Bernoulli Runs: Using "Book Cricket" to Evaluate Cricketers

TL;DR

This paper introduces a straightforward evaluation method for cricketers using a 'book cricket' inspired approach, assessing players based on hypothetical team performance with replicated players.

Contribution

It refines the 'book cricket' concept to provide a simple, quantitative measure of individual player performance in cricket.

Findings

Provides a novel, easy-to-implement evaluation method.

Offers a new perspective on player performance assessment.

Demonstrates the method's potential for comparative analysis.

Abstract

This paper proposes a simple method to evaluate batsmen and bowlers in cricket. The idea in this paper refines "book cricket" and evaluates a batsman by answering the question: How many runs a team consisting of same player replicated eleven times will score?