Consistency within the team (now with bowling)

The scorecard for last week's game showed a very consistent batting performance from the Popped Collars' batters. Highest score 28, lowest 22. This was actually incorrect - the umpire was apparently incapable of adding up. Nevertheless, it gave us this week's stat-to-discuss.

First of all - if the scores the umpire had on the scorecard were correct, we would have smashed the record for consistent batting! The previous record for Popped Collars is 18 runs difference, and we would have had 6...!

As it turns out, even when the runs ARE added up correctly, we only miss our record by 1 run. The correct high and low scores last week should have been Gareth 37, Rian 18. (He had Gareth 27, Rian 28 - he just got the 'tens' wrong in his adding). That's only 19 runs difference. What's more, it's the second week in a row we have had that same result!

Date	Opponent	High Score	Low Score	Difference
12 Dec 2011	Pumpin Booty	Andy 35	Julian 17	18
6 Sep 2010	The Master 8s	Andy 24	Sanjit 5	19
12 Sep 2011	Pumpin Booty	Asif 28	Matt 9	19
2 Nov 2012	Tigers	Evan 35	Jake 16	19*
9 Nov 2012	Boom Boom	Gareth 37	Rian 18	19*

* marks a 6-a-side game

Our opponents are more consistent... that seems to be a common attribute of our team - we bowl more wides, lose more wickets but score more runs, etc. On 8 occasions, an opposing team has had closer scores. Here's the list.

Date	Team	High Score	Low Score	Difference
27 Sep 2010	Boonies	Sam 19	Pete 6	13
21Aug 2012	Choking Dogs	Happy 19	Slops 6	13
5 Oct 2012	The Groms	Imran 16	Ahmed 3	13*
10 May 2010	4 Skins	Steve 24	Danny 10	14
12 Sep 2011	Pumpin Booty	Jeff 24	Reece, Bucky 9	15
28 Feb 2011	4 Skins	Dylan 32	Joel 16	16
25 Jul 2011	Von STC Pumas	Brett 33	Alex 17	16
21 Feb 2011	Take That	Faiq 28	Chook 11	17

At the other end of the list, very clearly, and very unsurprisingly, is that classic game from early last year:
we were chasing 158, Rian (77) and Gareth (31) got us off to what could be called a "good start", and we ended up losing. Here's the most inconsistent batting matches.

Date	Batting	Bowling	High Score	Low Score	Difference
21 Feb 2011	Popped Collars	Take That	Rian 77	Matt -13	90
31 Oct 2011	Popped Collars	Can't Bat Can't Bowl	Rian 57	Sanjit - 12	69
5 Oct 2012	Popped Collars	The Groms	Rian 67	Gareth 0	67*
5 Oct 2009	Boonies	Popped Collars	Sam 46	Rod -18	64
10 Oct 2011	Popped Collars	I Got The Runs	Brad 64	Gareth 0	64

BOWLING
For the bowling version of this stat, I'm only counting everyone's first two overs in a match, to make it more comparable between players. Note that for batting, I was counting all 8 batting scores as separate innings (or 6 for the recent games at Kaleen), irrespective of who may have batted twice.

Stats for bowling is much more consistent for us. Perhaps not surprising; because we are missing players so often, we don't always have to compare 8 players in a match! We have once played a game where all 6 of our players had bowling figures within 3 runs of each other!!

In that match:

Player	Bowling
Evan	2/13
Brad	3/14
Evan	2/14
Matt	2/15
Rian	2/15
Sanjit	1/16

(The sub overs were not so consistent, ranging from 1/1 up to 1/21)

The overall record list for bowling features the Popped Collars much more prominently at the "consistent" end of the list...

Date	Bowling Team	Batting Team	Best Bowling	Worst Bowling	Number of Players	Difference
6 Mar 2012	Popped Collars	Four Skins	Evan 13	Sanjit 16	6	3
2 Nov 2009	Boonies	Popped Collars	Sam 16	Simmo 25	6	9
26 Apr 2010	Popped Collars	6 and Out	Gareth, Rian 8	A.Pearson 17	6	9
16 Nov 2009	501	Popped Collars	Shane 5	Nick W, Macca 16	8	11
15 Nov 2010	Popped Collars	Pidge's Coupe	Rian 11	Andy, Sanjit 22	8	11
22 Nov 2010	Take That	Popped Collars	Dennis 16	Joe 27	7	11

...and much less so at the "inconsistent" end.

Date	Bowling Team	Batting Team	Best Bowling	Worst Bowling	Number of Players	Difference
2 May 2011	Rebels	Popped Collars	Rod -38	Chris 29	7	67
29 Mar 2011	The Balbs	Popped Collars	Mick -7	Tim 58	8	65
22 Aug 2011	Squid Tubes	Popped Collars	Luke -11	Matt 50	8	61
31 Oct 2011	Can't Bat Can't Bowl	Popped Collars	Matt -7	Phil 54	8	61
9 Jan 2012	Popped Collars	Tuff Stuff	Rian -18	Daniel 41	8	59

Note that "number of players" refers to the number of people who played for the bowling team that game, so you can see the more impressive occasions with a full 8 players coming up with close stats.

And if you're wondering how someone managed to bowl -38 against us:
It was a "pro-team" (they smashed us), and it was their fielding rather than his bowling that beat us. Rod took 9 wickets. 6 of those wickets were run-outs. 2 of those run-outs were on double-score deliveries. In one of his overs, Brad made -23... (I'm sure this must be a record).