Bijed
International Regular
Having been involved in a bit of discussion recently about consistency vs conversion, the relative value of a 50 compare to a duck and a 100 compared to a 50, I got curious about which scores are made how often and all that, so I got a list of all the innings by top 6 batsmen (would have included nightwatchmen, but this should be a very small amount) played in the last 5 years (about 4,400 individual innings) and generated a graph showing the frequency with which each score from 0-319 has occurred. Given the commonly held perceptions about when a player is considered 'in', I was expecting to see maybe a steepish curve from 0 to the 30-40 range, which would be a local minimum, the rebounding back up a bit before dropping away as you get to the really big scores.
What you basically get is a sort of exponential curve down from the dreaded duck (which occurs massively more often than any other score) with a few sort of local peaks along the way - I'll see if those disappear if I include data from a few more years back.
Now, this wasn't exactly what I'd expected to see. Does this mean (and I ask this knowing that I can be quite bad at interpreting data) that the concept of getting in/throwing away a start isn't really a thing?
What you basically get is a sort of exponential curve down from the dreaded duck (which occurs massively more often than any other score) with a few sort of local peaks along the way - I'll see if those disappear if I include data from a few more years back.
Now, this wasn't exactly what I'd expected to see. Does this mean (and I ask this knowing that I can be quite bad at interpreting data) that the concept of getting in/throwing away a start isn't really a thing?