Bad quality but suffices

Prior goat

So good. Always seems to come up with the goods with the bat, especially it seems when the top order batsmen have failed, Prior seems to love that situation.

Monty!!

@MichaelVaughan

"Jesse Ryder was attacked on the street last night and has a fractured skull and is currently in Intensive care..."

@selvecricket

"Jesse Ryder beaten up outside Chistchurch fast food joint at midnight last night. Fractured skull and in intensive care. Critical condition."

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****, that's awful, hope he recovers

Anyone wants to play ipl fantasy?

https://fantasy.iplt20.com

Made my team let's see how we do.

lol Sunrisers stuggling to chase 115..

Runs have been harder to come by this IPL season.

I've been wondering, what the hell is a "sunriser"?

God knows.

They're owned by a TV channel named Sun TV, which is where the name comes from

Just saying...Gayle shouldn't be able to dominate games so consistently. He's a beast!

Gayle's stats is this format of the game are Bradmanesque.

In IPL:

Highest average of 51.25. Second highest is Shawn Marsh with 45.
Second highest strike rate of 161. Highest is Sehwag with 166.
Highest amount of sixes with 143 in just 48 matches. Second highest is Raina who's wayy behind with 97 from 82 matches.

So he's 1,2,1 in the 3 most important metrics, and the guys close to him are different in each metric. To have the highest average with the second highest SR, while hitting by far the most amount of sixes is unreal. If there wasn't a salary cap I woudn't be surprised if some team paid like $10m for him.

I was talking to a poker friend of mine about the IPL in general, and how there is certainly a lot of room for a "Moneyball" type of approach the auction rather then just blindly picking players like Maxwell for a casual million.

The actual discussion was what metrics would be the "On-Base %" in how important it is in the judging of players.

Strike-Rate sounds like the most important aspect, and probably is, but sure average, 4/6%, number of balls per innings ave, has to play into this magical formula to devise the worth of a player.

Its pretty obvious that the teams have in the past made a lot of mistakes (Royal Challengers Bangalore season 1 the obvious choice with a top order of Dravid and Kallis among others) but yeah, thoughts?

lol RP Singh.

Sick finish.

It's the first time I've seen both teams celebrating simultaneously at the end of a game.

I don't know why they let Mohammed Asif bowl that last ball.

Ridiculous no ball from RP! That was a huge overstep

lolol RCB.

Needed 24 off 4 overs with 8 wickets in hand.

Collapsed to a tie.

Their 2nd super over in 6 games. One game they lost at the last ball.

Kohli lost his **** when he got out!

In his post-match presentation: "I would have been really angry if we had lost today."

He's going to get in trouble for his behaviour soon.

To analyze batting I would start with 2 basic metrics. One based on average, and the other on strike rate.

Balls per dismissal: How many balls faced per dismissal. Now this has to account for not-outs (i.e. batting position). Especially in T20 with so many not-outs.

Runs per ball: i.e. Strike rate.

Balls per dismissal is surely important even in T20. Especially for top order batsmen, because wickets are limited.

Six rate/Four rate: Number of sixes/fours per 100 balls. Obviously hugely important in T20s.

Running between wickets: This is interesting. With play-by-play data you could built metrics to measure how often batsmen "get the second run" etc. Where they pick up extra runs here and there based on good running. It's obviously complicated by having a running partner.

Over adjusted stats: With so much data available, it makes sense to look at time phased stats. Stats in the powerplay or death overs can't be fairly compared to middle over stats. Although in T20 I think in general it's best to bat aggressive all the way through (not "save" yourself until the death). One needs to weigh the value of the above stats based on the situation.

Finally I think you have to adjust for situation/leverage. Your stats should be normalized based on required run rate (second innings). I'm not sure how to normalize first innnings stats. But I guess something based on average score at that ground, or overall average score.

lol Pune

yea wtf just saw the final score.

I was assuming they'd won.

Had my first cricket bet on Hyderabad yesterday and watched my first match. Enjoyed it even though it was going terribly for most of the game. Got a few questions about game props.

I've looked at a few Highest Scoring Opening Partnership lines, and it seems the odds on both teams are always the same, showing no preference for the match favorite. Seems pretty weird to me?

Also, just looking at tomorrow's match on bovada, Chennai is favored, but the odds for Most Sixes are again equal on both sides. Not sure if this is the norm also.

I haven't done any research yet so maybe I just don't have a good understanding of cricket, but both cases seem bizarre to me as somebody new to the sport. Also seems like it's too obvious to be something the market would get systematically wrong though, so I guess there's a reason?