Publications by Tinniam V Ganesh
GooglyPlusPlus2021:ICC WC T20:Pavilion-view analytics as-it-happens!
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-...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021 now with power play, middle and death over analysis
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...
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GooglyPlusPlus2021: Towards more picturesque analytics!
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 ...
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Analyzing player performance with animated charts!
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 wa...
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More player analysis with gganimate()
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 bat...
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GooglyPlusPlus2022 optimizes batting/bowling lineup
GooglyPlusPlus2022 is the new avatar of last year’s GooglyPlusPlus2021. Roughly, about 5 years back I had written a post on Using linear programming to optimize T20 batting and bowling line up. This post has been on the back of my mind for a long time and I decided to pay this post a revisit. This requires computing performance of individual b...
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“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard “How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.” – Emo Philips Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin It’s a wrap!!! In my previous p...
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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” Maya Angelou “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin “Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the resp...
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. Peter Drucker “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” Corollary: “Expenditure rises to meet income.” Parkinson’s law Introduction "Opera...
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“To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.” “One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.” Steven Stro...
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