Rankings

1. Each discipline is scored on its own terms

• Batting — a not-out-adjusted average (worth 45), scoring rate (25) and proven ceiling from the highest score and the rate of fifties and hundreds (30). The average is pulled toward runs-per-innings in proportion to how often the player is not out, so a tail-ender who is not out in fifty of fifty-six innings cannot "average" 180 off a top score of 60.
• Bowling — judged on strike rate, balls per wicket, not on wickets taken, so a player given fewer overs is not punished for the opportunity. The strike rate is shrunk toward a league prior worth about forty overs of evidence, which stops a hot two-over spell outranking a season's work. Economy adds a capped secondary credit, and is the only credit a wicketless bowler earns.
• Fielding — two separate skills. Outfield counts catches in the ring and run-outs, with direct hits worth double. Keeping counts dismissals behind the stumps. A keeper is scored on their glovework, an outfielder on theirs, and the two are never compared on one scale.
• Standard of cricket — every wicket and every ball carries the weight of the grade it happened in, from junior comps up through senior grades to Shield and international. A junior playing up into senior cricket earns senior credit against their age peers.
• Scorecards that cannot support a strike rate are ignored for tempo. Where a scorer has divided an innings' balls evenly across the batters rather than recording them, the whole team card is set aside for strike-rate purposes. Runs, averages and dismissals from those matches still count — only the ball count is in doubt.

2. Rated on recent form, not the career

The rating is built from the player's last 40 matches, none older than 2 years, plus every representative or higher game in those 2 years. The rep shields are played in October and November, so for someone who plays a lot of club cricket the last forty games can begin in December — the rep games are added back so they are never pushed out. Every match inside counts equally; nothing outside counts.

A player with no match in 2 years is not ranked. Their profile keeps a career rating. None of this touches the runs, wickets and averages shown on a profile, which are always true career figures.

3. The level of cricket is weighted, and the steps are wide

A batting 72 in first grade and a batting 72 in a Division 2 shield describe different players. Every match in the window is placed on this ladder, and the rating is multiplied by the average across the player's matches. Division 2 rep is half of Division 1, and each Premier grade is 0.7 of the one above.

It is a weight, not a wall: an outstanding player at one level can still pass a weak one at the level above. It is applied in full to the overall (national and state positions), and at half strength inside the age group, where at full strength it outweighed every difference in ability and the list simply sorted on who had played the most rep cricket. Girls' junior competitions count 0.6 of the open competition at the same level, so a girl's cricket against the boys counts for more.

Girls and the open pool are ranked separately

Every position — national, state, age group and role — is within one of two boards: girls and women, or the open pool. A player is on the girls' board only when they have played in a female competition; everyone else is in the open pool.

4. A discipline counts if the player does it

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