This is one of your best, Arnav! I love the negative impact duration metric (that you measure in balls) ... and the intent impact progression is a beautiful construct. Wonder what you'll do next ...
Thank you. Final impact for an innings is sum of impact on all balls. In these rankings lists, the final impact I've given is the average of final impacts over all innings of a batter.
The advantages of measuring impact as you do include ease of computation and ball-level precision. But I wonder whether it disfavours high-intent batters paired with similarly high-intent batters -- could this be why the likes of Head or Abhishek do not show up in the analysis? Perhaps intent defined in terms of attacking shot % would resolve this issue, but I understand you would encounter some informational loss and quantification would be challenging at the ball level. Nevertheless this could be a useful accompaniment to your current metric.
Thank you. The problem with sides like SRH is that they've got 4-5 batters who play with extreme SRs which is rare. In these cases, it becomes difficult to make the distinction of whether it's the batters who are super skilled or the conditions are helping more. If the latter is true, then it would be correct to disfavour them. But if it's the skill then of course not. But ya, surely something to think about.
This is one of your best, Arnav! I love the negative impact duration metric (that you measure in balls) ... and the intent impact progression is a beautiful construct. Wonder what you'll do next ...
Rinku Singh. I remember his knock against Afghanistan when he built the whole innings with Rohit after a collapse.
Really interesting article Arnav!
Key to find interesting insights is asking interesting questions, and this is definitely one of them!
Also quick question - how was the final impact calculated?
Thank you. Final impact for an innings is sum of impact on all balls. In these rankings lists, the final impact I've given is the average of final impacts over all innings of a batter.
Great insights 👍
How can we get this data for other players?
This is very interesting stuff.
The advantages of measuring impact as you do include ease of computation and ball-level precision. But I wonder whether it disfavours high-intent batters paired with similarly high-intent batters -- could this be why the likes of Head or Abhishek do not show up in the analysis? Perhaps intent defined in terms of attacking shot % would resolve this issue, but I understand you would encounter some informational loss and quantification would be challenging at the ball level. Nevertheless this could be a useful accompaniment to your current metric.
Thank you. The problem with sides like SRH is that they've got 4-5 batters who play with extreme SRs which is rare. In these cases, it becomes difficult to make the distinction of whether it's the batters who are super skilled or the conditions are helping more. If the latter is true, then it would be correct to disfavour them. But if it's the skill then of course not. But ya, surely something to think about.