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Major Dhyan Chand and Balbir Singh jr two Statistical anamoly
Major Dhyan Chand, a step above others
I am mostly active in the cricket subreddit and have heard from many Australians how Don Bradman was the greatest batter because he was an Statistical anamoly, an outlier. I started looking at outliers in sports and came across two legendary Indian Players.
So Most of us have heard the name of Major Dhyan Chand, his Wizardry with the hockey sticks his three Olympics gold medals and stories about how Hitler offered him German Citizenship and a position as Colonel in German Army.
He won India Three back to back olympic gold medals.
I was reading about field hockey when I came across a stat that He has the most no. of Goals Scored in field Hockey at 570 Goals.
But that's not it, only 48 people have ever scored more than 100 goals in field hockey.
Of those 48 only 8 people have a goals per match ratio greater than 1.
And 2 people here stand head and shoulders above everyone
Balbir Singh Sr. of India and Dhyan Chand
Dhyan Chand has a gpm of 3.08 with Balbir Singh having a gpm of 4.03.
Dhyan Chand has 2 times gpm compared to the next best person Litjens of Netherlands who has a gpm of 1.51 and almost 3X the next best person to Litjens.
It is almost crazy how much more better Dhyan Chand was compared to the rest of the competition.
We have always heard about Don Bradman being a statistical anamoly with his average of 99.94 being an outlier. ( He is less than 2X better than the next who follow him)
Balbir Singh and Dhyan Chand are as much a statistical outlier as well.
It is a shame field hockey is almost dead in India and very few people know about How much of a Great player Dhyan Chand was.
Here's the wiki article if anyone is interested
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