The top 15 batsmen by this method, along with their batting point tallies per innings, are:

Batting Points:

The batting points were fairly straightforward to calculate. You have to take care of two parameters: the number of runs scored and the strike rate. The simplest way to do this is by multiplying one by the other, but there is a qualitatively better method and that is to calculate points based on the Relative Strike Rate.

The Relative Strike Rate is simply the ratio of a particular batsman's strike rate divided by the tournament's average strike rate. So if the average strike rate for the tournament has been 120.00 and Batsman A has a strike rate of 150.00, his relative strike rate would be 1.25.

The batting points are then assigned thus:

If R is the number of runs a batsman has scored, and S is his relative strike rate, the number of points B, the batsman will get is: B = R * S.

The only other thing that needs to be factored in to this is a batsman remaining 'Not Out' at the end of the innings. To make matters simple, every 'Not Out', contributes 10 runs to a batsman's score for the purpose of this analysis. Therefore, if N is the number of Not Outs, the formula becomes: B = (R+10N) * S

For IPL-2, the average strike rate has been 116.61.

The top 15 batsmen by this method, along with their batting point tallies per innings, are:

1	Matthew Hayden	Chennai	572	144.81	722.73
2	Adam Gilchrist	Deccan	495	152.31	646.51
3	AB de Villiers	Delhi	465	130.99	567.24
4	Suresh Raina	Chennai	434	140.91	524.42
5	T Dilshan	Delhi	418	122.58	470.92
6	MS Dhoni	Chennai	332	127.2	416.69
7	Brad Hodge	Kolkata	365	117.74	398.82
8	Tendulkar	Mumbai	364	120.13	395.59
9	JP Duminy	Mumbai	372	114.46	394.58
10	Rohit Sharma	Deccan	362	114.92	386.31
11	Gibbs	Deccan	371	112.08	385.43
12	Dinesh Karthik	Delhi	288	132.72	384.68
13	Yuvraj Singh	Punjab	340	115.65	357.01
14	Jacques Kallis	Bangalore	361	108.73	355.26
15	Ross Taylor	Bangalore	280	134.62	346.31