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cricketr

This R package can be used to analyze performances of cricketers based on stats from ESPN Cricinfo.

The package be installed directly from CRAN as install.packages("cricketr")

or from Github as follows library(devtools) install_github("tvganesh/cricketr") library(cricketr)

Details of this package can be read from my blog Giga thoughts in Introducing cricketr: A R package for analyzing performances of cricketer

Also see my other posts in R and cricket

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  7. Informed choices through Machine Learning-2: Pitting together Kumble, Kapil, Chandra

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install.packages('cricketr')

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0.0.19

License

MIT + file LICENSE

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Maintainer

Tinniam Ganesh

Last Published

June 8th, 2019

Functions in cricketr (0.0.19)

batsman4s

Plot the numbers of 4s against the runs scored by batsman
battingPerf3d

Make a 3D scatter plot of the Runs scored versus the Balls Faced and Minutes at Crease.
batsmanMovingAverage

Calculate and plot the Moving Average of the batsman in his career
bowlerAvgWktsGround

This function computes and plot the average wickets in different ground
batsmanMeanStrikeRate

Calculate and plot the Mean Strike Rate of the batsman on total runs scored
batsmanPerfForecast

Forecast the batting performance based on past performances using Holt-Winters forecasting
batsmanPerfBoxHist

Make a boxplot and a histogram of the runs scored by the batsman
bowlerCumulativeAvgWickets

Bowler's cumulative average wickets
batsmanPerfHomeAway

This function analyses the performance of the batsman at home and overseas
bowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate

Bowler's cumulative average economy rate
bowlerEconRate

Compute and plot the Mean Economy Rate versus wickets taken
batsmanContributionWonLost

Disply the batsman's contribution in matches that were won and those that were lost
gayle

Data set for Chris Gayle
clean

Create a batsman data frame given the batsman's CSV file
checkBatsmanInForm

Check whether the batsman is In-Form or Out-Of-Form by looking at his last 10 percent scores
batsmanCumulativeStrikeRate

Batsman's cumulative average strike rate
batsmanDismissals

Display a 3D Pie Chart of the dismissals of the batsman
bowlerWktsFreqPercent

Plot the Wickets Frequency as a percentage against wickets taken
batsmanRunsRanges

Compute and plot a histogram of the runs scored in ranges of 10
batsmanScoringRateODTT

Compute and plot the predicted scoring rate for a One day batsman or Twenty20
batsmanCumulativeAverageRuns

Batsman's cumulative average runs
bowlerWktsRunsPlot

Compute and plot the runs conceded versus the wickets taken
cleanBowlerData

Clean the bowlers data frame
batsmanRunsFreqPerf

Calculate and run frequencies in ranges of 10 runs and plot versus Runs the performance of the batsman
batsmanRunsLikelihood

This function uses K-Means to determine the likelihood of the batsman to get runs
bowlerMovingAverage

Compute and plot the moving average of the wickets taken for a bowler
batsmanRunsPredict

Predict the runs for the batsman given the Balls Faced and Minutes in crease
getTeamNumber

Get the number of the Team
maxwell

Data set for Glenn Maxwell
kohli

Data set for Virat Kohli
relativeBowlingER

Compute and plot the relative mean Economy Rate(ER) of the bowlers
relativeBowlingERODTT

Compute and plot the relative mean Economy Rate(ER) of the bowlers for ODI or Twenty20
cleanTeamData

Clean the team data for Test, ODI and T20
cricketr-package

cricketr This package analyzes the performances of cricketers using ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru data. The analysis can be done for Test, ODI and Twenty20 cricket for both batsman & bowlers
bowlerPerfForecast

Forecast the bowler performance based on past performances using Holt-Winters forecasting
bowlerHistWickets

Plot a histogram of Wicket percentages versus wickets taken
bowlerAvgWktsOpposition

This function computes and plot the average wickets against different oppositon
mendis

Data set for Ajantha Mendis
relativeBatsmanSR

Calculate and plot the relative Mean Strike Rate (SR) for each batsman
tendulkarsp

Data set for Sachin Tendulkar
tendulkar

Data set for Sachin Tendulkar
teamWinLossStatusVsOpposition

Compute the wins/losses/draw/tied etc for a Team in Test, ODI or T20 against opposition
relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgWickets

Relative bowlers cumulative average wickets
relativeBatsmanCumulativeAvgRuns

Relative batsman's cumulative average runs
malinga

Data set for Lasith Malinga
bowlerContributionWonLost

Display the bowler's contribution in matches that were won and those that were lost
getPlayerData

Get the player data from ESPN Cricinfo based on specific inputs and store in a file in a given directory
kohli1

Data set for Virat Kohli
getPlayerDataOD

Get the One day player data from ESPN Cricinfo based on specific inputs and store in a file in a given directory
warne

Data set for Shane Warne
bowlerPerfHomeAway

This function analyses the performance of the bowler at home and overseas
bowlerWktRateTT

Compute and plot the Mean number of deliveries versus wickets taken
kumble1

Data set for Anil Kumble
malinga1

Data set for Lasith Malinga
kumblesp

Data set for Anil Kumble
relativeBowlerCumulativeAvgEconRate

Relative Bowler's cumulative average economy rate
relativeBatsmanSRODTT

Calculate and plot the relative Mean Strike Rate (SR) for each batsman for ODI or Twenty20 batsmen
relativeBatsmanCumulativeStrikeRate

Relative batsmen cumulative average strike rate
ganguly

Data set for Sourav Ganguly
getPlayerDataTT

Get the Twenty20 International player data from ESPN Cricinfo based on specific inputs and store in a file in a given directory~
relativeRunsFreqPerfODTT

Calculate and compute the relative run frequencies of a list of cricketers
relativeWktRateTT

Compute and plot the relative Mean Wicket Rate of the bowlers in Twenty20 International
checkBowlerInForm

Check whether the bowler is In-Form or Out-Of-Form by looking at his last 10 percent scores
getPlayerDataSp

Get the player data along with venue and
devilliers

Data set for AB Devilliers
southee

Data set for Tim Southee
getTeamDataHomeAway

Get the data for a team in a match type viz.for Test, ODI and T20 with the home/overseas/neutral
sehwag2

Data set for Virendar Sehwag
getMatchType

Get the number of the match type viz.for Test, ODI and T20
plotTimelineofWinsLosses

Plot the time line of wins/losses/draw/tied etc for a Team in Test, ODI or T20
getTeamData

Get the data for a team in a match type viz.for Test, ODI and T20
mitchell

Data set for Mitchell Johnson
percentWkts

Calculate the percentage of wickets taken by bowler
kumble

Data set for Anil Kumble
relativeBowlingPerf

Plot the relative performances of bowlers
murali

Data set for Muthiah Muralitharan
teamWinLossStatusAtGrounds

Compute the wins/losses/draw/tied etc for a Team in Test, ODI or T20 at venues
narine

Data set for Sunil Narine
percentRuns

Calculate the percent runs in each run range
steyn

Data set for Dale Steyn
relativeRunsFreqPerf

Calculate and compute the relative run frequencies of a list of cricketers
tendulkar2

Data set for Sachin Tendulkar
sehwag

Data set for Virendar Sehwag
sehwag1

Data set for Virendar Sehwag
tendulkar1

Data set for Sachin Tendulkar
batsman6s

Plot the run range against the number of 6s
ER

Calculate the mean Economy Rate
batsmanAvgRunsGround

This function computes and plots the Average runs scored in the different grounds played by batsman
WR

This function caculates the wicket rate vs mean number of deliveries
batsman4s6s

Compute and plot a stacked barplot of runs,4s and 6s
ashwin

Data set for Ravichandran Ashwin
badree

Data set for Samuel Badree
batsmanAvgRunsOpposition

This function computes and plots the Average runs against different opposition played by batsman
ashwin1

Data set for Ravichander Ashwin