Cricket Stats
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It’s near impossible to traverse an article written about sports statistics or sabermetrics without stumbling across a reference to ‘Moneyball’, so I may as well start with one. In an early part of the film Peter Brand (played by Jonah Hill), walks Billy through “the board”. Displayed upon it is “Bill James’ Pythagorean Expectation formula”…
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Cricket pitches are different sizes. This is an inherently obvious fact, but one which is excluded when cricket statistics are involved. Two major factors contribute to differences in cricket grounds: length of boundaries and preparation of the wicket. Baseball traverses the issue through the use of park factors to account for varying field sizes, which…
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