Predicting player performance from one format to another in cricket

Overview

Identifying talent as early as possible in elite sport is critical. An important component of this is learning about what metrics of performance in lower grades to focus on to help predict performance in the top grade. This project will explore for this research problem for cricket.

Research activities

Students will use statistical analysis and/or machine learning to help reveal what metrics are important is translating strong performance in lower grades to strong performance in higher grades of cricket.

In addition to the QUT supervisors, students will collaborate with data scientists and cricket experts at Cricket Australia and QLD Cricket. Students will have the opportunity to spend 1-2 days per week in the QLD Cricket office.

Outcomes

The expected outcome of the project is a preliminary analysis to identify important metrics for translating strong performance across increasingly competitive grades of cricket.

The project can be developed further in honours or a Master of Philosophy, where the research problem could be more thoroughly explored with more sophisticated statistical and machine learning tools.

Eventually, depending on outcomes, the research could be published in a sports data science journal.

Skills and experience

• Statistical data analysis and/or machine learning.
• Programming skills (preferably in R or Python).
• Interest in sports applications (desirable but not essential).

Keywords

• data science
• statistics
• cricket
• machine learning

Contact

Contact the supervisor for more information.