Hi Guys,
It has been a
long time since my last post. This time
writing it from the comfort of my home and typing in a traditional Desktop Key
Board after a long time.
If you have been
following World Cup T20 in Star Sports, you would have noted that Star Sports
is providing viewers with lot more details than usual. You get a huge analysis
of data about the pattern of a batsman’s scoring rate in particular overs and
against a particular bowler of a category of bowlers. You get the same type of
details for a bowler and also for a team. You are also provided with the line
and length at which a batsmen hits or bowlers takes wickets.
This is
completely an innovative move on the side of Star Sports to provide viewers
with the analytics that only teams had. Another important thing out of the
whole analysis is that Star Sports is providing meaningful pattern out of the
data available.
In today’s
world, you have a whole bunch of data. More often than not, analysts tend to slice
and dice the data without finding any proper meaning in the data. As long as
you do not get meaningful patterns out of the data, there is no use of
Analytics.
From what Star
Sports has done, you get meaningful pattern out of the existing data. You tend
to know how good a batsman is in the initial 10 deliveries, how effective he is
against seamers, which is his favorite area. So far, a few teams might have
analyzed to this extent. But, now this opens the door for everyone and
strategies can be easily designed based on the analysis. This removes decision
making based on gut feelings.
The disadvantage
though is that the analysis is based on matches played after either 2010 or
2012 which means the sample size (or population) is too low and you cannot come
to a conclusion based on this data. There are many other factors like the
pitches played in, the quality of bowlers or batsmen and external conditions.
Despite the
disadvantages, this is a great move from Star Sports to provide a far more
reliable prediction than the earlier versions of plain analyses.
Happy Reading!
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