players from the winning team made positive contributions - and one of them was only +1. With that introduction, I'll leave you to deduce the obvious topic of this post.

After an opposition forfeit two weeks ago, the Popped Collars next great milestone was delayed by a week. But, assuming we play tonight, we will be finishing off the year with the team's 200th game!!

It's Grand Final week. The second season of Kaleen's return to hosting indoor cricket, and the same two teams as last time will contest the deciding game.

Gold Diggers have dominated this season's competition, losing just one of their 23 matches during the regular season - although they have had to fight hard for some of those wins, with their opponents getting within 10 runs on four occasions. All four of those matches, as well as their only loss, came in the second half of the season.

The Popped Collars have dominated the rest of the competition. Excluding games against Gold Diggers, they have 15 wins from 17 matches, with only two close-fought victories (single figure margin). On top of those stats, both teams had relatively comfortable wins in their semi-finals last week.

A few weeks ago, we saw that Gold Diggers have all 4 wins in matches between the two teams. Today, we will take a brief look back at those four eventful matches as we head into tonight's big game...

It's the end of another season. Popped Collars have, once again, made the finals. Who will step up in these sudden-death, high-pressure matches? Who will be inspired by the occasion to perform well? Who will crumble under the weight of expectation? Who knows.... but we can look back, and see who has done it in the past!
Making the finals is a fairly regular occurrence for the Popped Collars. In fact, the only season we didn't make the finals was that final season at Lyneham when we were constantly behind on our match fees and so got no points for all our wins. If I recall correctly, we won enough matches to have finished somewhere in the top 2 if we had paid up.

Last week the Popped Collars took on arch nemesis The Gold Diggers, and for the fourth time in four matches, the Gold Diggers came away with the win. It's not very often they go so many matches without getting the better of a particular team. Today we're looking at the Popped Collars win-loss record against individual opposing teams.
These stats today include both Popped Collars and GG matches. Why? Because I forgot to exclude the GG games until it was going to be too much effort to go back and do it again.

There has been some kind of technical difficulties. With this weeks article 90% written, the "edit post" webpage somehow deleted the whole thing. And because it auto-saves, I couldn't get it back! So here is a quickly re-written abbreviated version of this week's stats...