The best side Statistically

[Roy boys]

I trust everyone enjoyed their festive period. I'm just about sick to death of seeing the smug arrogant and dreadful winners on TV. The 11 Australian cricketers I speak of (Make it 10 I like George Bailey).

On to a much more positive subject that being Russian's great little game.

I am going to judge each team on pure statistical analysis to see who should be favourites and who can expect a tough year.

I'm just going to use a few criteria to add up the scores of all individuals which in turn will make up the overall sum of the teams score. This will also be good when it comes to teams depth.

If anyone is willing to tally up their own squads that would also be great but for people who are busier then myself and can not be bothered I am happy to do it.

The criteria will be
* The average score of the individuals previous 2 seasons. For players entering the their second season it will simply be their first season and for players entering the first season they will receive the average score a player gets in the round they were taken it the draft.


I will try to ensure a team is fairly set out, for example Ben Rutten will be at Full back and not Shaun Atley.

What are peoples thoughts ?

 

[knobby]

Great idea, I will try to do mine over next few weeks

I have loved the cricket though !

 

[sausageroll]

as above

 

[fightingfury_88]

Sounds fantastic Roy boys

 

[Roy boys]

I will kick it off on Monday guys. I'll try to get through a team a day. In the mean time all the coaches who can do it themselves it would be awesome if you could give me a heads up so no team gets done twice.

 

[loopy_cam]

Was bored so I decided to do this for my team.

Melbourne
B: M. Shaw (65), M. Johnson (82), Myers (71)
HB: Whitfield (72), Hansen (63), D. Pearce (77)
C: Zaharakis (82), Watson (105), Melksham (70)
HF: Bird (70), N. Riewoldt (94), Wells (85)
F: Chapman (91), Waite (78), Westhoff (82)
R: McEvoy (82), Beams (109), Barlow (100)

Total: 1479

Not bad considering. Would probably expect improvement from Shaw, Myers, Whitfield, Hansen, Melksham, Bird and McEvoy. Perhaps Watson, Riewoldt and Chapman being a little high. The others I'd suspect will stay the same so looks like more growth than decline. I also have Scotland (89) and Duffield (80) as well but can see them dropping off dramatically this year so left them out. Didn't bother calculating the others. The closest would be Macaffer, Dickson and Hale with the others being pretty unproven although I have high hopes.

 

[Pie 4 Life]

B: Marley Williams (71) - Nathan Grima (66) – Nick Maxwell (65)
HB: Ryan Griffen (105) - Brian Lake (69) – Bachar Houli (87)
C: Daniel Cross (89) – Paul Seedsman (79) - Leigh Montagna (112)
HF: Dion Prestia (97) – Adam Goodes (82) – Jamie Elliot (68)
F: Matthew Stokes (95) - Jack Riewoldt (74) - James Podsiadly (76)
R: Sam Jacobs (75) - Steele Sidebottom (97) - Luke Ball (96)

= 1503

Best of the rest:

Martin Clarke (64)
Tom Young (63)
Tyson Goldsack (56)
Lachlan Keeffe (54)
Clinton Young (53)
Matthew McDonough (42)

Summary:

I took a huge risk this off-season to try and bring in some older high scorers which could pay off for this year or totally blow up in my face. Guys like Goodes and Cross won't be the tonne-scoring champs they used to be, but if they can get their 80s each week I'll be happy. Guys like Elliot, Williams and Seedsman have potential to improve while Young and Grima will be very good if they can get on the park, both averaging around 80 a couple of seasons ago.

 

[loopy_cam]

Pretty similar really.

I did mine over the last two seasons though rather than one so not a direct comparison.

 

[sante]

I'd do mine but too lazy to at the moment