Div-1MVP: Shahid Munir, from Pak Gymkhana
Shahid Munir continues where he left off last season leading the table with 55 points. He has scored 321 runs and taken 12 wickets(including 4 wickets in 4 balls against Milwaukee CC). He has scores of 42, 8, 12, 92, 50, 50, 67.
Shahid is closely followed by Mohammed Bakhshi - Pak Gymkhana with 46 points and Sohail Alvi- St Louis Cricket Club with 33 points.
Div-2MVP: Jack Challenor and Rupnarine Seenarain, both from Illinois Cricket Club
Jack and Rup lead the points table with 50 points.
Jack has scored 191 runs and taken 14 wickets. He started slow with scores of 7,1 and then went on to score 57*, 20*, 72 and 34.
Rup has scored 207 runs and taken 17 wickets. He has scored one century-112 against the warriors and has one 6 wicket haul against Continental.
They are closely followed by the run(century) machine Satha Sivapragasam - Capitol with 49 points and Subbu Kuppuswami- Eagles with 42 points. Satha has incredible scores of 105, 175, 223 and 2.
Div-30/30MVP: Afroze Siddiqui, from Spears
Afroze leads the table with 33 points. He has scored 214 runs and taken 5 wickets. He has scores of 127, 20 and 67.
Afroze is followed by Mitral Shah- Rockers with 20 points and Nadir Hussain-Burhani Cricket Club with 18 points.
How we do it:
We have developed a process that looks at all the games, breaks down the data and awards points based on an algorithm.
For batsmen, points are broken down based on the number of runs scored. For eg, 50 runs fetches 6 points and 100 runs fetches 10 etc. There are bonus points for being not out. If a player has scored 100 runs, thats 10 batting points plus 3 bonus points for being not out. We also award MVP points based on the percentage of runs the batsmen has scored with respect to the team score in a team victory.
For bowlers, a ten wicket haul fetches 15 points, a 5-fer gets you 10 points etc. There was a suggestion to use the bowling average and get some bonus points for the bowler. I will work on it. Any other sugestions are welcome.
PS: MVP's, please send in photographs to jaggi@midwestcricket.org
12 comments:
Congratulations to all the MVP's.
Raj
Am surprised that Satha was not the MVP after scoring 500+ runs. Jaggi, is there a glitch in the calculations?
The process takes batting as well as bowling and computes the MVP points.
I also included a snapshot of the summarized excel sheet containing the points for all players. I realize that its not very clear... used paint to create the JPG.
The blog doesnt allow me to upload an excel file.
If you click and zoom on the picture, its very clear.
Few Suggestions:
Batting:
Points should be awarded for strike rate, after all this is one day cricket! Also, extra points should be awarded where a 50 or a 100 leads to the team winning that match.
Bowling:
I think more points need to be awarded per wicket - there is only a fixed # of wickets that bowlers are competing for unlike batsmen who can score runs and it does not reduce the chance of other batsmen to score.
Fielding:
Catches and run outs should be taken into account, a lot of time brilliant catched or run outs can turn a game. I kow this information is not recorded carefully, but it really should be.
Current system is pretty good, I think Shahid will emerge as MVP under any system due to sheer weight of runs and wickets, but in Div 2, it looks like Satha's influence on his team is greater than Rup/Jack.
-Raheel.
that should be catches* and know* .. this is what happens when you try to squeeze in cricket at work! hehe.
-R
Jaggi great work with the post.
one suggestion,You might want to have a poll every month(or week). For the best players. I think that would create a lot of excitement.
"Points should be awarded for strike rate, after all this is one day cricket!" - There are not many teams that are recording the strike rate at this point. We need more teams to enter accurate data.
Catches and Runouts: I left that out after I realized that some teams were not recording it accurately.
"Also, extra points should be awarded where a 50 or a 100 leads to the team winning that match" - This does get factored in MVP points.
"but in Div 2, it looks like Satha's influence on his team is greater than Rup/Jack" - I agree, but Rup/Jack have also contributed immensely with both bat and ball. Thats why the extra points for them. Remember that as of now, the MVP points give more weightage to batsmen than bowlers.
Anonymous at 8:00pm(please sign your name), I agree with your suggestion of having a poll. There are a bunch of free tools out there, I will find out more about it.
"I think more points need to be awarded per wicket" - I think if we add the bowler's economy rate, then it will add more weightage to bowlers.
Can someone do us all a favor and move Satha to Division 1? :-)
yup, i hope that Capitol make it to the div 2 final this year and get promoted to div. 1 so that satha can face more competitive oppositions.
if that doesn't happen.... then he should get out of springfield and move to chicago or milwaukee/st. louis , lol...
Capitol in Div 2 finals? highly unlikely, unless they can schedule few regular games in Washington Park and get used to the conditions. IMHO, they are like the South African team of the 90's.
I must dissagree with anon view that Satha influence is greater than that of Rup/Jack. Rup has always been up there and he is still up there but the addition of Jack and his contributions has made ICC invinceable in Div 2.
My take of an MVP is an individual who does his part and more and at the same time make his team mates better at what they do. Look at ICC stats this year and you will see why Rup/Jack are contending for MVP's.
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