The Duckworth/Colly method

The original title of this post read something like “The Duckworth/Lewis method was not designed for Twenty20 and therefore doesn’t work at all (and it smells)“.  It was a glorious essay on the reasons why it doesn’t work and why it’s all the  ICC’s fault.

That’s not to say I was at all bitter about England’s loss because, hey, I picked West Indies in my prediction league and scored a stack of points.

But I decided not to convert it into this sardonic aside it after I realised that a) it had been done to death about 2 hours after the match ended and b) the numbers and sums were even boring me, and that takes some doing.

So the new title of this post can be translated as “Paul Collingwood likes a moan, and Frank Duckworth is a typically belligerent Yorkshireman on the defensive because really he knows the lad from oop ‘t road might have a point“.

Besides, if the Coolest Man Alive™, Chris Gayle, agrees with the Northern Nurdler™, then Duckworth really doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

Now that the dust has settled and the angry mob is dispersing faster than a cloud of volcanic ash, Colly and England have managed to progress to the Super8, despite only bowling 9.2 overs in their two games, and Frank Duckworth has gone back to his garden shed to plot further hilarious mathematical chaos.

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