Summer 2010/11 Season Stats

Another season has come and passed. And what a season it was the the Popped Collars! From a team point of view, the season brought a minor premiership, and a grand final victory - their second title in three seasons. On an individual level, there were records galore - particularly on the batting side of things. With regard to stats, this season saw the introduction of fielding stats (catches taken, run-outs affected, and stumpings made), which will be properly looked at for the first time here.


Let's start with the standard and popular stuff. Totals and averages for batting, bowling, fielding, and contribution.

Bowling

After topping the bowling averages for the last two seasons, including a record average of less than 4.5 runs per over last time, Xavier was the big mover in the bowling stats. Down. All the way. Even Julian, the team's self-proclaimed worst bowler, had a better average than Mr.X this season. He can, however, take consolation in the fact that among the semi-regular players, he did rank above Matt.

At the other end of the scale, Rian upped his average and his ranking to take out the top bowler spot. His average of just 3.74 runs per over put him well clear of the pack of regular players. However, it was again a semi-regular player who claimed the extremity of the rankings. Jim played 8 games for the team, and his 16 overs brought him figures of 16/45 - an exquisite average of 2.81 runs per over.

Brad notched up a personal best season with the ball which, combined with his high number of matches played, gave him the most wickets (62) for the season.

Here are the bowling stats for season "Summer 2010/11"
The final column is the players average figures in a match rounded off to whole numbers.

Name	Overs	Wickets	Runs	RPO	Average
Jim	16	18	45	2.81	2/6
Rian	43	50	161	3.74	2/7
Andy	56	49	278	4.96	2/10
Brad	57	62	301	5.28	2/11
Sanjit	39	38	259	6.64	2/13
Jake	43	42	317	7.37	2/15
Julian	49	48	376	7.67	2/15
Gareth	37	40	287	7.76	2/16
Xavier	55	33	430	7.82	1/16
Matt	17	10	185	10.88	1/22

Batting

In this category also, the old record was broken. Julian's superb 24.40 average last season stood as the best, until two people knocked it off this time. Rian's 25.43 average this season included everything: two negative scores, five scores above 40 in his last 10 innings of the season including that score of 77 which was his only half-century.

But it seems that consistency is the better way to go, because it was Xavier - making up for his disappointing bowling - who topped the averages. His 27 innings included only 3 single-figure scores, and three half-centuries. He also lost less wickets than any of the other regular 8 players despite playing the second most innings.

Following on from that, the other interesting batting stat was this:
Xavier was out an average of 1.19 times per innings. Second best in this category - despite having the lowest average - was Sanjit, with just 1.67 outs per innings.

Here's the batting list.

Name	Innings	Runs	Outs	Average
Xavier	27	721	32	26.70
Rian	21	534	43	25.43
Julian	24	517	54	21.54
Andy	32	669	60	20.91
Jim	8	160	20	20.00
Brad	26	510	57	19.62
Jake	21	386	39	18.38
Gareth	17	252	37	14.82
Sanjit	21	295	35	14.05
Matt	9	57	22	6.33

Fielding

I have finally collated all of my scribbled notes taken while out in the field, and I now present the fielding stats for the season.

First of all, note that run-outs are only ever counted to one person. So a decent throw to the bowler or keeper will give the run-out to the thrower.

The stats show that Xavier had the most catches for the season - but that may be biased in that only games that he played had fielding stats counted. So averages per match is a better measure, in which case Julian takes top place. And probably also tops the "most catches with one hand" category too. Rian is second and Jake third.

The run-out king is unsurprisingly Andy. As the regular keeper, he gets a lot of third-dot balls (and regular balls for that matter) that are missed, or just trickle away off the body. Of the other fielders, Jim and Xavier top the averages, with Brad just a tick behind.

Stumpings for the season were obviously dominated by Andy, but Xavier, Julian, Brad and Rian got at least one each.

Here be the list of totals

Name	Catches	Run-outs	Stump	Total
Andy	23	30	25	78
Xavier	31	27	9	67
Julian	30	12	3	45
Brad	18	24	1	43
Rian	24	14	1	39
Jake	21	11		32
Sanjit	15	9		24
Gareth	9	10		19
Jim	1	7		8
Matt	3	3		6

And here is the averages per match

Name	Matches	Catches	Run-outs	Stump	Total
Andy	26	0.88	1.15	0.96	3.00
Xavier	27	1.15	1.00	0.33	2.48
Julian	23	1.30	0.52	0.13	1.96
Rian	20	1.20	0.70	0.05	1.95
Brad	25	0.72	0.96	0.04	1.72
Jake	20	1.05	0.55	0	1.6
Sanjit	18	0.83	0.50	0	1.33
Gareth	16	0.56	0.63	0	1.19
Jim	7	0.14	1.00	0	1.14
Matt	8	0.38	0.38	0	0.75

Contribution

It should be obvious from the stats above that Rian was the Popped Collars player of the season. His average contribution was close to 18 - a long way clear of anyone, and even further clear of any regular players.

The team's success this season can be seen through the fact that only one of the regular eight had a negative contribution. And that was Gareth, the least regular of the regulars.

Name	Batting	Bowling	Contribution
Rian	25.43	7.49	+17.94
Jim	20.00	5.63	+14.38
Xavier	26.70	15.64	+11.07
Andy	20.91	9.93	+10.98
Brad	19.62	10.56	+9.05
Julian	21.54	15.35	+6.19
Jake	18.38	14.74	+3.64
Sanjit	14.05	13.28	+0.77
Gareth	14.82	15.51	-0.69
Matt	6.33	21.76	-15.43