Regular players and low totals

There has been some kind of technical difficulties. With this weeks article 90% written, the "edit post" webpage somehow deleted the whole thing. And because it auto-saves, I couldn't get it back! So here is a quickly re-written abbreviated version of this week's stats...

Regular Players
A couple of weeks ago we were talking about how often we have our regular players and how well we do when we have them. Obviously "regular" players have changed over the years, so I've simplified it to count any of the following people as regulars:
Gareth, Sanjit, Xavier, Brad, Andy, Rian, Jake, Matt, Julian, Daniel

To compare 8 and 6 a side games, the results are listed by "number of players missing" rather than "number playing"

Missing Regulars	Matches	Win	Loss	% Win
Zero	47	31	16	66.0
One	76	59	17	77.6
Two	37	21	16	56.8
Three	15	9	6	60.0
Four	1	1	0	100
Five	2	1	1	50
TOTAL	178	122	56	68.5

Other stat - we've never played more than 3 games in a row with our full regular team.

Low Totals
Last week's game was dominated by bowling/fielding, with two very low team totals. The score was 62-40, for a total of just 102 runs. This was 1 run off being a record lowest match aggregate. And that other game was an eight-a-side game, so would have had 32 overs played, rather than just 24.

In that other game we scored 100, and the opposition made a total of 1. These two low scoring games are certainly stand-outs, with the third lowest ever total being 151.

Other low scoring games almost inevitably involve one team or the other making a negative total.

The list of low-scoring 6-a-side games is dominated by Popped Collars v Underarm - the three lowest total games were all against them (102, 157, 167).



* The original article involved several other tables with accompanying observations and additional stats. But I had to put those tables together by hand (rather than copy/paste), so they haven't been put back in this quick re-write.