Figure 1
Joint probability distribution and \(Q( {\Delta_{j}^{1,2} ,\Delta_{j}^{1,3} } )\) and \(R( {\Delta t} )\). (A,B) show the joint distribution of the relative difference of the indices of second best from the best (defined by Eq. (2) in Subsection "Distributions of temporal locations of best performances"), plotted against the third best from the best performances. (C,D) show \(R( {\Delta t} )\) defined by Eq. (3) for \(\Delta t = \Delta_{j}^{1,2} ,\Delta_{j}^{1,3} ,\Delta_{j}^{2,3}\). (A,C) correspond to the batting performances in ODI cricket and (B,D) correspond to the performances in Test cricket.
