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Fielding in focus for Australia's selectors | cricket.com.au
Australia have a new way of analysing fielding stats. They combine errors and wickets to figure out a player's impact factor over their domestic career.
The article looks at Carey, Nevill and Wade and comes to the conclusion that Carey has the most impact and Nevill has the least.
My commentary:
I really do like the idea of tracking fielding stats but I think the simplistic analysis offered here is awful. For one they're combining first class and list A, which is presumably why Wade's strike rate is much higher than Nevill's, giving him a bigger impact factor despite making the same number of errors and taking 41 fewer wickets.
Any system which rates Wade higher than Nevill is obviously broken and needs fixing.
Australia have a new way of analysing fielding stats. They combine errors and wickets to figure out a player's impact factor over their domestic career.
The article looks at Carey, Nevill and Wade and comes to the conclusion that Carey has the most impact and Nevill has the least.
My commentary:
I really do like the idea of tracking fielding stats but I think the simplistic analysis offered here is awful. For one they're combining first class and list A, which is presumably why Wade's strike rate is much higher than Nevill's, giving him a bigger impact factor despite making the same number of errors and taking 41 fewer wickets.
Any system which rates Wade higher than Nevill is obviously broken and needs fixing.