Tag: statistics
Cricket: A new bowler’s average
by Murray Woodman on Aug.27, 2009, under Know Idea
As I was watching the recently completed Ashes series this year I began to ponder the issue of how a bowler’s average is calculated. Is the current a bowlers average the only measure we can use? How can we accommodate the quality of the batsmen dismissed. I think that the current method could be augmented so that we have a more insightful way of discriminating between bowlers.
