tvganesh / cricketr

This package can be used to analyze performances of cricketers based on stats from ESPN Cricinfo

cricketr

This R package can be used to analyze performances of cricketers based on stats from ESPN Cricinfo.

The package be installed directly from CRAN as install.packages("cricketr")

or from Github as follows library(devtools) install_github("tvganesh/cricketr") library(cricketr)

Details of this package can be read from my blog Giga thoughts in Introducing cricketr: A R package for analyzing performances of cricketer

Also see my other posts in R and cricket

1. A peek into literacy in India: Statistical Learning with R
2. A crime map of India in R – Crimes against women
3. Analyzing cricket’s batting legends – Through the mirage with R
4. Masters of Spin: Unraveling the web with R
5. Mirror, mirror … the best batsman of them all?
6. Informed choices through Machine Learning - Analyzing Kohli, Tendulkar and Dravid
7. Informed choices through Machine Learning-2: Pitting together Kumble, Kapil, Chandra

cricketr's Issues

Is there a feature where we can get players data in reverse ( recent to old)

Adding a parameter to the getPlayerData will work it out.

parameter orderbyad=forward in the URL gives you in chronological order and orderbyad=reverse gives in the reverse chronological order.

Error Installing package

Hi Ganesh,

I get above error while installing package in R.

Any thought?

library(devtools)
install_github("tvganesh/cricketr")
Downloading GitHub repo tvganesh/cricketr@master
Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) :
there is no package called ‘stringi’

Thanks,
Yogs

Issue in batsmanDismissals()

First of all , I would like to appreciate your dedication in framing this package!. Hats Off!

Coming to the issues,
I have been trying to analyze Vijay Shankar's ODI dismissals. (http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/477021.html?class=2;filter=advanced;orderby=start;template=results;type=batting;view=innings). and I came across 2 following issues:

(I have traced the function)

1. batsman <- clean(file) .
   After execution of this line only one record stays in his data
   
   

Similarly with Rishab Pant

2. If I manually remove the above line (batsman <- clean(file) and continue execution line by line, It looks like there is an issue that might occur with any player i.e The individual dismissal type % is calculated with denominator containing total no of innings played rather than total number of times dismissed

What I mean is that
His stats should read
Not out : 0 %
Run out : 40 %
Caught : 60 %
Refer

as opposed to current metrics displaying
Not out : 44%
Run out : 22%
Caught : 33%

Test

This is a test

Venue and Result information

Thanks for this package
I'm about to release an alpha version of a shiny dashboard based on it

Would it be possible to return venue and result data as columns in the getPlayerData() function

Error reading player data for bowling stats

library(cricketr)
library(cricketdata)
murali_id = find_player_id("Muttiah Muralitharan")$ID
murali <- getPlayerData(murali_id,dir=".",file="murali.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=c(1,2), result=c(1,2,4))
warne_id = find_player_id("Shane Warne")$ID
warne <- getPlayerData(warne_id,dir=".",file="warne.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=c(1,2), result=c(1,2,4))
kumble_id = find_player_id("Anil Kumble")$ID
kumble <- getPlayerData(kumble_id,dir=".",file="kumble.csv",type="bowling",homeOrAway=c(1,2), result=c(1,2,4))

Output:

Registered S3 method overwritten by 'quantmod':
  method            from
  as.zoo.data.frame zoo
Error in if (n[2] == "BPO") { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
Calls: getPlayerData
Execution halted

Discrepancy in number of games while using getTeamData

I was using the getTeamData function, as follows:

For ODIs played by India, I get a data-frame of 986 observations.

However, as of 11 May 2023, India has played 1029 ODIs, according to ESPNCricinfo Statsguru. What explains this discrepancy?