Gayle continues to be the Most Valuable in IPL

At the end of the league stage, Chris Gayle is still IPL6’s most valuable player (MVP), according to Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle. But his time has run out and he cannot increase his MVPI tally of 864.

Shane Watson (802) looks most likely to emerge MVP especially if Rajasthan Royals win the qualifier.

The most valuable player index (MVPI) collapses a player’s batting, bowling and fielding performances into a one-dimensional ‘run equivalent’.

The best MVPI scores are obtained if a player scores a lot of runs at a high strike rate, takes a lot of wickets at a low economy rate or is responsible for the most number of catches and stumpings.

The higher the MVPI, the better is the player’s performance.

	Name	Team	From	Runs	S/R	W	E/R	Age	M	MVPI	Price ($)	$ per ‘run’
1	Chris Gayle	RCB	WI	708	156.3	3	10	33	16	864	550000	637
2	Shane Watson	RR	AUS	513	143.7	11	6.7	32	14	802	1300000	1621
3	ViratKohli	RCB	IND	634	138.7	0	-	24	16	727	1800000	2476
4	Michael Hussey	CSK	AUS	646	127.7	0	-	38	15	661	425000	643
5	Suresh Raina	CSK	IND	466	144.7	1	11.5	26	16	584	1300000	2226
6	ThisaraPerera	SRH	SL	222	141.4	19	8.2	23	15	580	675000	1164
7	MS Dhoni	CSK	IND	398	167.2	0	-	31	16	579	1800000	3109
8	Rohit Sharma	MI	IND	526	138.1	0	4.5	25	16	573	2000000	3490
9	James Faulkner	RR	AUS	46	100.0	26	6.6	23	14	566	400000	707
10	Sunil Narine	KKR	WI	21	110.5	22	5.5	25	16	563	700000	1243
11	Dwayne Bravo	CSK	WI	106	117.8	25	8	29	16	546	200000	366
12	David Miller	KXI	AUS	418	164.6	0	-	24	12	529	100000	189
13	Harbhajan Singh	MI	IND	96	152.4	19	6.7	32	16	519	1300000	2505
14	Dale Steyn	SRH	SA	49	144.1	18	5.7	29	16	518	1200000	2317
15	Dinesh Karthik	MI	IND	456	130.3	0	-	28	16	509	900000	1768
16	Jacques Kallis	KKR	SA	311	96.6	16	7.4	37	16	507	1100000	2170
17	Vinay Kumar	RCB	IND	70	159.1	23	8.2	29	16	494	1000000	2024
18	AB de Villiers	RCB	SA	360	164.4	0	-	29	14	476	1100000	2311
19	Aaron Finch	PWI	AUS	456	135.7	1	12.3	26	14	471	300000	637
20	Amit Mishra	SRH	IND	89	92.7	20	6.5	30	16	468	300000	641
21	Mitchell Johnson	MI	AUS	32	118.5	22	7.1	31	14	459	300000	654
22	RavindraJadeja	CSK	IND	201	151.1	10	7.3	24	16	457	2000000	4376
23	AzharMahmood	KXI	ENG	196	127.3	15	7.5	38	11	451	200000	443
24	Kieron Pollard	MI	WI	325	143.2	6	9.7	25	15	447	900000	2013
25	David Warner	DD	AUS	410	126.9	0	-	26	16	429	750000	1748
26	Yusuf Pathan	KKR	IND	332	138.3	1	8.1	30	16	427	2100000	4918
27	Robin Uthappa	PWI	IND	434	117.0	0	-	27	16	426	2100000	4930
28	Stuart Binny	RR	IND	264	150.0	5	6.8	29	15	417	66000	158
29	AjinkyaRahane	RR	IND	449	106.9	1	-	25	16	386	44000	114
30	Adam Gilchrist	KXI	AUS	294	128.4	1	0	41	13	364	900000	2473
31	Rahul Dravid	RR	IND	416	110.1	0	-	40	16	364	500000	1374
32	GautamGambhir	KKR	IND	406	118.4	0	-	31	16	363	2400000	6612
33	Kevon Cooper	RR	WI	35	175.0	17	8.3	24	12	362	50000	138
34	Mohit Sharma	CSK	IND	0	0.0	17	6.2	24	13	352	22000	63
35	LasithMalinga	MI	SL	9	64.3	17	6.7	29	14	352	500000	1420
36	RAshwin	CSK	IND	26	83.9	15	6.6	26	16	348	850000	2443
37	Yuvraj Singh	PWI	IND	238	125.3	6	6.9	31	13	347	1800000	5187
38	Eoin Morgan	KKR	ENG	307	127.9	0	-	26	14	334	350000	1048
39	Praveen Kumar	KXI	IND	47	120.5	12	6.6	26	15	324	800000	2469
40	IrfanPathan	DD	IND	142	93.4	10	7.4	28	15	310	1900000	6129
41	B Kumar	PWI	IND	52	73.2	13	6.5	22	16	310	44000	142
42	PragyanOjha	MI	IND	1	100.0	15	7	26	13	306	500000	1634
43	Parthiv Patel	SRH	IND	293	116.3	0	-	28	12	306	650000	2124
44	VirenderSehwag	DD	IND	295	126.6	0	9	34	13	298	1800000	6040
45	Sachin Tendulkar	MI	IND	287	124.2	0	-	39	14	298	1800000	6040
46	Ravi Rampaul	RCB	WI	38	102.7	13	6.9	28	10	291	290000	997
47	Rajat Bhatia	KKR	IND	99	123.8	11	7.6	33	15	286	66000	231
48	Shikhar Dhawan	SRH	IND	278	129.9	0	-	27	9	283	300000	1060
49	Karan Sharma	SRH	IND	83	98.8	10	6.3	25	12	283	44000	155
50	ManvinderBisla	KKR	IND	255	108.1	0	-	28	14	283	66000	233
51	Ishant Sharma	SRH	IND	0	-	14	7.7	24	15	282	450000	1596
52	PiyushChawla	KXI	IND	64	112.3	11	7.2	24	16	281	900000	3203
53	Shaun Marsh	KXI	AUS	300	120.5	0	-	29	8	280	400000	1429
54	MoisesHenriques	RCB	AUS	165	132.0	7	8.7	26	10	280	300000	1071
55	M Jayawardene	DD	SL	331	105.8	0	-	35	15	277	1400000	5054
56	Darren Sammy	SRH	WI	145	130.6	6	7.4	29	9	273	425000	1557
57	Angelo Mathews	PWI	SL	172	123.7	5	7.7	26	11	273	950000	3480
58	UmeshYadav	DD	IND	38	100.0	16	8.8	25	16	272	750000	2757
59	ShahbazNadeem	DD	IND	14	51.9	9	5.9	23	12	265	44000	166
60	Sanju Samson	RR	IND	196	126.5	0	-	18	9	265	22000	83

We can also define a second index: paisa vasool index (PVI). To obtain a player’s PVI we divide his total money offered by his MVPI. So the PVI estimates how many dollars the franchise owner pays the player for every ‘run’ scored. The lower the PVI, the greater the value offered by the player.

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