STBR Stats

A couple of weeks ago the Popped Collars racked up a big win (237-87), with only 6 players, over “6 & Out” (the team one of our occasional subs, Matt, plays for). After the game I noted in an email to team-mates a few records that we appeared to have set during the game. With my stats not up to date, however, I was unable to confirm that they were in fact records. I will do this now...

Indeed, I have been a bit slack on the ol' stats recently. I've always been thinking that I need to build the X-treme Stats program more and more, but doing that takes a lot of time, which I don't usually have. So I've decided to take a new approach. I will still endeavor to upgrade the program when I can, but I will also be handing out all sorts of interesting numbers here, inspired by events and achievements in recent games, recent records, or whatever other random things I feel like looking at for the week.

After getting a bit behind the times over the change-of-season, I've now updated my database with all the Popped Collars matches. The GG team info is still in the form of a pile of scorecards on my desk at the moment. So for the time being, stats will only come from the original team.

If you still want to use the X-treme Stats program, I've uploaded the latest data file. So you can still check out your up-to-date graphs and basic stats. See the link at the top right of the blog.

For now, I shall set to work compiling my first batch of awesome stats, facts and lists for you, which shall appear in the coming days.

And just like Steven, from at the CricInfo website, feel free to send me your Popped Collars related questions.

I've been putting off writing this post because we always seem to have an upcoming match which could potentially turn the current "trio" into a "quad" or more. Indeed, the match the other day gave plenty of opportunities which no one was able to cash in on. Anyway... on with today's article....
Having played and umpired a lot of indoor cricket in my time, I can safely say that a batting partnership scoring a century is a very rare occurrence. And yet, in the last few weeks the Popped Collars and GG teams saw three of them scored in the space of 4 matches!

For anyone who wasn't there, sit right back and listen to the tale of tonight's indoor cricket game. For anyone who was there, sit back and re-live the event.

The story begins with the incomprehensible revelation earlier in the week that our Friday night 6-a-side team, "GGs", had been placed into D-Grade. That's right, a team made up mostly of players from a team which won the top division premiership last season at Weston had been placed in the 3rd of 4 grades at Lyneham. Don't forget that a couple of years ago the team abandoned Lyneham due to continued frustrations over their incompetence in grading teams properly. Well, now we are back, and that same incompetence has this time gone in our favour, rather than against us.

The story continues with a lot of people being unavailable to play, and no one being able to find people to fill in. Xavier and Brad decided that it didn't matter, and it would be an interesting challenge to try to take on a D-Grade team with only 4 players. So they did.

A new version of X-treme Stats is now uploaded. And it features GRAPHS!
Check out the classic bar graph showing players scores per innings over time. Also available for bowling performances.

Graphs can be found in 'Player Profiles' - there is a button on the batting tab, and another on the bowling tab. Very pretty.

At the moment it's just very simple. I just made sure it was working, and showing graphs correctly, but haven't added any detail or bonus features yet. More features to be added to this soon, including the line that shows how the players average changes over time.

Download here, or on the side-bar under "Latest Version"

Before we begin... the latest Stats Program and Stats Data are now permanently available in some links on the right hand side-bar of the blog ---->>

Popped Collars tonight showed that the key to success at indoor cricket is SERIOUSNESS! After spending many seasons, under many names, at various indoor cricket centers, unable to have any kind of success, the Popped Collars this season decided it was time to get serious - and it has payed off immediately, claiming the top grade premiership in their first "serious" season.

First off, you can download the new data file here, which now has the semi-final from Monday night included in it. Just replace the old "data.icd" file with this one.

Victory in the semi-final (against "Just One More", rather than "501" as I thought last week) takes us to the GRAND FINAL next week. Once again at our favourite time of 6:00!