It is just too marvellous too marvellous for words .....

Yes it is ... it is maths     ....  maths deals to cricket ..... and leads it into the night light.

I am loosely following the world cup 20 over competition in the West Indies. I am like a cat lying around with one eye half open on the proceedings.

I see one of the players seems to being doing especially well folks. A fella by the grandiose name of Duckworth-Lewis.

Well, no actually, the name refers to a couple of statisticians by the names of Duckworth and ... you guessed it .... Lewis.

These blokes created a way of handling bad weather in limited over games.
Here's a graph of it:

Lots of Statistical tests are named after st ranged named statisticians. You see you can't be a statistician with a name like Smith.

My favorite test named after a statistician is ... now wait for ...it ...

Roy's Greatest Root aka Roy's Largest Root.

It is used in a MANOVA test.

Multivariate Analysis of Variance

heh but enough already!!!!

Back to Duckworth Lewis.

These guys base their analysis and resulting models on the idea that a team has two key resources at any given time in the game. Wickets in hand and overs remaining. The system is used to give a target score for the team batting second.

Of course the system has come in for a lot of flack from cricketers in particular. Most can't understand it.

But folks it is simple, elegant and really really works!!! It's mere child's play folks! I mean how could these two lovely guys get it wrong or was it these two lovely guys???