Playing the Numbers Game

[mcgillianaire]

The Sourav Ganguly tamasha that has afflicted Indian Cricket this past year has generated a lotta media hype, emotional reactions and whatever else you can think of. The man himself backs his case with random centuries against teams like Zimbabwe, Namibia and Kenya. He insists this is evidence of being good enough at the highest level.

Is he correct? To find out, I decided to slip into the shoes of S. Rajesh and play the numbers game...




Can't fool StatsGuru mothaf*cka!

Comments

[kshah.livejournal.com]

Whoa! Twisted stats alert! I don't think even Ganguly rates himself as a great test batsman.

Would suggest taking a gander at his one-day stats. That's where he was one of the world's greatest. Anybody who reaches 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 and 10000 runs faster than Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Inzamam ul Haq, Rahul Dravid and Sanath Jayasuriya cannot really be just an average player.

Granted -- the past two years have been lean for him and, as of now, he does not deserve a place in the team. That, however, is no reason to water down a man's achievements by presenting only half the facts.

Yes, Dravid is a great, great player too. That does not make other great achievers... ummm... mothaf*ckas. This is a line frequently taken by a lot of die-hard-Dravid-fans (most notably ggollerkeri and hemantk), though - so I understand where you're coming from on this.

[pappubahry.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of problems with your presentation. Firstly, I recommend giving this sort of thing in text format, not an image. It means that copy-pasting is possible, if we would like to do stuff with it.

I noted that you highlighted his record against Bangladesh. It is good to know that he averages 81 against them. What we would be more interested in is how he does against non-(Bangladesh and Zimbabwe) teams. As I recall, StatsGuru says that you can do this, but you have to do it manually (ie, write down the numbers, subtract, divide).

Also, highlighting home as captain isn't fair, because his away as captain record is quite good. And away tests are the big problem for India.

So anyway, I agree he doesn't belong in the test team.

[smilingbuddha.livejournal.com]

you said "tamasha"...yay!

Tamasha is one of my favorite words..

Non Hindi speakers: There is no exactr english word for it....the precise meaning is roughly somewhere between circus and spectacle....also drama.