Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The unfair fair play award

Just heard Harsha commenting about nice guys finish last or something to that effect (after reviewing the kingfisher fair play award table). Thus far nobody in the IPL or the commentary team have mentioned that the fair play awards don't factor in rained out matches.

So Mumbai Indians who are listed as having 30 from 4 matches actually have 30 from 3 matches as they did not play one and should lead the table. Similarly CSK, KKR and RR should not be in the bottom as they also missed out on matches.

Leading the table is RCB with 41 out of 50 (which means they have been docked the most points till now).

I wonder how long it will take to add a column to factor in the matches?
You can tell from this, how much this award is valued or kept track of...

2 comments:

straight point said...

did you saw RR's match with kkr that went into super over...?

warne was so furious at umpire (cant recall his name) for giving wides...he was not even afraid to give him his piece of mind...

fair play award...? huh!

rs said...

They docked 9 points for KP's dissent and Steyn's wide -- but Warne gets away with most stuff...