Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2018 March 30

= March 30 =

Who has more bowling or batting skill depth: an average year's best MLB team or an average year's best Test cricket team?
(where only the bowlers and batters of the best team overall each year count even if that team doesn't win every subaspect like "batting" or "best #5 bowler in the league" or "least skill disparity") Is there a tendency for some or all matchups to be won by one sport or the other? i.e. the team's #1 bowling average/ERA is only x% of its #5 in one sport but a higher percent (indicating lower skill disparity) in the other? The important numbers would seem to be where the number of starting specialists overlap. Baseball has 5 starting "bowlers" and cricket has 4 I think while baseball has 9 (AL) or 8 (NL) starting non-bowling batters while cricket has only 7. Shouldn't the #1 and #8 batter be closer together in skill in baseball than in cricket then? What about the #1 vs #7 and #1 vs 6 or 5 matchups? Is the #4 bowler a smaller skill dropoff in cricket than in baseball? Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 02:37, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * This is the sort of silly, idle, speculation that is entirely inappropriate for this venue, and you've been told often enough to stop asking these sorts of questions to have known better. Just stop it and take it somewhere else. We have better things to do than to keep reminding you to cut the crap.-- Jayron 32 03:18, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * A given year's "best" MLB is the one that wins the World Series. That team's stats may or may not be the "best" stats in MLB. So even forgetting trying to compare with cricket, the premise doesn't hold for baseball. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:13, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Astonishingly, we have an article, Comparison of baseball and cricket. Alansplodge (talk) 16:57, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Hiatus
Roseanne and Dallas have both been renewed after a 21-year gap, although our articles treat Dallas (1978 TV series) and Dallas (2012 TV series) as two separate entities. Has any programme ever been revived with much the same cast after a longer gap? Reboots with a different cast, such as MacGyver (2016 TV series) and Ironside (2013 TV series) not included. Rojomoke (talk) 15:29, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The Jetsons 1963 to 1985 is 22 years. It's animated but voice cast returned. Twin Peaks (1991 end) to Twin Peaks (2017 TV series) is 26 years. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:36, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Twelve stars from WrestleMania VII returned at WrestleMania XXX. It may not count as "much the same" in an ensemble cast, is an annual instead of weekly series and only one guy actually worked a real match, but the gap is still "American television history" for running the entirety of that one guy's streak. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:56, 31 March 2018 (UTC)


 * There are some examples at revival (television), looks like Burke's Law (1963 TV series) and 1994 TV series might hold the record. Warofdreams talk 17:55, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
 * And how did I forget Twin Peaks (26 year gap)? Warofdreams talk 18:07, 31 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Open All Hours (1976-1985) returned after 28 years as Still Open All Hours in 2013 with several major roles still being played by the original actors. I think that holds the record, though the gap is only about 2 months longer than Burke's Law's. --Antiquary (talk) 18:05, 31 March 2018 (UTC)