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Pitching yorkpy … short of good length to IPL – Part 1

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Man, it doesn’t matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero
Viv Richards

Introduction

“If cricketr is to cricpy, then yorkr is to _____?”. Yes, you guessed it right, it is yorkpy. In this post, I introduce my 2nd python package, yorkpy, which is a python clone of my R package yorkr. This package is based on data from Cricsheet. yorkpy currently handles IPL T20 matches.

When I created cricpy, the python avatar, of my R package cricketr, see Introducing cricpy:A python package to analyze performances of cricketers, I had decided that I should avoid doing a python avatar of my R package yorkr (see Introducing cricket package yorkr: Part 1- Beaten by sheer pace!) , as it was more involved, and required the parsing of match data available as yaml files.

Just out of curiosity, I tried the python package ‘yaml’ to read the match data, and lo and behold, I was sucked into the developing the package and so, yorkpy was born. Of course, it goes without saying that, usually when I am in the thick of developing something, I occasionally wonder, why I am doing it, for whom and for what purpose? Maybe it is the joy of ideation, the problem-solving, the programmer’s high, for sharing my ideas etc. Anyway, whatever be the reason, I hope you enjoy this post and also find yorkpy useful.

You can clone/download the code at Github yorkpy
This post has been published to RPubs at yorkpy-Part1
You can download this post as PDF at IPLT20-yorkpy-part1

Note: If you would like to do a similar analysis for a different set of batsman and bowlers, you can clone/download my skeleton yorkpy-template from Github (which is the R Markdown file I have used for the analysis below).

The IPL T20 functions in yorkpy are

2. Install the package using ‘pip install’

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
#pip install yorkpy

3. Load a yaml file from Cricsheet

There are 2 functions that can be to convert the IPL Twenty20 yaml files to pandas dataframeare

convertYaml2PandasDataframeT20
convertAllYaml2PandasDataframesT20

Note 1: While I have already converted the IPL T20 files, you will need to use these functions for future IPL matches

4. Convert and save IPL T20 yaml file to pandas dataframe

This function will convert a IPL T20 IPL yaml file, in the format as specified in Cricsheet to pandas dataframe. This will be saved as as CSV file in the target directory. The name of the file wil have the following format team1-team2-date.csv. The IPL T20 zip file can be downloaded from Indian Premier League matches. An example of how a yaml file can be converted to a dataframe and saved is shown below.

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
#convertYaml2PandasDataframe(".\\1082593.yaml","..\ipl", ..\\data")

5. Convert and save all IPL T20 yaml files to dataframes

This function will convert all IPL T20 yaml files from a source directory to dataframes, and save it in the target directory, with the names as mentioned above. Since I have already done this, I will not be executing this again. You can download the zip of all the converted RData files from Github at yorkpyData

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
#convertAllYaml2PandasDataframes("..\\ipl", "..\\data")

You can download the the zip of the files and use it directly in the functions as follows.For the analysis below I chosen a set of random IPL matches

The randomly selected IPL T20 matches are

Chennai Super Kings vs Kings Xi Punjab, 2014-05-30
Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils, 2012-05-10
Gujarat Lions vs Mumbai Indians, 2017-04-29
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals, 2010-04-17
Rising Pune Supergiants vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2017-04-29

6. Team batting scorecard

The function below computes the batting score card of a team in an IPL match. The scorecard gives the balls faced, the runs scored, 4s, 6s and strike rate. The example below is based on the CSK KXIP match on 30 May 2014.

You can check against the actual scores in this match Chennai Super Kings-Kings XI Punjab-2014-05-30

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
csk_kxip=pd.read_csv(".\\Chennai Super Kings-Kings XI Punjab-2014-05-30.csv")
scorecard,extras=yka.teamBattingScorecardMatch(csk_kxip,"Chennai Super Kings")
print(scorecard)

##         batsman  runs  balls  4s  6s          SR
## 0      DR Smith     7     12   0   0   58.333333
## 1  F du Plessis     0      1   0   0    0.000000
## 2      SK Raina    87     26  12   6  334.615385
## 3   BB McCullum    11     16   0   0   68.750000
## 4     RA Jadeja    27     22   2   1  122.727273
## 5     DJ Hussey     1      3   0   0   33.333333
## 6      MS Dhoni    42     34   3   3  123.529412
## 7      R Ashwin    10     11   0   0   90.909091
## 8     MM Sharma     1      3   0   0   33.333333

print(extras)

##    total  wides  noballs  legbyes  byes  penalty  extras
## 0    428     14        3        5     5        0      27

print("\n\n")

scorecard1,extras1=yka.teamBattingScorecardMatch(csk_kxip,"Kings XI Punjab")
print(scorecard1)

##       batsman  runs  balls  4s  6s          SR
## 0    V Sehwag   122     62  12   8  196.774194
## 1     M Vohra    34     33   1   2  103.030303
## 2  GJ Maxwell    13      8   1   1  162.500000
## 3   DA Miller    38     19   5   1  200.000000
## 4   GJ Bailey     1      2   0   0   50.000000
## 5     WP Saha     6      4   0   1  150.000000
## 6  MG Johnson     1      1   0   0  100.000000

print(extras1)

##    total  wides  noballs  legbyes  byes  penalty  extras
## 0    428     14        3        5     5        0      27

Let’s take another random match between Gujarat Lions and Mumbai Indian on 29 Apr 2017 Gujarat Lions-Mumbai Indians-2017-04-29

import pandas as pd
gl_mi=pd.read_csv(".\\Gujarat Lions-Mumbai Indians-2017-04-29.csv")
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
scorecard,extras=yka.teamBattingScorecardMatch(gl_mi,"Gujarat Lions")
print(scorecard)

##          batsman  runs  balls  4s  6s          SR
## 0   Ishan Kishan    48     38   6   2  126.315789
## 1    BB McCullum     6      4   1   0  150.000000
## 2       SK Raina     1      3   0   0   33.333333
## 3       AJ Finch     0      3   0   0    0.000000
## 4     KD Karthik     2      9   0   0   22.222222
## 5      RA Jadeja    28     22   2   1  127.272727
## 6    JP Faulkner    21     29   2   0   72.413793
## 7      IK Pathan     2      3   0   0   66.666667
## 8         AJ Tye    25     12   2   2  208.333333
## 9   Basil Thampi     2      4   0   0   50.000000
## 10    Ankit Soni     7      2   0   1  350.000000

print(extras)

##    total  wides  noballs  legbyes  byes  penalty  extras
## 0    306      8        3        1     0        0      12

print("\n\n")

scorecard1,extras1=yka.teamBattingScorecardMatch(gl_mi,"Mumbai Indians")
print(scorecard1)

##             batsman  runs  balls  4s  6s          SR
## 0          PA Patel    70     45   9   1  155.555556
## 1        JC Buttler     9      7   2   0  128.571429
## 2            N Rana    19     16   1   1  118.750000
## 3         RG Sharma     5     13   0   0   38.461538
## 4        KA Pollard    15     11   2   0  136.363636
## 5         KH Pandya    29     20   2   1  145.000000
## 6         HH Pandya     4      5   0   0   80.000000
## 7   Harbhajan Singh     0      1   0   0    0.000000
## 8    MJ McClenaghan     1      1   0   0  100.000000
## 9         JJ Bumrah     0      1   0   0    0.000000
## 10       SL Malinga     0      1   0   0    0.000000

print(extras1)

##    total  wides  noballs  legbyes  byes  penalty  extras
## 0    306      8        3        1     0        0      12

7. Plot the team batting partnerships

The functions below plot the team batting partnership in the match. It shows what the partnership were in the mtach

Note: Many of the plots include an additional parameters plot which is either True or False. The default value is plot=True. When plot=True the plot will be displayed. When plot=False the data frame will be returned to the user. The user can use this to create an interactive chart using one of the packages like rcharts, ggvis,googleVis or plotly.

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
dc_dd=pd.read_csv(".\\Deccan Chargers-Delhi Daredevils-2012-05-10.csv")
yka.teamBatsmenPartnershipMatch(dc_dd,'Deccan Chargers','Delhi Daredevils')

yka.teamBatsmenPartnershipMatch(dc_dd,'Delhi Daredevils','Deccan Chargers',plot=True)
# Print partnerships as a dataframe

rps_rcb=pd.read_csv(".\\Rising Pune Supergiant-Royal Challengers Bangalore-2017-04-29.csv")
m=yka.teamBatsmenPartnershipMatch(rps_rcb,'Royal Challengers Bangalore','Rising Pune Supergiant',plot=False)
print(m)

##            batsman     non_striker  runs
## 0   AB de Villiers         V Kohli     3
## 1         AF Milne         V Kohli     5
## 2        KM Jadhav         V Kohli     7
## 3           P Negi         V Kohli     3
## 4        S Aravind         V Kohli     0
## 5        S Aravind       YS Chahal     8
## 6         S Badree         V Kohli     2
## 7        STR Binny         V Kohli     1
## 8      Sachin Baby         V Kohli     2
## 9          TM Head         V Kohli     2
## 10         V Kohli  AB de Villiers    17
## 11         V Kohli        AF Milne     5
## 12         V Kohli       KM Jadhav     4
## 13         V Kohli          P Negi     9
## 14         V Kohli       S Aravind     2
## 15         V Kohli        S Badree     8
## 16         V Kohli     Sachin Baby     1
## 17         V Kohli         TM Head     9
## 18       YS Chahal       S Aravind     4

8. Batsmen vs Bowler

The function below computes and plots the performances of the batsmen vs the bowlers. As before the plot parameter can be set to True or False. By default it is plot=True

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
gl_mi=pd.read_csv(".\\Gujarat Lions-Mumbai Indians-2017-04-29.csv")
yka.teamBatsmenVsBowlersMatch(gl_mi,"Gujarat Lions","Mumbai Indians", plot=True)
# Print

csk_kxip=pd.read_csv(".\\Chennai Super Kings-Kings XI Punjab-2014-05-30.csv")
m=yka.teamBatsmenVsBowlersMatch(csk_kxip,'Chennai Super Kings','Kings XI Punjab',plot=False)
print(m)

##          batsman           bowler  runs
## 0    BB McCullum         AR Patel     4
## 1    BB McCullum       GJ Maxwell     1
## 2    BB McCullum  Karanveer Singh     6
## 3      DJ Hussey          P Awana     1
## 4       DR Smith       MG Johnson     7
## 5       DR Smith          P Awana     0
## 6       DR Smith   Sandeep Sharma     0
## 7   F du Plessis       MG Johnson     0
## 8      MM Sharma         AR Patel     0
## 9      MM Sharma       MG Johnson     0
## 10     MM Sharma          P Awana     1
## 11      MS Dhoni         AR Patel    12
## 12      MS Dhoni  Karanveer Singh     2
## 13      MS Dhoni       MG Johnson    11
## 14      MS Dhoni          P Awana    15
## 15      MS Dhoni   Sandeep Sharma     2
## 16      R Ashwin         AR Patel     1
## 17      R Ashwin  Karanveer Singh     4
## 18      R Ashwin       MG Johnson     1
## 19      R Ashwin          P Awana     1
## 20      R Ashwin   Sandeep Sharma     3
## 21     RA Jadeja         AR Patel     5
## 22     RA Jadeja       GJ Maxwell     3
## 23     RA Jadeja  Karanveer Singh    19
## 24     RA Jadeja          P Awana     0
## 25      SK Raina       MG Johnson    21
## 26      SK Raina          P Awana    40
## 27      SK Raina   Sandeep Sharma    26

9. Bowling Scorecard

This function provides the bowling performance, the number of overs bowled, maidens, runs conceded. wickets taken and economy rate for the IPL match

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
dc_dd=pd.read_csv(".\\Deccan Chargers-Delhi Daredevils-2012-05-10.csv")
a=yka.teamBowlingScorecardMatch(dc_dd,'Deccan Chargers')

print(a)

##        bowler  overs  runs  maidens  wicket  econrate
## 0  AD Russell      4    39        0       0      9.75
## 1   IK Pathan      4    46        0       1     11.50
## 2    M Morkel      4    32        0       1      8.00
## 3    S Nadeem      4    39        0       0      9.75
## 4    VR Aaron      4    30        0       2      7.50

rps_rcb=pd.read_csv(".\\Rising Pune Supergiant-Royal Challengers Bangalore-2017-04-29.csv")
b=yka.teamBowlingScorecardMatch(rps_rcb,'Royal Challengers Bangalore')
print(b)

##               bowler  overs  runs  maidens  wicket  econrate
## 0          DL Chahar      2    18        0       0      9.00
## 1       DT Christian      4    25        0       1      6.25
## 2        Imran Tahir      4    18        0       3      4.50
## 3         JD Unadkat      4    19        0       1      4.75
## 4        LH Ferguson      4     7        1       3      1.75
## 5  Washington Sundar      2     7        0       1      3.50

10. Wicket Kind

The plots below provide the kind of wicket taken by the bowler (caught, bowled, lbw etc.) for the IPL match

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
kkr_rr=pd.read_csv(".\\Kolkata Knight Riders-Rajasthan Royals-2010-04-17.csv")
yka.teamBowlingWicketKindMatch(kkr_rr,'Kolkata Knight Riders','Rajasthan Royals')

csk_kxip=pd.read_csv(".\\Chennai Super Kings-Kings XI Punjab-2014-05-30.csv")
m = yka.teamBowlingWicketKindMatch(csk_kxip,'Chennai Super Kings','Kings-Kings XI Punjab',plot=False)
print(m)

##             bowler     kind  player_out
## 0         AR Patel  run out           1
## 1         AR Patel  stumped           1
## 2  Karanveer Singh  run out           1
## 3       MG Johnson   caught           1
## 4          P Awana   caught           2
## 5   Sandeep Sharma   bowled           1

11. Wicket vs Runs conceded

The plots below provide the wickets taken and the runs conceded by the bowler in the IPL T20 match

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
dc_dd=pd.read_csv(".\\Deccan Chargers-Delhi Daredevils-2012-05-10.csv")
yka.teamBowlingWicketMatch(dc_dd,"Deccan Chargers", "Delhi Daredevils",plot=True)

print("\n\n")

rps_rcb=pd.read_csv(".\\Rising Pune Supergiant-Royal Challengers Bangalore-2017-04-29.csv")
a=yka.teamBowlingWicketMatch(rps_rcb,"Royal Challengers Bangalore", "Rising Pune Supergiant",plot=False)
print(a)

##               bowler      player_out  kind
## 0       DT Christian         V Kohli     1
## 1        Imran Tahir        AF Milne     1
## 2        Imran Tahir          P Negi     1
## 3        Imran Tahir        S Badree     1
## 4         JD Unadkat         TM Head     1
## 5        LH Ferguson  AB de Villiers     1
## 6        LH Ferguson       KM Jadhav     1
## 7        LH Ferguson       STR Binny     1
## 8  Washington Sundar     Sachin Baby     1

12. Bowler Vs Batsmen

The functions compute and display how the different bowlers of the IPL team performed against the batting opposition.

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
csk_kxip=pd.read_csv(".\\Chennai Super Kings-Kings XI Punjab-2014-05-30.csv")
yka.teamBowlersVsBatsmenMatch(csk_kxip,"Chennai Super Kings","Kings XI Punjab")

print("\n\n")

kkr_rr=pd.read_csv(".\\Kolkata Knight Riders-Rajasthan Royals-2010-04-17.csv")
m =yka.teamBowlersVsBatsmenMatch(kkr_rr,"Rajasthan Royals","Kolkata Knight Riders",plot=False)
print(m)

##        batsman      bowler  runs
## 0     AC Voges    AB Dinda     1
## 1     AC Voges  JD Unadkat     1
## 2     AC Voges   LR Shukla     1
## 3     AC Voges    M Kartik     5
## 4     AJ Finch    AB Dinda     3
## 5     AJ Finch  JD Unadkat     3
## 6     AJ Finch   LR Shukla    13
## 7     AJ Finch    M Kartik     2
## 8     AJ Finch     SE Bond     0
## 9      AS Raut    AB Dinda     1
## 10     AS Raut  JD Unadkat     1
## 11    FY Fazal    AB Dinda     1
## 12    FY Fazal   LR Shukla     3
## 13    FY Fazal    M Kartik     3
## 14    FY Fazal     SE Bond     6
## 15     NV Ojha    AB Dinda    10
## 16     NV Ojha  JD Unadkat     5
## 17     NV Ojha   LR Shukla     0
## 18     NV Ojha    M Kartik     1
## 19     NV Ojha     SE Bond     2
## 20     P Dogra  JD Unadkat     2
## 21     P Dogra   LR Shukla     5
## 22     P Dogra    M Kartik     1
## 23     P Dogra     SE Bond     0
## 24  SK Trivedi    AB Dinda     4
## 25    SK Warne    AB Dinda     2
## 26    SK Warne    M Kartik     1
## 27    SK Warne     SE Bond     0
## 28   SR Watson    AB Dinda     2
## 29   SR Watson  JD Unadkat    13
## 30   SR Watson   LR Shukla     1
## 31   SR Watson    M Kartik    18
## 32   SR Watson     SE Bond    10
## 33   YK Pathan  JD Unadkat     1
## 34   YK Pathan   LR Shukla     7

13. Match worm chart

The plots below provide the match worm graph for the IPL Twenty 20 matches

import pandas as pd
import yorkpy.analytics as yka
dc_dd=pd.read_csv(".\\Deccan Chargers-Delhi Daredevils-2012-05-10.csv")
yka.matchWormChart(dc_dd,"Deccan Chargers", "Delhi Daredevils")

gl_mi=pd.read_csv(".\\Gujarat Lions-Mumbai Indians-2017-04-29.csv")
yka.matchWormChart(gl_mi,"Mumbai Indians","Gujarat Lions")

Feel free to clone/download the code from Github yorkpy

Conclusion

This post included all functions between 2 IPL teams from the package yorkpy for IPL Twenty20 matches. As mentioned above the yaml match files have been already converted to dataframes and are available for download from Github at yorkpyData

After having used Python and R for analytics, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, I have now realized that neither language is superior or inferior. Both have, some good packages and some that are not so well suited.

To be continued. Watch this space!

Important note: Do check out my other posts using yorkpy at yorkpy-posts

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Analyzing batsmen and bowlers with cricpy template

Introduction

This post shows how you can analyze batsmen and bowlers of Test, ODI and T20s using cricpy templates, using data from ESPN Cricinfo.

The cricpy package

The data for a particular player can be obtained with the getPlayerData() function. To do you will need to go to ESPN CricInfo Player and type in the name of the player for e.g Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli etc. This will bring up a page which have the profile number for the player e.g. for Rahul Dravid this would be http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/28114.html. Hence, Dravid’s profile is 28114. This can be used to get the data for Rahul Dravid as shown below

1. For Test players use batting and bowling.
2. For ODI use batting and bowling
3. For T20 use T20 Batting T20 Bowling

Please mindful of the ESPN Cricinfo Terms of Use

My posts on Cripy were
a. Introducing cricpy:A python package to analyze performances of cricketers
b. Cricpy takes a swing at the ODIs
c. Cricpy takes guard for the Twenty20s

You can clone/download this cricpy template for your own analysis of players. This can be done using RStudio or IPython notebooks from Github at cricpy-template. You can uncomment the functions and use them.

Cricpy can now analyze performances of teams in Test, ODI and T20 cricket see Cricpy adds team analytics to its arsenal!!

This post is also hosted on Rpubs at Int

The cricpy package is now available with pip install cricpy!!!

If you are passionate about cricket, and love analyzing cricket performances, then check out my racy book on cricket ‘Cricket analytics with cricketr and cricpy – Analytics harmony with R & Python’! This book discusses and shows how to use my R package ‘cricketr’ and my Python package ‘cricpy’ to analyze batsmen and bowlers in all formats of the game (Test, ODI and T20). The paperback is available on Amazon at $21.99 and the kindle version at $9.99/Rs 449/-. A must read for any cricket lover! Check it out!!

Untitled

1 Importing cricpy – Python

# Install the package
# Do a pip install cricpy
# Import cricpy
import cricpy.analytics as ca

## C:\Users\Ganesh\ANACON~1\lib\site-packages\statsmodels\compat\pandas.py:56: FutureWarning: The pandas.core.datetools module is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use the pandas.tseries module instead.
##   from pandas.core import datetools

2. Invoking functions with Python package cricpy

import cricpy.analytics as ca 
#ca.batsman4s("aplayer.csv","A Player")

3. Getting help from cricpy – Python

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#help(ca.getPlayerData)

The details below will introduce the different functions that are available in cricpy.

4. Get the player data for a player using the function getPlayerData()

Important Note This needs to be done only once for a player. This function stores the player’s data in the specified CSV file (for e.g. dravid.csv as above) which can then be reused for all other functions). Once we have the data for the players many analyses can be done. This post will use the stored CSV file obtained with a prior getPlayerData for all subsequent analyses

4a. For Test players

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#player1 =ca.getPlayerData(profileNo1,dir="..",file="player1.csv",type="batting",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])
#player1 =ca.getPlayerData(profileNo2,dir="..",file="player2.csv",type="batting",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])

4b. For ODI players

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#player1 =ca.getPlayerDataOD(profileNo1,dir="..",file="player1.csv",type="batting")
#player1 =ca.getPlayerDataOD(profileNo2,dir="..",file="player2.csv",type="batting"")

4c For T20 players

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#player1 =ca.getPlayerDataTT(profileNo1,dir="..",file="player1.csv",type="batting")
#player1 =ca.getPlayerDataTT(profileNo2,dir="..",file="player2.csv",type="batting"")

5 A Player’s performance – Basic Analyses

The 3 plots below provide the following for Rahul Dravid

Frequency percentage of runs in each run range over the whole career
Mean Strike Rate for runs scored in the given range
A histogram of runs frequency percentages in runs ranges

import cricpy.analytics as ca
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
#ca.batsmanRunsFreqPerf("aplayer.csv","A Player")
#ca.batsmanMeanStrikeRate("aplayer.csv","A Player")
#ca.batsmanRunsRanges("aplayer.csv","A Player")

6. More analyses

This gives details on the batsmen’s 4s, 6s and dismissals

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsman4s("aplayer.csv","A Player")
#ca.batsman6s("aplayer.csv","A Player") 
#ca.batsmanDismissals("aplayer.csv","A Player")
# The below function is for ODI and T20 only
#ca.batsmanScoringRateODTT("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

7. 3D scatter plot and prediction plane

The plots below show the 3D scatter plot of Runs versus Balls Faced and Minutes at crease. A linear regression plane is then fitted between Runs and Balls Faced + Minutes at crease

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.battingPerf3d("aplayer.csv","A Player")

8. Average runs at different venues

The plot below gives the average runs scored at different grounds. The plot also the number of innings at each ground as a label at x-axis.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanAvgRunsGround("aplayer.csv","A Player")

9. Average runs against different opposing teams

This plot computes the average runs scored against different countries.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanAvgRunsOpposition("aplayer.csv","A Player")

10. Highest Runs Likelihood

The plot below shows the Runs Likelihood for a batsman.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanRunsLikelihood("aplayer.csv","A Player")

11. A look at the Top 4 batsman

Choose any number of players

1.Player1 2.Player2 3.Player3 …

The following plots take a closer at their performances. The box plots show the median the 1st and 3rd quartile of the runs

12. Box Histogram Plot

This plot shows a combined boxplot of the Runs ranges and a histogram of the Runs Frequency

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("aplayer001.csv","A Player001")
#ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("aplayer002.csv","A Player002")
#ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("aplayer003.csv","A Player003")
#ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("aplayer004.csv","A Player004")

13. Get Player Data special

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#player1sp = ca.getPlayerDataSp(profile1,tdir=".",tfile="player1sp.csv",ttype="batting")
#player2sp = ca.getPlayerDataSp(profile2,tdir=".",tfile="player2sp.csv",ttype="batting")
#player3sp = ca.getPlayerDataSp(profile3,tdir=".",tfile="player3sp.csv",ttype="batting")
#player4sp = ca.getPlayerDataSp(profile4,tdir=".",tfile="player4sp.csv",ttype="batting")

14. Contribution to won and lost matches

Note:This can only be used for Test matches

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanContributionWonLost("player1sp.csv","A Player001")
#ca.batsmanContributionWonLost("player2sp.csv","A Player002")
#ca.batsmanContributionWonLost("player3sp.csv","A Player003")
#ca.batsmanContributionWonLost("player4sp.csv","A Player004")

15. Performance at home and overseas

Note:This can only be used for Test matches This function also requires the use of getPlayerDataSp() as shown above

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanPerfHomeAway("player1sp.csv","A Player001")
#ca.batsmanPerfHomeAway("player2sp.csv","A Player002")
#ca.batsmanPerfHomeAway("player3sp.csv","A Player003")
#ca.batsmanPerfHomeAway("player4sp.csv","A Player004")

16 Moving Average of runs in career

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanMovingAverage("aplayer001.csv","A Player001")
#ca.batsmanMovingAverage("aplayer002.csv","A Player002")
#ca.batsmanMovingAverage("aplayer003.csv","A Player003")
#ca.batsmanMovingAverage("aplayer004.csv","A Player004")

17 Cumulative Average runs of batsman in career

This function provides the cumulative average runs of the batsman over the career.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("aplayer001.csv","A Player001")
#ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("aplayer002.csv","A Player002")
#ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("aplayer003.csv","A Player003")
#ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("aplayer004.csv","A Player004")

18 Cumulative Average strike rate of batsman in career

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("aplayer001.csv","A Player001")
#ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("aplayer002.csv","A Player002")
#ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("aplayer003.csv","A Player003")
#ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("aplayer004.csv","A Player004")

19 Future Runs forecast

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.batsmanPerfForecast("aplayer001.csv","A Player001")

20 Relative Batsman Cumulative Average Runs

The plot below compares the Relative cumulative average runs of the batsman for each of the runs ranges of 10 and plots them.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["aplayer1.csv","aplayer2.csv","aplayer3.csv","aplayer4.csv"]
names = ["A Player1","A Player2","A Player3","A Player4"]
#ca.relativeBatsmanCumulativeAvgRuns(frames,names)

21 Plot of 4s and 6s

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["aplayer1.csv","aplayer2.csv","aplayer3.csv","aplayer4.csv"]
names = ["A Player1","A Player2","A Player3","A Player4"]
#ca.batsman4s6s(frames,names)

22. Relative Batsman Strike Rate

The plot below gives the relative Runs Frequency Percetages for each 10 run bucket. The plot below show

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["aplayer1.csv","aplayer2.csv","aplayer3.csv","aplayer4.csv"]
names = ["A Player1","A Player2","A Player3","A Player4"]
#ca.relativeBatsmanCumulativeStrikeRate(frames,names)

23. 3D plot of Runs vs Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

The plot is a scatter plot of Runs vs Balls faced and Minutes at Crease. A prediction plane is fitted

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.battingPerf3d("aplayer001.csv","A Player001")
#ca.battingPerf3d("aplayer002.csv","A Player002")
#ca.battingPerf3d("aplayer003.csv","A Player003")
#ca.battingPerf3d("aplayer004.csv","A Player004")

24. Predicting Runs given Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

A multi-variate regression plane is fitted between Runs and Balls faced +Minutes at crease.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
BF = np.linspace( 10, 400,15)
Mins = np.linspace( 30,600,15)
newDF= pd.DataFrame({'BF':BF,'Mins':Mins})
#aplayer = ca.batsmanRunsPredict("aplayer.csv",newDF,"A Player")
#print(aplayer)

The fitted model is then used to predict the runs that the batsmen will score for a given Balls faced and Minutes at crease.

25 Analysis of Top 3 wicket takers

Take any number of bowlers from either Test, ODI or T20

Bowler1
Bowler2
Bowler3 …

26. Get the bowler’s data (Test)

This plot below computes the percentage frequency of number of wickets taken for e.g 1 wicket x%, 2 wickets y% etc and plots them as a continuous line

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#abowler1 =ca.getPlayerData(profileNo1,dir=".",file="abowler1.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])
#abowler2 =ca.getPlayerData(profileNo2,dir=".",file="abowler2.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])
#abowler3 =ca.getPlayerData(profile3,dir=".",file="abowler3.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])

26b For ODI bowlers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#abowler1 =ca.getPlayerDataOD(profileNo1,dir=".",file="abowler1.csv",type="bowling")
#abowler2 =ca.getPlayerDataOD(profileNo2,dir=".",file="abowler2.csv",type="bowling")
#abowler3 =ca.getPlayerDataOD(profile3,dir=".",file="abowler3.csv",type="bowling")

26c For T20 bowlers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#abowler1 =ca.getPlayerDataTT(profileNo1,dir=".",file="abowler1.csv",type="bowling")
#abowler2 =ca.getPlayerDataTT(profileNo2,dir=".",file="abowler2.csv",type="bowling")
#abowler3 =ca.getPlayerDataTT(profile3,dir=".",file="abowler3.csv",type="bowling")

27. Wicket Frequency Plot

This plot below plots the frequency of wickets taken for each of the bowlers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("abowler1.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("abowler2.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("abowler3.csv","A Bowler3")

28. Wickets Runs plot

The plot below create a box plot showing the 1st and 3rd quartile of runs conceded versus the number of wickets taken

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("abowler1.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("abowler2.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("abowler3.csv","A Bowler3")

29 Average wickets at different venues

The plot gives the average wickets taken bat different venues.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("abowler1.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("abowler2.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("abowler3.csv","A Bowler3")

30 Average wickets against different opposition

The plot gives the average wickets taken against different countries.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("abowler1.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("abowler2.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("abowler3.csv","A Bowler3")

31 Wickets taken moving average

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerMovingAverage("abowler1.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerMovingAverage("abowler2.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerMovingAverage("abowler3.csv","A Bowler3")

32 Cumulative average wickets taken

The plots below give the cumulative average wickets taken by the bowlers.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("abowler1.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("abowler2.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("abowler3.csv","A Bowler3")

33 Cumulative average economy rate

The plots below give the cumulative average economy rate of the bowlers.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("abowler1.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("abowler2.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("abowler3.csv","A Bowler3")

34 Future Wickets forecast

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerPerfForecast("abowler1.csv","A bowler1")

35 Get player data special

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#abowler1sp =ca.getPlayerDataSp(profile1,tdir=".",tfile="abowler1sp.csv",ttype="bowling")
#abowler2sp =ca.getPlayerDataSp(profile2,tdir=".",tfile="abowler2sp.csv",ttype="bowling")
#abowler3sp =ca.getPlayerDataSp(profile3,tdir=".",tfile="abowler3sp.csv",ttype="bowling")

36 Contribution to matches won and lost

Note:This can be done only for Test cricketers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerContributionWonLost("abowler1sp.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerContributionWonLost("abowler2sp.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerContributionWonLost("abowler3sp.csv","A Bowler3")

37 Performance home and overseas

Note:This can be done only for Test cricketers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#ca.bowlerPerfHomeAway("abowler1sp.csv","A Bowler1")
#ca.bowlerPerfHomeAway("abowler2sp.csv","A Bowler2")
#ca.bowlerPerfHomeAway("abowler3sp.csv","A Bowler3")

38 Relative cumulative average economy rate of bowlers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["abowler1.csv","abowler2.csv","abowler3.csv"]
names = ["A Bowler1","A Bowler2","A Bowler3"]
#ca.relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate(frames,names)

39 Relative Economy Rate against wickets taken

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["abowler1.csv","abowler2.csv","abowler3.csv"]
names = ["A Bowler1","A Bowler2","A Bowler3"]
#ca.relativeBowlingER(frames,names)

40 Relative cumulative average wickets of bowlers in career

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["abowler1.csv","abowler2.csv","abowler3.csv"]
names = ["A Bowler1","A Bowler2","A Bowler3"]
#ca.relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgWickets(frames,names)

Clone/download this cricpy template for your own analysis of players. This can be done using RStudio or IPython notebooks from Github at cricpy-template

Important note: Do check out my other posts using cricpy at cricpy-posts

Key Findings

Analysis of Top 4 batsman

Analysis of Top 3 bowlers

To see all posts click Index of posts

My book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition’ now on Amazon

The second edition of my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave’, is now available on Amazon, in both paperback ($18.99) and kindle ($9.99/Rs449/-) versions. Since this book is almost 70% code, all functions, and code snippets have been formatted to use the fixed-width font ‘Lucida Console’. In addition line numbers have been added to all code snippets. This makes the code more organized and much more readable. I have also fixed typos in the book

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The book includes the following chapters

Table of Contents
Preface 4
Introduction 6
1. Logistic Regression as a Neural Network 8
2. Implementing a simple Neural Network 23
3. Building a L- Layer Deep Learning Network 48
4. Deep Learning network with the Softmax 85
5. MNIST classification with Softmax 103
6. Initialization, regularization in Deep Learning 121
7. Gradient Descent Optimization techniques 167
8. Gradient Check in Deep Learning 197
1. Appendix A 214
2. Appendix 1 – Logistic Regression as a Neural Network 220
3. Appendix 2 - Implementing a simple Neural Network 227
4. Appendix 3 - Building a L- Layer Deep Learning Network 240
5. Appendix 4 - Deep Learning network with the Softmax 259
6. Appendix 5 - MNIST classification with Softmax 269
7. Appendix 6 - Initialization, regularization in Deep Learning 302
8. Appendix 7 - Gradient Descent Optimization techniques 344
9. Appendix 8 – Gradient Check 405
References 475

Also see
1. My book ‘Practical Machine Learning in R and Python: Second edition’ on Amazon
2. The 3rd paperback & kindle editions of my books on Cricket, now on Amazon
3. De-blurring revisited with Wiener filter using OpenCV
4. TWS-4: Gossip protocol: Epidemics and rumors to the rescue
5. A Cloud medley with IBM Bluemix, Cloudant DB and Node.js
6. Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 6
7. GooglyPlus: yorkr analyzes IPL players, teams, matches with plots and tables
8. Fun simulation of a Chain in Android

To see posts click Index of Posts

Cricpy takes guard for the Twenty20s

“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”” Alan J. Perlis

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. ” Rick Cook

“My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.” Anon

“If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.” Bruce Lee

Introduction

This is the 3rd and final post on cricpy, and is a continuation to my 2 earlier posts

1. Introducing cricpy:A python package to analyze performances of cricketers
2.Cricpy takes a swing at the ODIs

Cricpy, is the python avatar of my R package ‘cricketr’. To know more about my R package cricketr see Re-introducing cricketr! : An R package to analyze performances of cricketers

With this post cricpy, like cricketr, now becomes omnipotent, and is now capable of handling Test, ODI and T20 matches.

Cricpy uses the statistics info available in ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru.

You should be able to install the package using pip install cricpy and use the many functions available in the package. Please mindful of the ESPN Cricinfo Terms of Use

Cricpy can now analyze performances of teams in Test, ODI and T20 cricket see Cricpy adds team analytics to its arsenal!!

This post is also hosted on Rpubs at Int

This post is also hosted on Rpubs at Cricpy takes guard for the Twenty 20s. You can also download the pdf version of this post at cricpy-TT.pdf

You can fork/clone the package at Github cricpy

Note: If you would like to do a similar analysis for a different set of batsman and bowlers, you can clone/download my skeleton cricpy-template from Github (which is the R Markdown file I have used for the analysis below). You will only need to make appropriate changes for the players you are interested in. The functions can be executed in RStudio or in a IPython notebook.

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The cricpy package

The data for a particular player in Twenty20s can be obtained with the getPlayerDataTT() function. To do this you will need to go to T20 Batting and T20 Bowling and click the player you are interested in This will bring up a page which have the profile number for the player e.g. for Virat Kohli this would be http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/253802.html. Hence,this can be used to get the data for Virat Kohlias shown below

The cricpy package is a clone of my R package cricketr. The signature of all the python functions are identical with that of its clone ‘cricketr’, with only the necessary variations between Python and R. It may be useful to look at my post R vs Python: Different similarities and similar differences. In fact if you are familar with one of the languages you can look up the package in the other and you will notice the parallel constructs.

You can fork/clone the package at Github cricpy

Note: The charts are self-explanatory and I have not added much of my own interpretation to it. Do look at the plots closely and check out the performances for yourself.

1 Importing cricpy – Python

# Install the package
# Do a pip install cricpy
# Import cricpy
import cricpy.analytics as ca

2. Invoking functions with Python package cricpy

import cricpy.analytics as ca 
ca.batsman4s("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

3. Getting help from cricpy – Python

import cricpy.analytics as ca 
help(ca.getPlayerDataTT)

## Help on function getPlayerDataTT in module cricpy.analytics:
## 
## getPlayerDataTT(profile, opposition='', host='', dir='./data', file='player001.csv', type='batting', homeOrAway=[1, 2, 3], result=[1, 2, 3, 5], create=True)
##     Get the Twenty20 International player data from ESPN Cricinfo based on specific inputs and store in a file in a given directory~
##     
##     Description
##     
##     Get the Twenty20 player data given the profile of the batsman/bowler. The allowed inputs are home,away, neutralboth and won,lost,tied or no result of matches. The data is stored in a <player>.csv file in a directory specified. This function also returns a data frame of the player
##     
##     Usage
##     
##     getPlayerDataTT(profile, opposition="",host="",dir = "./data", file = "player001.csv", 
##     type = "batting", homeOrAway = c(1, 2, 3), result = c(1, 2, 3,5))
##     Arguments
##     
##     profile     
##     This is the profile number of the player to get data. This can be obtained from http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/index.html. Type the name of the player and click search. This will display the details of the player. Make a note of the profile ID. For e.g For Virat Kohli this turns out to be 253802 http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35263.html. Hence the profile for Sehwag is 35263
##     opposition  
##     The numerical value of the opposition country e.g.Australia,India, England etc. The values are Afghanistan:40,Australia:2,Bangladesh:25,England:1,Hong Kong:19,India:6,Ireland:29, New Zealand:5,Pakistan:7,Scotland:30,South Africa:3,Sri Lanka:8,United Arab Emirates:27, West Indies:4, Zimbabwe:9; Note: If no value is entered for opposition then all teams are considered
##     host        
##     The numerical value of the host country e.g.Australia,India, England etc. The values are Australia:2,Bangladesh:25,England:1,India:6,New Zealand:5, South Africa:3,Sri Lanka:8,United States of America:11,West Indies:4, Zimbabwe:9 Note: If no value is entered for host then all host countries are considered
##     dir 
##     Name of the directory to store the player data into. If not specified the data is stored in a default directory "./data". Default="./data"
##     file        
##     Name of the file to store the data into for e.g. kohli.csv. This can be used for subsequent functions. Default="player001.csv"
##     type        
##     type of data required. This can be "batting" or "bowling"
##     homeOrAway  
##     This is vector with either or all 1,2, 3. 1 is for home 2 is for away, 3 is for neutral venue
##     result      
##     This is a vector that can take values 1,2,3,5. 1 - won match 2- lost match 3-tied 5- no result
##     Details
##     
##     More details can be found in my short video tutorial in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9uMPFVsXsI
##     
##     Value
##     
##     Returns the player's dataframe
##     
##     Note
##     
##     Maintainer: Tinniam V Ganesh <tvganesh.85@gmail.com>
##     
##     Author(s)
##     
##     Tinniam V Ganesh
##     
##     References
##     
##     http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/stats/index.html
##     https://gigadom.wordpress.com/
##     
##     See Also
##     
##     bowlerWktRateTT getPlayerData
##     
##     Examples
##     
##     ## Not run: 
##     # Only away. Get data only for won and lost innings
##     kohli =getPlayerDataTT(253802,dir="../cricketr/data", file="kohli1.csv",
##     type="batting")
##     
##     # Get bowling data and store in file for future
##     ashwin = getPlayerDataTT(26421,dir="../cricketr/data",file="ashwin1.csv",
##     type="bowling")
##     
##     kohli =getPlayerDataTT(253802,opposition = 2,host=2,dir="../cricketr/data", 
##     file="kohli1.csv",type="batting")

The details below will introduce the different functions that are available in cricpy.

4. Get the Twenty20 player data for a player using the function getPlayerDataOD()

Important Note This needs to be done only once for a player. This function stores the player’s data in the specified CSV file (for e.g. kohli.csv as above) which can then be reused for all other functions). Once we have the data for the players many analyses can be done. This post will use the stored CSV file obtained with a prior getPlayerDataTT for all subsequent analyses

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#kohli=ca.getPlayerDataTT(253802,dir=".",file="kohli.csv",type="batting")
#guptill=ca.getPlayerDataTT(226492,dir=".",file="guptill.csv",type="batting")
#shahzad=ca.getPlayerDataTT(419873,dir=".",file="shahzad.csv",type="batting")
#mccullum=ca.getPlayerDataTT(37737,dir=".",file="mccullum.csv",type="batting")

Included below are some of the functions that can be used for ODI batsmen and bowlers. For this I have chosen, Virat Kohli, ‘the run machine’ who is on-track for breaking many of the Test, ODI and Twenty20 records

5 Virat Kohli’s performance – Basic Analyses

The 3 plots below provide the following for Virat Kohli in T20s

Frequency percentage of runs in each run range over the whole career
Mean Strike Rate for runs scored in the given range
A histogram of runs frequency percentages in runs ranges

import cricpy.analytics as ca
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
ca.batsmanRunsFreqPerf("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanMeanStrikeRate("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanRunsRanges("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

6. More analyses

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsman4s("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsman6s("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanDismissals("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanScoringRateODTT("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

7. 3D scatter plot and prediction plane

The plots below show the 3D scatter plot of Kohli’s Runs versus Balls Faced and Minutes at crease. A linear regression plane is then fitted between Runs and Balls Faced + Minutes at crease

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.battingPerf3d("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

8. Average runs at different venues

The plot below gives the average runs scored by Kohli at different grounds. The plot also the number of innings at each ground as a label at x-axis.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanAvgRunsGround("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

9. Average runs against different opposing teams

This plot computes the average runs scored by Kohli against different countries.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanAvgRunsOpposition("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

10 . Highest Runs Likelihood

The plot below shows the Runs Likelihood for a batsman. For this the performance of Kohli is plotted as a 3D scatter plot with Runs versus Balls Faced + Minutes at crease. K-Means. The centroids of 3 clusters are computed and plotted. In this plot Kohli’s highest tendencies are computed and plotted using K-Means

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanRunsLikelihood("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

11. A look at the Top 4 batsman – Kohli, Guptill, Shahzad and McCullum

The following batsmen have been very prolific in Twenty20 cricket and will be used for the analyses

Virat Kohli: Runs – 2167, Average:49.25 ,Strike rate-136.11
MJ Guptill : Runs -2271, Average:34.4 ,Strike rate-132.88
Mohammed Shahzad :Runs – 1936, Average:31.22 ,Strike rate-134.81
BB McCullum : Runs – 2140, Average:35.66 ,Strike rate-136.21

The following plots take a closer at their performances. The box plots show the median the 1st and 3rd quartile of the runs

12. Box Histogram Plot

This plot shows a combined boxplot of the Runs ranges and a histogram of the Runs Frequency

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("./guptill.csv","M J Guptill")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("./shahzad.csv","M Shahzad")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("./mccullum.csv","BB McCullum")

13 Moving Average of runs in career

Take a look at the Moving Average across the career of the Top 4 Twenty20 batsmen.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanMovingAverage("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanMovingAverage("./guptill.csv","M J Guptill")
#ca.batsmanMovingAverage("./shahzad.csv","M Shahzad") # Gives error. Check!

ca.batsmanMovingAverage("./mccullum.csv","BB McCullum")

14 Cumulative Average runs of batsman in career

This function provides the cumulative average runs of the batsman over the career.Kohli’s average tops around 45 runs around 43 innings, though there is a dip downwards

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("./guptill.csv","M J Guptill")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("./shahzad.csv","M Shahzad")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("./mccullum.csv","BB McCullum")

15 Cumulative Average strike rate of batsman in career

Kohli, Guptill and McCullum average a strike rate of 125+

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("./guptill.csv","M J Guptill")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("./shahzad.csv","M Shahzad")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("./mccullum.csv","BB McCullum")

16 Relative Batsman Cumulative Average Runs

The plot below compares the Relative cumulative average runs of the batsman. Kohli is way above all the other 3 batsmen. Behind Kohli is McCullum and then Guptill

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./kohli.csv","./guptill.csv","./shahzad.csv","./mccullum.csv"]
names = ["Kohli","Guptill","Shahzad","McCullumn"]
ca.relativeBatsmanCumulativeAvgRuns(frames,names)

17. Relative Batsman Strike Rate

The plot below gives the relative Runs Frequency Percetages for each 10 run bucket. The plot below show that Kohli tops the overall strike rate followed by McCullum and then Guptill

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./kohli.csv","./guptill.csv","./shahzad.csv","./mccullum.csv"]
names = ["Kohli","Guptill","Shahzad","McCullum"]
ca.relativeBatsmanCumulativeStrikeRate(frames,names)

18. 3D plot of Runs vs Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

The plot is a scatter plot of Runs vs Balls faced and Minutes at Crease. A 3D prediction plane is fitted

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.battingPerf3d("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.battingPerf3d("./guptill.csv","M J Guptill")

ca.battingPerf3d("./shahzad.csv","M Shahzad")

ca.battingPerf3d("./mccullum.csv","BB McCullum")

19. 3D plot of Runs vs Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

Guptill and McCullum have a large percentage of sixes in comparison to the 4s. Kohli has a relative lower number of 6s

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./kohli.csv","./guptill.csv","./shahzad.csv","./mccullum.csv"]
names = ["Kohli","Guptill","Shahzad","McCullum"]
ca.batsman4s6s(frames,names)

20. Predicting Runs given Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

A multi-variate regression plane is fitted between Runs and Balls faced +Minutes at crease.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
BF = np.linspace( 10, 400,15)
Mins = np.linspace( 30,600,15)
newDF= pd.DataFrame({'BF':BF,'Mins':Mins})
kohli= ca.batsmanRunsPredict("./kohli.csv",newDF,"Kohli")

print(kohli)

##             BF        Mins        Runs
## 0    10.000000   30.000000   14.753153
## 1    37.857143   70.714286   55.963333
## 2    65.714286  111.428571   97.173513
## 3    93.571429  152.142857  138.383693
## 4   121.428571  192.857143  179.593873
## 5   149.285714  233.571429  220.804053
## 6   177.142857  274.285714  262.014233
## 7   205.000000  315.000000  303.224414
## 8   232.857143  355.714286  344.434594
## 9   260.714286  396.428571  385.644774
## 10  288.571429  437.142857  426.854954
## 11  316.428571  477.857143  468.065134
## 12  344.285714  518.571429  509.275314
## 13  372.142857  559.285714  550.485494
## 14  400.000000  600.000000  591.695674

21 Analysis of Top Bowlers

The following 4 bowlers have had an excellent career and will be used for the analysis

Shakib Hasan:Wickets: 80, Average = 21.07, Economy Rate – 6.74
Mohammed Nabi : Wickets: 67, Average = 24.25, Economy Rate – 7.13
Rashid Khan: Wickets: 64, Average = 12.40, Economy Rate – 6.01
Imran Tahir : Wickets:62, Average – 14.95, Economy Rate – 6.77

22. Get the bowler’s data

This plot below computes the percentage frequency of number of wickets taken for e.g 1 wicket x%, 2 wickets y% etc and plots them as a continuous line

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#shakib=ca.getPlayerDataTT(56143,dir=".",file="shakib.csv",type="bowling")
#nabi=ca.getPlayerDataOD(25913,dir=".",file="nabi.csv",type="bowling")
#rashid=ca.getPlayerDataOD(793463,dir=".",file="rashid.csv",type="bowling")
#tahir=ca.getPlayerDataOD(40618,dir=".",file="tahir.csv",type="bowling")

23. Wicket Frequency Plot

This plot below plots the frequency of wickets taken for each of the bowlers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("./shakib.csv","Shakib Al Hasan")

ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("./nabi.csv","Mohammad Nabi")

ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("./rashid.csv","Rashid Khan")

ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("./tahir.csv","Imran Tahir")

24. Wickets Runs plot

The plot below create a box plot showing the 1st and 3rd quartile of runs conceded versus the number of wickets taken.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("./shakib.csv","Shakib Al Hasan")

ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("./nabi.csv","Mohammad Nabi")

ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("./rashid.csv","Rashid Khan")

ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("./tahir.csv","Imran Tahir")

25 Average wickets at different venues

The plot gives the average wickets taken by Muralitharan at different venues.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("./shakib.csv","Shakib Al Hasan")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("./nabi.csv","Mohammad Nabi")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("./rashid.csv","Rashid Khan")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("./tahir.csv","Imran Tahir")

26 Average wickets against different opposition

The plot gives the average wickets taken by Muralitharan against different countries. The x-axis also includes the number of innings against each team

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("./shakib.csv","Shakib Al Hasan")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("./nabi.csv","Mohammad Nabi")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("./rashid.csv","Rashid Khan")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("./tahir.csv","Imran Tahir")

27 Wickets taken moving average

From the plot below it can be see

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerMovingAverage("./shakib.csv","Shakib Al Hasan")

ca.bowlerMovingAverage("./nabi.csv","Mohammad Nabi")

ca.bowlerMovingAverage("./rashid.csv","Rashid Khan")

ca.bowlerMovingAverage("./tahir.csv","Imran Tahir")

28 Cumulative average wickets taken

The plots below give the cumulative average wickets taken by the bowlers. Rashid Khan has been the most effective with almost 2.28 wickets per match

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("./shakib.csv","Shakib Al Hasan")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("./nabi.csv","Mohammad Nabi")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("./rashid.csv","Rashid Khan")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("./tahir.csv","Imran Tahir")

29 Cumulative average economy rate

The plots below give the cumulative average economy rate of the bowlers. Rashid Khan has the nest economy rate followed by Mohammed Nabi

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("./shakib.csv","Shakib Al Hasan")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("./nabi.csv","Mohammad Nabi")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("./rashid.csv","Rashid Khan")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("./tahir.csv","Imran Tahir")

30 Relative cumulative average economy rate of bowlers

The Relative cumulative economy rate is given below. It can be seen that Rashid Khan has the best economy rate followed by Mohammed Nabi and then Imran Tahir

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./shakib.csv","./nabi.csv","./rashid.csv","tahir.csv"]
names = ["Shakib Al Hasan","Mohammad Nabi","Rashid Khan", "Imran Tahir"]
ca.relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate(frames,names)

31 Relative Economy Rate against wickets taken

Rashid Khan has the best figures for wickets between 2-3.5 wickets. Mohammed Nabi pips Rashid Khan when takes a haul of 4 wickets.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./shakib.csv","./nabi.csv","./rashid.csv","tahir.csv"]
names = ["Shakib Al Hasan","Mohammad Nabi","Rashid Khan", "Imran Tahir"]
ca.relativeBowlingER(frames,names)

32 Relative cumulative average wickets of bowlers in career

Rashid has the best performance with cumulative average wickets. He is followed by Imran Tahir in the wicket haul, followed by Shakib Al Hasan

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./shakib.csv","./nabi.csv","./rashid.csv","tahir.csv"]
names = ["Shakib Al Hasan","Mohammad Nabi","Rashid Khan", "Imran Tahir"]
ca.relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgWickets(frames,names)

33. Key Findings

The plots above capture some of the capabilities and features of my cricpy package. Feel free to install the package and try it out. Please do keep in mind ESPN Cricinfo’s Terms of Use.

Here are the main findings from the analysis above

Analysis of Top 4 batsman

The analysis of the Top 4 test batsman Kohli, Guptill, Shahzad and McCullum
1.Kohli has the best overall cumulative average runs and towers over everybody else
2. Kohli, Guptill and McCullum has a very good strike rate of around 125+
3. Guptill and McCullum have a larger percentage of sixes as compared to Kohli
4. Rashid Khan has the best cumulative average wickets, followed by Imran Tahir and then Shakib Al Hasan
5. Rashid Khan is the most economical bowler, followed by Mohammed Nabi

You can fork/clone the package at Github cricpy

Conclusion

Cricpy now has almost all the functions and functionalities of my R package cricketr. There are still a few more features that need to be added to cricpy. I intend to do this as and when I find time.

Go ahead, take cricpy for a spin! Hope you enjoy the ride!

Watch this space!!!

Important note: Do check out my other posts using cricpy at cricpy-posts

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Cricpy takes a swing at the ODIs

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.” Marvin Minksy

“The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague” Edgser Djikstra

Introduction

In this post, cricpy, the Python avatar of my R package cricketr, learns some new tricks to be able to handle ODI matches. To know more about my R package cricketr see Re-introducing cricketr! : An R package to analyze performances of cricketers

Cricpy uses the statistics info available in ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru. The current version of this package supports only Test cricket

You should be able to install the package using pip install cricpy and use the many functions available in the package. Please mindful of the ESPN Cricinfo Terms of Use

Cricpy can now analyze performances of teams in Test, ODI and T20 cricket see Cricpy adds team analytics to its arsenal!!

This post is also hosted on Rpubs at Int

To know how to use cricpy see Introducing cricpy:A python package to analyze performances of cricketers. To the original version of cricpy, I have added 3 new functions for ODI. The earlier functions work for Test and ODI.

This post is also hosted on Rpubs at Cricpy takes a swing at the ODIs. You can also down the pdf version of this post at cricpy-odi.pdf

You can fork/clone the package at Github cricpy

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The cricpy package

The data for a particular player in ODI can be obtained with the getPlayerDataOD() function. To do you will need to go to ESPN CricInfo Player and type in the name of the player for e.g Virat Kohli, Virendar Sehwag, Chris Gayle etc. This will bring up a page which have the profile number for the player e.g. for Virat Kohli this would be http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/253802.html. Hence, Kohli’s profile is 253802. This can be used to get the data for Virat Kohlis shown below

The cricpy package is a clone of my R package cricketr. The signature of all the python functions are identical with that of its clone ‘cricketr’, with only the necessary variations between Python and R. It may be useful to look at my post R vs Python: Different similarities and similar differences. In fact if you are familar with one of the lanuguages you can look up the package in the other and you will notice the parallel constructs.

You can fork/clone the package at Github cricpy

Note: The charts are self-explanatory and I have not added much of my owy interpretation to it. Do look at the plots closely and check out the performances for yourself.

1 Importing cricpy – Python

# Install the package
# Do a pip install cricpy
# Import cricpy
import cricpy.analytics as ca

2. Invoking functions with Python package crlcpy

import cricpy.analytics as ca 
ca.batsman4s("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

3. Getting help from cricpy – Python

import cricpy.analytics as ca 
help(ca.getPlayerDataOD)

## Help on function getPlayerDataOD in module cricpy.analytics:
## 
## getPlayerDataOD(profile, opposition='', host='', dir='./data', file='player001.csv', type='batting', homeOrAway=[1, 2, 3], result=[1, 2, 3, 5], create=True)
##     Get the One day player data from ESPN Cricinfo based on specific inputs and store in a file in a given directory
##     
##     Description
##     
##     Get the player data given the profile of the batsman. The allowed inputs are home,away or both and won,lost or draw of matches. The data is stored in a .csv file in a directory specified. This function also returns a data frame of the player
##     
##     Usage
##     
##     getPlayerDataOD(profile, opposition="",host="",dir = "../", file = "player001.csv", 
##     type = "batting", homeOrAway = c(1, 2, 3), result = c(1, 2, 3,5))
##     Arguments
##     
##     profile     
##     This is the profile number of the player to get data. This can be obtained from http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/index.html. Type the name of the player and click search. This will display the details of the player. Make a note of the profile ID. For e.g For Virender Sehwag this turns out to be http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35263.html. Hence the profile for Sehwag is 35263
##     opposition      The numerical value of the opposition country e.g.Australia,India, England etc. The values are Australia:2,Bangladesh:25,Bermuda:12, England:1,Hong Kong:19,India:6,Ireland:29, Netherlands:15,New Zealand:5,Pakistan:7,Scotland:30,South Africa:3,Sri Lanka:8,United Arab Emirates:27, West Indies:4, Zimbabwe:9; Africa XI:405 Note: If no value is entered for opposition then all teams are considered
##     host            The numerical value of the host country e.g.Australia,India, England etc. The values are Australia:2,Bangladesh:25,England:1,India:6,Ireland:29,Malaysia:16,New Zealand:5,Pakistan:7, Scotland:30,South Africa:3,Sri Lanka:8,United Arab Emirates:27,West Indies:4, Zimbabwe:9 Note: If no value is entered for host then all host countries are considered
##     dir 
##     Name of the directory to store the player data into. If not specified the data is stored in a default directory "../data". Default="../data"
##     file        
##     Name of the file to store the data into for e.g. tendulkar.csv. This can be used for subsequent functions. Default="player001.csv"
##     type        
##     type of data required. This can be "batting" or "bowling"
##     homeOrAway  
##     This is vector with either or all 1,2, 3. 1 is for home 2 is for away, 3 is for neutral venue
##     result      
##     This is a vector that can take values 1,2,3,5. 1 - won match 2- lost match 3-tied 5- no result
##     Details
##     
##     More details can be found in my short video tutorial in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9uMPFVsXsI
##     
##     Value
##     
##     Returns the player's dataframe
##     
##     Note
##     
##     Maintainer: Tinniam V Ganesh <tvganesh.85@gmail.com>
##     
##     Author(s)
##     
##     Tinniam V Ganesh
##     
##     References
##     
##     http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/stats/index.html
##     https://gigadom.wordpress.com/
##     
##     See Also
##     
##     getPlayerDataSp getPlayerData
##     
##     Examples
##     
##     
##     ## Not run: 
##     # Both home and away. Result = won,lost and drawn
##     sehwag =getPlayerDataOD(35263,dir="../cricketr/data", file="sehwag1.csv",
##     type="batting", homeOrAway=[1,2],result=[1,2,3,4])
##     
##     # Only away. Get data only for won and lost innings
##     sehwag = getPlayerDataOD(35263,dir="../cricketr/data", file="sehwag2.csv",
##     type="batting",homeOrAway=[2],result=[1,2])
##     
##     # Get bowling data and store in file for future
##     malinga = getPlayerData(49758,dir="../cricketr/data",file="malinga1.csv",
##     type="bowling")
##     
##     # Get Dhoni's ODI record in Australia against Australua
##     dhoni = getPlayerDataOD(28081,opposition = 2,host=2,dir=".",
##     file="dhoniVsAusinAusOD",type="batting")
##     
##     ## End(Not run)

The details below will introduce the different functions that are available in cricpy.

4. Get the ODI player data for a player using the function getPlayerDataOD()

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#sehwag=ca.getPlayerDataOD(35263,dir=".",file="sehwag.csv",type="batting")
#kohli=ca.getPlayerDataOD(253802,dir=".",file="kohli.csv",type="batting")
#jayasuriya=ca.getPlayerDataOD(49209,dir=".",file="jayasuriya.csv",type="batting")
#gayle=ca.getPlayerDataOD(51880,dir=".",file="gayle.csv",type="batting")

5 Virat Kohli’s performance – Basic Analyses

The 3 plots below provide the following for Virat Kohli

Frequency percentage of runs in each run range over the whole career
Mean Strike Rate for runs scored in the given range
A histogram of runs frequency percentages in runs ranges

import cricpy.analytics as ca
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
ca.batsmanRunsFreqPerf("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanMeanStrikeRate("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanRunsRanges("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

6. More analyses

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsman4s("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsman6s("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanDismissals("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanScoringRateODTT("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

7. 3D scatter plot and prediction plane

The plots below show the 3D scatter plot of Kohli’s Runs versus Balls Faced and Minutes at crease. A linear regression plane is then fitted between Runs and Balls Faced + Minutes at crease

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.battingPerf3d("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

Average runs at different venues

The plot below gives the average runs scored by Kohli at different grounds. The plot also the number of innings at each ground as a label at x-axis.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanAvgRunsGround("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

9. Average runs against different opposing teams

This plot computes the average runs scored by Kohli against different countries.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanAvgRunsOpposition("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

10 . Highest Runs Likelihood

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanRunsLikelihood("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

A look at the Top 4 batsman – Kohli, Jayasuriya, Sehwag and Gayle

The following batsmen have been very prolific in ODI cricket and will be used for the analyses

Virat Kohli: Runs – 10232, Average:59.83 ,Strike rate-92.88
Sanath Jayasuriya : Runs – 13430, Average:32.36 ,Strike rate-91.2
Virendar Sehwag :Runs – 8273, Average:35.05 ,Strike rate-104.33
Chris Gayle : Runs – 9727, Average:37.12 ,Strike rate-85.82

The following plots take a closer at their performances. The box plots show the median the 1st and 3rd quartile of the runs

12. Box Histogram Plot

This plot shows a combined boxplot of the Runs ranges and a histogram of the Runs Frequency

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("./jayasuriya.csv","Sanath jayasuriya")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("./gayle.csv","Chris Gayle")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("./sehwag.csv","Virendar Sehwag")

13 Moving Average of runs in career

Take a look at the Moving Average across the career of the Top 4 (ignore the dip at the end of all plots. Need to check why this is so!). Kohli’s performance has been steadily improving over the years, so has Sehwag. Gayle seems to be on the way down

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanMovingAverage("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanMovingAverage("./jayasuriya.csv","Sanath jayasuriya")

ca.batsmanMovingAverage("./gayle.csv","Chris Gayle")

ca.batsmanMovingAverage("./sehwag.csv","Virendar Sehwag")

14 Cumulative Average runs of batsman in career

This function provides the cumulative average runs of the batsman over the career. Kohli seems to be getting better with time and reaches a cumulative average of 45+. Sehwag improves with time and reaches around 35+. Chris Gayle drops from 42 to 35

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("./jayasuriya.csv","Sanath jayasuriya")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("./gayle.csv","Chris Gayle")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("./sehwag.csv","Virendar Sehwag")

15 Cumulative Average strike rate of batsman in career

Sehwag has the best strike rate of almost 90. Kohli and Jayasuriya have a cumulative strike rate of 75.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("./jayasuriya.csv","Sanath jayasuriya")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("./gayle.csv","Chris Gayle")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("./sehwag.csv","Virendar Sehwag")

16 Relative Batsman Cumulative Average Runs

The plot below compares the Relative cumulative average runs of the batsman . It can be seen that Virat Kohli towers above all others in the runs. He is followed by Chris Gayle and then Sehwag

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./sehwag.csv","./gayle.csv","./jayasuriya.csv","./kohli.csv"]
names = ["Sehwag","Gayle","Jayasuriya","Kohli"]
ca.relativeBatsmanCumulativeAvgRuns(frames,names)

Relative Batsman Strike Rate

The plot below gives the relative Runs Frequency Percentages for each 10 run bucket. The plot below show Sehwag has the best strike rate, followed by Jayasuriya

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./sehwag.csv","./gayle.csv","./jayasuriya.csv","./kohli.csv"]
names = ["Sehwag","Gayle","Jayasuriya","Kohli"]
ca.relativeBatsmanCumulativeStrikeRate(frames,names)

18. 3D plot of Runs vs Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

The plot is a scatter plot of Runs vs Balls faced and Minutes at Crease. A 3D prediction plane is fitted

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.battingPerf3d("./kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

ca.battingPerf3d("./jayasuriya.csv","Sanath jayasuriya")

ca.battingPerf3d("./gayle.csv","Chris Gayle")

ca.battingPerf3d("./sehwag.csv","Virendar Sehwag")

3D plot of Runs vs Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

From the plot below it can be seen that Sehwag has more runs by way of 4s than 1’s,2’s or 3s. Gayle and Jayasuriya have large number of 6s

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./sehwag.csv","./kohli.csv","./gayle.csv","./jayasuriya.csv"]
names = ["Sehwag","Kohli","Gayle","Jayasuriya"]
ca.batsman4s6s(frames,names)

20. Predicting Runs given Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

A multi-variate regression plane is fitted between Runs and Balls faced +Minutes at crease.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
BF = np.linspace( 10, 400,15)
Mins = np.linspace( 30,600,15)
newDF= pd.DataFrame({'BF':BF,'Mins':Mins})
kohli= ca.batsmanRunsPredict("./kohli.csv",newDF,"Kohli")

print(kohli)

##             BF        Mins        Runs
## 0    10.000000   30.000000    6.807407
## 1    37.857143   70.714286   36.034833
## 2    65.714286  111.428571   65.262259
## 3    93.571429  152.142857   94.489686
## 4   121.428571  192.857143  123.717112
## 5   149.285714  233.571429  152.944538
## 6   177.142857  274.285714  182.171965
## 7   205.000000  315.000000  211.399391
## 8   232.857143  355.714286  240.626817
## 9   260.714286  396.428571  269.854244
## 10  288.571429  437.142857  299.081670
## 11  316.428571  477.857143  328.309096
## 12  344.285714  518.571429  357.536523
## 13  372.142857  559.285714  386.763949
## 14  400.000000  600.000000  415.991375

The fitted model is then used to predict the runs that the batsmen will score for a given Balls faced and Minutes at crease.

21 Analysis of Top Bowlers

The following 4 bowlers have had an excellent career and will be used for the analysis

Muthiah Muralitharan:Wickets: 534, Average = 23.08, Economy Rate – 3.93
Wasim Akram : Wickets: 502, Average = 23.52, Economy Rate – 3.89
Shaun Pollock: Wickets: 393, Average = 24.50, Economy Rate – 3.67
Javagal Srinath : Wickets:315, Average – 28.08, Economy Rate – 4.44

How do Muralitharan, Akram, Pollock and Srinath compare with one another with respect to wickets taken and the Economy Rate. The next set of plots compute and plot precisely these analyses.

22. Get the bowler’s data

This plot below computes the percentage frequency of number of wickets taken for e.g 1 wicket x%, 2 wickets y% etc and plots them as a continuous line

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#akram=ca.getPlayerDataOD(43547,dir=".",file="akram.csv",type="bowling")
#murali=ca.getPlayerDataOD(49636,dir=".",file="murali.csv",type="bowling")
#pollock=ca.getPlayerDataOD(46774,dir=".",file="pollock.csv",type="bowling")
#srinath=ca.getPlayerDataOD(34105,dir=".",file="srinath.csv",type="bowling")

23. Wicket Frequency Plot

This plot below plots the frequency of wickets taken for each of the bowlers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("./murali.csv","M Muralitharan")

ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("./akram.csv","Wasim Akram")

ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("./pollock.csv","Shaun Pollock")

ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("./srinath.csv","J Srinath")

24. Wickets Runs plot

The plot below create a box plot showing the 1st and 3rd quartile of runs conceded versus the number of wickets taken. Murali’s median runs for wickets ia around 40 while Akram, Pollock and Srinath it is around 32+ runs. The spread around the median is larger for these 3 bowlers in comparison to Murali

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("./murali.csv","M Muralitharan")

ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("./akram.csv","Wasim Akram")

ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("./pollock.csv","Shaun Pollock")

ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("./srinath.csv","J Srinath")

25 Average wickets at different venues

The plot gives the average wickets taken by Muralitharan at different venues. McGrath best performances are at Centurion, Lord’s and Port of Spain averaging about 4 wickets. Kapil Dev’s does good at Kingston and Wellington. Anderson averages 4 wickets at Dunedin and Nagpur

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("./murali.csv","M Muralitharan")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("./akram.csv","Wasim Akram")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("./pollock.csv","Shaun Pollock")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("./srinath.csv","J Srinath")

26 Average wickets against different opposition

The plot gives the average wickets taken by Muralitharan against different countries. The x-axis also includes the number of innings against each team

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("./murali.csv","M Muralitharan")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("./akram.csv","Wasim Akram")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("./pollock.csv","Shaun Pollock")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("./srinath.csv","J Srinath")

27 Wickets taken moving average

From the plot below it can be see James Anderson has had a solid performance over the years averaging about wickets

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerMovingAverage("./murali.csv","M Muralitharan")

ca.bowlerMovingAverage("./akram.csv","Wasim Akram")

ca.bowlerMovingAverage("./pollock.csv","Shaun Pollock")

ca.bowlerMovingAverage("./srinath.csv","J Srinath")

28 Cumulative average wickets taken

The plots below give the cumulative average wickets taken by the bowlers. Muralitharan has consistently taken wickets at an average of 1.6 wickets per game. Shaun Pollock has an average of 1.5

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("./murali.csv","M Muralitharan")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("./akram.csv","Wasim Akram")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("./pollock.csv","Shaun Pollock")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("./srinath.csv","J Srinath")

29 Cumulative average economy rate

The plots below give the cumulative average economy rate of the bowlers. Pollock is the most economical, followed by Akram and then Murali

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("./murali.csv","M Muralitharan")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("./akram.csv","Wasim Akram")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("./pollock.csv","Shaun Pollock")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("./srinath.csv","J Srinath")

30 Relative cumulative average economy rate of bowlers

The Relative cumulative economy rate shows that Pollock is the most economical of the 4 bowlers. He is followed by Akram and then Murali

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./srinath.csv","./akram.csv","./murali.csv","pollock.csv"]
names = ["J Srinath","Wasim Akram","M Muralitharan", "S Pollock"]
ca.relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate(frames,names)

31 Relative Economy Rate against wickets taken

Pollock is most economical vs number of wickets taken. Murali has the best figures for 4 wickets taken.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./srinath.csv","./akram.csv","./murali.csv","pollock.csv"]
names = ["J Srinath","Wasim Akram","M Muralitharan", "S Pollock"]
ca.relativeBowlingER(frames,names)

32 Relative cumulative average wickets of bowlers in career

The plot below shows that McGrath has the best overall cumulative average wickets. While the bowlers are neck to neck around 130 innings, you can see Muralitharan is most consistent and leads the pack after 150 innings in the number of wickets taken.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["./srinath.csv","./akram.csv","./murali.csv","pollock.csv"]
names = ["J Srinath","Wasim Akram","M Muralitharan", "S Pollock"]
ca.relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgWickets(frames,names)

33. Key Findings

The plots above capture some of the capabilities and features of my cricpy package. Feel free to install the package and try it out. Please do keep in mind ESPN Cricinfo’s Terms of Use.

Here are the main findings from the analysis above

Analysis of Top 4 batsman

The analysis of the Top 4 test batsman Tendulkar, Kallis, Ponting and Sangakkara show the folliwing

Kohli is a mean run machine and has been consistently piling on runs. Clearly records will lay shattered in days to come for Kohli
Virendar Sehwag has the best strike rate of the 4, followed by Jayasuriya and then Kohli
Shaun Pollock is the most economical of the bowlers followed by Wasim Akram
Muralitharan is the most consistent wicket of the lot.

Important note: Do check out my other posts using cricpy at cricpy-posts

Also see
1. Architecting a cloud based IP Multimedia System (IMS)
2. Exploring Quantum Gate operations with QCSimulator
3. Dabbling with Wiener filter using OpenCV
4. Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave – Part 5
5. Big Data-2: Move into the big league:Graduate from R to SparkR
6. Singularity
7. Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 4
8. Literacy in India – A deepR dive
9. Modeling a Car in Android

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Introducing cricpy:A python package to analyze performances of cricketers

Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

            Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

Introduction

It is finally here! cricpy, the python avatar , of my R package cricketr is now ready to rock-n-roll! My R package cricketr had its genesis about 3 and some years ago and went through a couple of enhancements. During this time I have always thought about creating an equivalent python package like cricketr. Now I have finally done it.

So here it is. My python package ‘cricpy!!!’

This package uses the statistics info available in ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru. The current version of this package supports only Test cricket

You should be able to install the package using pip install cricpy and use the many functions available in the package. Please mindful of the ESPN Cricinfo Terms of Use

Note 1: Cricpy can now analyze performances of teams in Test, ODI and T20 cricket see Cricpy adds team analytics to its arsenal!!

Note 2: Cricpy can also do granular analysis of players click Cricpy performs granular analysis of players

This post is also hosted on Rpubs at Introducing cricpy. You can also download the pdf version of this post at cricpy.pdf

Do check out my post on R package cricketr at Re-introducing cricketr! : An R package to analyze performances of cricketers

This package uses the statistics info available in ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru.

The cricpy package

The cricpy package has several functions that perform several different analyses on both batsman and bowlers. The package has functions that plot percentage frequency runs or wickets, runs likelihood for a batsman, relative run/strike rates of batsman and relative performance/economy rate for bowlers are available.

Other interesting functions include batting performance moving average, forecasting, performance of a player against different oppositions, contribution to wins and losses etc.

The data for a particular player can be obtained with the getPlayerData() function. To do this you will need to go to ESPN CricInfo Player and type in the name of the player for e.g Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Alastair Cook etc. This will bring up a page which have the profile number for the player e.g. for Rahul Dravid this would be http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/28114.html. Hence, Dravid’s profile is 28114. This can be used to get the data for Rahul Dravid as shown below

The cricpy package is almost a clone of my R package cricketr. The signature of all the python functions are identical with that of its R avatar namely ‘cricketr’, with only the necessary variations between Python and R. It may be useful to look at my post R vs Python: Different similarities and similar differences. In fact if you are familiar with one of the languages you can look up the package in the other and you will notice the parallel constructs.

You can fork/clone the cricpy package at Github cricpy

The following 2 examples show the similarity between cricketr and cricpy packages

1a.Importing cricketr – R

Importing cricketr in R

#install.packages("cricketr")
library(cricketr)

2a. Importing cricpy – Python

# Install the package
# Do a pip install cricpy
# Import cricpy
import cricpy
# You could either do
#1.  
import cricpy.analytics as ca 
#ca.batsman4s("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")
# Or
#2.

from cricpy.analytics import *
#batsman4s("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

I would recommend using option 1 namely ca.batsman4s() as I may add an advanced analytics module in the future to cricpy.

2 Invoking functions

You can seen how the 2 calls are identical for both the R package cricketr and the Python package cricpy

2a. Invoking functions with R package ‘cricketr’

library(cricketr)
batsman4s("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

2b. Invoking functions with Python package ‘cricpy’

import cricpy.analytics as ca 
ca.batsman4s("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

3a. Getting help from cricketr – R

#help("getPlayerData")

3b. Getting help from cricpy – Python

help(ca.getPlayerData)

## Help on function getPlayerData in module cricpy.analytics:
## 
## getPlayerData(profile, opposition='', host='', dir='./data', file='player001.csv', type='batting', homeOrAway=[1, 2], result=[1, 2, 4], create=True)
##     Get the player data from ESPN Cricinfo based on specific inputs and store in a file in a given directory
##     
##     Description
##     
##     Get the player data given the profile of the batsman. The allowed inputs are home,away or both and won,lost or draw of matches. The data is stored in a .csv file in a directory specified. This function also returns a data frame of the player
##     
##     Usage
##     
##     getPlayerData(profile,opposition="",host="",dir="./data",file="player001.csv",
##     type="batting", homeOrAway=c(1,2),result=c(1,2,4))
##     Arguments
##     
##     profile     
##     This is the profile number of the player to get data. This can be obtained from http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/index.html. Type the name of the player and click search. This will display the details of the player. Make a note of the profile ID. For e.g For Sachin Tendulkar this turns out to be http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35320.html. Hence the profile for Sachin is 35320
##     opposition  
##     The numerical value of the opposition country e.g.Australia,India, England etc. The values are Australia:2,Bangladesh:25,England:1,India:6,New Zealand:5,Pakistan:7,South Africa:3,Sri Lanka:8, West Indies:4, Zimbabwe:9
##     host        
##     The numerical value of the host country e.g.Australia,India, England etc. The values are Australia:2,Bangladesh:25,England:1,India:6,New Zealand:5,Pakistan:7,South Africa:3,Sri Lanka:8, West Indies:4, Zimbabwe:9
##     dir 
##     Name of the directory to store the player data into. If not specified the data is stored in a default directory "./data". Default="./data"
##     file        
##     Name of the file to store the data into for e.g. tendulkar.csv. This can be used for subsequent functions. Default="player001.csv"
##     type        
##     type of data required. This can be "batting" or "bowling"
##     homeOrAway  
##     This is a list with either 1,2 or both. 1 is for home 2 is for away
##     result      
##     This is a list that can take values 1,2,4. 1 - won match 2- lost match 4- draw
##     Details
##     
##     More details can be found in my short video tutorial in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9uMPFVsXsI
##     
##     Value
##     
##     Returns the player's dataframe
##     
##     Note
##     
##     Maintainer: Tinniam V Ganesh 
##     
##     Author(s)
##     
##     Tinniam V Ganesh
##     
##     References
##     
##     http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/stats/index.html
##     https://gigadom.wordpress.com/
##     
##     See Also
##     
##     getPlayerDataSp
##     
##     Examples
##     
##     ## Not run: 
##     # Both home and away. Result = won,lost and drawn
##     tendulkar = getPlayerData(35320,dir=".", file="tendulkar1.csv",
##     type="batting", homeOrAway=[1,2],result=[1,2,4])
##     
##     # Only away. Get data only for won and lost innings
##     tendulkar = getPlayerData(35320,dir=".", file="tendulkar2.csv",
##     type="batting",homeOrAway=[2],result=[1,2])
##     
##     # Get bowling data and store in file for future
##     kumble = getPlayerData(30176,dir=".",file="kumble1.csv",
##     type="bowling",homeOrAway=[1],result=[1,2])
##     
##     #Get the Tendulkar's Performance against Australia in Australia
##     tendulkar = getPlayerData(35320, opposition = 2,host=2,dir=".", 
##     file="tendulkarVsAusInAus.csv",type="batting")

The details below will introduce the different functions that are available in cricpy.

3. Get the player data for a player using the function getPlayerData()

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#dravid =ca.getPlayerData(28114,dir="..",file="dravid.csv",type="batting",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])
#acook =ca.getPlayerData(11728,dir="..",file="acook.csv",type="batting",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#lara =ca.getPlayerData(52337,dir="..",file="lara.csv",type="batting",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])253802
#kohli =ca.getPlayerData(253802,dir="..",file="kohli.csv",type="batting",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])

4 Rahul Dravid’s performance – Basic Analyses

The 3 plots below provide the following for Rahul Dravid

Frequency percentage of runs in each run range over the whole career
Mean Strike Rate for runs scored in the given range
A histogram of runs frequency percentages in runs ranges

import cricpy.analytics as ca
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
ca.batsmanRunsFreqPerf("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanMeanStrikeRate("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanRunsRanges("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

5. More analyses

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsman4s("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsman6s("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanDismissals("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

6. 3D scatter plot and prediction plane

The plots below show the 3D scatter plot of Dravid Runs versus Balls Faced and Minutes at crease. A linear regression plane is then fitted between Runs and Balls Faced + Minutes at crease

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.battingPerf3d("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

7. Average runs at different venues

The plot below gives the average runs scored by Dravid at different grounds. The plot also the number of innings at each ground as a label at x-axis. It can be seen Dravid did great in Rawalpindi, Leeds, Georgetown overseas and , Mohali and Bangalore at home

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanAvgRunsGround("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

8. Average runs against different opposing teams

This plot computes the average runs scored by Dravid against different countries. Dravid has an average of 50+ in England, New Zealand, West Indies and Zimbabwe.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanAvgRunsOpposition("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

9 . Highest Runs Likelihood

The plot below shows the Runs Likelihood for a batsman. For this the performance of Sachin is plotted as a 3D scatter plot with Runs versus Balls Faced + Minutes at crease. K-Means. The centroids of 3 clusters are computed and plotted. In this plot Dravid’s highest tendencies are computed and plotted using K-Means

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanRunsLikelihood("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

10. A look at the Top 4 batsman – Rahul Dravid, Alastair Cook, Brian Lara and Virat Kohli

The following batsmen have been very prolific in test cricket and will be used for teh analyses

Rahul Dravid :Average:52.31,100’s – 36, 50’s – 63
Alastair Cook : Average: 45.35, 100’s – 33, 50’s – 57
Brian Lara : Average: 52.88, 100’s – 34 , 50’s – 48
Virat Kohli: Average: 54.57 ,100’s – 24 , 50’s – 19

The following plots take a closer at their performances. The box plots show the median the 1st and 3rd quartile of the runs

11. Box Histogram Plot

This plot shows a combined boxplot of the Runs ranges and a histogram of the Runs Frequency

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("../acook.csv","Alastair Cook")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("../lara.csv","Brian Lara")

ca.batsmanPerfBoxHist("../kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

12. Contribution to won and lost matches

The plot below shows the contribution of Dravid, Cook, Lara and Kohli in matches won and lost. It can be seen that in matches where India has won Dravid and Kohli have scored more and must have been instrumental in the win

For the 2 functions below you will have to use the getPlayerDataSp() function as shown below. I have commented this as I already have these files

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#dravidsp = ca.getPlayerDataSp(28114,tdir=".",tfile="dravidsp.csv",ttype="batting")
#acooksp = ca.getPlayerDataSp(11728,tdir=".",tfile="acooksp.csv",ttype="batting")
#larasp = ca.getPlayerDataSp(52337,tdir=".",tfile="larasp.csv",ttype="batting")
#kohlisp = ca.getPlayerDataSp(253802,tdir=".",tfile="kohlisp.csv",ttype="batting")

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanContributionWonLost("../dravidsp.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanContributionWonLost("../acooksp.csv","Alastair Cook")

ca.batsmanContributionWonLost("../larasp.csv","Brian Lara")

ca.batsmanContributionWonLost("../kohlisp.csv","Virat Kohli")

13. Performance at home and overseas

From the plot below it can be seen

Dravid has a higher median overseas than at home.Cook, Lara and Kohli have a lower median of runs overseas than at home.

This function also requires the use of getPlayerDataSp() as shown above

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanPerfHomeAway("../dravidsp.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanPerfHomeAway("../acooksp.csv","Alastair Cook")

ca.batsmanPerfHomeAway("../larasp.csv","Brian Lara")

ca.batsmanPerfHomeAway("../kohlisp.csv","Virat Kohli")

14 Moving Average of runs in career

Take a look at the Moving Average across the career of the Top 4 (ignore the dip at the end of all plots. Need to check why this is so!). Lara’s performance seems to have been quite good before his retirement(wonder why retired so early!). Kohli’s performance has been steadily improving over the years

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanMovingAverage("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanMovingAverage("../acook.csv","Alastair Cook")

ca.batsmanMovingAverage("../lara.csv","Brian Lara")

ca.batsmanMovingAverage("../kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

15 Cumulative Average runs of batsman in career

This function provides the cumulative average runs of the batsman over the career. Dravid averages around 48, Cook around 44, Lara around 50 and Kohli shows a steady improvement in his cumulative average. Kohli seems to be getting better with time.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("../acook.csv","Alastair Cook")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("../lara.csv","Brian Lara")

ca.batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns("../kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

16 Cumulative Average strike rate of batsman in career

Lara has a terrific strike rate of 52+. Cook has a better strike rate over Dravid. Kohli’s strike rate has improved over the years.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("../acook.csv","Alastair Cook")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("../lara.csv","Brian Lara")

ca.batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate("../kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

17 Future Runs forecast

Here are plots that forecast how the batsman will perform in future. Currently ARIMA has been used for the forecast. (To do: Perform Holt-Winters forecast!)

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.batsmanPerfForecast("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

##                              ARIMA Model Results                              
## ==============================================================================
## Dep. Variable:                 D.runs   No. Observations:                  284
## Model:                 ARIMA(5, 1, 0)   Log Likelihood               -1522.837
## Method:                       css-mle   S.D. of innovations             51.488
## Date:                Sun, 28 Oct 2018   AIC                           3059.673
## Time:                        09:47:39   BIC                           3085.216
## Sample:                    07-04-1996   HQIC                          3069.914
##                          - 01-24-2012                                         
## ================================================================================
##                    coef    std err          z      P>|z|      [0.025      0.975]
## --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
## const           -0.1336      0.884     -0.151      0.880      -1.867       1.599
## ar.L1.D.runs    -0.7729      0.058    -13.322      0.000      -0.887      -0.659
## ar.L2.D.runs    -0.6234      0.071     -8.753      0.000      -0.763      -0.484
## ar.L3.D.runs    -0.5199      0.074     -7.038      0.000      -0.665      -0.375
## ar.L4.D.runs    -0.3490      0.071     -4.927      0.000      -0.488      -0.210
## ar.L5.D.runs    -0.2116      0.058     -3.665      0.000      -0.325      -0.098
##                                     Roots                                    
## =============================================================================
##                  Real           Imaginary           Modulus         Frequency
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
## AR.1            0.5789           -1.1743j            1.3093           -0.1771
## AR.2            0.5789           +1.1743j            1.3093            0.1771
## AR.3           -1.3617           -0.0000j            1.3617           -0.5000
## AR.4           -0.7227           -1.2257j            1.4230           -0.3348
## AR.5           -0.7227           +1.2257j            1.4230            0.3348
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
##                 0
## count  284.000000
## mean    -0.306769
## std     51.632947
## min   -106.653589
## 25%    -33.835148
## 50%     -8.954253
## 75%     21.024763
## max    223.152901
## 
## C:\Users\Ganesh\ANACON~1\lib\site-packages\statsmodels\tsa\kalmanf\kalmanfilter.py:646: FutureWarning: Conversion of the second argument of issubdtype from `float` to `np.floating` is deprecated. In future, it will be treated as `np.float64 == np.dtype(float).type`.
##   if issubdtype(paramsdtype, float):
## C:\Users\Ganesh\ANACON~1\lib\site-packages\statsmodels\tsa\kalmanf\kalmanfilter.py:650: FutureWarning: Conversion of the second argument of issubdtype from `complex` to `np.complexfloating` is deprecated. In future, it will be treated as `np.complex128 == np.dtype(complex).type`.
##   elif issubdtype(paramsdtype, complex):
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##   if issubdtype(paramsdtype, float):

18 Relative Batsman Cumulative Average Runs

The plot below compares the Relative cumulative average runs of the batsman for each of the runs ranges of 10 and plots them. The plot indicate the following Range 30 – 100 innings – Lara leads followed by Dravid Range 100+ innings – Kohli races ahead of the rest

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["../dravid.csv","../acook.csv","../lara.csv","../kohli.csv"]
names = ["Dravid","A Cook","Brian Lara","V Kohli"]
ca.relativeBatsmanCumulativeAvgRuns(frames,names)

19. Relative Batsman Strike Rate

The plot below gives the relative Runs Frequency Percetages for each 10 run bucket. The plot below show

Brian Lara towers over the Dravid, Cook and Kohli. However you will notice that Kohli’s strike rate is going up

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["../dravid.csv","../acook.csv","../lara.csv","../kohli.csv"]
names = ["Dravid","A Cook","Brian Lara","V Kohli"]
ca.relativeBatsmanCumulativeStrikeRate(frames,names)

20. 3D plot of Runs vs Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

The plot is a scatter plot of Runs vs Balls faced and Minutes at Crease. A prediction plane is fitted

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.battingPerf3d("../dravid.csv","Rahul Dravid")

ca.battingPerf3d("../acook.csv","Alastair Cook")

ca.battingPerf3d("../lara.csv","Brian Lara")

ca.battingPerf3d("../kohli.csv","Virat Kohli")

21. Predicting Runs given Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

A multi-variate regression plane is fitted between Runs and Balls faced +Minutes at crease.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
BF = np.linspace( 10, 400,15)
Mins = np.linspace( 30,600,15)
newDF= pd.DataFrame({'BF':BF,'Mins':Mins})
dravid = ca.batsmanRunsPredict("../dravid.csv",newDF,"Dravid")

print(dravid)

##             BF        Mins        Runs
## 0    10.000000   30.000000    0.519667
## 1    37.857143   70.714286   13.821794
## 2    65.714286  111.428571   27.123920
## 3    93.571429  152.142857   40.426046
## 4   121.428571  192.857143   53.728173
## 5   149.285714  233.571429   67.030299
## 6   177.142857  274.285714   80.332425
## 7   205.000000  315.000000   93.634552
## 8   232.857143  355.714286  106.936678
## 9   260.714286  396.428571  120.238805
## 10  288.571429  437.142857  133.540931
## 11  316.428571  477.857143  146.843057
## 12  344.285714  518.571429  160.145184
## 13  372.142857  559.285714  173.447310
## 14  400.000000  600.000000  186.749436

The fitted model is then used to predict the runs that the batsmen will score for a given Balls faced and Minutes at crease.

22 Analysis of Top 3 wicket takers

The following 3 bowlers have had an excellent career and will be used for the analysis

Glenn McGrath:Wickets: 563, Average = 21.64, Economy Rate – 2.49
Kapil Dev : Wickets: 434, Average = 29.64, Economy Rate – 2.78
James Anderson: Wickets: 564, Average = 28.64, Economy Rate – 2.88

How do Glenn McGrath, Kapil Dev and James Anderson compare with one another with respect to wickets taken and the Economy Rate. The next set of plots compute and plot precisely these analyses.

23. Get the bowler’s data

This plot below computes the percentage frequency of number of wickets taken for e.g 1 wicket x%, 2 wickets y% etc and plots them as a continuous line

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#mcgrath =ca.getPlayerData(6565,dir=".",file="mcgrath.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])
#kapil =ca.getPlayerData(30028,dir=".",file="kapil.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])
#anderson =ca.getPlayerData(8608,dir=".",file="anderson.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=[1,2], result=[1,2,4])

24. Wicket Frequency Plot

This plot below plots the frequency of wickets taken for each of the bowlers

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("../mcgrath.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("../kapil.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerWktsFreqPercent("../anderson.csv","James Anderson")

25. Wickets Runs plot

The plot below create a box plot showing the 1st and 3rd quartile of runs conceded versus the number of wickets taken

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("../mcgrath.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("../kapil.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerWktsRunsPlot("../anderson.csv","James Anderson")

26 Average wickets at different venues

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("../mcgrath.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("../kapil.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsGround("../anderson.csv","James Anderson")

27 Average wickets against different opposition

The plot gives the average wickets taken by Muralitharan against different countries. The x-axis also includes the number of innings against each team

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("../mcgrath.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("../kapil.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerAvgWktsOpposition("../anderson.csv","James Anderson")

28 Wickets taken moving average

From the plot below it can be see James Anderson has had a solid performance over the years averaging about wickets

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerMovingAverage("../mcgrath.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerMovingAverage("../kapil.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerMovingAverage("../anderson.csv","James Anderson")

29 Cumulative average wickets taken

The plots below give the cumulative average wickets taken by the bowlers. mcGrath plateaus around 2.4 wickets, Kapil Dev’s performance deteriorates over the years. Anderson holds on rock steady around 2 wickets

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("../mcgrath.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("../kapil.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets("../anderson.csv","James Anderson")

30 Cumulative average economy rate

The plots below give the cumulative average economy rate of the bowlers. McGrath’s was very expensive early in his career conceding about 2.8 runs per over which drops to around 2.5 runs towards the end. Kapil Dev’s economy rate drops from 3.6 to 2.8. Anderson is probably more expensive than the other 2.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("../mcgrath.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("../kapil.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate("../anderson.csv","James Anderson")

31 Future Wickets forecast

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerPerfForecast("../mcgrath.csv","Glenn McGrath")

##                              ARIMA Model Results                              
## ==============================================================================
## Dep. Variable:              D.Wickets   No. Observations:                  236
## Model:                 ARIMA(5, 1, 0)   Log Likelihood                -480.815
## Method:                       css-mle   S.D. of innovations              1.851
## Date:                Sun, 28 Oct 2018   AIC                            975.630
## Time:                        09:28:32   BIC                            999.877
## Sample:                    11-12-1993   HQIC                           985.404
##                          - 01-02-2007                                         
## ===================================================================================
##                       coef    std err          z      P>|z|      [0.025      0.975]
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
## const               0.0037      0.033      0.113      0.910      -0.061       0.068
## ar.L1.D.Wickets    -0.9432      0.064    -14.708      0.000      -1.069      -0.818
## ar.L2.D.Wickets    -0.7254      0.086     -8.469      0.000      -0.893      -0.558
## ar.L3.D.Wickets    -0.4827      0.093     -5.217      0.000      -0.664      -0.301
## ar.L4.D.Wickets    -0.3690      0.085     -4.324      0.000      -0.536      -0.202
## ar.L5.D.Wickets    -0.1709      0.064     -2.678      0.008      -0.296      -0.046
##                                     Roots                                    
## =============================================================================
##                  Real           Imaginary           Modulus         Frequency
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
## AR.1            0.5630           -1.2761j            1.3948           -0.1839
## AR.2            0.5630           +1.2761j            1.3948            0.1839
## AR.3           -0.8433           -1.0820j            1.3718           -0.3554
## AR.4           -0.8433           +1.0820j            1.3718            0.3554
## AR.5           -1.5981           -0.0000j            1.5981           -0.5000
## -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
##                 0
## count  236.000000
## mean    -0.005142
## std      1.856961
## min     -3.457002
## 25%     -1.433391
## 50%     -0.080237
## 75%      1.446149
## max      5.840050

32 Get player data special

As discussed above the next 2 charts require the use of getPlayerDataSp()

import cricpy.analytics as ca
#mcgrathsp =ca.getPlayerDataSp(6565,tdir=".",tfile="mcgrathsp.csv",ttype="bowling")
#kapilsp =ca.getPlayerDataSp(30028,tdir=".",tfile="kapilsp.csv",ttype="bowling")
#andersonsp =ca.getPlayerDataSp(8608,tdir=".",tfile="andersonsp.csv",ttype="bowling")

33 Contribution to matches won and lost

The plot below is extremely interesting Glenn McGrath has been more instrumental in Australia winning than Kapil and Anderson as seems to have taken more wickets when Australia won.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerContributionWonLost("../mcgrathsp.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerContributionWonLost("../kapilsp.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerContributionWonLost("../andersonsp.csv","James Anderson")

34 Performance home and overseas

McGrath and Kapil Dev have performed better overseas than at home. Anderson has performed about the same home and overseas

import cricpy.analytics as ca
ca.bowlerPerfHomeAway("../mcgrathsp.csv","Glenn McGrath")

ca.bowlerPerfHomeAway("../kapilsp.csv","Kapil Dev")

ca.bowlerPerfHomeAway("../andersonsp.csv","James Anderson")

35 Relative cumulative average economy rate of bowlers

The Relative cumulative economy rate shows that McGrath has the best economy rate followed by Kapil Dev and then Anderson.

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["../mcgrath.csv","../kapil.csv","../anderson.csv"]
names = ["Glenn McGrath","Kapil Dev","James Anderson"]
ca.relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate(frames,names)

36 Relative Economy Rate against wickets taken

McGrath has been economical regardless of the number of wickets taken. Kapil Dev has been slightly more expensive when he takes more wickets

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["../mcgrath.csv","../kapil.csv","../anderson.csv"]
names = ["Glenn McGrath","Kapil Dev","James Anderson"]
ca.relativeBowlingER(frames,names)

37 Relative cumulative average wickets of bowlers in career

The plot below shows that McGrath has the best overall cumulative average wickets. Kapil’s leads Anderson till about 150 innings after which Anderson takes over

import cricpy.analytics as ca
frames = ["../mcgrath.csv","../kapil.csv","../anderson.csv"]
names = ["Glenn McGrath","Kapil Dev","James Anderson"]
ca.relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgWickets(frames,names)

Key Findings

The plots above capture some of the capabilities and features of my cricpy package. Feel free to install the package and try it out. Please do keep in mind ESPN Cricinfo’s Terms of Use.

Here are the main findings from the analysis above

Key insights

1. Brian Lara is head and shoulders above the rest in the overall strike rate
2. Kohli performance has been steadily improving over the years and with the way he is going he will shatter all records.
3. Kohli and Dravid have scored more in matches where India has won than the other two.
4. Dravid has performed very well overseas
5. The cumulative average runs has Kohli just edging out the other 3. Kohli is probably midway in his career but considering that his moving average is improving strongly, we can expect great things of him with the way he is going.
6. McGrath has had some great performances overseas
7. Mcgrath has the best economy rate and has contributed significantly to Australia’s wins.
8.In the cumulative average wickets race McGrath leads the pack. Kapil leads Anderson till about 150 matches after which Anderson takes over.

The code for cricpy can be accessed at Github at cricpy

Do let me know if you run into issues.

Conclusion

I have long wanted to make a python equivalent of cricketr and I have been able to make it. cricpy is still work in progress. I have add the necessary functions for ODI and Twenty20. Go ahead give ‘cricpy’ a spin!!

Stay tuned!

Important note: Do check out my other posts using cricpy at cricpy-posts

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Big Data-2: Move into the big league:Graduate from R to SparkR

This post is a continuation of my earlier post Big Data-1: Move into the big league:Graduate from Python to Pyspark. While the earlier post discussed parallel constructs in Python and Pyspark, this post elaborates similar and key constructs in R and SparkR. While this post just focuses on the programming part of R and SparkR it is essential to understand and fully grasp the concept of Spark, RDD and how data is distributed across the clusters. This post like the earlier post shows how if you already have a good handle of R, you can easily graduate to Big Data with SparkR

Note 1: This notebook has also been published at Databricks community site Big Data-2: Move into the big league:Graduate from R to SparkR

Note 2: You can download this RMarkdown file from Github at Big Data- Python to Pyspark and R to SparkR

1a. Read CSV- R

# Read CSV file
tendulkar= read.csv("/dbfs/FileStore/tables/tendulkar.csv",stringsAsFactors = FALSE,na.strings=c(NA,"-"))
#Check the dimensions of the dataframe
dim(tendulkar)

[1] 347  12

1b. Read CSV – SparkR

# Load the SparkR library
library(SparkR)
# Initiate a SparkR session
sparkR.session()
tendulkar1 <- read.df("/FileStore/tables/tendulkar.csv", 
                header = "true", 
                delimiter = ",", 
                source = "csv", 
                inferSchema = "true", 
                na.strings = "")

# Check the dimensions of the dataframe
dim(tendulkar1)

[1] 347  12

2a. Data frame shape – R

# Get the shape of the dataframe in R
dim(tendulkar)

[1] 347  12

2b. Dataframe shape – SparkR

dim(tendulkar1)

[1] 347  12

3a . Dataframe columns – R

# Get the names
names(tendulkar) # Also colnames(tendulkar)

 [1] "Runs"       "Mins"       "BF"         "X4s"        "X6s"       
 [6] "SR"         "Pos"        "Dismissal"  "Inns"       "Opposition"
[11] "Ground"     "Start.Date"

3b. Dataframe columns – SparkR

names(tendulkar1)

 [1] "Runs"       "Mins"       "BF"         "4s"         "6s"        
 [6] "SR"         "Pos"        "Dismissal"  "Inns"       "Opposition"
[11] "Ground"     "Start Date"

4a. Rename columns – R

names(tendulkar)=c('Runs','Minutes','BallsFaced','Fours','Sixes','StrikeRate','Position','Dismissal','Innings','Opposition','Ground','StartDate')
names(tendulkar)

 [1] "Runs"       "Minutes"    "BallsFaced" "Fours"      "Sixes"     
 [6] "StrikeRate" "Position"   "Dismissal"  "Innings"    "Opposition"
[11] "Ground"     "StartDate"

4b. Rename columns – SparkR

names(tendulkar1)=c('Runs','Minutes','BallsFaced','Fours','Sixes','StrikeRate','Position','Dismissal','Innings','Opposition','Ground','StartDate')
names(tendulkar1)

 [1] "Runs"       "Minutes"    "BallsFaced" "Fours"      "Sixes"     
 [6] "StrikeRate" "Position"   "Dismissal"  "Innings"    "Opposition"
[11] "Ground"     "StartDate"

5a. Summary – R

summary(tendulkar)

     Runs              Minutes        BallsFaced         Fours       
 Length:347         Min.   :  1.0   Min.   :  0.00   Min.   : 0.000  
 Class :character   1st Qu.: 33.0   1st Qu.: 22.00   1st Qu.: 1.000  
 Mode  :character   Median : 82.0   Median : 58.50   Median : 4.000  
                    Mean   :125.5   Mean   : 89.75   Mean   : 6.274  
                    3rd Qu.:181.0   3rd Qu.:133.25   3rd Qu.: 9.000  
                    Max.   :613.0   Max.   :436.00   Max.   :35.000  
                    NA's   :18      NA's   :19       NA's   :19      
     Sixes          StrikeRate        Position     Dismissal        
 Min.   :0.0000   Min.   :  0.00   Min.   :2.00   Length:347        
 1st Qu.:0.0000   1st Qu.: 38.09   1st Qu.:4.00   Class :character  
 Median :0.0000   Median : 52.25   Median :4.00   Mode  :character  
 Mean   :0.2097   Mean   : 51.79   Mean   :4.24                     
 3rd Qu.:0.0000   3rd Qu.: 65.09   3rd Qu.:4.00                     
 Max.   :4.0000   Max.   :166.66   Max.   :7.00                     
 NA's   :18       NA's   :20       NA's   :18                       
    Innings       Opposition           Ground           StartDate        
 Min.   :1.000   Length:347         Length:347         Length:347        
 1st Qu.:1.000   Class :character   Class :character   Class :character  
 Median :2.000   Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character  
 Mean   :2.376                                                           
 3rd Qu.:3.000                                                           
 Max.   :4.000                                                           
 NA's   :1

5b. Summary – SparkR

summary(tendulkar1)

SparkDataFrame[summary:string, Runs:string, Minutes:string, BallsFaced:string, Fours:string, Sixes:string, StrikeRate:string, Position:string, Dismissal:string, Innings:string, Opposition:string, Ground:string, StartDate:string]

6a. Displaying details of dataframe with str() – R

str(tendulkar)

'data.frame':	347 obs. of  12 variables:
 $ Runs      : chr  "15" "DNB" "59" "8" ...
 $ Minutes   : int  28 NA 254 24 124 74 193 1 50 324 ...
 $ BallsFaced: int  24 NA 172 16 90 51 134 1 44 266 ...
 $ Fours     : int  2 NA 4 1 5 5 6 0 3 5 ...
 $ Sixes     : int  0 NA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ StrikeRate: num  62.5 NA 34.3 50 45.5 ...
 $ Position  : int  6 NA 6 6 7 6 6 6 6 6 ...
 $ Dismissal : chr  "bowled" NA "lbw" "run out" ...
 $ Innings   : int  2 4 1 3 1 1 3 2 3 1 ...
 $ Opposition: chr  "v Pakistan" "v Pakistan" "v Pakistan" "v Pakistan" ...
 $ Ground    : chr  "Karachi" "Karachi" "Faisalabad" "Faisalabad" ...
 $ StartDate : chr  "15-Nov-89" "15-Nov-89" "23-Nov-89" "23-Nov-89" ...

6b. Displaying details of dataframe with str() – SparkR

str(tendulkar1)

'SparkDataFrame': 12 variables:
 $ Runs      : chr "15" "DNB" "59" "8" "41" "35"
 $ Minutes   : chr "28" "-" "254" "24" "124" "74"
 $ BallsFaced: chr "24" "-" "172" "16" "90" "51"
 $ Fours     : chr "2" "-" "4" "1" "5" "5"
 $ Sixes     : chr "0" "-" "0" "0" "0" "0"
 $ StrikeRate: chr "62.5" "-" "34.3" "50" "45.55" "68.62"
 $ Position  : chr "6" "-" "6" "6" "7" "6"
 $ Dismissal : chr "bowled" "-" "lbw" "run out" "bowled" "lbw"
 $ Innings   : chr "2" "4" "1" "3" "1" "1"
 $ Opposition: chr "v Pakistan" "v Pakistan" "v Pakistan" "v Pakistan" "v Pakistan" "v Pakistan"
 $ Ground    : chr "Karachi" "Karachi" "Faisalabad" "Faisalabad" "Lahore" "Sialkot"
 $ StartDate : chr "15-Nov-89" "15-Nov-89" "23-Nov-89" "23-Nov-89" "1-Dec-89" "9-Dec-89"

7a. Head & tail -R

print(head(tendulkar),3)
print(tail(tendulkar),3)

 Runs Minutes BallsFaced Fours Sixes StrikeRate Position Dismissal Innings
1   15      28         24     2     0      62.50        6    bowled       2
2  DNB      NA         NA    NA    NA         NA       NA             4
3   59     254        172     4     0      34.30        6       lbw       1
4    8      24         16     1     0      50.00        6   run out       3
5   41     124         90     5     0      45.55        7    bowled       1
6   35      74         51     5     0      68.62        6       lbw       1
  Opposition     Ground StartDate
1 v Pakistan    Karachi 15-Nov-89
2 v Pakistan    Karachi 15-Nov-89
3 v Pakistan Faisalabad 23-Nov-89
4 v Pakistan Faisalabad 23-Nov-89
5 v Pakistan     Lahore  1-Dec-89
6 v Pakistan    Sialkot  9-Dec-89
    Runs Minutes BallsFaced Fours Sixes StrikeRate Position Dismissal Innings
342   37     125         81     5     0      45.67        4    caught       2
343   21      71         23     2     0      91.30        4   run out       4
344   32      99         53     5     0      60.37        4       lbw       2
345    1       8          5     0     0      20.00        4       lbw       4
346   10      41         24     2     0      41.66        4       lbw       2
347   74     150        118    12     0      62.71        4    caught       2
       Opposition  Ground StartDate
342   v Australia  Mohali 14-Mar-13
343   v Australia  Mohali 14-Mar-13
344   v Australia   Delhi 22-Mar-13
345   v Australia   Delhi 22-Mar-13
346 v West Indies Kolkata  6-Nov-13
347 v West Indies  Mumbai 14-Nov-13

7b. Head – SparkR

head(tendulkar1,3)

  Runs Minutes BallsFaced Fours Sixes StrikeRate Position Dismissal Innings
1   15      28         24     2     0       62.5        6    bowled       2
2  DNB       -          -     -     -          -        -         -       4
3   59     254        172     4     0       34.3        6       lbw       1
  Opposition     Ground StartDate
1 v Pakistan    Karachi 15-Nov-89
2 v Pakistan    Karachi 15-Nov-89
3 v Pakistan Faisalabad 23-Nov-89

8a. Determining the column types with sapply -R

sapply(tendulkar,class)

       Runs     Minutes  BallsFaced       Fours       Sixes  StrikeRate 
"character"   "integer"   "integer"   "integer"   "integer"   "numeric" 
   Position   Dismissal     Innings  Opposition      Ground   StartDate 
  "integer" "character"   "integer" "character" "character" "character"

8b. Determining the column types with printSchema – SparkR

printSchema(tendulkar1)

root
 |-- Runs: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Minutes: string (nullable = true)
 |-- BallsFaced: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Fours: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Sixes: string (nullable = true)
 |-- StrikeRate: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Position: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Dismissal: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Innings: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Opposition: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Ground: string (nullable = true)
 |-- StartDate: string (nullable = true)

9a. Selecting columns – R

library(dplyr)
df=select(tendulkar,Runs,BallsFaced,Minutes)
head(df,5)

  Runs BallsFaced Minutes
1   15         24      28
2  DNB         NA      NA
3   59        172     254
4    8         16      24
5   41         90     124

9b. Selecting columns – SparkR

library(SparkR)
Sys.setenv(SPARK_HOME="/usr/hdp/2.6.0.3-8/spark")
.libPaths(c(file.path(Sys.getenv("SPARK_HOME"), "R", "lib"), .libPaths()))
# Initiate a SparkR session
sparkR.session()
tendulkar1 <- read.df("/FileStore/tables/tendulkar.csv", 
                header = "true", 
                delimiter = ",", 
                source = "csv", 
                inferSchema = "true", 
                na.strings = "")
df=SparkR::select(tendulkar1, "Runs", "BF","Mins")
head(SparkR::collect(df))

  Runs  BF Mins
1   15  24   28
2  DNB   -    -
3   59 172  254
4    8  16   24
5   41  90  124
6   35  51   74

10a. Filter rows by criteria – R

library(dplyr)
df=tendulkar %>% filter(Runs > 50)
head(df,5)

  Runs Minutes BallsFaced Fours Sixes StrikeRate Position Dismissal Innings
1  DNB      NA         NA    NA    NA         NA       NA             4
2   59     254        172     4     0      34.30        6       lbw       1
3    8      24         16     1     0      50.00        6   run out       3
4   57     193        134     6     0      42.53        6    caught       3
5   88     324        266     5     0      33.08        6    caught       1
     Opposition     Ground StartDate
1    v Pakistan    Karachi 15-Nov-89
2    v Pakistan Faisalabad 23-Nov-89
3    v Pakistan Faisalabad 23-Nov-89
4    v Pakistan    Sialkot  9-Dec-89
5 v New Zealand     Napier  9-Feb-90

10b. Filter rows by criteria – SparkR

df=SparkR::filter(tendulkar1, tendulkar1$Runs > 50)
head(SparkR::collect(df))

  Runs Mins  BF 4s 6s    SR Pos Dismissal Inns     Opposition       Ground
1   59  254 172  4  0  34.3   6       lbw    1     v Pakistan   Faisalabad
2   57  193 134  6  0 42.53   6    caught    3     v Pakistan      Sialkot
3   88  324 266  5  0 33.08   6    caught    1  v New Zealand       Napier
4   68  216 136  8  0    50   6    caught    2      v England   Manchester
5  114  228 161 16  0  70.8   4    caught    2    v Australia        Perth
6  111  373 270 19  0 41.11   4    caught    2 v South Africa Johannesburg
  Start Date
1  23-Nov-89
2   9-Dec-89
3   9-Feb-90
4   9-Aug-90
5   1-Feb-92
6  26-Nov-92

11a. Unique values -R

unique(tendulkar$Runs)

  [1] "15"   "DNB"  "59"   "8"    "41"   "35"   "57"   "0"    "24"   "88"  
 [11] "5"    "10"   "27"   "68"   "119*" "21"   "11"   "16"   "7"    "40"  
 [21] "148*" "6"    "17"   "114"  "111"  "1"    "73"   "50"   "9*"   "165" 
 [31] "78"   "62"   "TDNB" "28"   "104*" "71"   "142"  "96"   "43"   "11*" 
 [41] "34"   "85"   "179"  "54"   "4"    "0*"   "52*"  "2"    "122"  "31"  
 [51] "177"  "74"   "42"   "18"   "61"   "36"   "169"  "9"    "15*"  "92"  
 [61] "83"   "143"  "139"  "23"   "148"  "13"   "155*" "79"   "47"   "113" 
 [71] "67"   "136"  "29"   "53"   "124*" "126*" "44*"  "217"  "116"  "52"  
 [81] "45"   "97"   "20"   "39"   "201*" "76"   "65"   "126"  "36*"  "69"  
 [91] "155"  "22*"  "103"  "26"   "90"   "176"  "117"  "86"   "12"   "193" 
[101] "16*"  "51"   "32"   "55"   "37"   "44"   "241*" "60*"  "194*" "3"   
[111] "32*"  "248*" "94"   "22"   "109"  "19"   "14"   "28*"  "63"   "64"  
[121] "101"  "122*" "91"   "82"   "56*"  "154*" "153"  "49"   "10*"  "103*"
[131] "160"  "100*" "105*" "100"  "106"  "84"   "203"  "98"   "38"   "214" 
[141] "53*"  "111*" "146"  "14*"  "56"   "80"   "25"   "81"   "13*"

11b. Unique values – SparkR

head(SparkR::distinct(tendulkar1[,"Runs"]),5)

12a. Aggregate – Mean, min and max – R

library(dplyr)
library(magrittr)
a <- tendulkar$Runs != "DNB"
tendulkar <- tendulkar[a,]
dim(tendulkar)

# Remove rows with 'TDNB'
c <- tendulkar$Runs != "TDNB"
tendulkar <- tendulkar[c,]

# Remove rows with absent
d <- tendulkar$Runs != "absent"
tendulkar <- tendulkar[d,]
dim(tendulkar)

# Remove the "* indicating not out
tendulkar$Runs <- as.numeric(gsub("\\*","",tendulkar$Runs))
c <- complete.cases(tendulkar)

#Subset the rows which are complete
tendulkar <- tendulkar[c,]
print(dim(tendulkar))
df <-tendulkar %>%  group_by(Ground) %>% summarise(meanRuns= mean(Runs), minRuns=min(Runs), maxRuns=max(Runs)) 
#names(tendulkar)
head(df)

[1] 327  12
# A tibble: 6 x 4
  Ground       meanRuns minRuns maxRuns
                   
1 Adelaide        32.6       0.    153.
2 Ahmedabad       40.1       4.    217.
3 Auckland         5.00      5.      5.
4 Bangalore       57.9       4.    214.
5 Birmingham      46.8       1.    122.
6 Bloemfontein    85.0      15.    155.

12b. Aggregate- Mean, Min, Max – SparkR

sparkR.session()

tendulkar1 <- read.df("/FileStore/tables/tendulkar.csv", 
                header = "true", 
                delimiter = ",", 
                source = "csv", 
                inferSchema = "true", 
                na.strings = "")

print(dim(tendulkar1))
tendulkar1 <-SparkR::filter(tendulkar1,tendulkar1$Runs != "DNB")
print(dim(tendulkar1))
tendulkar1<-SparkR::filter(tendulkar1,tendulkar1$Runs != "TDNB")
print(dim(tendulkar1))
tendulkar1<-SparkR::filter(tendulkar1,tendulkar1$Runs != "absent")
print(dim(tendulkar1))

# Cast the string type Runs to double
withColumn(tendulkar1, "Runs", cast(tendulkar1$Runs, "double"))
head(SparkR::distinct(tendulkar1[,"Runs"]),20)
# Remove the "* indicating not out
tendulkar1$Runs=SparkR::regexp_replace(tendulkar1$Runs, "\\*", "")
head(SparkR::distinct(tendulkar1[,"Runs"]),20)
df=SparkR::summarize(SparkR::groupBy(tendulkar1, tendulkar1$Ground), mean = mean(tendulkar1$Runs), minRuns=min(tendulkar1$Runs),maxRuns=max(tendulkar1$Runs))
head(df,20)

[1] 347  12
[1] 330  12
[1] 329  12
[1] 329  12
          Ground       mean minRuns maxRuns
1      Bangalore  54.312500       0      96
2       Adelaide  32.600000       0      61
3  Colombo (PSS)  37.200000      14      71
4   Christchurch  12.000000       0      24
5       Auckland   5.000000       5       5
6        Chennai  60.625000       0      81
7      Centurion  73.500000     111      36
8       Brisbane   7.666667       0       7
9     Birmingham  46.750000       1      40
10     Ahmedabad  40.125000     100       8
11 Colombo (RPS) 143.000000     143     143
12    Chittagong  57.800000     101      36
13     Cape Town  69.857143      14       9
14    Bridgetown  26.000000       0      92
15      Bulawayo  55.000000      36      74
16         Delhi  39.947368       0      76
17    Chandigarh  11.000000      11      11
18  Bloemfontein  85.000000      15     155
19 Colombo (SSC)  77.555556     104       8
20       Cuttack   2.000000       2       2

13a Using SQL with SparkR

sparkR.session()
tendulkar1 <- read.df("/FileStore/tables/tendulkar.csv", 
                header = "true", 
                delimiter = ",", 
                source = "csv", 
                inferSchema = "true", 
                na.strings = "")

# Register this SparkDataFrame as a temporary view.
createOrReplaceTempView(tendulkar1, "tendulkar2")

# SQL statements can be run by using the sql method
df=SparkR::sql("SELECT * FROM tendulkar2 WHERE Ground='Karachi'")

head(df)

  Runs Mins BF 4s 6s    SR Pos Dismissal Inns Opposition  Ground Start Date
1   15   28 24  2  0  62.5   6    bowled    2 v Pakistan Karachi  15-Nov-89
2  DNB    -  -  -  -     -   -         -    4 v Pakistan Karachi  15-Nov-89
3   23   49 29  5  0 79.31   4    bowled    2 v Pakistan Karachi  29-Jan-06
4   26   74 47  5  0 55.31   4    bowled    4 v Pakistan Karachi  29-Jan-06

Conclusion

Big Data-1: Move into the big league:Graduate from Python to Pyspark

This post discusses similar constructs in Python and Pyspark. As in my earlier post R vs Python: Different similarities and similar differences the focus is on the key and common constructs to highlight the similarities.

Important Note:You can also access this notebook at databricks public site Big Data-1: Move into the big league:Graduate from Python to Pyspark (the formatting here is much better!!).

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Also see
1. My book “Deep Learning from first principles” now on Amazon
2. My book ‘Practical Machine Learning in R and Python: Second edition’ on Amazon
3. Re-introducing cricketr! : An R package to analyze performances of cricketers
4. GooglyPlus: yorkr analyzes IPL players, teams, matches with plots and tables
5. Deblurring with OpenCV: Weiner filter reloaded
6. Design Principles of Scalable, Distributed Systems

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Introduction

1. Functions related to team performance in match

2. Install the package using ‘pip install’

3. Load a yaml file from Cricsheet

4. Convert and save IPL T20 yaml file to pandas dataframe

5. Convert and save all IPL T20 yaml files to dataframes

6. Team batting scorecard

7. Plot the team batting partnerships

8. Batsmen vs Bowler

9. Bowling Scorecard

10. Wicket Kind

11. Wicket vs Runs conceded

12. Bowler Vs Batsmen

13. Match worm chart

Conclusion

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Introduction

The cricpy package

1 Importing cricpy – Python

2. Invoking functions with Python package cricpy

3. Getting help from cricpy – Python

4. Get the player data for a player using the function getPlayerData()

4a. For Test players

4b. For ODI players

4c For T20 players

5 A Player’s performance – Basic Analyses

6. More analyses

7. 3D scatter plot and prediction plane

8. Average runs at different venues

9. Average runs against different opposing teams

10. Highest Runs Likelihood

11. A look at the Top 4 batsman

12. Box Histogram Plot

13. Get Player Data special

14. Contribution to won and lost matches

15. Performance at home and overseas

16 Moving Average of runs in career

17 Cumulative Average runs of batsman in career

18 Cumulative Average strike rate of batsman in career

19 Future Runs forecast

20 Relative Batsman Cumulative Average Runs

21 Plot of 4s and 6s

22. Relative Batsman Strike Rate

23. 3D plot of Runs vs Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

24. Predicting Runs given Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease

25 Analysis of Top 3 wicket takers

26. Get the bowler’s data (Test)

26b For ODI bowlers

26c For T20 bowlers

27. Wicket Frequency Plot

28. Wickets Runs plot

29 Average wickets at different venues

30 Average wickets against different opposition

31 Wickets taken moving average

32 Cumulative average wickets taken

33 Cumulative average economy rate

34 Future Wickets forecast

35 Get player data special

36 Contribution to matches won and lost

37 Performance home and overseas

38 Relative cumulative average economy rate of bowlers

39 Relative Economy Rate against wickets taken

40 Relative cumulative average wickets of bowlers in career

Key Findings

Analysis of Top 4 batsman

Analysis of Top 3 bowlers

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1 Importing cricpy – Python