IPL 2022: Near real-time analytics with GooglyPlusPlus!!!

It is that time of the year when there is “a song in the air, the lark’s on the wing, and the snail’s on the the thorn“. Yes, it is the that time of year when the grand gala event of IPL 2022 is underway. So, I managed to wake myself from my Covid-induced slumber, worked up my ‘creaking bones‘ and cranked up the GooglyPlusPlus machinery.

So now, every morning, a scheduled CRON tab entry will automatically download the previous night’s match data from Cricsheet, unzip, process and transform it into the necessary format required by my R package yorkr, and make it available to my Shiny app GooglyPlusPlus. Hence the data is current and you have access to ‘analytics-in-the-now’!.

As you know in 2021, I added a lot of new features to GooglyPlusPlus, new tabs to do even more. analytics – or in other words there is “more GooglyPlusPlus per click!!”. So now, you have the following

Batsman tab: For detailed analysis of batsmen
Bowler tab: For detailed analysis of bowlers
Match tab: Analysis of individual matches, plot of Runs vs SR, Wickets vs ER in power play, middle and death overs
Head-to-head tab: Detailed analysis of team-vs-team batting/bowling scorecard, batting, bowling performances, performances in power play, middle and death overs
Team performance tab: Analysis of team-vs-all other teams with batting /bowling scorecard, batting, bowling performances, performances in power play, middle and death overs
Optimisation tab: Allows one to pit batsmen vs bowlers and vice-versa. This tab also uses integer programming to optimise batting and bowling lineup
Batting analysis tab: Ranks batsmen using Runs or SR. Also plots performances of batsmen in power play, middle and death overs and plots them in a 4×4 grid
Bowling analysis tab: Ranks bowlers based on Wickets or ER. Also plots performances of bowlers in power play, middle and death overs and plots them in a 4×4 grid

Also note all these tabs and features are available for all T20 formats namely IPL, Intl. T20 (men, women), BBL, NTB, PSL, CPL, SSM.

Note: All charts are interactive, which means that you can hover, zoom-in, zoom-out, pan etc on the charts

The latest avatar of GooglyPlusPlus2022 is based on my R package yorkr with data from Cricsheet.

Go ahead, give GooglyPlusPlus a try!!!

To know all the new features and how to use them, check out these posts

Ranking of batsmen, bowlers – GooglyPlusPlus2021 interactively ranks T20 batsmen and bowlers!!!
Interactive charts – GooglyPlusPlus2021 is now fully interactive!!!
Detailed batsmen/bowler analytics – GooglyPlusPlus2021 enhanced with drill-down batsman, bowler analytics
Addition of Date Range picker to charts – GooglyPlusPlus2021 adds new bells and whistles!!
Analysis of power play, middle and death overs across players, teams – GooglyPlusPlus2021 now with power play, middle and death over analysis
Analysis based on 4 x 4 grid of players – GooglyPlusPlus2021: Towards more picturesque analytics!
Optimisation of batsmen/bowlers – GooglyPlusPlus2022 optimizes batting/bowling lineup

Here are some random analysis that can be done by GooglyPlusPlus across the tabs. Note the app will be updated daily and the analytics will be current throughout the season of IPL 2022

A) Match tab

a) GT vs DC – 2 Apr 2022

Runs vs SR – Gujarat Titans

b) CSK vs LSG – 31 Mar 2022

Runs across 20 overs

c) KKR vs PBKS -Match wicket worm chart – 1 Apr 2022

B) Batsmen tab

a) Faf Du Plessis – Runs vs Deliveries

b) Sanju Samson – Runs against opposition

C) Bowler’s tab

a) D J Bravo – No of deliveries to wicket

b) Trent Boult – Wickets at Venues

D) Head-to-head tab

a) DC vs MI – Mar -2019 till date : Batting scorecard

b) CSK vs KKR – Jan 2019 till date : Runs vs SR

E) Team vs All Teams tab

a) Punjab Kings vs all Teams – Wickets vs ER in Power play

b) Rajasthan Royals vs all Teams : Jan 2019 till date : Runs vs SR in Power play

F) Optimisation tab

a) Batsmen vs Bowlers

b) Bowlers vs batsmen

G) Batting analysis

This tab is for ranking batsmen

a) Batsmen rank from 2019 till date (Runs over SR)

b) Overall Runs vs SR (Jan 2020 till date)

Best batsmen in top right quadrant

zooming in on the above (right-most)

H) Bowling analysis tab

a) Best middle over bowlers in IPL (2019 onwards)

The bottom right quadrant are the best bowlers

b) Best bowlers in death overs (bottom-right)

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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

Runs vs SR – IPL

We can that Shikhar Dhawan is a top performer for 4 years from 2018-2021. He definitely deserved a slot in the India WC 15 member squad.

2. Wickets vs ER – IPL

Similarly, YS Chahal also deserved a slot in the 15 member sqad

3. Runs vs SR in Power play – IPL

S Dhawan, De Kock & KL Rahul are the best players in Power play

4. Runs vs Strike rate in Middle overs – IPL

Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer,Sanju Samson and KL Rahul are best performers in Middle overs

5.Runs vs SR in Death overs – IPL

It is MS Dhoni all the way, till Hardik Pandya catches up. But H Pandya had poor IPL seasons in 2020, 2021. See my post GooglyPlusPlus2021: Towards more picturesque analytics! for finer analysis

6. Wickets vs ER in Power play – IPL

In the early years B. Kumar led. More recently D Chahar and T Boult

7. Wickets vs ER in Middle overs – IPL

YS Chahal, Rashid Khan, Imran Tahir and Rahul Chahar lead in Middle overs

8. Wickets vs ER in Death overs – IPL

Bumrah & Rabada top performers

9. Runs vs SR – T20 (men)

Babar Azam, PR Stirling, Rohit Sharma, S Dhawan, KL Rahul are best performers in recent times

10. Wickets vs ER – T20 (men)

Wanindu Hasaranga, T Shamsi, Shadab Khan, Rashid Khan, T Boult are best performers in recent times

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

PR Stirling, RG Sharma, C Munro, Shikhar Dhawan lead

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

Babar Azam, followed by Kohli, S Dhawan, Rizwan, RG Sharma in recent years

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

Shoaib Malik, V Kohli, Mohamed Nabi. Mohammed Rizwan and other top the death overs

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

TG Southee, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and B Stanlake lead in recent years

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

Top bowlers are Shadab Khan, T Shamsi, Kuldeep Yadav, YS Chahal and AC Agar

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

Haris Rauf, AJ Tye, Rashid Khan and Chris Jordan excel in death overs

GooglyPlusPlus2021 now with power play, middle and death over analysis

This latest edition of GooglyPlusPlus2021 now includes detailed analysis of teams, batsmen and bowlers in power play, middle and death overs. The T20 format is based on 3 phases as each side faces 20 overs.

Power play: Overs: 0 – 6 – No more than 2 players can be outside the 30 yard circle

Middle overs: Overs: 7- 16 – During these overs the batting side tries to consolidate their innings

Death overs: Overs: 16 -20 – During these 5 overs the batting side tries to accelerate the scoring rate, while the bowling side will try to restrict the batsmen against going for big hits

This is shown below

This latest update of GooglyPlusPlus2021 includes the following functions

a) Match tab

teamRunsAcrossOvers
teamSRAcrossOvers
teamWicketsAcrossOvers
teamERAcrossOvers
matchWormWickets

b) Head-to-head tab

teamRunsAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
teamSRAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
teamWicketsAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
teamERAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
topRunsBatsmenAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
topSRBatsmenAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
topWicketsBowlersAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
topERBowlerAcrossOverOppnAllMatches

c) Overall performance tab

teamRunsAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
teamSRAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
teamWicketsAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
teamERAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
topRunsBatsmenAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
topSRBatsmenAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
topWicketsBowlersAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
topERBowlerAcrossOverAllOppnAllMatches

Hence a total of 8 + 8 + 5 = 21 functions have been added. These functions can be utilized across all the 9 T20 formats that are supported in GooglyPlusPlus2021 namely

i) IPL ii) Intl. T20 (men) iii) Intl. T20 (women) iv) BBL v) NTB vi) PSL vii) CPL viii) SSM ix) WBB

Hence there are a total of 21 x 9 = 189 new possibilities to explore in GooglyPlusPlus2021

GooglyPlusPlus2021 is based on my R package yorkr and is based on data from Cricsheet. To know how to use GooglyPlusPlus see any of earlier posts GooglyPlusPlus2021 is now fully interactive!!!, GooglyPlusPlus2021 adds new bells and whistles!!, GooglyPlusPlus2021 enhanced with drill-down batsman, bowler analytics

Take GooglyPlusPlus for a spin here GooglyPlusPlus2021

You can clone/fork the code for the Shiny app from Github – gpp2021-9

Included below is a random selection of options from the 189 possibilities mentioned above. Feel free to try out for yourself

A) IPL – CSK vs KKR 2018-04-10

a) Team Runs in power play, middle and death overs

b) Team Strike rate in power play, middle and death overs

B) Intl. T20 (men) – India vs Afghanistan (2021-11-03)

a) Team wickets in power play, middle and death overs

b) Team Economy rate in power play, middle and death overs

C) Intl. T20 (women) Head-to-head : India vs Australia since 2018

a) Team Runs in all matches in power play, middle and death overs

D) PSL Head-to-head strike rate since 2019

a) Team vs team Strike rate : Karachi Kings vs Lahore Qalanders since 2019 in power play, middle and death overs

E) Team overall performance in all matches against all opposition

a) BBL : Brisbane Heats : Team Wickets between 2015 – 2018 in power play, middle and death overs

F) Top Runs and Strike rate Batsman of Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore since 2018

a) Top runs scorers for Mumbai Indians (MI) in power play, middle and death overs

b) Top strike rate for RCB in power play, middle and death overs

F) Intl. T20 (women) India vs England since 2018

a) Top wicket takers for England in power play, middle and death overs since 2018

b) Top wicket takers for India in power play, middle and death overs since 2018

G) Intl. T20 (men) All time best batsmen and bowlers for India

a) Most runs in power play, middle and death overs

b) Highest strike rate in power play, middle and death overs

H) Match worm wicket chart

In addition to the usual Match worm chart, I have also added a Match Wicket worm chart in the latest version

Note: You can zoom to the area where you would like to focus more

The option of looking at the Match worm chart (without wickets) also exists.

Go ahead take GooglyPlusPlus2021 for a test drive and check out how your favourite players perform in power play, middle and death overs. Click GooglyPlusPlus2021

You can fork/download the app code from Github at gpp2021-9

Hope you have fun with GooglyPlusPlus