Cricket Weighted Batting Average in R

Hello, I hope you have your Yorkshire tea ready as today I am going to be exploring weighted averages using R. I used the code above to generate the table of the top 15 players by batting average in the 2022 county championship. Now the whole point of this blog is to devise a weighted […]

Predicting Twenty 20 Cricket Result with Tidy Models

Hello, hope you have your Yorkshire tea to hand and sitting comfortably ready to read today’s blog. In it I am going to be doing some machine learning with tidymodels to predict the outcome of some twenty20 cricket matches. I am using the data from cricsheet as used in this blog and using the win […]

Twenty20 Win Probability Added

Hello readers, welcome to today’s blog. I am going to implement a win probability added model for twenty 20 cricket. Now this is nothing new a quick google and there are many sources for it. Cricviz is possibly the most famous version which you may have seen on the app. The idea is the model […]

The Value of a Wicket

Hello, today I am going to be looking a the value of a wicket. In one daya cricket be it 20 over of 50 over you have 2 resources. The amount of balls remaining and the amount of wickets remaining. The balls remaining influences what risks the batsman takes however how much does taking a […]

Twenty20 Adjusted Strike Rates

Introduction Hello, so today I am going to be diving deeper into my analysis of players in twenty20 cricket. If you didn’t check out the previous blogs go check them out. One of the key findings from that work was how much strike rates differ depending on the ball in the innings that was faced […]

Twenty20 Data Exploratory Data Analysis 2

Hello, welcome to my second in the series of in depth analysis of twenty20 cricket which I dissect the game to understand what are the key drivers for performance and what are the trends for different areas. If you didn’t see the first blog go check it out I have linked it below: Twenty20 Data […]

Twenty20 Data Exploratory Data Analysis 1

Hello, welcome to today’s blog which I am going to do some exploratory data analysis on data in twenty cricket. You may have seen my blogs earlier looking at twenty20 batting metrics. Well they were all calculated just as they are but its likely these will be effected by state of the match and series […]

IPL 2019 – Sunrisers Hyderabad

Hello, welcome ot the last in the series of preview pieces ahead of this years IPL competition. As i say all the time if oyu havent checked out others looking at each team in the competition, go check them out let me know what you think. The ifnal team is the Sunrisers Hyderabad who are […]

IPL 2019 – Royal Challengers Bangalore

Hello, Welcome to the next preview ahead the 2019 IPL. As previously mentioned this is part of a series looking at all teams in the competition so go check the others out and let me know your thoughts on what you have seen. Next up its Royal Challengers Bangalore, led by the mercurial Virat Kohli. […]