Seamus Hogan • Jun 13, 2014 •
This post is in part a follow-up post to this one from 2012 about irrational expectations in cricket, but is more a response to some recent twitter activity in the U.K. BskyB have been using WASP in their coverage of the recent ODI and 20-20 series between England and Sri Lanka, and this has provoked some angry … Read More
Seamus Hogan • May 28, 2014 •
This post is written primarily for those cricket fans coming to Offsetting as a result of the WASP being used on BSkyB in Britain to cover the current series between England and Sri Lanka. As with the coverage in New Zealand, it has generated some reac... Read More
Seamus Hogan • Feb 19, 2014 •
UC's media consultant loves cricket and so asked me if I could do something WASPish about the probability of McCullum scoring 300 runs in an innings. The resulting media release is here. (The request came before the start of play today when McCull... Read More
Seamus Hogan • Nov 02, 2013 •
Sky is starting its Friday night coverage of the HRV cup (the domestic 20-20 cricket competition) tonight and will again be using the WASP graphic to monitor team's progress throughout the match. There was a lot of traffic coming into Offsetting las... Read More
Seamus Hogan • Nov 01, 2013 •
A commenter by the names of Peter (initially Tyrion) at an English cricket blog, Declaration Game, asks an interesting question: are averages in first-class cricket better correlated with how a batsman does in test cricket than are his averages in... Read More
Seamus Hogan • Oct 24, 2013 •
A student of mine has emailed me asking if I know anything about whether in cricket a wicket is more or less likely on a hat-trick ball then on any other ball. (Note for Eric and others similarly challenged in the finer nuances of cricket, a hat-trick occurs when a bowler takes a wicket with each of three consecutive … Read More
John Pickering • Jul 11, 2013 •
Chris Martin was Not-out a remarkable 50% of the time. That is, 52 times out of 104 innings. Is this a record? I don’t know an answer, so I sent off an email to the gurus at Cricinfo to see if they do. Michael Jones replied that “Yes it is” for batsman with over 100 … Continue reading » … Read More
John Pickering • Jul 05, 2013 •
His innings may be over, but the legend lives on. Chris Martin retired this week from international cricket. He was a legend with ball and he was a legend with bat, for quite different reasons. His Test batting average of 2.36 was the worst ever of any international cricketer who batted in more than 15 … Continue reading » … Read More
Seamus Hogan • May 09, 2013 •
My What If lecture on using Economics to analyse ODI cricket is now up on YouTube. In it I give an "Economics in 4 lessons" overview, and then used the same graphs to talk about cricket. Watching the playback, I wish I had sped through the intro to Eco... Read More
Seamus Hogan • Apr 26, 2013 •
Last year, Eric presented a talk on alcohol in the University's What If Wednesday series. This coming Wednesday it will be my turn, talking about economics and cricket. The title is "What if...Economics could help cricket teams win matches?" I have blo... Read More