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rf_fozzy Jan 2023 12:31pm, 31 Jan 2023 19,355 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy Why people still use archaic imperial units at all Genuinely don't understand that. It's the 21st century not the 17th.
rf_fozzy Jan 2023 12:31pm, 31 Jan 2023 19,356 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy What even is an ounce? Meaningles..
Diogenes Jan 2023 12:45pm, 31 Jan 2023 76,272 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Because they having meaning to us. I have a much better concept of how much someone weighs if it is expressed in stones and pounds rather than kilos because that is what I grew up with. The same with height. If I hear that someone is 6 foot, I have a good idea how tall that person is. If someone expressed that as 1 metre and something I wouldn't have a clue. I have a better idea when it comes to kilometres thanks mostly to running and getting familiar with doing metric to imperial conversions and vice versa.
fetcheveryone Jan 2023 12:45pm, 31 Jan 2023 28,691 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone [they are not measuring different things though, just opposite sides of the same run rate coin. One is runs per 100 balls; the other is runs per 6 balls. Kilometres versus Miles - both acceptable units of measurement, but only comparable when converted into one or the other. By your logic, RPHB is meaningless for batters too, as they may not face 100 balls; and RPO meaningless for bowlers if they do not bowl exactly 6 balls.]
Diogenes Jan 2023 12:47pm, 31 Jan 2023 76,273 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Re mpg, I understand fuel economy when expressed that way, I have no idea what the equivalents are in mpl. I'm not sure I've ever seen performance listed that way in this country?
ptr_rnr Jan 2023 12:50pm, 31 Jan 2023 382 posts	Quote Pin ptr_rnr Dio, it's km/L or L/100km. You'd not mix miles and litres. Unless you were a sadist and loved mental arithmetic
rf_fozzy Jan 2023 12:50pm, 31 Jan 2023 19,358 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy [no, the difference is that a bowler, usually, delivers a full over and then only multiples of that. A batter may face 2 balls in one over, miss 3 overs, then 1 ball, then 3 overs continuously so the RPO stat is misleading for the batter - RPHB is thus convenient here. I guess you could use RPHB for bowlers too, but RPO is a better measure]
Diogenes Jan 2023 12:52pm, 31 Jan 2023 76,274 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Dio, it's km/L or L/100km. You'd not mix miles and litres. Unless you were a sadist and loved mental arithmetic I think I have unwittingly further illustrated my point
rf_fozzy Jan 2023 12:53pm, 31 Jan 2023 19,359 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy [imperial units are genuinely meaningless. We should have scrapped them all at decimalisation. The only reason anyone knows that 6ft is 1.83m is purely cultural. Just stop thinking about ft and whatevers and it'll soon become 2nd nature]
Diogenes Jan 2023 12:54pm, 31 Jan 2023 76,275 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Using the same measure (e.g. RPHB) for both batters and bowlers is only useful when measuring the performance of the team as a whole. [I keep thinking Fetch is Katie because of the avatar.]