I have 2 follow up questions.
1. While taking in form as a consideration, do you take the List A matches played in last one or two years as a sample size OR all formats performance. Asking this as this is a List A competition.
Suppose hypothetically, a player like R Ashwin is doing wonders in FC/Test matches, however he has been quite meh in List A/ODI in last 1-2 years. But in last 6 months he has played most of the matches in red ball, where he is in great touch.
2. A subset of this is, what if a player hasn't played any List A matches due to scheduling or any such reason. Will his form in other formats be taken into consideration or will it mean a fix drop in ratings due to missing the List A matches.
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I know my communication skills is a sucks, so incase my above explanation is confusing, let me know, I will try to explain again in a simpler form.
1. I do consider overall form. If it's a List A format competition (such as this) and the player's been in terrific form in List A, their form will be considered as it is. If it's a List A competition and their form is terrific in First Class or Twenty20; they'll be knocked down a peg or two given it's a List A competition and their form is terrific in other formats.
I think Ravichandran Ashwin's IODC stats of 27 wickets @ 26.78 is very good considering his List A + ODI average of 32.42, when you consider he took 54 wickets @ 16.64 in Tests in 2021.
32.42 is his career average (List A and ODI combined) and he was in scintillating form in Tests, so finished with an average of 26.78. Which is quite impressive given that it wasn't Test cricket so his form shouldn't have translated as it is.
2. Yes, I do take into account form from other formats as I've said above. If I had to use players from IODC as an example, Ashwin, Tripathi, Bairstow, Buttler, Root, Nortje all fall into that category.
To me, form is whatever the most recent set of matches is. It can be in any format, and the narrative for it can be tweaked to support the basics of whatever the ongoing league is.
3. Please do not think of form as the end all be all for a player. Virat Kohli was in the slumps IRL, and finished with an average of 36.18 in IODC. Quite similar to his averages recently. He still scored two centuries in the competition, because the real-life anomaly of "Virat Kohli not being able to score a hundred" is not something you programme into a text-based simulator.
4. Please do remember statistical outliers such as Kuldeep Yadav from IODC. Kuldeep Yadav finished with 35 wickets @ 22.51 in 16 innings. You take his 7-for out from that, he has 28 wickets in 15 innings. A handful of extraordinary performances, or extraordinarily bad performances affect a player's overall stats greatly when the league is 10-game long. The sample size is always going to be small.