{"id":1055,"date":"2014-04-16T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2014-04-16T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:20:09","slug":"ipl-2014-prediction-for-match-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/ipl-2014-prediction-for-match-1\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2014: Prediction for match 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Generating pre-match predictions for the main round of World T20\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/generating-pre-match-predictions-for-the-main-round-of-world-t20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prediction methodology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Note: We are currently using the data from IPL 2013 (and after today, IPL 2014 as well) and Champions League Twenty20 2013 for predicting the outcome of this season&#8217;s IPL matches<\/i><\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"IPL 2014 Match 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/game.py?matchID=ipl2014_01\" target=\"_blank\">Match 1: Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Prediction<\/b>: Mumbai Indians (53%) expected to edge out Kolkata Knight Riders (47%) in a close match.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/series.py?series=ipl2014\" title=\"IPL 2014 homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Premier League 2014<\/a> will start in a few minutes from now, and at Cricmetric we are ready to provide you with a more analytical coverage of the tournament. To start with, you can check out the team preview for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/ipl-2014-team-preview-mumbai-indians\/\" title=\"IPL 2014 team preview: Mumbai Indians\" target=\"_blank\">Mumbai Indians<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/ipl-2014-team-preview-kolkata-knight-riders\/\" title=\"IPL 2014 team preview: Kolkata Knight Riders\" target=\"_blank\">Kolkata Knight Riders<\/a>, where we look at the respective team compositions, and their strengths and weaknesses. You can find the up-do-date player statistics on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/series.py?series=ipl2014\" title=\"IPL 2014 homepage\" target=\"_blank\">homepage of IPL 2014<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For predicting the outcome of IPL matches, we are using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/generating-pre-match-predictions-for-the-main-round-of-world-t20\/\" title=\"Generating pre-match predictions for the main round of World T20\" target=\"_blank\">same model<\/a> as we used for predicting the outcome of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/series.py?series=wc_t20i_2014\" title=\"World T20 2014 homepage\" target=\"_blank\">World T20 tournament<\/a> matches. In that tournament, we were able to successfully predict the outcome of 15 out of 23 matches in the main round and the knock-out stage of the tournament, for a success rate of 65%. We are confident of improving upon that in this season of IPL!<\/p>\n<p>The first match will be a contest between the defending champions and the champions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/series.py?series=ipl2013\" title=\"IPL 2013 homepage\" target=\"_blank\">two seasons ago<\/a>. We expect the match to be a close one, but Mumbai Indians have an upper hand going into the match, and they are predicted to win the first contest.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming days, we will be adding a few more features to our website to improve the user experience and provide more analytical insights into the matches, teams and players. Please stay tuned for the rest of the tournament!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prediction methodology Note: We are currently using the data from IPL 2013 (and after today, IPL 2014 as well) and Champions League Twenty20 2013 for predicting the outcome of this season&#8217;s IPL matches Match 1: Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders &nbsp; Prediction: Mumbai Indians (53%) expected to edge out Kolkata Knight Riders (47%) in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/ipl-2014-prediction-for-match-1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IPL 2014: Prediction for match 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}