{"id":2,"date":"2011-04-22T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshashi.scripts.mit.edu\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-12-28T22:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T02:27:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricmetric is a website devoted to Cricket statistics and analytics. Our aim is to become the &#8220;<a title=\"Moneyball - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moneyball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moneyball<\/a>&#8221; of Cricket. Apart from searching for <a title=\"Cricket statistics search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">basic Cricket statistics<\/a> on our website, you will find several innovative features that are not available on other Cricket websites.<\/p>\n<h3>Cricket statistics visualization<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2291\" style=\"width: 752px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a style=\"font-family: Graphik,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Segoe UI,var(--nv-fallback-ff); background-color: var(--nv-site-bg); display: inline !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/ipl-player-salary\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2291 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IPL-player-salary.png\" alt=\"IPL 2020 Player salary\" width=\"752\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IPL-player-salary.png 752w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IPL-player-salary-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IPL-player-salary-150x102.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IPL player salary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2292\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/comparison.py?player1=V+Kohli&amp;player2=SPD+Smith&amp;role=batsman&amp;format=Test\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2292 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Player-comparison.png\" alt=\"Virat Kohli vs Steve Smith in Tests\" width=\"755\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Player-comparison.png 755w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Player-comparison-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Player-comparison-150x105.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virat Kohli vs Steve Smith in Tests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2293\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/playermatrix.py\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2293 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Player-Matrix.png\" alt=\"Player Matrix for Test Cricket players in 2020\" width=\"750\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Player-Matrix.png 750w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Player-Matrix-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Player-Matrix-150x129.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Player Matrix for Test Cricket players in 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>In-game analytics<\/h3>\n<p>We have created the <a title=\"Win Probability Added\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Win Probability<\/a> statistic to precisely quantify the chances of a team winning a limit over Cricket match. Check out the <a title=\"Scoreboard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/scoreboard.py\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scoreboard<\/a> page to see the live win probability of on-going Cricket matches!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2294\" style=\"width: 753px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/match\/2020_057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2294 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Win-Probability.png\" alt=\"Win Probability Graph of Australia vs India ODI Match on Dec 2, 2020\" width=\"753\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Win-Probability.png 753w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Win-Probability-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Win-Probability-150x109.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Win Probability Graph of Australia vs India ODI Match on Dec 2, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Descriptive analytics<\/h3>\n<p>We have developed an innovative way of putting a dollar figure on the IPL player performances. Check out the <a title=\"IPL player ranks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/ipl\/ranks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IPL player ranks<\/a> page to see our ranking of IPL players!<\/p>\n<p>We have also created a new methodology for <a title=\"Team ranks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/rankings.py\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ranking teams<\/a> based on the one-on-one match-up of the teams. This better reflects the quality of the opponent when ranking the teams, which many of the existing methods fail to do. For the first time, we have also created a similar <a title=\"Captain ranks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/captainranks.py\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ranking of the team captains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Predictive analytics<\/h3>\n<p>We have used our state-of-the-art analytics tools to generate pre-match predictions for several tournaments, most recently the ICC ODI World Cup in 2019 with a 68% success rate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2295\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/predictions.py?series=wc_odi_2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2295 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pre-match-predictions.png\" alt=\"Pre-match predictions for ICC ODI World Cup 2019\" width=\"740\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pre-match-predictions.png 740w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pre-match-predictions-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Pre-match-predictions-150x85.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pre-match predictions for ICC ODI World Cup 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricmetric is a website devoted to Cricket statistics and analytics. Our aim is to become the &#8220;Moneyball&#8221; of Cricket. Apart from searching for basic Cricket statistics on our website, you will find several innovative features that are not available on other Cricket websites. Cricket statistics visualization In-game analytics We have created the Win Probability statistic&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/about\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}