h-index for batting

[Mohan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

A batsman has index h if he has scored h or more runs in h innings.

Tendulkar - 76
Bradman - 43

Of course, like the number of hundreds, it values longevity, but still, a fun metric to track.

[tendulkar.com]

What's Kallis, Lara, Ponting and Dravid's?

[Mohan]

Kallis - 69
Dravid - 68
Ponting - 68
Lara - 64

Statsguru - player - batting format - innings by innings - sort the result by runs and count

[Mohan]

Fun part is, every time a batsman surpasses his current h-index, his h-index goes up by 1 (unless he has ties at his current h-index). So it gives another milestone for fans to look forward to during the innings, apart from 50, 100 etc.

[Vijay Sharma]

Not a good measure...it needs to be contextualized even by a little

Sachin - 76/330
Don - 43 / 80

[willsutton]

another one...... number of curries consumed per century

just shows how superior SRT is

[jzfredricks]

On Friday, November 22, 2013 9:53:33 PM UTC+10, Vijay Sharma wrote:
> Not a good measure...

Like all measures, it has to be understood to be useful.
As Mohan said, it's volume-centric.

[cricd...@hotmail.com]

On Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:45:51 PM UTC-5, Mohan wrote:

See http://bit.ly/18W7kyL for a previous discussion, including the volume effect.

[vijay...@my-deja.com]

On Friday, November 22, 2013 5:55:27 PM UTC+5:30, jzfredricks wrote:
> On Friday, November 22, 2013 9:53:33 PM UTC+10, Vijay Sharma wrote: > Not a good measure... Like all measures, it has to be understood to be useful. As Mohan said, it's volume-centric.

One possible modification is x% above x.
Removes the volume imposition. Perhaps,
you will have to rename it the k-index,
but I am OK with that :-)

Vijay

[Mohan]

Thanks. I was off rsc at that time.