The Blog Re-read: Part 1

Welcome everyone to a series of blogs looking back at the past posts here on PoppedStats. Over the next 8 posts I'm going to go back and read all the previous articles here, uncovering some forgotten classics, finding inspiration for future posts, and more. For each installment of this series I will be re-reading about 20 previous posts and using them as inspiration for a new post. Perhaps pointing out some "highlights" that you might like to go back and read again yourself, perhaps doing some new stats or re-doing some old stats.

I have looked through the first 20 posts ever at on PoppedStats, and found a bunch of possibly-forgotten bits and pieces for you to go back and re-live. The posts come from January-May 2010.

It seems that during the game played on 1 February 2010, Rian was attempting to sabotage our newly-started stats by trying (unsuccessfully) to make the umpire give all of our players the same name on the scorecard. It also seems that I was (on purpose) putting Rian into the stats as 'Brian' - which is possibly the earliest recorded example of Wazza getting people's names wrong.

Back in those days, my stats database was 1.5MB in size. As a bit of useless trivia, the database is currently 7.81MB.

Also in those early days, I wrote about a match in which there were 2 LBWs! Apparently both of them were terrible decisions, if the word of the affected batters is to be believed. I went to do some quick stats on that, and found that my stats don't show any matches with multiple LBWs. The article describes the "2nd LBW" as being Andy being given out off the last ball of the match - but the last ball of the match was actually a dot ball... so it sounds like it was either the umpire playing a joke on Andy, or Andy making up stories about what happened.

The shortest blog post ever, just 6 words long, describes the single highlight of what must have been a thrilling game.

With the recent happenings regarding Weston and their disorganisation of game times, it was interesting to read that we once had 8 consecutive 6:00pm games!

The team won the premiership in the first season as the Popped Collars.

The unforgettable, classic match against the drunk guys took place back in these early days as well. Go back and read about it again, because it's hilarious!

Jake controversially questioned Brad's form as the basis for an entire blog post.

And finally, I have evidence that, as of May 2010, Sanjit was still fielding in his original position in the corner of the net (a sort of 2nd or 3rd slip position).