STBR Stats

Last week was Gareth's 200th match for the Popped Collars and we celebrated with a good win over a very good opposition. Presumably we were inspired by Gareth personal milestone! If a few weeks time, Sanjit will reach 200 and Xavier 250 during the same match (assuming they both play all matches between now and then). Will we be inspired on that occasion as well? Will the individual players perform well? Or will the crumble under the pressure and emotion of the situation?
The stats cannot answer these questions (yet), but they can look at how players have performed in their milestone games in the past.

I didn't realise, but last week marked 5 years since this blog started!
Fortunately, someone else noticed, and at last week's match I was most honoured to be presented with a commemorative calculator.


Complete with a personalised inscription on the back.


I'm told that the Canon LS-80 is from 1982/83 (so it's the same age as me), making the calculator a wonderful and thoughtful momento of the occasion. Thanks Brad and team!

As Gareth said a few weeks ago, it must be about time for another "all time" or "career" stats update. The last time we had one was when we reached 200 matches. Tonight the Popped Collars will play their 248th and 249th matches in a double-header, presumably meaning that next week will see the 250-game milestone reached.

In the beginning, there was a team, and the captain said "Let us take this game a bit more seriously". And there was the Popped Collars. And we saw that it was good. And we kept stats, and started a blog. Readers of this blog know much of the story from that point on - mostly because many readers of this blog are the people that have been playing for that team since then.

But what about before the beginning? What was this team that became the Popped Collars?
This is something I've been planning to do for a while, and after working on it a bit at a time I now have enough to do a bit of a write-up. The information will be on a separate and permanent page which I will update if/when I gather more information, or if/when others provide me with more.

Two weeks ago, season 2014 came to an end with It's On Like Donkey Kong defeating Popped Collars in the B-Grade grand final. That match brought to an end the 10th season of existence for the Popped Collars team. In the coming weeks, there will be some blog posts to commemorate the milestone, but before that here are the stats for the season just gone.

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.

It's semi-final week, and time to inspire the troops to perform well. Here are a few quick stats to get you fired up for tonight's big game.