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Batting graphs

Based on original by Raven4x4x (talk · contribs)

Need to ask someone who has the sample spreadsheet to email it, excel can't be uploaded on commons. eg YellowMonkey, who has emailed it to Sarastro1
- Sample per the five-innings average in Ernie Toshack with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 and other season forks of bios
- Per ten-innings average in Douglas Jardine among many other standard biographies

Open up to the datasheet page as an example
First column is year of the innings, or month in the case of a season
Second column for runs in innings
3rd col mark 1 if not out.
4th col is total runs for last 10/5 innings as desired for running average
5th col is total outs for last 10/5 innings per above, using the sum function of 10 or 5 subtract the sum of ones in the not out column
6th col is divide to get running average of last 10/5 innings

My old excel computer doesn't work at the moment, so can't write down the graph technique for it

Cumbersome....

Select the whole data area and click on the chart icon and select 2D column. There will be multicolumns everywhere. It's auto so you can't butt in immediately
Right click on graph and go to "select data"
- The horizontal axis labels are by default 1 2 3 etc, so click on edit and then drag down the year column, to switch it to years
- Then delete the data series for not out, year, total runs, total outs, keeping only runs and average
Right click on x-axis and "format axis" and then "alignment" on the LHS and then rotate the text by 270 degrees
Because the chart thing is rigid to begin with, both the runs and average are shown as bars.
- Right click on the average data series and select "change series chart type" and switch to line with no data points.
- Colour in columns with red by "format data series" and "fill" red. For the line, use "line color" blue
- Insert text box and type in title
- Copy the chart to Paint, and then using the paintbrush, add appropriately colored blue circular dots of the same tint above the not outs
  - Save as PNG

Note: Adjust colour as desired, eg in a season's graph, red bars for Test innings and pink for FC