More player analysis with gganimate()

This post continues the analysis of IPL and T20 (men) batsmen and bowlers through animated charts. In my last post Analyzing player performance with animated charts! I had used animated horizontal bars to display the totalRuns or totalWickets over a 3 year ‘sliding window’. While that was cool, the only drawback of that animation was the batsman and bowler performance was measured in a single dimension of either total(mean) runs or total(mean) wickets.

I think to fairly describe batsmen and bowlers we need at least the following 2 attributes

• Runs and Strike rate for batsmen and
• Wickets and Economy rate for bowlers

So, I have created new animation charts which use these attributes for batsmen and bowlers.

The animated charts are

• Based on a sliding window of 3 years (Jan 2008- Dec 2010, Jan 2009-Dec 2010,…, Jan 2019-Dec 2021)
• I have taken the top 10 percentile and sometimes the top 5 percentile of batsmen and bowlers to keep the charts more manageable
• The charts are based on gganimate().

Note 1: I tried several options for the animation before settling on this one. The animation may seem a bit jerky but, we can follow the progress of players more easily through the years

Note 2: Some charts may display points, without the corresponding names. I think this may be because the animation tries to create intermediate points between the charts.

Note 3: For fine-grained, but static analysis across different intervals or seasons, checkout my my posts GooglyPlusPlus2021 now with power play, middle and death over analysis and GooglyPlusPlus2021: Towards more picturesque analytics!

The code for the animation can be cloned from Github at animation2. Feel free to modify the parameters for a different animation behavior.

Here are performances of IPL and T20 (men) players. Note all charts are based on a 3 year staggered window. The Top 10 percentile is considered

1. Runs vs SR – IPL

2. Wickets vs ER – IPL

3. Runs vs SR in Power play – IPL

4. Runs vs Strike rate in Middle overs – IPL

5.Runs vs SR in Death overs – IPL

6. Wickets vs ER in Power play – IPL

7. Wickets vs ER in Middle overs – IPL

8. Wickets vs ER in Death overs – IPL

9. Runs vs SR – T20 (men)

10. Wickets vs ER – T20 (men)

11. Runs vs SR in Power Play – T20 (men)

12. Runs vs SR in Middle overs – T20 (men)

13. Runs vs SR in Death overs – T20 (men)

14. Wickets vs ER in Power play (T20 men)

15. Wickets vs ER in Middle overs – T20 (men)

16. Wickets vs ER in Death overs – T20 (men)

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