STBR Stats

Following the success of the Popped Collars last season, Friday night saw the claiming of a second consecutive premiership for the team through their offshoot 6-a-side institution, GG. The Grand Final victory was made all the more sweet by the fact that it was over a extremely vocal Indian Kangaroos - the team's arch rivals throughout the competition.

And now for something completely different...

This comes from an article detailing the amount of money spent on television advertising by the various parties during this election campaign. Hidden among the "...millions of dollars" spent and "...thousands of advertisements" screened by the major parties comes this pure-gold statistic:

"the Communist Alliance recorded the most modest spend, airing one advertisement, just once, for an estimated outlay of $76"

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?

Rian, once again, offers the inspiration for today's post by suggesting something unrelated to statistics. After the infamous organisational skills of the NICC were displayed yet again on Friday night, Rian asked for a list of some of the great stuff-ups of everyone's "favourite" indoor cricket centre.

While such disorganisation has been common, I am struggling to recall any such incidents that would stand out as being "great". In fact, there's been so many minor stuff-ups that I can't really remember any of them specifically.

I'm therefore gunning for something more exciting, and something that all of you, my dedicated readers, can contribute to. A list of the "greatest" moment in indoor cricket... or at least, moments in the history of indoor cricket that we have been involved with.

Post a comment, or send me an email reminding me of (or describing, if for some reason I wasn't around at the time) some of the great indoor cricket tales.

It could be a thrilling match, an epic individual performance, an unlikely turn of events, a humerous off-court anecdote, an extraordinary single moment in time, a classic ongoing gag, a memorable character from the past... or whatever else you feel is appropriate. It could be from Popped Collars, or any of its predecessor teams - or from any other team or time in our, or your, past.

I already have a short list that I am compiling on my own, but I would appreciate anything that others have to say. Having played somewhere in the vicinity of 500 games of indoor in my life, and umpired another couple of hundred, I'm bound to forget plenty of the best parts.

...and more stats shall be coming later in the week, after tonight's Popped Collars game!

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.