Japan Cricket Rating - Indian Engineers' Cricket Club

Japan Cricket Rating - How did we do it ?

How did we calculate the Rating?

As with every other cricket rating system, you may find many drawbacks here too. We welcome your suggestions and feedbacks to improve this system.

While creating the Rating, we considered the following aspects of the Japan Cricket:

Cricket is only a weekend sport played by otherwise employed people, not professionals
At times, clubs are unable to field a full eleven
Even if they do, there are occasions where it may not be their strongest team, resulting in a lower ranking team defeating a higher ranked team quite often
It is difficult glean information about the friendly matches, which, unlike the KCL, are not officially reported anywhere except on the individual club's website

With those constraints in mind, we came up with the following criteria to decide a Performance Index(PI).

Beginning 2006, we have adopted a new calculation method taking into consideration all the feedback we received during the past one year. We thank you for all those valuable support and feedback!

The major changes are:

Got rid of the Base Table concept. All ratings calculations will be based on the current ranking table. Earlier, the Weighted Performance Index(WPI) was calculated based on the ranking of the Base table.
Current ranking table is based on the previous year's results plus the results of the current year. Earlier, it used to be the last three years and by the end of the current year the results accumulated to 4 years thus giving the ranking system undue weightage on the past performance of a club. With the new method, it will be a maximum of two years, including the current year.
A win gets 3 points (previously 2 points) and Tie 1 point
Tournament Performance Index(TPI) is changed to 2 points(previously 1 point)
Got rid of Objective Performance Index(OPI)
Weighted Performance Index(WPI) is now 0.25 times the difference in the current ranking (previously 0.1 times on the Base Table)
The ranking will be updated only at the end of the month(previouly every week).

Click here for a description of the old method.

Simple Performance Index (SPI)

SPI is the points a team gains for their victory or tie.

Win - 3 points
Tie - 1 point

Tournament Performance Index (TPI)

Any team that earns a berth in the semi-final of a tournament consisting of three teams or more will get 2 bonus points. Further, the teams that get into the final will get an additional 2 points.

TPI - 2 points

Weighted Performance Index (WPI)

Any team that beats a higher ranking team will get bonus points equal to 0.25 times the ranking difference. For e.g. if a team ranked 10 beats a team ranked 5, the winner will get a bonus point of 1.25.

WPI - 0.25 times the ranking difference.

In order to apply this changes, we used the KCL results of 2005 as a base and applied the SPI and TPI but omitted the WPI for obvious reasons. The ranking table thus obtained is given below. Please note that the WPI will be applied to all results from 2006.

Yes, we are expecting a few howling from the teams who have lost their higher ranking due to the new calculations but please bear with us.

Table A - Ranking as of Dec. 31, 2005

Ranking	Team	Played	Won	Tie	Bonus Pts	Points	Pt/Pl
1	Tokyo Wombats	10	6	1	4	23	2.300
2	Millennium	7	4		4	16	2.286
3	YC&AC	12	8		2	26	2.167
4	Wyverns	9	5		4	19	2.111
5	Shizuoka Kytes	15	9		4	31	2.067
6	Ichihara Sharks	9	6			18	2.000
7	Fuji Far East	9	5		2	17	1.889
8	Indian Engineers	14	8		2	26	1.857
9	Tokyo Dragons	14	8		2	26	1.857
10	Adore	9	5			15	1.667
11	Friends	6	3			9	1.500
12	Nagoya	10	5			15	1.500
13	Tokyo Bay	9	4			12	1.333
14	Tokyo Giants	10	4			12	1.200
15	Lalazar	6	2			6	1.000
16	British Embassy	9	1	1		4	0.444
17	MAX	9	1			3	0.333
18	Paddy Foleys	10	1			3	0.300
19	Gunma XI Stars	0	0			0	0.000
19	Serendip	0	0			0	0.000
19	Universities	0	0			0	0.000
19	Al Karam	0	0			0	0.000
19	Sri Lankan Lions	0	0			0	0.000
19	Bangladesh Tigers	0	0			0	0.000
19	Edogawa Falcons	0	0			0	0.000
19	Pakistan Eaglets	0	0			0	0.000

Rating Criteria

Going forward, the following criteria will be used for the Rating:

All matches that classify as an ODI (these include the KCL matches, any other tournament matches and all reported friendly matches) will be taken into account
Tournaments such as Twenty20, Six-a-side will be excluded for Rating calculation
A tournament is defined as one that involves three or more teams in an ODI format
Any club that has not played a minimum of 5 matches in a season will be given an Adjusted Ranking in the at the end of each season. In other words, they will be ranked below the clubs that have played 5 or more matches at the end of the season
The Second Elevens match results are considered as a full result of the club. There is no separate ranking for 2nd Elevens. Basically, the ranking is for a club, not a team.