Author: Tinniam V Ganesh

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. 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 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. 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 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. 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, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. 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 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. 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 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. 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 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. 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 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. GooglyPlusPlus2021 is now fully interactive. Please read the below post carefully to see the different ways you can interact with the data in the plots. There are 2 main updates in this latest version of GooglyPlusPlus2021 a) GooglyPlusPlus gets all ‘touchy, feely‘ with the data and now you can interact with the plot/chart to get more details of the underlying data. There are many ways you can slice’n dice the data in the charts. The examples below illustrate a few of this. You can interact with plots by hover’ing, ‘click’ing and ‘double-click’ing curves, plots, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. A brand new season of IPL 2021 is on its way, and I intend to keep my Shiny app GooglyPlusPlus updated with all the analysis “as-it-happens”. I had written a post earlier Big Data 7: yorkr waltzes with Apache NiFi, where I used my R package yorkr in a NiFi pipeline to automate downloading, converting and generating appropriate data for GooglyPlusPlus. However, using Apache NiFi for daily updates would be an overkill. So, I have created a bash script (with bash,R,python scripts) (possibly scheduled with CRON), which will get daily updates from Cricsheet, convert ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”“I don’t much care where –”“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”                              Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This latest version of GooglyPlusPlus2021 has the following updates – brand new strategy and algorithm for ranking T20 players in any format (IPL, BBL, NTB, PSL etc.) – integrates the Caribbean Premier League T20 into the app – includes the ... Read More