4 papers
Context-adjusted Player Evaluation for Twenty20 Cricket
Rhitankar Bandyopadhyay
I develop a reproducible framework for evaluating individual batting and bowling performances in Twenty20 (T20) cricket on one interpretable scale of runs above expectation, built…
Asymptotic Minimax Estimation under Global-Local Priors
Rhitankar Bandyopadhyay, Malay Ghosh
Global-local priors, often also referred to as shrinkage priors, have proved to be a very effective tool for the analysis of high dimensional data under sparsity. Asymptotic theore…
An Augmented Rating System for Test cricket: adapting the Glicko rating system
Rhitankar Bandyopadhyay, Diganta Mukherjee
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) Test cricket ratings use match and series results alone, stating no allowance about the precision of a rating, or about home advantage and…
Applications of higher order Markov models and Pressure Index to strategize controlled run chases in Twenty20 cricket
Rhitankar Bandyopadhyay, Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee
In limited overs cricket, the team batting first posts a target score for the team batting second to achieve in order to win the match. The team batting second is constrained by de…