The Saturday 2nd team skipper has won the toss 55% of the time over the past 15 seasons, more than any other Putney CC team. Winning the toss correlates with winning the game - Putney CC has won 53% of games when winning the toss. Batting first after winning the toss also correlates with victory, with Putney CC winning 64% of games when doing so compared to 58% when fielding first. Scores of 180 or more when batting first generally result in victory, while scores of 200 or more when chasing generally do not. Improved Putney CC results in recent seasons may be partly due to better bowling performances that are resulting in more opponent wickets taken.

1. You Had One Thing to Do…
An Analysis of Putney CC Stats
Seasons 2006 to 2020 unless otherwise stated
Weekend & Midweek Games, excludes tours, Slam & PSV
Source: PCC Website

2. Who’s the Biggest Tosser?
The Saturday 2’s skipper has been the best tosser: wins 55% of the time
Saturday 1’s skippers need to take a long, hard look at themselves: a mere 45%
Sunday 3’s skip has made a good start, but the statistical significance is dubious.
We suspect midweek skippers are colluding!
Since 2006
Count of Opponent Column Labels
Row Labels Saturday 1st Saturday 2nd Saturday 3rd Sunday 1st Sunday 2nd Sunday 3rd Midweek Grand Total
Lose 55% 45% 48% 49% 48% 38% 39% 49%
Win 45% 55% 52% 51% 52% 63% 61% 51%
Grand Total 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

3. You’ve won the toss, what next?
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Count of Opponent Column Labels
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Lose 55% 45%
Win 45% 55%
Bat first, you dummy!
55% of the time, the skipper who wins the toss bats first
NB since 2017, from when the bat first data is reliable

4. Winning the toss helps
The team that wins the toss, wins the game:
53% of the time.
Since records began in 2006
Count of Opponent Column Labels
Row Labels Win WinDraw Tie Draw LoseDraw Lose
Lose 49% 2% 1% 4% 2% 42%
Win 53% 1% 0% 1% 2% 42%
Grand Total 51% 2% 1% 3% 2% 42%

5. You had one thing to do…
Win the toss and bat first, you dummy!
How hard is that to understand?
• Win toss & bat first, PCC win 64%/33% win/loss
• Win the toss & field, wins 58/37
• Lose toss & we bat first, we win 44/42
• Lose toss & they bat first, we win 54/42
Batting second, PCC chases it down 53% of the time.
But loses 42% of games
slight evidence of Aussie-style choking.
Since decent bat first records were kept from 2017
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6. We’ve had a good run of results
More games won from the 2014 trough.
Looks like we played for fun in 2020!
Excludes abandoned games
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7. More runs scored recently
The data is noisy but:
• Season average match aggregate runs in each
season (ie theirs and ours combined) have been
rising since 2017, especially at home this year.
• Scores at home at not different from those away
• Bowlers have been taking 15 to 16 wickets per
match on average since time immemorial!
• Match runs on left-hand axis, wickets on the right
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8. Putney Batting
The graph shows average Putney team score each season:
• Sat 1’s scores seem to have been declining for a long time
• Sat 2’s are on the up
• The Tushar and Amogh effect?
• The Sunday teams are duking it out for bragging rights
• Sun 2’s very variable
• A young side still trying to find their best batting order?
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9. What’s a winning score Putney batting first?
Graph shows scores where a PCC team batted first, home or away:
• We won having scored less than 160, 12 of 44 times since 2017
• We won 13 times in 22 games having scored 161-180
• We won 14 times in 22 games scoring 181-200
• We only lost 6 of 62 games in which we batted first & scored >200
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160 usually isn’t enough, 180 usually wins and >200 is nailed on

10. What’s a winning score if the Oppo bat first?
The graph scores where the oppo batted first, home or away:
• We chased down less than 160, 49 of 61 times since 2017
• We won 8 times in 14 games chasing 161-180
• We won 11 times in 22 games chasing 181-200
• We won lost 16 of 54 games chasing >200
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Same story: chasing down >200 is really hard

11. Or putting it another way….
1st Innings scores banded on the x-axis (regardless who batted first)
Probability the team batting first won on the y-axis
Chasing down 201-225 runs is really hard:
We defend it 86% of times
They defend it 70%
Same story: chasing down >200 is really hard
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12. Putney Bowling
Graph: average wickets PCC takes in a match each season:
• Saturday teams’ bowlers seem to be finding their length
• Sat 1’s consistently take more wickets than Sat 2’s
• Do they hoard too many of the best bowlers in selection
process?!
• Are improved recent results more due to:
• improved bowling
• than better batting?
• Sun 2’s again very variable
• A young side still trying to work out who can actually bowl?
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13. You Don’t Win Unless You Bowl ‘em out
Graph: what % of games are won if we take X wickets
• Wickets win matches
• Not as poetic as catches winning, though
• Putney teams that take 10 wickets win 81% of those matches
• Only by taking 9 or 10 wickets is the win rate above 50%.
• You probably won’t lose if you take 8 wickets.
• Where the oppo win without losing a wicket:
• the data’s a bit ropey!
• Since 2006
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14. Sunday teams get homesick
Teams win at home more than away.
Especially on Sunday!
Sat 1’s win 59% at home but win only 45% away
Sat 2’s win 58% home, win 48% away
Sun 1’s win 62% home, win 41% away
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15. PCC is playing more games
Probably because we are putting our more teams,
especially on a Sunday
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16. Any Given Sunday
Big increase in Sunday games.
Even if you have to play away.
We thank the:
skippers, team sec & web editor and the players
for making that happen.
Quality of the welcome matters!
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17. Thank Heavens
The heavens stayed shut
Fewer games are abandoned
Pretty wet in 2012!
Are the new covers helping?
Is the re-laid square (2012) more resilient?
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