Let's say we get a new Bradman...what happens?

[Agent Nationaux]

Jahangir Khan > Bradman

 

[The Sean]

Jahangir Khan > Bradman

Heather McKay > Jahangir Khan.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

I'm happy with that.

The greatest sportsperson is Heather Mackay and then Jahangir.

 

[Goughy]

Shamelessly plagiarized from Wikipedia on how many standard deviations from the mean Bradman was - beyond any other sportsman in history.

Athlete	Sport	Statistic	Standard deviations
Don Bradman	Cricket	Batting average	4.4
Pelé	Association Football	Goals per game	3.7
Ty Cobb	Baseball	Batting average	3.6
Michael Jordan	Basketball	Points per game	3.4

"The statistics show that "no other athlete dominates an international sport to the extent that Bradman does cricket". In order to post a similarly dominant career statistic as Bradman, a baseball batter would need a career batting average of .392, while a basketball player would need to score an average of 43.0 points per game. The respective records are .366 and 30.1."

All the sports mentioned there have different roles.

I thought I would have a look at darts where all participants have the exact same aim (no pun intended.)

My maths isnt quite what it was but Phil Taylor has a 9 dart average 3 SD away from that of the professional dart player mean (players in past 35 years with over 20 pro appearances - there are 131 of them)

 

[Goughy]

Heather Mackay > Jahangir Khan.

I'm happy with that.

The greatest sportsperson is Heather Mackay and then Jahangir.

So the greatest sportsperson is someone who we cannot spell the name of correctly?

 

[The Sean]

So the greatest sportsperson is someone who we cannot spell the name of correctly?

Ha ha, awful from me there. Have corrected.

 

[viriya]

I know it's not an exact conversion, but is there a rough rule of thumb for how those hourly rates might convert to strike rates?

I've calculated Test batting SRs of players with no balls faced data using minutes played and overall minutes to balls values for the innings to scale. Bradman's estimate is 60.96 - Lara/Hayden/Pietersen level, but since his era SR is lower, you could argue more like Sehwag/Gilly.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I've calculated Test batting SRs of players with no balls faced data using minutes played and overall minutes to balls values for the innings to scale. Bradman's estimate is 60.96 - Lara/Hayden/Pietersen level, but since his era SR is lower, you could argue more like Sehwag/Gilly.

What's your estimate for guys like Compton, Hammond, etc? I'd say they'd be in the 45-55 range. They certainly had a reputation for scoring really quickly when in the mood.

 

[viriya]

What's your estimate for guys like Compton, Hammond, etc? I'd say they'd be in the 45-55 range. They certainly had a reputation for scoring really quickly when in the mood.

Compton 41.83
Hammond 45.01
cricrate | Best Test Batting Careers

I've replaced the overall SR with the modified one where possible for every old era player.

 

[Red]

I've replaced the overall SR with the modified one where possible for every old era player.

What does this mean?

 

[viriya]

What does this mean?

For some players there are no balls faced data but there's minutes played data.. In those cases I use the overall overs bowled in the innings (which is always there) and the total minutes and scale the estimated balls faced per batsman.
If there's any balls faced data that would take priority of course.