silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
All time bowling ratings (Statistical ranking by Silentstriker/aussie tragic)
Per this post, I've decided to rank the bowlers. This is purely based on the statistics, and it also includes the ICC rating, which incorporates things like the quality of opposing batsmen, etc.
If you want a specific bowler ranked, let me know, and I just have to input his stats into the spreadsheet. I ranked eight bowlers to get started...and here are the results:
Note: A rating of 100 based on this criteria implies the 'ideal' bowler (not 'perfect' because you can theoretically get >100 rating, but 'ideal').
Anyway, thoughts? Ideas? Remember, this is based purely on stats, but what stats count the most is based on opinion, and this isn't supposed to be the end all and be all of all bowler rankings. Special thanks to aussie tragic for coming up the idea and some of the formulas.
Per this post, I've decided to rank the bowlers. This is purely based on the statistics, and it also includes the ICC rating, which incorporates things like the quality of opposing batsmen, etc.
If you want a specific bowler ranked, let me know, and I just have to input his stats into the spreadsheet. I ranked eight bowlers to get started...and here are the results:
Note: A rating of 100 based on this criteria implies the 'ideal' bowler (not 'perfect' because you can theoretically get >100 rating, but 'ideal').
Top 20
- Marshall (97.23)
- McGrath (94.59)
- Donald (94.50)
- Ambrose (94.25)
- Trueman (94.20)
- Garner (93.605)
- Waqar (93.597)
- Hadlee (93.50)
- Davidson (93.46)
- Imran (91.48)
- Lillee (90.44)
- Holding (89.49)
- Pollock (88.79)
- Lindwall (88.67)
- Miller (87.77)
- Hall (87.12)
- Akram (86.71)
- Hall (86.56)
- Walsh (86.17)
- Pathan (71.95)
Anyway, thoughts? Ideas? Remember, this is based purely on stats, but what stats count the most is based on opinion, and this isn't supposed to be the end all and be all of all bowler rankings. Special thanks to aussie tragic for coming up the idea and some of the formulas.
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