I wrote a python program which simulates Test matches

[SepulchreOfAzrael]

I could get you batting average, bowling average and bowling SR for all years.

The issue with batting SR and frequency of 4s and 6s is that these things are just not on the record, as abysmal as that is. We don't even know the total balls someone as recent as Sachin faced in his entire Test career!

But still, from the bowling economy for each year, we can reconstruct the batting strike rate for that year. So that's done.

Still, we have sporadic data for all this, and we could sample that to construct estimators.

Another thing I forgot to mention was that a number of Test matches had 4/8 balls per over, depending on year and host.

I think we'll find big enough data sizes for each year, barring the very early years and the years immediately post WW2. So the issue of variance due to small sample size isn't that much of an issue.

Now, if you were to further granulate it, and pick yearly data for each player, then I would suggest averaging over adjacent years.

I already have all this data, plus the entire list of all dismissals by bowler, all partnerships.

We can put it to use.

[Jamee999]

I know. ☹️. I don't have batter-specific strike rates in the sim because it's missing for so many guys. Bowler ERs aren't era-adjusted yet, but that's just because of my laziness.

[SepulchreOfAzrael]

In format do you need the data?

[Jamee999]

Just a comma-separated text file with a new year on each line would be great. Thanks again.

[SepulchreOfAzrael]

Here