The phrase "average yardstick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a standard or measure that is considered typical or normal for comparison purposes.
Example: "When evaluating the performance of the team, we used the average yardstick of previous years' results."
Alternatives: "standard measure" or "typical benchmark".
If he allows them to score, he may cost his team a game, but he can still improve his earned run average, the main yardstick of his success, along the way.
Hardware, software and Internet stocks took the hardest fall, while a more modest decline among transportation and financial stocks helped the blue chips in the Dow Jones Industrial Average curb that yardstick's tumble.
That's a lot healthier than Winterbottom's previous film, Genova (£28,000 from 13 screens), although actually not if screen average is your chosen yardstick.
The average coefficient of variation a yardstick that measures dispersion around the mean estimate is half of what it was in 1989.
It may be optimistic to assume that 20-year averages are the right yardstick, but you get the point: Cadbury investors have little to fear from independence, especially now that the management has made a hard commitment to lift the dividend by 10% a year.
She said she had demonstrated to her banker that she would be able to increase the property's average daily rate, a critical yardstick in the hotel industry, by raising room prices while improving customer service and adding amenities.
Interest-sensitive shares weighed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, sending the blue-chip yardstick slightly lower.
Nike is one of 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the grandaddy of all yardsticks for the broader stock market.
The blue-chip yardstick Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.5% in midday trading.
The blue chip yardstick Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 23.24 to 9619.89.
