The best way to measure a player's peak (test cricket)

[benchmark00]

Quality/price of food available for the crowd at the venue should come in to consideration as well, as it would effect the mood of the crowd considerably. High sugar and fat content, and a higher price will make a crowd more reactionary and antagonistic, making batting concentration difficult. By contrast, players who perform well at venues with lower priced, more healthy food should be rated more harshly than the others.

Yes that is indeed true.

A quick internet search and a few phone calls will also result in you having access to police reports from the days of those matches under Freedom of Information laws. From those reports you can get an idea of whether the crowd was rowdy or well behaved.

 

[Days of Grace]

Do your rankings take into consideration total crowd attendance throughout the duration of the innings? I feel innings where there are more people in the stands are of better quality.

Crowd figures are available on the series pages on cricinfo, and for the historical matches of 50+ years ago I think it would be accurate to take the total population of the town/city where the match is being played and find an average percentage of cricket game attendance in relation to total population.

Cheers.

Factored in at 1.15% of total rating.

 

[benchmark00]

As expected.

 

[Red]

Factored in at 1.15% of total rating.

 

[Burgey]

Best way to measure a peak is to find a method which puts whichever of Ponting/ Lara/ Tendulkar you like the most at the highest point, compared with whichever of Ponting/ Tendulkar/ Lara you like the least.

 

[Jono]

And whatever that measurement finds, you have Kallis ahead of them. Isn't that right Burgey?

 

[Top_Cat]

The only peak relevant to Kallis is the peak in the shorts number slaves get when he hits YAIT*






*(Yet Another Inconsequential Ton. They love their acronyms; I'm meeting you half-way, ****ers.).

 

[Jono]

Aren't you a stats geek yourself?

 

[Top_Cat]

Yes which means, unlike said stats nerds, I actually understand statistics.

 

[uvelocity]

don't understand stamps itbt