It is carnival time again as IPL 2023 is underway!! The new GooglyPlusPlus now includes AI/ML models for computing ball-by-ball Win Probability of matches and each individual player’s Win Probability Contribution (WPC). GooglyPlusPlus uses 2 ML models
Deep Learning (Tensorflow) – accuracy : 0.8584
Logistic Regression (glmnet-tidymodels) : 0.728
Besides, as before, GooglyPlusPlus will also include the usual near real-time analytics with the Shiny app being automatically updated with the previous day’s match data.
Note: The Win Probability Computation can also be done on a live feed of streaming data. Since, I don’t have access to live feeds, the app will show how Win Probability changed during the course of completed matches. For more details on Win Probability and Win Probability Contribution see my posts
GooglyPlusPlus has been also updated with all the latest T20 league’s match data. It includes data from BBL 2022, NTB 2022, CPL 2022, PSL 2023, ICC T20 2022 and now IPL 2023.
GooglyPlusPlus has the following functionality
Batsman tab: For detailed analysis of batsmen
Bowler tab: For detailed analysis of bowlers
Match tab: Analysis of individual matches, plot of Runs vs SR, Wickets vs ER in power play, middle and death overs, Win Probability Analysis of teams and Win Probability Contribution of players
Head-to-head tab: Detailed analysis of team-vs-team batting/bowling scorecard, batting, bowling performances, performances in power play, middle and death overs
Team performance tab: Analysis of team-vs-all other teams with batting /bowling scorecard, batting, bowling performances, performances in power play, middle and death overs
Optimisation tab: Allows one to pit batsmen vs bowlers and vice-versa. This tab also uses integer programming to optimise batting and bowling lineup
Batting analysis tab: Ranks batsmen using Runs or SR. Also plots performances of batsmen in power play, middle and death overs and plots them in a 4×4 grid
Bowling analysis tab: Ranks bowlers based on Wickets or ER. Also plots performances of bowlers in power play, middle and death overs and plots them in a 4×4 grid
Also note all these tabs and features are available for all T20 formats namely IPL, Intl. T20 (men, women), BBL, NTB, PSL, CPL, SSM.
Important note: It is possible, that at times, the Win Probability (Deep Learning) for some recent IPL matches will give an error. This is because I need to rebuild the models on a daily basis as the matches use player embeddings and there are new players. While I will definitely rebuild the models on weekends and whenever I find time, you may have to bear with this error occasionally.
Note: All charts are interactive, which means that you can hover, zoom-in, zoom-out, pan etc on the charts
The latest avatar of GooglyPlusPlus2023 is based on my R package yorkr with data from Cricsheet.
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GooglyPlusPlus can analyse players, matches, teams, rank, compute win probability and much more.
Included below are some random analyses of IPL 2023 matches so far
A) Chennai Super Kings vs Gujarat Titans – 31 Mar 2023
GT won by 5 wickets ( 4 balls remaining)
a) Worm Wicket Chart
b) Ball-by-ball Win Probability (Logistic Regression) (side-by-side)
This model shows that CSK had the upper hand in the 2nd last over, before it changed to GT. More details on Win Probability and Win Probability Contribution in the posts given by the links above.
c) b) Ball-by-ball Win Probability (Logistic Regression) (overlapping)
Here the ball-by-ball win probability is overlapped. CSK and GT both had nearly the same probability of winning in the 2nd last over before GT edges CSK out
B) Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals – 05 Apr 2023
This was a another closely fought match. PBKS won by 5 runs
a) Worm wicket chart
b) Batting partnerships
Shikhar Dhawan scored 86 runs
c) Ball-by-ball Win Probability using Deep Learning (overlapping)
PBKS was generally ahead in the win probability race
d) Batsman Win Probability Contribution
This plot shows how the different batsmen contributed to the Win Probability. We can see that Shikhar Dhawan has a highest win probability. He played a very sensible innings. Also it appears that there is no difference between Prabhsimran Singh and others, though he score 60 runs. This computation is based on when they come to bat and how the win probability changes when they get dismissed, as seen in the 2nd chart
C) Delhi Capitals vs Gujarat Titans – 4 Apr 2023
GT won by 6 wickets (11 balls remaining)
a) Worm wicket chart
b) Runs scored across 20 overs
c) Runs vs SR plot
d) Batting scorecard (Gujarat Titans)
e) Batsman Win Probability Contribution (Gujarat Titans)
Miller has a higher percentage in the Win Contribution than Sai Sudershan who held the innings together.Strange are the ways of the ML models!!
D) Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Lucknow Supergiants ( 7 Apr 2023)
LSG won by 5 wickets (24 balls left). SRH were bamboozled by the pitch while LSG was able to cruise along
a) Worm wicket chart
b) Wickets vs ER plot
c) Wickets across 20 overs
d) Ball-by-ball win probability using Deep Learning (overlapping)
e) Bowler Win Probability Contribution (LSG)
Bishnoi has a higher win probability contribution than Krunal, though he just took 1 wicket to Krunal’s 3 wickets. This is based on how the Win Probability changed at that point in the game.
The above set of plots are just a random sample.
Note: There are 8 tabs each for 9 T20 leagues (BBL, CPL, T20 (men), T20 (women), IPL, PSL, NTB, SSM, WBB). So there are a lot more detailed charts/analses.
In my last post GooglyPlusPlus gets ready for ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, I had mentioned that GooglyPlusPlus was preparing for the big event the ICC Men’s T20 World cup. Now that the T20 World cup is underway, my Shiny app in R, GooglyPlusPlus ,will be generating near real-time analytics of matches completed the previous day. Besides the app can also do historical analysis of players, teams and matches.
The whole process is automated. A cron job will execute every day, in the morning, which will automatically download the matches of the previous day from Cricsheet, unzip them, start a pipeline which will transform and process the match data into necessary folders and finally upload the newly acquired data into my Shiny app. Hence, you will be able to access all the breathless, pulsating cricketing action in timeless, interactive plots and tables which will capture all aspects of Men’s T20 matches, namely batsman, bowler performance, match analysis, team-vs-team, team-vs-all teams besides ranking of batsmen & bowlers. Since the data is cumulative, all the analytics are historical and current.
The data for GooglyPlusPlus is taken from Cricsheet
Interest in cricket, has mushroomed in recent times around the world, with the addition of new formats which started with ODI, T20, T10, 100 ball and so on. There are leagues which host these matches at different levels around the world. While GooglyPlusPlus, provides near real-time analytics of Men’s T20 World cup, we can clearly envision a big data platform which ingests matches daily from multiple cricket formats, leagues around the world generating real-time and near real-time analytics which are essential these days to selection of teams at different levels through auctions. For more discussion on this see my posts
We could imagine a Data Lake, into which are ingested data from the different cricket formats, leagues through appropriate technology connectors. Once the data is ingested, we could have data pipelines, based on Azure ADF, Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow or Amazon EMR etc., to transform, process and enhance the data, generating real-time analytics on the fly. Recent formats like T20, T10 require more urgency in strategic thinking based on scoring within limited overs, or containing batsmen from going on a rampage within the set of overs, the analytics on a fly may help the coach to modify the batting or bowling lineup at points in match. In this context see my earlier post Using Linear Programming (LP) for optimizing bowling change or batting lineup in T20 cricket
All of these are not just possible, but are likely to become reality as more and more formats, leagues and cricket data proliferate around the world.
This post, focuses on generating near-real time analytics for ICC Men’s T20 World Cup using GooglyPlusPlus. Included below, is a sampling of the analytics that you can perform for analysing the matches. In addition you can do all the analysis included in my post GooglyPlusPlus gets ready for ICC Men’s T20 World Cup
Namibia-Sri Lanka-16 Oct 2022 : Match Worm graph
The opening match between Namibia vs Sri Lanka resulted in an upset. We can see this in the match worm-wicket graph below
2. Scotland vs West Indies – 17 Oct 2022: Batsmen vs Bowlers
George Munsey was the top scorer for Scotland and was instrumental in the win against WI. His performance against West Indies bowlers is shown below. Note, the charts are interactive
3. Zimbabwe vs Ireland – 17 Oct 2022 : Team Runs vs SR
Sikander Raza of Zimbabwe with 82 runs with the strike rate ~ 170
4.United Arab Emirates vs Netherlands – 16 Oct 2022: Team runs across 20 overs
UAE pipped Netherlands in the middle overs and were able to win by 1 ball and 3 wickets
5.Scotland vs Ireland – 19 Oct 2022 : Team Runs vs SR Middle overs plot
Curtis Campher snatched the game away from Scotland with his stellar performance in middle and death overs
6. UAE vs Namibia : 20 Oct 2022 : Team Wickets vs ER plot
Basoor Hameed and Zahoor Khan got 2 wickets apiece with an economy rate of ~5.00 but still they were not able to stop UAE from stealing a win
7. Overall Runs vs SR in T20 World Cup 2022
It is too early to rank the players, nevertheless in the current T20 World Cup, MP O’Dowd (Netherlands), BKG Mendis (Sri Lanka) and JN Frylinck(Namibia) are the top 3 batsmen with good runs and Strike Rate
8. Overall Wickets over ER in T20 World Cup 2022
The top 3 bowlers so far in T20 World Cup 2022 are a) BFW de Leede (Netherlands) b) PWH De Silva (Sri Lanka) c) KP Meiyappan (UAE) with a total of 7,7, and 6 wickets respectively
Note: Besides the match analysis GooglyPlusPlus also provides detailed analysis of batsmen, bowlers, matches as above, team-vs-team, team-vs-all teams, ranking of batsmen & bowlers etc. For more details see my post GooglyPlusPlus gets ready for ICC Men’s T20 World Cup
Do visit GooglyPlusPlus everyday to check out the cricketing actions of matches gone by. You can also follow me on twitter @tvganesh_85 for daily highlights.
IPL 2022 has just concluded and yet again, it is has thrown a lot of promising and potential youngsters in its wake, while established players have fallen! With IPL 2022, we realise that “Sceptre and Crownmusttumble down” and that ‘theglories‘ of form and class like everything else are “shadows not substantial things” (Death the Leveller by James Shirley).
So King Kohli had to kneel, and hitman’ himself got hit. Rishabh Pant, Jadeja also had a poor season. On the contrary there were several youngsters who shone like Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Umran Malik or a Mohsin Khan
This post is about my potential T20 Indian players for the World Cup 2022 and beyond.
The post below includes my own analysis and thoughts. Feel free to try out my Shiny app GooglyPlusPlus and draw your own conclusions.
How often we hear that data by itself is useless, unless we can draw insights from it? This is a prevailing theme in the corporate world and everybody uses all sorts of tools to analyse and subsequently draw insights. Data analysis can be done in many ways as data can be sliced, diced, chopped in a zillion ways. There are many facets and perspectives to analysing data. Creating insights is easy, but arriving at actionable insights is anything but. So, the problem of selecting the best 11 is difficult as there are so many ways to look at the analysis. My Shiny app GooglyPlusPlus based on my R package yorkr can analyse data in several ways namely
Batsman analysis
Bowler analysis
Match analysis
Team vs team analysis
Team vs all teams analysis
Batsman vs bowler and vice versa
Analysis of in 3,4,5 in power play, middle and death overs
GooglyPlusPlus uses my R package yorkr which has ~ 160 functions some which have several options. So, we can say roughly there are ~500 different ways that analysis can be done or in other words we can gather almost roughly 500+ different insights, not to mention that there are so many combinations of head-on matches and one-vs-all matches.
So generating insights or different ways of analysis data alone is not enough. The question is whether we can get a consolidated view from the different insights. In this post, I try to identify the best contenders for the Indian T20 team. This is far more difficult than it looks. Do you select players on past historical performance or do you choose from the newer crop of players, who have excelled in the recent IPL season. I think this boils down the typical situation in any domain. In engineering, we have tradeoffs – processing power vs memory tradeoff, throughput vs latency tradeoff or in the financial domain it is cost vs benefit or risk vs reward tradeoff. For team selection, the quandary is, whether to choose seasoned players with good historical performance but a poor performances in recent times or go with youngsters who have played with great courage and flair in this latest episode of IPL 2022. Hence there is a tradeoff between reliable but below average performance or risky but superlative performances of new players.
For this I base my potential list from
Then (past history of batsmen & bowlers) – I have chosen the performance of batsmen and bowlers in the last 3 years. With we can arrive at those who have had reasonably reliable performance for the last 3 years
Now (IPL 2022) – Performance in the current season IPL 2022
A. Then (Jan 2020 – May 2022) – Batsmen analysis
In this section I analyse the performances of batsmen and bowlers from Jan 2022 – May 2022. This is done based on ranking, and plots of Runs vs Strike Rate in Power Play, Middle and Death overs
Also I analyse bowlers based on the overall rank from Jan 2022- May 2022. Further more analysis is done on Wickets vs Economy Rate overall and in Power Play, Middle and Death overs
a. Ranks of batsmen (Runs over Strike Rate) : Jan 2020 – May 2022
IPL 2022 just finished and clearly brings out the batsmen who are in great nick. It is always going to be a judgment call of whether to go for ‘old reliable’ or ‘new and awesome’.
a. Ranks of batsmen (Runs over Strike Rate) : IPL 2022
The best batsmen this season in Runs over Strike rate are
f. Best batsmen Runs vs SR in Death overs:IPL 2022
Top batsmen in death overs in IPL 2022
[Dinesh Karthik, Rahul Tewatia, MS Dhoni, KL Rahul, Azar Patel, Washington Sundar, R Ashwin, Hardik Pandya, Ayush Badoni, Shivam Dube, Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Sanju Samson]
OverallBattingPerformance in season
Kohli peaked in 2016 and from then on it has been a downward slide (see below)
Taking a look at Kohli’s moving average it is clear that he is past his prime and it will take a herculean effort to regain his lost glory
Similarly, Rohit Sharma’s moving average is constantly around ~30 as seen below
The cumulative average of Rohit Sharma is shown below
Comparing KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and V Kohli we see that KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan have had a much superior performance in the last 2-3 years. Rohit has averaged about ~25 runs every season.
Comparing the 4 wicket-keeper batsmen Sanju Samson, Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan and Dinesh Karthik from 2016
i) Runs over Strike Rate
We see that Pant peaked in 2018 but has not performed as well since. In the last 2 years Sanju Samson and Ishan Kishan have done well
ii) Strike Rate over Runs
For the last couple of seasons Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Kartik top the strike rate over the other 2
Similar analysis can be done other combinations of batsmen
Choosing the best batsmen from the above, my top 5 batsmen would be
Personally, I feel Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer are a little tardy while playing express speeds, as compared to Sanju Samson or Rishabh Pant.
If you notice, I have not included both Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma who have been below par for some time
C.Then (Jan 2020 – May 2022) – Bowler analysis
This section I analyse the performances of bowlers from Jan 2022 – May 2022. This is done based on ranking, and plots of Wickets vs Economy Rate in Power Play, Middle and Death overs
a. Ranks of bowlers (Wickets over Economy Rate) : Jan 2020 – May 2022
The most consistent bowlers Wickets over Economy Rate for the last 3 years are
[YS Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Dhami, Harshal Patel, Shardul Thakur, Arshdeep Singh, Rahul Chahar, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Prasidh Krishna, R Ashwon, Axar Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Ravindra Jadeja, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Tewatia]
b. Ranks of bowlers (Economy Rate over Wickets) : Jan 2020 – May 2022
The most economical bowlers since 2020 are
[Axar Patel, Krunal Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, CV Varun, R Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Rahul Chahar, YS Chahal, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Rahul Tewatia, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Shardul Thakur]
c.BestBowlers Wickets vs ER :Jan 2020 – May 2022
The best bowlers Wickets vs ER will be in the bottom right quadrant. The most consistent and reliable bowlers are
[YS Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Harshal Patel, CV Arun, Ravi Bishnoi, Rahul Chahar, R Ashwin, Axar Patel]
d. Best bowlers Wickets vs ER in Powerplay:Jan 2020 – May 2022
The best bowlers in Powerplay are
[Mohammed Shami, Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Choudhary, Shardul Thakur, T Natarajan, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, WashingtonSundar, Shivam Mavi]
e. Best bowlers Wickets vs ER in Middle overs : Jan 2020 – May 2022
The most reliable performers in middle overs from 2020-2022 are
[YS Chahal, Rahul Chahr, Ravi Bishnoi, Harshal Patel, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Umran Malik, R Ashwin, Avesh Khan, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav]
f. Best bowlers Wickets vs ER in Death overs : Jan 2020 – May 2022
The most reliable bowlers are
[Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, T Natarajan, Avesh Khan, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Shivam Mavi, YS Chahal, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Chetan Sakariya]
B) Now (IPL 2022)– Bowler analysis
a. Ranks of bowlers (Wickets over Economy Rate) : IPL 2022
The best bowlers in IPL 2022 when considering Wickets over Economy Rate
[YS Chahal, Umran Malik, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshal Patel, T Natarajan, Avesh Khan, Shardul Thakur, Mukesh Choudhary, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravi Bishnoi]
a. Ranks of bowlers (Economy Rate over Wickets) : IPL 2022
The most economical bowlers in IPL 2022 are
[Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Krunal Pandya, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Rahul Chahr, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, R Ashwion, Umran Malik, Kuldeep Yadav, YS Chahal, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Prasidh Krishna]
c.BestBowlers Wickets vs ER :IPL 2022
The overall best bowlers in IPL 2022 are
[YS Chahal, Umran Malik, Harshal Patel, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Avesh Khan, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, R Ashwin, Rahul Chahar, Krunal Pandya]
d. Best bowlers Wickets vs ER in Powerplay: IPL 2022
The best bowlers in IPL 2022 in Power play are
[Mukesh Choudhary, Mohammed Shami, Prasidh Krishna, Umesh Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, T Natarajan, Jasprit Bumrah, Yash Dayal, Mohammed Siraj]
d. Best bowlers Wickets vs ER in Middle overs: IPL 2022
The best bowlers in IPL 2022 during middle overs
The best bowlers are
[YS Chahal, Umran Malik, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, R Ashwin]
e. Best bowlers Wickets vs ER in Death overs: IPL 2022
The best bowlers in death overs in IPL 2022 are
[T Natarajan, Harshal Patel, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, YS Chahal, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Yash Dayal, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh]
Typically in a team we would need a combination of 4 bowlers (2 fast & 2 spinner or 3 fast and 1 spinner) with an additional player who is all rounder.
For 4 bowlers we could have
JJ Bumrah
Mohammed Shami, Umran Malik, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav
Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Harshal Patel
YS Chahal, Ravi Bishnoi, Rahul Chahar, Axar Patel
Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Rahul Tewathia, R Ashwin
i) Performance comparison (Wickets over Economy Rate)
Bumrah had the best season in 2020. He has been doing quite well and has been among the wickets
ii) Performance comparison (Economy Rate over Wickets)
Bumrah has the best Economy Rate
We can do a wicket prediction of bowlers. So for example for Bumrah it is
iii) Performance evaluation(Wickets over Economy Rate)
Harshal Patel followed by Avesh Khan had a good season last year, but Umran Malik pipped them this year (see below)
iv) Performance analysis of spinners
a. Wickets over Economy Rate: 2022
Chahal has the best season followed by Bishnoi and Chahar this season
b) Economy Rate over WIckets
Axar Patel has the best economy rate followed by Rahul Chahar
Conclusion
The above post identified the best candidates for the Indian team in the future and beyond. In my T20 list, I have neither included Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma. The data in T20 clearly indicates that they have had their days. There is a lot more talent around. The tradeoff is a little risk for a greater potential performance. My list would be
This post continues the analysis of IPL and T20 (men) batsmen and bowlers through animated charts. In my last post Analyzing player performance with animated charts! I had used animated horizontal bars to display the totalRuns or totalWickets over a 3 year ‘sliding window’. While that was cool, the only drawback of that animation was the batsman and bowler performance was measured in a single dimension of either total(mean) runs or total(mean) wickets.
I think to fairly describe batsmen and bowlers we need at least the following 2 attributes
Runs and Strike rate for batsmen and
Wickets and Economy rate for bowlers
So, I have created new animation charts which use these attributes for batsmen and bowlers.
The animated charts are
Based on a sliding window of 3 years (Jan 2008- Dec 2010, Jan 2009-Dec 2010,…, Jan 2019-Dec 2021)
I have taken the top 10 percentile and sometimes the top 5 percentile of batsmen and bowlers to keep the charts more manageable
The charts are based on gganimate().
Note 1: I tried several options for the animation before settling on this one. The animation may seem a bit jerky but, we can follow the progress of players more easily through the years
Note 2: Some charts may display points, without the corresponding names. I think this may be because the animation tries to create intermediate points between the charts.
Analytics is by definition, the science (& art) of identifying, discovering and interpreting patterns in data. There are different ways of capturing these patterns through charts (bar, pie, cumulative data, moving average etc.). One such way is the motion or animated chart which captures the changes in data across different time periods. This was made famous by Hans Rosling in his Gapminder charts.
In this post, I use animated charts, based on gganimate(), to display the rise and fall of batsmen and bowlers in IPL and Intl. T20 (men). I only did this for these 2 formats as they have sufficient data over at least 10+ years.
To construct these animated charts, I use a ‘sliding window’ of 3 years, so that we get a clearer view of batsman and bowler consistency. The animated charts show the performance of players for this moving window for e.g. Jan 2008- Dec 2010, Jan 2009-Dec 2011, Jan 2010- Dec 2012 and so on till Jan 2019- Dec 2021. This is done for both batting( total runs) and bowling (total wickets). If you would like to analyse the performance of particular batsmen, bowler during specific periods or for a team vs another team or in the overall T20 format, check out my post GooglyPlusPlus2021: Towards more picturesque analytics!
You clone/fork the code from Github here animation.
Important note: The year which is displayed on the side actually represents the last 3 years, for e.g. 2015 (2013, 2014, 2015) or 2019 (2017, 2018, 2019)
IPL Batting performance
We can see that Kohli stays in the top 3 from 2015-2019
2. IPL Bowling performance
Malinga ruled from 2010- 2015. Bumrah is in top 3 from 2019-2021
3. IPL Batting in Power play
Adam Gilchrist, Tendulkar, Warner, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan have a stay at the top
4. IPL Batting in Middle overs
Rohit Sharma, Kohli, Pant have their stay at the top
5. IPL Batting Death overs
MS Dhoni is lord and master of the death overs in IPL for a rolling period of 10 years from 2011-2020. No wonder, he is the best finisher of T20 cricket
6. IPL Bowling Power Play
Bhuvanesh Kumar is in top 3 from 2014-2018 and then Deepak Chahar
7. IPL Bowling Middle overs
Toppers Harbhajan Singh, YS Chahal, Rashid Khan
8. IPL Bowling Death overs
SL Malinga, B. Kumar, JJ Bumrah and Rabada top the list across the years
9. T20 (men) Batting performance
Kohli, Babar Azam, P R Stirling are best performers
10. T20 (men) bowling performance
Saaed Ajmal tops from 2010-2014 and Rashid Khan 2018-2020
11. T20 (men) batting Power play
Shahzad, D Warner, Rohit Sharma, PR Stirling best performers
12. T20 (men) batting middle overs
Babar Azam is the best middle overs player from 2018-2021
13. T20(men) batting death overs
MS Dhoni, Shoaib Malik, V Kohli, David Miller are the best death over players
14. T20 (men) bowling Power play
Mohammad Nabi, Mujeeb ur Rahman, TG Southee are the best bowlers in power play
15. T20 (men) bowling middle overs
Imran Tahir from 2015-2017, Shadab Khan from 2018-2020, T Shamsi in 2021 top the tables
16. T20 (men) bowling death overs
Saaed Ajmal, A J Tye, Bumrah, Haris Rauf occupy the top slot in different periods
Analytics for e.g. sports analytics, business analytics or analytics in e-commerce or in other domain has 2 main requirements namely a) What kind of analytics (set of parameters,function) will squeeze out the most intelligence from the data b) How to represent the analytics so that an expert can garner maximum insight?
While it may appear that the former is more important, the latter is also equally, if not, more vital to the problem. Indeed, a picture is worth a thousand words, and often times is more insightful than a large table of numbers. However, in the case of sports analytics, for e.g. in cricket a batting or bowling scorecard captures more information and can never be represented in chart.
So, my Shiny app GooglyPlusPlus includes both charts and tables for different aspects of the analysis. In this post, a newer type of chart, popular among senior management experts, namely the 4 quadrant graph is introduced, which helps in categorising batsmen and bowlers into 4 categories as shown below
a) Batting Performances – Top right quadrant (High runs, High Strike rate)
b) Bowling Performances – Bottom right quadrant( High wickets, Low Economy Rate)
I have added the following 32 functions in this latest version of GooglyPlusPlus
A. Match Tab
All the functions below are at match level
Team Runs vs SR Plot
Team Wickets vs ER Plot
Team Runs vs SR Power play plot
Team Runs vs SR Middle overs plot
Team Runs vs SR Death overs plot
Team Wickets vs ER Power Play
Team Wickets vs ER Middle overs
Team Wickets vs ER Death overs
B. Head-to-head Tab
The below functions are based on all matches between 2 teams’
Team Runs vs SR Plot all Matches
Team Wickets vs ER Plot all Matches
Team Runs vs SR Power play plot all Matches
Team Runs vs SR Middle overs plot all Matches
Team Runs vs SR Death overs plot all Matches
Team Wickets vs ER Power Play plot all Matches
Team Wickets vs ER Middle overs plot all Matches
Team Wickets vs ER Death overs plot all Matches
C. Team Performance tab
The below functions are based on a team’s performance against all other teams
Team Runs vs SR Plot overall
Team Wickets vs ER Plot overall
Team Runs vs SR Power play plot overall
Team Runs vs SR Middle overs plot overall
Team Runs vs SR Death overs plot overall
Team Wickets vs ER Power Play overall
Team Wickets vs ER Middle overs overall
Team Wickets vs ER Death overs overall
D. T20 format Batting Analysis
This analysis is at T20 format level (IPL, Intl. T20(men), Intl. T20 (women), PSL, CPL etc.)
Overall Runs vs SR plot
Overall Runs vs SR Power play plot
Overall Runs vs SR Middle overs plot
Overall Runs vs SR Death overs plot
E. T20 Bowling Analysis
This analysis is at T20 format level (IPL, Intl. T20(men), Intl. T20 (women), PSL, CPL etc.)
Overall Wickets vs ER plot
Team Wickets vs ER Power Play
Team Wickets vs ER Middle overs
Team Wickets vs ER Death overs
These 32 functions have been added to my yorkr package and so all these functions become plug-n-play in my Shiny app GooglyPlusPlus2021 which means that the 32 functions apply across all the nine T20 formats that the app supports i.e. IPL, Intl. T20 (men), Intl. T20 (women), BBL, NTB, PSL, CPL, SSM, WBB.
Hence the multiplicative factor of the new addition is 32 x 9 = 288 additional ways of exploring match, team and player data
You can clone/fork GooglyPlusPlus from Github at gpp2021-10
Check out my app GooglyPlusPlus2021 and analyze batsmen, bowlers, teams, overall performance. The data for all the nine T20 formats have been updated to include the latest data.
Hence, the app is just in time for the IPL mega auction. You should be able to analyse players in IPL, Intl. T20 or in any of the other formats from where they could be drawn and check out their relative standings
I am including some random plots to demonstrate the newly minted functions
Note 1: All plots are interactive. The controls are on the top right. You can hover over data, zoom-in, zoom-out, compare data etc by choosing the appropriate control. To know more about how to use the interactive charts see GooglyPlusPlus2021 is now fully interactive!!!
New Zealand batting, except K Williamson, the rest did not fire as much
For Australia, Warner, Maxwell and Marsh played good knocks to wrest control
II) Head-to-head
a) Wickets vs ER during Power play of Mumbai Indians in all matches against Chennai Super Kings (IPL)
b) Karachi Kings Runs vs SR during middle overs against Multan Sultans (PSL)
c) Wickets vs ER during death overs of Barbados Tridents in all matches against Jamaica Tallawahs (CPL)
III) Teams overall batting performance
India’s best T20 performers in Power play since 2018 (Intl. T20)
e) Australia’s best performers in Death overs since Mar 2017 (Intl. T20)
f) India’s Intl. T20 (women) best Runs vs SR since 2018
g) England’s Intl. T20 (women) best bowlers in Death overs
IV) Overall Batting Performanceacross T20
This tab gives the batsmen’s rank and overall batting performance across the T20 format.
a) Why was Hardik Pandya chosen, and why this was in error?
Of course, it provides an insight into why Hardik Pandya was chosen in India’s World cup team despite poor performances recently. Here are the best Intl. T20 death over batsmen
Of course, we can zoom in to get a better look
This is further substantiated when we performances in IPL
However, if you move the needle forward a year at a time, you see Hardik Pandya’s performance drops significantly
and further down
Rather, Dinesh Karthik, Sanju Samson or Ruturaj Gaikwad would have been better options
b) Best batsmen Intl. T20 (women) in Power play since 2018
V) Overall bowling performance
This tab gives the bowler’s rank and overall bowling performance in Power play, middle and death overs across all T20 formats
a) Intl. T20 (men) best bowlers in Power Play from 2019 (zoomed in)
b) Intl. T20(men) best bowlers in Death overs since 2019
c) Was B. Kumar a good choice for India team in World cup?
Bhuvi was one of India’s best bowler in Power play only if we go back to the beginning of time
i) From 2008
But if we move forward to 2020 onwards we see Arshdeep Singh or D Chahar would have been a better choice
ii) From 2020 onwards
iii) 2021 onwards
Hence D Chahar & Arshdeep Singh are the natural choice moving forwards for India
iv) T20 Best batsman
If we look at Intl. T20 performances since 2017, Babar Azam leads the pack, however his Strike rate needs to move up.
This latest edition of GooglyPlusPlus2021 now includes detailed analysis of teams, batsmen and bowlers in power play, middle and death overs. The T20 format is based on 3 phases as each side faces 20 overs.
Power play: Overs: 0 – 6 – No more than 2 players can be outside the 30 yard circle
Middle overs: Overs: 7- 16 – During these overs the batting side tries to consolidate their innings
Death overs: Overs: 16 -20 – During these 5 overs the batting side tries to accelerate the scoring rate, while the bowling side will try to restrict the batsmen against going for big hits
This is shown below
This latest update of GooglyPlusPlus2021 includes the following functions
a) Match tab
teamRunsAcrossOvers
teamSRAcrossOvers
teamWicketsAcrossOvers
teamERAcrossOvers
matchWormWickets
b) Head-to-head tab
teamRunsAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
teamSRAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
teamWicketsAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
teamERAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
topRunsBatsmenAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
topSRBatsmenAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
topWicketsBowlersAcrossOversOppnAllMatches
topERBowlerAcrossOverOppnAllMatches
c) Overall performance tab
teamRunsAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
teamSRAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
teamWicketsAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
teamERAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
topRunsBatsmenAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
topSRBatsmenAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
topWicketsBowlersAcrossOversAllOppnAllMatches
topERBowlerAcrossOverAllOppnAllMatches
Hence a total of 8 + 8 + 5 = 21 functions have been added. These functions can be utilized across all the 9 T20 formats that are supported in GooglyPlusPlus2021 namely
You can clone/fork the code for the Shiny app from Github – gpp2021-9
Included below is a random selection of options from the 189 possibilities mentioned above. Feel free to try out for yourself
A) IPL – CSK vs KKR 2018-04-10
a) Team Runs in power play, middle and death overs
b) Team Strike rate in power play, middle and death overs
B) Intl. T20 (men) – India vs Afghanistan (2021-11-03)
a) Team wickets in power play, middle and death overs
b) Team Economy rate in power play, middle and death overs
C) Intl. T20 (women) Head-to-head : India vs Australia since 2018
a) Team Runs in all matches in power play, middle and death overs
D) PSL Head-to-head strike rate since 2019
a) Team vs team Strike rate : Karachi Kings vs Lahore Qalanders since 2019 in power play, middle and death overs
E) Team overall performance in all matches against all opposition
a) BBL : Brisbane Heats : Team Wickets between 2015 – 2018 in power play, middle and death overs
F) Top Runs and Strike rate Batsman of Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore since 2018
a) Top runs scorers for Mumbai Indians (MI) in power play, middle and death overs
b) Top strike rate for RCB in power play, middle and death overs
F) Intl. T20 (women) India vs England since 2018
a) Top wicket takers for England in power play, middle and death overs since 2018
b) Top wicket takers for India in power play, middle and death overs since 2018
G) Intl. T20 (men) All time best batsmen and bowlers for India
a) Most runs in power play, middle and death overs
b) Highest strike rate in power play, middle and death overs
H) Match worm wicket chart
In addition to the usual Match worm chart, I have also added a Match Wicket worm chart in the latest version
Note: You can zoom to the area where you would like to focus more
The option of looking at the Match worm chart (without wickets) also exists.
Go ahead take GooglyPlusPlus2021 for a test drive and check out how your favourite players perform in power play, middle and death overs. Click GooglyPlusPlus2021
You can fork/download the app code from Github at gpp2021-9
This year 2021, we are witnessing a rare spectacle in the cricketing universe, where IPL playoffs are immediately followed by ICC World Cup T20. Cricket pundits have claimed such a phenomenon occurs once in 127 years! Jokes apart, the World cup T20 is underway and as usual GooglyPlusPlus is ready for the action.
GooglyPlusPlus will provide near-real time analytics, by automatically downloading the latest match data daily, processing and organising the match data into appropriate folders so that my R package yorkr can slice and dice the data to provide the pavilion-view analytics.
The charts capture all the breathless, heart-pounding, and nail-biting action in great details in the many tables and plots. Every table and chart tell a story. You just have to ‘read between the lines!’
GooglyPlusPlus2021 will update itself automatically every day, so the data will be current and you can analyse all matches upto the previous day, along with the historical performances of the teams. So make sure you check it everyday.
The are 5 tabs for each of the formats supported by GooglyPlusPlus2021 which now supports IPL, Intl. T20(men), Intl. T20(women), BBL, NTB, PSL, CPL, SSM, WBB. Besides, it also supports ODI (men) and ODI (women)
Each of the formats have 5 tabs – Batsman, Bowler, Match, Head-to-head and Overall Performace.
All T20 formats also include a ranking functionality for the batsmen and bowlers
You can now perform drill-down analytics for batsmen, bowlers, head-to-head and overall performance based on date-range selector functionality. The ranking tabs also include date range selector granular analysis. For more details see GooglyPlusPlus2021 enhanced with drill-down batsman, bowler analytics
This latest update to GooglyPlusPlus2021 includes the following changes
a) All the functions in the ‘Batsman’ and ‘Bowler ‘tabs now include a date range, which allows you specify a period of interest.
b) The ‘Rank Batsman’ and ‘Rank Bowler’ tabs also include a date range selector, against the earlier version which had a ‘Since year’ slider see GooglyPlusPlus2021 bubbles up top T20 players in all formats!. The earlier ‘Since year’ slider option could only rank for the latest year or for all years up to the current year. Now with the new ‘date range’ picker we can check the batsman and bowler ranks in any IPL season or (any T20 format) or for a range of years.
c) Note: The Head-to-head and Overall performance tabs already include a date range selector.
There are 10 batsman functions and 9 bowler function that have changed for the following T20 and ODI formats and Rank batsman and bowler includes the ‘date range’ and has changed for all T20 formats.
GooglyPlusPlus2021 supports all the following T20 formats
I have included some random screen shots of some of using these tabs and options in GooglyPlusPlus2021.
A) KL Rahul’s Cumulative average in IPL 2021 vs IPL 2020
a) KL Rahul in IPL 2021
b) KL Rahul in IPL 2020
B) Performance of Babar Azam in Intl. T20 (men)
a) Babar Azam’s cumulative average from 2019
b) Babar Azam’s Runs against opposition since 2019
Note: Intl. T20 (women) data available upto Mar 2020 from Cricsheet
a) A J Healy performance between 2010 – 2015
b) A J Healy performance between 2015 – 2020
D) M S Dhoni’s performance with the bat pre-2020 and post 2020
There has been a significant decline in Dhoni’s performance in the last couple of years
I) Dhoni’s performance from Jan 2010 to Dec 2019
a) Moving average at 25+(Dhoni before)
The moving average actually moves up…
b) Cumulative average at 25+(Dhoni before)
c) Cumulative Strike rate 140+ (Dhoni before)
d) Dhoni’s moving average is ~10-12 (post 2020)
e) Dhoni’s cumulative average (post 2020)
f) Dhoni’s strike rate ~80 (post 2020)
E) Bumrah’s performance in IPL
a) Bumrah’s performance in IPL 2020
b) Bumrah’s performance in IPL 2021
F) Moving average wickets for A. Shrubsole in ODI (women)
G) Chris Jordan’s cumulative economy rate
We can see that Jordan has become more expensive over the years
G) Ranking players
In this latest version the ‘Since year slider’ has been replaced with a Date Range selector. With this we can identify the player ranks in any IPL, CPL, PSL or BBL season. We can also check the performance over the last couple of years. Note: The matches played and Runs over Strike rate or Strike rate over runs can be computed. Similarly for bowlers we have Wickets over Economy rate and Economy rate over wickets options.
a) Ranking IPL batsman in IPL season 2020
b) Ranking Intl. T20 (batsmen) from Jan 2019 to Jul 2021
c) Ranking Intl. T20 bowlers (women) from Jan 2019 – Jul 2021
d) Best IPL bowlers over the last 3 seasons (Wickets over Economy rate)
e) Best IPL bowlers over the last 3 seasons (Economy rate over wickets)
You can clone/download this latest version of GooglyPlusPlus2021 from Github at gpp2021-7
The IPL 2021 extravaganza has restarted again, now in Dubai, and it was time for me to crank up good ol’ GooglyPlusPlus2021. As in my earlier post, GooglyPlus2021 with IPL 2021 as it happens, during the initial set of IPL 2021 games,, a command script will execute automatically every day, download the latest data files, unzip, sort, process and put them in appropriate directories so that GooglyPlusPlus can work its magic on the data, with my R package yorkr. You can do analysis of IPL 2021 matches, batsmen, bowlers, historical performance analysis of head-to-head clashes and performances of teams.
Note: Since the earlier instalment of IPL 2021, there are 2 key changes that have taken place in GooglyPlusPlus.
Now,
a) All charts are interactive. You can hover over charts, click, double-click to get more details. To see more details on how to use the interactive charts, see my post GooglyPlusPlus2021 is now fully interactive!
You can try out my app GooglyPlusPlus2021 by clicking GooglyPlusPlus2021
The code for my R package yorkr is available at Github at yorkr
You can clone/fork GooglyPlusPlus2021 from github at gpp2021-6
IPL 2021 is already underway.
Some key analysis and highlights of the 2 recently concluded IPL matches
CSK vs MI
KKR vs RCB
a) CSK vs MI (19 Sep 2021) – Batting Partnerships (CSK)
b) CSK vs MI (19 Sep 2021) – Bowling scorecard (MI)
c) CSK vs MI (19 Sep 2021) –Match worm chart
Even though MI had a much better start and were cruising along to a victory, they lost the plot around the 18.1 th over as seen below (hover on the chart)
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d) KKR vs RCB ( 20 Sep 2021)– Bowling wicket match
This chart gives the wickets taken by the bowler and the total runs conceded
e) KKR vs RCB ( 20 Sep 2021)– Match worm chart
This was a no contest. RCB batting was pathetic and KKR blasted their way to victory as seen in this worm chart
Note: You can also do historical analysis of teams with GooglyPlusPlus2021
For the match to occur today PBKS vs RR (21 Sep 2021) we can perform head-to-head historical analysis. Here Kings XI Punjab has been chosen instead of Punjab Kings as that was its name.
f) Head-to-head (PBKS vs RR) today’s match 21 Sep 2021
For the Rajasthan Royals Sanjy Samson and Jos Buttler have the best performance from 2018 -2021 as seen below
For Punjab Kings KL Rahul and Chris Gayle are the leading scorers for the period 2018-2021
g) Current ranking of batsmen IPL 2021
h) Current ranking of bowlers IPL 2021
Also you analyse individual batsman and bowlers
i) Batsman analysis
To see Rituraj Gaikwad performance checkout the batsman tab
j) Bowler analysis
Performance of Varun Chakaravarty
Remember to check out GooglyPlusPlus2021 for your daily analysis of matches, teams, batsmen and bowlers. Your ride will be waiting for you!!!
You can clone/fork GooglyPlusPlus2021 from github at gpp2021-6
GooglyPlusPlus2021 has been updated with all completed 31 matches
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