T20 Cricket is all about impact. It can change within a space of few deliveries. The shorter length of the format shortens the overall impact of career stats, reputations and names as well.
Same theme has been seen in Pakistan Super League as well. The league has already produced incidents of rookie or unknown players making irreversible impact on the game within the space of few deliveries. At the same time, the league has also produced incidents of lesser rated players making a lasting impact on the outcome of a match.
It is this dimension of the game that makes the traditional method of stats and numbers somewhat incomplete, not necessarily showing the complete picture of the impact of a player in a game. To extract a more meaningful picture of out of raw stats, an impact rating method was designed to get Player Impact View out of those performance stats.
When applied on PSL 2016 performance stats, here is the ranking of players generated through this impact rating method:
* includes stats up
to Quetta vs Peshawar, February 14, 2016
Similarly, applying the method specifically for Batting and Bowling stats produced the following views:
At this point, it is worth keeping in mind that all these ratings are calculated on per match basis, therefore, it reflects the average impact each player has made in each of the games he has played.
The above graphics give pretty good idea about the top performing players in the tournament but it is only a part of the picture. To get the full context of these ratings and rankings, it would need to be compared with the Player Impact Rating of each and every other player in the tournament.
So here is the outcome of impact rating method, segregated on each team level for the sake of clarity and ease of understanding.
Quetta Gladiators:
Peashawar Zalmi:
Islamabad United:
Karachi Kings:
Lahore Qalandars:
Finally, to have a look at players of which teams are making the highest impact and which areas, here is what we get after adding up individual player impact of each team:
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