Cricket Team Ranking Using Unified Team Rank Undertaken By

Pros and cons of sports rating systems

Pros

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  Ratings are objective, without specific player, team, and regional.
  
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  Ratings are verifiable and repeatable.
  
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  Ratings are comprehensive, requiring assessment of all selected criteria.
  
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  Ratings do not forget old games.
  

Cons

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  Formulae criteria are subjective (some use just scores, some use margin of victory, some include auxiliary game data, such as hits, interceptions, lead changes, shot percentage) .
  
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  Most ignore qualitative criteria such as weather, participation (or lack due to injuries or "throw-away" games) and individual efforts.
  
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  Goals of some rating systems differ from one another.
  
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  Rating systems cannot ignore "throw-away" games. These are games where teams have already earned a post-season bid and have secured their playoff seeding before the end of the regular season, and want to rest/protect their starters by benching them for those remaining regular season games. This usually results in unpredictable outcomes, but without a mechanism to ignore such games (which runs counter to the goals of such systems), this will unintentionally skew the outcomes of rating systems.
  

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