Bowlership: Examining the Existence of Bowler Synergies in Cricket

Autor:	Nanavati, Praharsh, Nanavati, Amit Anil
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Computer Science - Social and Information Networks
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Player synergies are a salient feature of team sports. In the team game of cricket, player synergies may be reflected in batting partnerships. Batting partnerships have been analysed extensively. In this paper, we introduce and precisely define bowling partnerships. We explain their importance, and analyse ball-by-ball data from three formats of the game: 2,034 one-day international matches, 634 Test matches and 1,432 Twenty-20 international matches, in order to find such bowling partnerships ("bowlerships"). We find that bowlerships exist. Further, we construct bowlership networks based on these pairwise synergies. We assert that these bowlership networks can be analysed for team selection before a match, and making bowling changes during the match. We present Algorithm bowler-select that selects a team based on bowlerships. Comment: 34 pages
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12667 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv