Andy Lynch 🇪🇺

Professor of Statistics in Bioscience. Working in cancer research. Fife-based remote-follower of Somerset Cricket.

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Day 23: Distributions of ducks in the county championship. Somerset had 28 ducks to the oppositions' 37, but more in the top six batters (19 to 17).

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Day 22. Extras scored vs extras conceded. Somerset concede fewer byes, but bowl a lot more no balls than the opposition.

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Day 21: The relative usage of the words "Wyvern" and "Dragon" in written English during the 150 years of Somerset County Cricket [Data from OED]. Presented as log(Wyvern/Dragon). @antgib

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Day 20: Hoping that 2026 might be Stumpy's year

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Day 19: Who did people bat with for longest (in terms of balls faced) over the season? How likely is it that the graph will be connected?

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Day 17: Revisiting Somerset Captains' success rates at the coin toss. Revealing Sophie Luff's respect for the laws of probability. [Coloured regions are credible intervals for success rates]

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Day 16: In the top 100 fan-rated T20 Blast men, excluding those who had played fewer than six matches, how many were from each team?

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Day 13: Who at Somerset needs to work on their calling at the coin toss?

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Day 12. How the Somerset bowling load was shared in each year of the current stint in Division 1. Bowlers who bowled the highest percentage of balls in two years are indicated by colour. Instances of bowling more than 20% of the balls in a year are listed on the right.

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Day 11. Somerset haven't had the same number of centurions in successive years during this period in Division 1 of the County Championship.

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Day 10. Who have Somerset played in the T20 Blast / T20 Cup over the years?

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Day 9. In which pairs of players has player A taken 2+ catches off the bowling of player B, AND player B has taken 2+ catches off the bowling of player A.

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Day 8. A startling aspect of the 2025 cricket season was the extremes of ages of opening batters that we saw from the Somerset men's team. (x-axis placed at around the average)

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Day 8. As a reminder that there is more than one way to construct an innings, we can see the batsmen who scored the most boundaries in the 2025 County Championship without hitting a six. Tom Lammonby demonstrates that a very healthy strike rate is still possible. #SomersetCricket

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Day 6. For players who have hit sufficient boundaries, and appeared in both the championship and T20 teams, we compare the proportion of boundaries that are sixes across the two formats. The cross represents the whole team. Size of the shaded area gives approximate confidence.

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Day 5. There is no statistically significant correlation between the proportion of a county's boundaries that go for six in the County Championship and the proportion in the Blast.

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Day 4. The trend (or not) of proportions of runs coming in boundaries for Somerset in the County Championship. (Only runs off the bat being considered)

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Byrom, Bancroft, Bartlett, Banton, Blackwell, Buttler, de Bruyne, Bess/Bashir, Banks, Brooks, Ball

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The 2nd Day and the 2nd letter of the alphabet. Last year saw the end of a period of dominance of surnames starting with the letter B among Somerset's County Championship players. The Ls briefly snuck ahead in 2022 but who will be contenders in 2026? The Rs?

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Of the 14 B's to represent Somerset in this spell in the first division, a 'fairly handy' team could be selected. Barrow and Bates lose out to Buttler as keeper, and one might choose between Bess and Bashir for the role of right-arm spinner.

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Day 3. Counties ranked by their longest spell in Division 1 of the County Championship. Where counties have had multiple equal longest spells, the earliest is shown. The covid-affected 2020 and 2021 seasons are omitted. #SomersetCricket #Statistics