Role is how good they are at what they do. The other three are positional — age group especially, which is a selection order: a side takes only one keeper and two openers, so the third-best opener in the state is still the third-best opener, just picked for the second side. Tap any of them for the full list, with Braden Younger pinned on top.
Rank history
Archived twice a season — mid-August (pre-season) and mid-April (post-season) — and kept for five seasons.
| Taken | Season | National | State | Age | Role | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 2025/26 | 391,284 | 47,174 | 269 | 90 | 0 |
| Jul 2026 | 2025/26 | 515,016 | 55,909 | 267 | 13 | 0 |
Ranks are published every Thursday. They are recomputed on Tuesday night, so a match played
this week appears in next Thursday's figures — positions stay stable through the week rather than moving
with every import.
Each row narrows the comparison: the whole database, then their state, then their age group in that state, then players of the same role in that age group and state.
How these rankings are worked out
Current method, in force since 26 September 2026. Every change to it is listed at the foot of this page.
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.
| Level | Weight | A 72 becomes |
|---|---|---|
| National competition | 1.00 | 72 |
| State competition | 0.92 | 66 |
| 1st grade | 0.85 | 61 |
| Rep Div 1 | 0.78 | 56 |
| 2nd grade | 0.60 | 43 |
| 3rd grade | 0.42 | 30 |
| Rep Div 2 | 0.39 | 28 |
| Club | 0.30 | 22 |
| 4th grade | 0.29 | 21 |
| 5th grade and below | 0.20 | 14 |
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
Whether a discipline counts toward the overall rating is a question of participation, never of how good the player is at it. Batting counts once someone has six innings and bats in more than half their matches, counting innings as innings whatever the level. Bowling counts once they have five spells, average two or more overs a spell, and bowl in at least 40% of the matches they play — a threshold set so a bowler who misses spells through injury still counts as a bowler, while someone who has bowled a handful of novelty overs does not. Wicket rates are measured over the matches a player actually bowled in, not the matches they played.
Separately, a batting average under 20 (or a strike rate under 40) means no batting tile is shown and no batting strengths are listed, and a wicket rate under 0.75 a match means the bowling number shown is a discounted one. Those are display floors. They do not remove the discipline from the rating: a batter under the floor is still a batter, and their honest low score still counts against them.
5. The overall rating
Fielding 40%, batting 30%, bowling 30%, across the disciplines the player takes part in, then weighted at 0.65 with a representative pathway bonus added on top — Division 1 and state selection, plus a small allowance for the size of the body of work — and finally multiplied by the level weight above. This is the number on the profile, and it is what the national and state positions above are sorted on.
6. The age group is dealt as sides, not sorted
The age-group list is the one exception, and the reason is that a single cross-role number cannot order players who are not doing the same job. Sorted that way, the U14 NSW list came out five wicketkeepers deep in its top eleven — from a cohort that is 2% keepers, for a side that picks one. So the age group is dealt as a repeating side of 15: rows 1–15 are the strongest complete side in that age group and state, the next 15 the second, and so on.
Within a slot, players are compared only with others in the same slot, on a squad value: their best discipline, plus 60% of their second, plus 15% of their fielding. The second discipline adds rather than averaging the first down, because a side gets two players in one from an all-rounder. Each discipline is first converted to a percentile against the player's own age group and state, so a 90th-percentile bowler and a 90th-percentile batter count equally — raw scores are not comparable across disciplines.
| Slot | Per side | Roles it takes | How that role is weighted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wicketkeeper | 1 | Wicketkeeper-Batter | Batting and glovework, 55/45. Keeping is scored on dismissals per match (a catch or stumping behind the stumps), with extra credit for stumpings because they are the hardest piece of glovework to fake. |
| Batter | 3 | Opening, Top-Order, Middle-Order and Lower-Order Batter | Batting 80, fielding 20. Within the batting score an opener is weighted 40 average / 30 strike rate / 30 ceiling, top and middle order 55 / 10 / 35 — they are paid to occupy — and lower order 25 / 50 / 25, where tempo matters more than occupation. Which of those a player is does not affect their place: all four share the three batting spots. |
| All-rounder | 6 | All-Rounder and Bowling All-Rounder | A genuine all-rounder is weighted batting 45 / bowling 45 / fielding 10, a bowling all-rounder 55 / 35 / 10, and in both cases the batting half is judged on tempo (25 average / 50 strike rate / 25 ceiling) rather than accumulation. The two labels are separated only by a batting average of 25, so they share their six spots rather than being allocated apart. |
| Bowler | 5 | Opening, First, Second and Third-Change Bowler, Part-Time Bowler, and the unspecified Bowler | Bowling 80, fielding 20. When a bowler comes on is a captain's decision on the day, so it decides nothing here — all of them compete for the same five spots. |
A player the classifier cannot give a team position to is listed after everyone who has been dealt a slot, rather than dropped from the list.
Method history
24–26 September 2026 — recent form only, and the level of cricket weighted
Rankings are now on recent form. The last forty matches inside two years, plus every representative or higher game in those two years, replace the whole career tilted toward recent seasons. Players with no match in two years are no longer ranked.
The level of cricket now carries its own weight. The standard weighting already applied to runs and wickets cancels for anyone who plays at a single level, so a batter in Premier grade and a batter in a rep shield with the same figures came out equal. Each match is now placed on a ladder from national competition to fifth grade, with wide steps: Division 2 rep is half of Division 1, and each grade is 0.7 of the one above.
Club batters were being dropped from their own overall. "Bats in more than half their matches" was counting club innings at 0.6 each against full matches, so a club player had to bat in 83% of games to count as a batter. One batted in 33 of 40 and lost his batting from the overall. Innings are now counted as innings.
Girls now have their own board, and the level weighs half as much inside an age group. With one list, girls' rep counted as boys' Division 1 rep and 11 girls sat in the NSW U15 top 30 on the level weight alone. And at full strength the level decided the age group by itself: one boy went from 10th to 52nd with his ability unchanged.
The Big Bash was being read as club cricket. "KFC BBL|14" and "Women Weber WBBL" are named in a way the grade ladder did not recognise.
3 August 2026 — duplicate records combined, unusable ball counts withdrawn, and the all-rounders put in one queue
All-rounders now share a single queue of five places. They had been split two and three between the genuine and the bowling all-rounder, which quietly made a classification threshold worth about ninety places — the genuine label requires a batting average of 25 where the bowling one requires only 20, so the harder grade to reach carried the fewer places. At matched ability a genuine all-rounder averaged 177th in U14 NSW against a bowling all-rounder's 72nd. Improving your batting past 25 roughly doubled your position. The side still fields five all-rounders; they are drafted on merit instead of being sorted by label first.
Merged players were still being ranked as several people. Combining a player's duplicate records was a read-time convenience for their profile; the leaderboards never consulted it, so 59 merges appeared as 130 separate positions. One boy's twelve-innings fragment sat 497 places above his own sixty-five-match record, in a different team slot. A merged player is now rated on every one of their matches and appears once.
Strike rates from scorecards that cannot support them are no longer used. A scorer who does not record balls faced often divides the innings total evenly across the batters instead — twenty overs across seven of them coming out as 17, 18, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17. The card then reconciles perfectly against the overs bowled while every strike rate on it is fiction. Each team card is now judged on three signatures: a team striking at over 125, every batter in the innings above 100, or ball counts that barely vary between batters. 4.5% of cards fail, and only their strike rates are withdrawn — the runs still count everywhere else.
The outlier check no longer uses the player's own record as its benchmark. A single wild innings was measured against four times that player's median, which a uniformly corrupt record passes by being consistently corrupt — the twelve-innings fragment above carried a strike rate of 226 through it untouched. The ceiling is now a fixed percentile of every recorded innings.
2 August 2026 — the rating rebuilt, and the age group dealt as sides
Six faults were found and fixed together. Each was independently capable of inverting an order.
- Failing a floor removed a discipline instead of penalising it. A batting average under 20 set the batting score to null, and the remaining weights renormalised — so a wicketkeeper averaging 14 was rated on glovework alone and finished above the same keeper averaging 21. Across the whole database, keepers under the floor averaged 51.3 overall against 46.7 for those above it: batting better lowered your rating. Participation now decides what counts; the floors only decide what is displayed.
- Grade weighting was applied to wickets but not to balls. Full balls divided by discounted wickets inflated every junior's strike rate by roughly 1.6×, and it hurt the biggest bodies of work most: three wickets scored 80 while a hundred and ninety-two at 14.36 scored 52. Both sides of the strike rate now carry the weight.
- A one-over cameo could top the cohort. The volume gate was six balls, which no prior can pull toward reality. It is now about thirteen weighted overs, and the prior is worth forty.
- Wicket rates counted matches the player never bowled in. A bowler who missed spells through injury read as a bowler who bowled and took nothing. Across U14 NSW this held 412 genuine bowlers — 83% more than qualified — under the floor.
- The three disciplines were blended as though their scores meant the same thing. In U14 NSW the median batting score was 54, bowling 26 and fielding 11, and a keeper's fielding median was 30.5 against an outfielder's 11. Disciplines are now converted to percentiles within the player's own cohort before being compared, keepers and outfielders apart.
- Breadth was punished. Averaging a second discipline against the first meant an all-rounder could never beat a specialist, and a player was better off not bowling at all. In the squad value the second discipline adds.
Two further changes: a player's role is now taken from their current season rather than their career average, so a player who has changed what they do is judged on what they do now; and the age-group list became a dealt side of 15 instead of a rating sort.
Effect on the U14 NSW list: wicketkeepers fell from five of the top twelve to one, and from six of the top twenty-four to two.
1 August 2026 — every category became a browsable list
Each of the four positions above opens the whole cohort as a leaderboard from first to last, with the player pinned on top wherever they sit. Rating tiers were also given one meaning and one colour each, after a bowling rating of 14 and one of 51 were found wearing the same badge.
28 July 2026 — published positions begin
Before this, a position was counted live on every page view across the whole database, which took about three and a half seconds and drifted with every import. Positions became a weekly publication instead: four scopes — national, state, age group, and role within that age group and state — all sorted on the one overall rating, recomputed on Tuesday night and published each Thursday, with a twice-yearly archive kept for five seasons so movement is visible across a career.
Positions are recomputed weekly. A change to the method takes effect at the next rebuild, so a figure quoted before that date was produced by the method in force at the time.