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 batsman and bowler performance was measured in a single dimension of either total(mean) runs or total(mean) wickets.

I think to fairly describe batsmen and bowlers we need at least the following 2 attributes

• Runs and Strike rate for batsmen and
• Wickets and Economy rate for bowlers

So, I have created new animation charts which use these attributes for batsmen and bowlers.

The animated charts are

• Based on a sliding window of 3 years (Jan 2008- Dec 2010, Jan 2009-Dec 2010,…, Jan 2019-Dec 2021)
• I have taken the top 10 percentile and sometimes the top 5 percentile of batsmen and bowlers to keep the charts more manageable
• The charts are based on gganimate().

Note 1: I tried several options for the animation before settling on this one. The animation may seem a bit jerky but, we can follow the progress of players more easily through the years

Note 2: Some charts may display points, without the corresponding names. I think this may be because the animation tries to create intermediate points between the charts.

Note 3: For fine-grained, but static analysis across different intervals or seasons, checkout my my posts GooglyPlusPlus2021 now with power play, middle and death over analysis and GooglyPlusPlus2021: Towards more picturesque analytics!

The code for the animation can be cloned from Github at animation2. Feel free to modify the parameters for a different animation behavior.

Here are performances of IPL and T20 (men) players. Note all charts are based on a 3 year staggered window. The Top 10 percentile is considered

1. Runs vs SR – IPL

2. Wickets vs ER – IPL

3. Runs vs SR in Power play – IPL

4. Runs vs Strike rate in Middle overs – IPL

5.Runs vs SR in Death overs – IPL

6. Wickets vs ER in Power play – IPL

7. Wickets vs ER in Middle overs – IPL

8. Wickets vs ER in Death overs – IPL

9. Runs vs SR – T20 (men)

10. Wickets vs ER – T20 (men)

11. Runs vs SR in Power Play – T20 (men)

12. Runs vs SR in Middle overs – T20 (men)

13. Runs vs SR in Death overs – T20 (men)

14. Wickets vs ER in Power play (T20 men)

15. Wickets vs ER in Middle overs – T20 (men)

16. Wickets vs ER in Death overs – T20 (men)

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