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	<title>Comments on: IPL Value Statistics: Was The Money Worth It?</title>
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		<title>By: Cricket Player Value for Money &#124; Kridaya Cricket Blog</title>
		<link>http://duckingbeamers.com/2011/06/07/ipl-value-statistics-was-the-money-worth-it/#comment-3219</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cricket Player Value for Money &#124; Kridaya Cricket Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] hope to carve out enough time to work on Ducking Beamer&#8217;s request to analyze whether an IPL player was worth the money the team paid for him, but before the quantitative analysis, let us take a quick qualitative look [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] hope to carve out enough time to work on Ducking Beamer&#8217;s request to analyze whether an IPL player was worth the money the team paid for him, but before the quantitative analysis, let us take a quick qualitative look [...]</p>
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		<title>By: pankaj</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[pankaj]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Russ</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Russ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The method to do this is relatively well established.  Have a look at the Wages of Wins, which calculates win-shares per player for basketball, and uses that to rate players.  Player restrictions don&#039;t really matter, because you can calculate total win-shares for the season that give you a player value, taking into account their playing time (as well as average win-shares that show who ought to be playing).

The difficulties come in calculating what correlates to a win: runs per resource used (can use D/L for this), runs against per resource taken for bowlers gives you a comparable value for batsmen and bowlers.  You need some way of adjusting that for fielding value (fielding resource taken/runs saved/lost compared to an average fielder), which is not currently measured (maybe the teams do measure it), and is probably under-rated.  Then there is assist value: the player who gives a faster scorer the strike is worth more than one who score a little faster but doesn&#039;t; opponent match-ups, the batsman/bowler who opposes the best player hurts their own output but might still be the best option; and the complications of a chase: risk-free batting and wicket-taking is worth more in a small chase than a large one.

Then you need to compare to incomes, which is complicated by the fact that a player who gets you 0.2 wins per game is not worth the same as 2 players who get 0.1 wins per game.  The latter are average and easy to find, the former is a star.  Market value is not linear with wins per dollar, but exponential and goes up rapidly as a player becomes rarer.

Interesting question.  Have though about it before.  But unfortunately I&#039;m busy too...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The method to do this is relatively well established.  Have a look at the Wages of Wins, which calculates win-shares per player for basketball, and uses that to rate players.  Player restrictions don&#8217;t really matter, because you can calculate total win-shares for the season that give you a player value, taking into account their playing time (as well as average win-shares that show who ought to be playing).</p>
<p>The difficulties come in calculating what correlates to a win: runs per resource used (can use D/L for this), runs against per resource taken for bowlers gives you a comparable value for batsmen and bowlers.  You need some way of adjusting that for fielding value (fielding resource taken/runs saved/lost compared to an average fielder), which is not currently measured (maybe the teams do measure it), and is probably under-rated.  Then there is assist value: the player who gives a faster scorer the strike is worth more than one who score a little faster but doesn&#8217;t; opponent match-ups, the batsman/bowler who opposes the best player hurts their own output but might still be the best option; and the complications of a chase: risk-free batting and wicket-taking is worth more in a small chase than a large one.</p>
<p>Then you need to compare to incomes, which is complicated by the fact that a player who gets you 0.2 wins per game is not worth the same as 2 players who get 0.1 wins per game.  The latter are average and easy to find, the former is a star.  Market value is not linear with wins per dollar, but exponential and goes up rapidly as a player becomes rarer.</p>
<p>Interesting question.  Have though about it before.  But unfortunately I&#8217;m busy too&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Devanshu Mehta</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Devanshu Mehta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been trying to think of a good metric that works for the IPL. Runs per million $s type stat wouldn&#039;t work because a middle order batsman who can come in and score 20 runs in an over before getting out is highly valuable.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to think of a good metric that works for the IPL. Runs per million $s type stat wouldn&#8217;t work because a middle order batsman who can come in and score 20 runs in an over before getting out is highly valuable.</p>
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