Betting on Boundaries: A Bayesian Approach to Cricket

by Nivedita Shukla, TYBSc Decades on end, Cricket has been widely recognised as a game with glorious uncertainties. Fans all across the world have a soft spot for the game. Cricket has an incredible ability to unite people regardless of their personal differences. The aura of a packed stadium during an India-Pakistan match is really…

Soccer Analysis

by Vatsal Bothra Football, probably the most famous sport in the world, is not only the source of entertainment for large chunks of people but also a source of income for many and on top of that, a pathway to a billionaire lifestyle for a few. Being paid 6-digit salary a week to manage a…

Landing The Ball In The Basket

By Sanika Sawant  “Analytics are part and parcel of virtually everything we do now!” – Adam Silver, NBA commissioner.  Data science is taking the world by storm, creeping its way into every professional sphere including sports. Don’t be surprised to know  that your favourite sports team has been winning because of its strong data analytics…

THE DuLLeSt TURN OF CRICKET

The One Day International match played between England and West Indies at the Providence stadium, Guyana was one of those exhilarating matches in which the infamous Duckworth Lewis (D\L) Method was put into the practice where the West Indian coach called his boys in for bad light, believing that his team would win by one…

Wet Outfields : Rain-equations in limited-overs cricket

Akash Das & Priam Vyas Don’t we all cry foul when we plan our weekends to have the peace of watching our favourite team/country play on the field but the rains play spoilsport ? The basis of cricket relies on the cardinal principle of each team having two resources — overs to play and wickets…

The Use Of Statistics In Designing Winning Strategies For Athletes

Aleya Dutta Choudhury There are 7.2 billion people in this world and yet a very tiny percentage of them succeed as athletes. We watch Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo annihilate defences and shatter goal scoring records. Usain Bolt dominates the track and field and has stayed the fastest on our planet for years. Swimmer Micheal…

Sabermetric Statistics

Akash Das Sabermetrics is a form of analysis as defined by Bill James in 1980, as “the search for objective knowledge about baseball”. It mainly deals with the mathematical or statistical study of the game of baseball. The main objective of such a statistical tool is to find objective conclusions for variables such as future…

Sports Betting: An Introduction

Arnav Sheth None of the articles in this series advocate betting. They are simply used to bring out a unique, real-world application of statistics. For all the moral reprehensions and societal disapprovals that betting comes with, it is a fantastic exercise in a plethora of statistical concepts and models. Through the forthcoming series of articles,…