- Jul 6, 2012
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Damn, missed this yesterday.
Your batting average is not your average amount of runs per innings, but your average amount of runs per wicket.
Crudely speaking, if you have a batting average of 50 and you end one match 25 not out, you could expect to score another 25 in your next match/innings before getting out. Though to be fair, there are so many variables in cricket - location, weather, opposition, state of game, that a batting average is something to look at over the long term rather than series to series (as much as I love a graph!).
Thanks, but the sentence I've highlighted illustrates the point I've been trying to make perfectly.
The on-screen stat graphic when a batsman comes in to bat, is presented simply as:
1) Number of Innings
2) Number of runs
3) Average runs scored
Anyone coming into cricket for the first time would look at that and say 'Hang on a minute, WTF is that all about? That's not the average number of runs he's scored per the number of innings he's played, according to those stats'
But nowhere in the quoted stats does it explain how the average has been calculated.
How is anyone supposed to know, simply by looking at the stats on the screen how many times he's kept his bat, and how many times he's been out? Maybe the on-screen stats graphic should tell us, rather than quote a figure as an average which appears on the face of it to be nothing of the sort.
Surely to God somebody out there understands my point and actually agrees with me!!
I rest my case m'luds.
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