It may seem intuitive that the more balls you face, the more runs you score. On average, people make positive scores - which means the longer you get to bat, the more your score should go up. In the long run, this is true; but have a look at the following table.
This table gives the averages scores that batters make depending on the number of balls they face in that innings. As you can see, more is not always better:
| Balls Faced | # of occurrences | Average score | High Score | High Score by |
| 8 | 1 | 33.00 | 33 | Rian |
| 9 | 4 | 6.50 | 20 | Jake |
| 10 | 10 | 12.20 | 21 | Rob |
| 11 | 34 | 14.88 | 54 | Sam (Boonies) |
| 12 | 85 | 14.98 | 43 | Julian |
| 13 | 231 | 15.71 | 56 | Rian |
| 14 | 343 | 17.24 | 57 | Aaron (The Balb) |
| 15 | 482 | 17.52 | 64 | Brad |
| 16 | 491 | 17.14 | 68 | Brad |
| 17 | 478 | 19.13 | 77 | Rian |
| 18 | 372 | 18.05 | 60 | Xavier |
| 19 | 252 | 16.60 | 54 | Crushie |
| 20 | 96 | 15.09 | 57 | Xavier |
| 21 | 42 | 18.86 | 50 | Brad |
| 22 | 12 | 17.42 | 33 | Pete (Mal Practice) |
| 23 | 6 | 2.33 | 15 | Lyndon (Boonies) |
| 24 | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | Matt |
In general, the average increases as more balls are faced, until you get to about 18 balls. After that it mostly drops off again (21 balls is a bit of an outlier). And in innings where a player faces 23 or 24 balls, the average is incredibly low.
The simple explanation is that players who are having a bad day with the bat will often face more balls. They'll stand up the strikers end playing and missing, getting bowled, getting stumped; generally not turning the strike over as often as someone who is scoring runs every ball.
Just like last week, you can also see that there are more occurrences of higher numbers of balls being faced, due to extra balls needing to be bowled in some innings (for example, if there were exactly 32 balls every pair, the number of "12 balls faced" would be the same as the number of "20 balls faced")
Ignoring that effect, here's a table to show the best split to have between your batters...
| Balls faced | Averages | Pair average |
| 8 / 24 | 1.00 / 33.00 | 34.00 |
| 9 / 23 | 6.50 / 2.30 | 8.80 |
| 10 / 22 | 12.20 / 17.42 | 29.62 |
| 11 / 21 | 14.88 / 18.86 | 33.74 |
| 12 / 20 | 14.98 / 15.09 | 30.07 |
| 13 / 19 | 15.71 / 16.60 | 32.31 |
| 14 / 18 | 17.24 / 18.05 | 35.29 |
| 15 / 17 | 17.52 / 19.13 | 36.65 |
| 16 / 16 | 17.14 / 17.14 | 34.28 |
And finally, here's a table of individual performances from Popped Collars players. Look up a name and a number of balls faced to see that player's average score. The number in brackets is the number of innings they have had where they faced that many balls.
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions from this, but I will point out one thing... don't let Sanjit face exactly 16 balls in a skin; he only makes about one-third of his career average score. I'm not sure what he's doing there, but it's quite a stat.
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | |
| Andy | 15.95 (19) | 12.42 (12) | 20.00 (27) | 20.16 (44) | 18.26 (19) | 18.45 (20) | 24.00 (9) |
| Brad | 24.64 (11) | 20.21 (28) | 24.72 (25) | 20.12 (26) | 23.11 (28) | 28.91 (22) | 23.90 (10) |
| Gareth | 11.60 (5) | 12.44 (9) | 16.80 (15) | 22.48 (23) | 16.00 (26) | 18.90 (31) | 15.13 (15) |
| Rian | 27.39 (18) | 23.39 (28) | 25.67 (24) | 27.33 (24) | 28.30 (23) | 17.75 (4) | 16.60 (5) |
| Xavier | 22.35 (17) | 20.05 (21) | 25.50 (26) | 24.20 (30) | 25.92 (39) | 23.69 (16) | 27.00 (11) |
| Matt | 10.67 (6) | 16.57 (7) | 15.17 (6) | 8.86 (7) | 10.46 (13) | 13.71 (14) | 10.47 (17) |
| Sanjit | 17.33 (3) | 18.63 (19) | 13.36 (25) | 5.11 (18) | 13.76 (25) | 19.80 (20) | 14.00 (13) |
| Julian | 13.86 (7) | 26.00 (12) | 20.43 (21) | 17.46 (13) | 28.00 (8) | 29.50 (10) | 20.40 (5) |
| Jake | 0.80 (5) | 16.18 (11) | 15.73 (11) | 18.73 (15) | 21.71 (17) | 21.00 (8) | 18.20 (5) |
| Daniel | 11.67 (3) | N/A (0) | 18.27 (15) | 24.13 (8) | 23.6 (5) | 12.33 (3) | 39.00 (1) |
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