Yet another random statistical measure of batsmen

[Prince EWS]

Same qualification, but only taking into account games since 2006

			Eff Avg	Weight


KC Sangakkara (SL)	82.92	0.50157
Mohammad Yousuf (Pak)	78.88	0.44989
Younis Khan (Pak)	76.81	0.42529
DPMD Jayawardene (SL)	73.09	0.38433
JH Kallis (SA)		71.99	0.37285
MJ Clarke (Aus)		71.78	0.37070
JE Root (Eng)		70.78	0.36065
HM Amla (SA)		70.68	0.35970
SPD Smith (Aus)		69.13	0.34455
DA Warner (Aus)		68.49	0.33853
AB de Villiers (SA)	67.98	0.33379
KP Pietersen (Eng)	67.93	0.33327
CA Pujara (Ind)		67.25	0.32701
V Sehwag (Ind)		66.21	0.31762
RT Ponting (Aus)	65.96	0.31543
MEK Hussey (Aus)	65.65	0.31274
AN Cook (Eng)		65.43	0.31082
SM Katich (Aus)		65.38	0.31039
S Chanderpaul (WI)	65.09	0.30786
V Kohli (Ind)		65.01	0.30716
KS Williamson (NZ)	64.69	0.30434
SR Tendulkar (Ind)	64.67	0.30421
TT Samaraweera (SL)	64.08	0.29916
F du Plessis (SA)	63.79	0.29669
G Gambhir (Ind)		63.52	0.29448
GC Smith (SA)		63.40	0.29344
M Vijay (Ind)		63.15	0.29139
TM Dilshan (SL)		62.29	0.28432
R Dravid (Ind)		61.97	0.28172
IJL Trott (Eng)		61.73	0.27986
DM Bravo (WI)		60.65	0.27128
Azhar Ali (Pak)		60.45	0.26976
LRPL Taylor (NZ)	60.14	0.26734
W Jaffer (Ind)		60.03	0.26650
Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak)	59.62	0.26332
IR Bell (Eng)		59.16	0.25984
RR Sarwan (WI)		58.89	0.25780
A Symonds (Aus)		58.71	0.25648
CH Gayle (WI)		58.67	0.25615
PD Collingwood (Eng)	58.65	0.25604
ML Hayden (Aus)		58.52	0.25505
MJ North (Aus)		58.31	0.25348
AJ Strauss (Eng)	58.06	0.25164
AG Prince (SA)		57.85	0.25015
Mohammad Hafeez (Pak)	57.77	0.24954
Tamim Iqbal (Ban)	57.15	0.24500
BB McCullum (NZ)	55.97	0.23664
JD Ryder (NZ)		55.78	0.23528
Asad Shafiq (Pak)	55.76	0.23514
CJL Rogers (Aus)	55.42	0.23279
SC Ganguly (Ind)	55.38	0.23252
AD Mathews (SL)		55.36	0.23239
MN Samuels (WI)		55.02	0.23005
KC Brathwaite (WI)	54.87	0.22898
VVS Laxman (Ind)	54.84	0.22880
Taufeeq Umar (Pak)	52.84	0.21542
BJ Watling (NZ)		51.98	0.20983
Shakib Al Hasan (Ban)	51.49	0.20671
PJ Hughes (Aus)		50.30	0.19925
MP Vaughan (Eng)	50.19	0.19858
MS Dhoni (Ind)		49.04	0.19156
AN Petersen (SA)	48.96	0.19108
SR Watson (Aus)		48.82	0.19021
DL Vettori (NZ)		48.50	0.18833
Shoaib Malik (Pak)	48.33	0.18731
JP Duminy (SA)		48.12	0.18604
MJ Prior (Eng)		48.01	0.18544
JK Silva (SL)		47.97	0.18518
BP Nash (WI)		47.57	0.18284
Kamran Akmal (Pak)	46.73	0.17795
Yuvraj Singh (Ind)	46.25	0.17523
Umar Akmal (Pak)	44.90	0.16767
Imrul Kayes (Ban)	44.53	0.16561
Mushfiqur Rahim (Ban)	43.69	0.16106
EJM Cowan (Aus)		43.37	0.15934
KOA Powell (WI)		43.34	0.15915
MJ Guptill (NZ)		43.20	0.15840
BJ Haddin (Aus)		43.15	0.15815
R Ashwin (Ind)		40.74	0.14565
Imran Farhat (Pak)	40.55	0.14466
NT Paranavitana (SL)	39.68	0.14029
HAPW Jayawardene (SL)	39.65	0.14015
Mahmudullah (Ban)	39.00	0.13694
Shahriar Nafees (Ban)	38.42	0.13413
DJ Bravo (WI)		37.32	0.12886
Salman Butt (Pak)	36.36	0.12435
MV Boucher (SA)		35.32	0.11957
D Ramdin (WI)		34.69	0.11670
A Flintoff (Eng)	31.61	0.10321
DR Flynn (NZ)		28.50	0.09039

 

[Prince EWS]

If you want to know the score of a player who isn't on the all-time list because of the qualification, or the score of a player between two dates, let me know and I'll give it to you.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'll edit in the 'effective averages' in a few minutes.

 

[honestbharani]

SehWAG > Ponting.. What all comparison threads should show, tbh..

 

[Spark]

0.5 over ten years is just nuts

 

[honestbharani]

An interesting trend there is that the top 4, since 2006 are Pak and SL batsmen... Is there a way to factor in home/away kinda split here?

 

[Prince EWS]

I'll edit in the 'effective averages' in a few minutes.

Have done this now.

 

[Spark]

An interesting trend there is that the top 4, since 2006 are Pak and SL batsmen... Is there a way to factor in home/away kinda split here?

Why? This isn't intended as an overall measure of a batsman's quality.

 

[honestbharani]

No.. just to understand where the big runs are scored... We have an idea but it would be nice to see if the actual numbers back them up.

 

[Spark]

Shane Watson is sandwiched between Alviro Petersen and Dan Vettori on the 2006- list...

 

[wellAlbidarned]

nerds

nah this is actually pretty cool.

 

[mightymariner]

Wow, great stuff. Love Root being so far up the lists to, bonus.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

One thing I'd be interested to see is a measure of a batsman's skill of batting with the tail - perhaps some sort of weighting based on runs scored in proportion to their partner?

 

[Coronis]

Shane Watson is sandwiched between Alviro Petersen and Dan Vettori on the 2006- list...

Sounds about right tbh.

 

[Dan]

Harsh on Vettori IMO

 

[Prince EWS]

Harsh on Vettori IMO

It actually is. I'm sure he's been unfairly punished by the fact that not outs aren't treated any differently from outs. If we fixed that up I bet Vettori would be ahead of Watson since 2006.

 

[mightymariner]

Was looking earlier how all of our openers since Strauss compared with this, thought might share:

Name		Eff Avg	Weight
Compton		0.167 	44.78
Root		0.283 	62.12
Carberry	0.103 	31.56
Robson		0.194 	49.44
Trott		0.049 	17.10
Lyth		0.265 	59.84

Cook		0.302 	64.41

Was also hoping that Ian Bell doesn't look so great in the same time period, but is turns out his effective average is 53
Actually that's still quite a hit from the 2006-now ranking

Kinda tempted to have a look into something like this for bowlers itbt, quite a bit harder tho

 

[Spark]

53 is awful though for an established Test player. This is most definitely something that should improve with time. (although of course that may be his lower overall average, but I think it's but poor absolute average and poor conversion)

It actually is. I'm sure he's been unfairly punished by the fact that not outs aren't treated any differently from outs. If we fixed that up I bet Vettori would be ahead of Watson since 2006.

if only someone had asked you over skype to do another list where this is taken into account...

 

[NZTailender]

I like this, mostly because it lines up with my personal opinions on who is better than who

 

[Howe_zat]

I don't think you can use this as a measure of overall ability as according to the graph, going from 80 to 160 is much more important than going from 0 to 80. It's useful to be able to measure that aspect of batting, but in a match situation going from 0 to 80 is going to be at least as important, and probably more so, than going from 80 to 160.