How do you break down these vices in the sport of badminton
and that was quite a revelation. It was just a one hour meeting.
I think that taught me more about Badminton than seven or
eight years of playing the game itself.
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accident. It's not going to deliver
returns in the first three weeks is somebody because I didn't,
you know, they should work with who can offer that.
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One of the first encounters that a lot of normal people have with
data, and analytics, was Michael Lewis book, Moneyball, which was
later made into a movie. Starring Brad Pitt.
Moneyball spoke about how the Oakland Athletics used,
analytics to punch above their weight.
And in the last 20 years analytics has taken out pretty
much every sport in football. We have new metrics such as
expected goals or XG in IPL teams.
Talk about the Moneyball strategy as they built their
squads every season and it's not just the big games like football
or if we get that, I've been taken over by analytics, even
the relatively smaller games, such as badminton volleyball,
and covered the, have a fair amount of analytics going into
It in today's episode, we have van Erp and I've been served us
founders of kabaddi at De. We will be talking about sports
analytics in general and sports analytics in India in
particular. How did it all?
Start, how did you guys get started in data and the in
sports analytics? So I think we'll start with that
and then we can go on to other things.
So, see my previous startup was an e-commerce startup and I know
as we were we were trying to build a B2B e-commerce.
And as you are building it, you know, we started meet.
We're trying to build a distributed where also we are
like seven miles across the country and we want to run it
with 60 70 people. So I know I restarted and Inez
been doing datebook and data for ages, right?
Even before that after PhD. She's been that way.
So I reached out and asked her to help us solve the problem.
And you know, what time we kind of brought down our working
capital to just three days that was pretty exciting because it
wasn't easy to solve and we had a solution and then we were able
to implement any kept going. And as I stepped out from the
e-commerce company, we both kind of thought, you know, let's do
something together. So analytics was a Pint.
At that time, I think we were doing more of analytics for the
startups right here, fmc's Pace, or Telecom space, and it just so
happens that I play badminton and be a giver closely following
sinus career. Yeah, and she lost silent even
scarier. And she lost three matches in a
row and in spite of being world. Number one, at that time, right?
So we were just wondering, I mean, candy helper some way.
To resolve. I mean, what is it that causing
her to lose these matches? Right?
And she lost all three games to this player called tyrosine was
a young upcoming player from. Not from China, from Chinese
typing. Okay, everyone basically, so,
yeah, your end. He ties up to used to beat Saina
every single time when China was right at the peak of a game.
And at that point there was this This would have been in 2015.
Okay. Okay.
Yep. Interestingly sign.
I had moved to Bangalore. She was training with in the
prakash Padukone and Academy. So can we do to we welcome our
search who's India's first Olympian and badminton?
Yep. Is India's national clothes and
you know, she was also coaching sign up back then.
Right? So we went reached out to him
and said sir. We do all this work in
analytics. Is there a way we can help you
work with you to help Saina? And then it will maybe make it
more meaningful. Young day.
Those interactions with the muster and Professor were were
Priceless. They were.
I think, the reason I got into sports analytics is because the
introduction was exciting. Yeah, I mean, the clarity,
especially when it comes to prakash Padukone, right?
We talked about all this analytics, you collect a lot of
data. And then we met prakash after we
had some insights about sign has game.
Yep. You just took out a sheet of
paper and Drew the badminton court.
Oh, and he said, there are these seven positions on the court.
Two in the front, one in the middle, two at the back and
basically a 3 in the middle 2 3, 2 2 3 2, right and basically a
player has to hit from each of these seven positions to all the
other seven positions on the court in a is free manner, but
it just so happens that every player has a bias, right?
If shuttle goes to the front. I have a bias may be to hit it
to the backhand side of the opposite opponent, right?
Yep, and he said, badminton or analytics kind of comes from
this right now. Do you break down these biases
in the sport of badminton and that was quite a revelation.
It was just a one hour meeting. I think that taught me more
about Badminton than seven or eight years of playing the game
itself, right? And five months of politics
before that. Yep.
So how does so, how do you how do you Will collect data for
this because I imagine that, if you have to look at seven
positions of the code means that, first of all, you need to
actually watch the game or do you need to have somebody
watching the game? Most of most Indian badminton?
And I guess is not telecast. So, so how do you even Catholic?
And I am a pretty confident that at the time you guys started.
There was no badminton and analytics going on, at least in
India. I'm I'm getting.
So, so how do you get the collection as Always been, you
know, as we did and it is became relation data collections, the
core problem to be solved. Yep, every sport including
Cricket for that matter. So we we have always invested
very early when we get into a sport to build the data
collection tool of our own or look at what are the data
collection tools out there and try and see if anything can be
repurposed. Right?
So the first thing we did is built a data collection tool in
today's language and quality, and he will thinking tool
broadly does a tool that would I love so much and I love person
who understands the sport to collect one piece of data.
Yeah, and the tools that will give this is the most likely
return shot. So he connects lesser data on
every data collection Excel, but it is a data collection,
exercise, a fairly intense and involved data collection
exercise, the power of the tool, just minimize this error that
the agent has and data collection.
I would. Okay, so they actually had
people going and sitting I've certainly got almost an order in
the lucky cases watching someone TV and sort of tagging every
shot. It was it from police.
In a you proceed from position. Number one or two position
number seven on that side, and then they return came to
position. Number three.
And is that how you you guys actually did it?
So in as we are doing this initially for Saina Nehwal, it
was easier to get it off of YouTube.
Read all the key mindset of all the big games at Sinai spreading
in size. We were online and all of our
big He's against upcoming opponent were all online.
Yep. So, we were able to get a lot of
these matches on YouTuber, or in different platforms.
And then, you know, viewer, then collect the data.
Yep, and delicate quality was good because I know was
definitely India's best player. So, of course, we almost
anything it was. Well, I was well, documented and
prose their online, right? Yes.
So it makes Turtles possible to do it.
So the so the investment was about watching it from YouTube
and like you said, you know, the That election was a little more
detailed and that's one is the positions.
Yeah, the other thing that precursor and women served.
It has a kind of broke down. The sport to saying, when you
pick a shuttle there are, you know, you can obviously call it
a Continuum of places where you on the y-axis on the vertical
plane, when you can pick the shuttle, but he's a little, at
least, three big pieces. Is it above the head?
In this case? The player has reached the shot
Valentine. Yes, it between the shoulder and
waist. In this case.
The player has just reached a And if a begin below the waist
it means of restored really late.
Yep. So it's a 3D model.
So here's the good thing was like the me a separate precursor
and criminals are able to break it down into a way that
analytics. And they were able to understand
and analytics, on continuous data sets is not reasonable.
Yes, if you into analyzable units.
They can they can advertise the value.
They brought was breaking the code into the seven important
places having the short in the three places because then you
still need to watch the video. But then what it allows is, it
allows them to look at a specific inside and then was all
relevant videos for that Insight.
Yep, and that you get. This is really the error
happening, right? Yep.
This is our first kind of Entry
itself into performance analytics.
There was another data will be collected.
Today, which came purely out of what women had noticed.
He said that there is a thing going on between the Chinese
players that sinai's impatient. Okay.
So I always serving is the wait for a good, three, four five
seconds before they actually get into position and they wait for
5 seconds before they serve. Okay, and that file s, it kind
of puts Ina and Restless place, right?
Because she's waiting for the shuttle to come.
It's still not come. Just breaking this thing.
So they used to do that. And then because he said that we
started looking at them that date also and we realize sign, I
was reading 4.8 seconds or of the order of one set in before
she serves, on the other hand, other players were happily
taking three to seven seconds while they sort of to her.
Yeah. There's no rules.
The difference is start when they serve to cyanide is 327
when they play anyone else. It is between 1 2 3.
Okay. It is not in nature the They
always take time. Yeah, right.
It was very conscious attempt on part of opponents to unsettle
her game at all levels, right? And it took this observation for
us to even look for their data. It is not data.
You will collect as an analyst ever happened.
So I think one of the things, I think a lot of a lot of people
in analytics, I think the mistake they make is like there
is they'll just they'll think that any data can be unless in a
sort of a domain, 3 manner. I mean, we all have this, we all
cover come with the sort of arrogance.
I have all the data, you don't need to tell me anything about
the business, but I think, unless I mean business in your
cases sport, but unless there is some fundamental Insight or some
sort of starting point that the hypothesis that you start off
with from the business. Think it's pretty much
impossible to tell if look for that.
I mean, if you might be lucky, sometimes the data might throw
up something neat, in terms of like need patterns and so on.
But in most cases, like, sort of, you need to look for the,
you need to wait for the, you need some insight from the
business, in which case you go. Got it here from from percussion
rebuilding the, the initial sort of the insights, which help you
break down the court into the into seven things.
It's one other thing that it reminds me.
So what, what what's interesting is that, like the Chinese
players as you mentioned, like they were taking longer to serve
to sign up at like, taking a shorter amount of time to serve
to each other. Right?
So what this reminds me of like this year in the IP and the
little bit of it that happen. I watched it all.
Exclusively on The Dugout channel in hot star and they're
like, pretty much every 2 3 overs people were talking about
matchups. They were like Burak:.
I mean, it's sort of well, known that we're actually is weak
against leg spin like that and then like and so people would
teams would bring in Alec spinner while playing CB or for
example, like, they would bring in like you though, going back.
A few years. People would play Left Hand
Spinners against people like such In scientific or Kevin
pietersen because they were known to be weak against that.
So, so I guess this matchup sting is not a cricket specific
thing. I guess.
It's Universal to All Sport and guessing.
Yeah, matchups is a universal thing.
But, you know, one of our observations in, in specifically
in cricket, right? Is that there is an ebb and flow
to a cricket game, right? And you know this well, we have
seen all the work you've done in cricket.
Very exciting stuff and the append flows every game.
Is unique in itself. Yep, and and it is very rarely a
standard answer that. Fix it.
All right, when you're playing against cska, you can definitely
open the bowling with the left armor and Watson was batting.
Yep. With the Phantom, you if you
keep holding back a spinner for the barn and do need to come out
to bat. You would have lost out so much
of the event from the match and maybe Watson and fast.
Have just gone at it. Yeah, right.
And and that, that is what makes Cricket so exciting.
Because there is a function of not just matchups, but which
wind dryness humidity grip, right?
And all of those factors are really, you know, if you want to
be honest about entities, you have to quantify it of that, a
military context of all of you have almost no data to make a
matchup meaningful. Exactly.
Yeah. The number of combinations.
Is this too much. It just was great.
And that's what Cricket is such a week.
Beginning and end. You also notice that the role of
the captain and T20 is priceless because these are decisions are
making after you see 10 balls of the game.
Yep, and those, I think those decisions are it's a very
different Dynamic decision-making entity itself
right here. Versus for example, baseball,
which is often a common comparator.
The biggest issue. The baseball doesn't have a
pitch component, which takes away one, Big Driver of
differentiation that it's only the end wins that you need to
correct for. Yep.
Yep.
The picture actually doesn't pitch the ball.
So correct. Exactly.
And I did again, like the other thing I guess is that like, in
baseball and MLB has 162 games per team per season.
Using it with post. So it's like the amount of data
is simply not comparable. So a, you could have some noise,
which can kind of make end up making, you think you have some
deep Insight on some player? And so on 100% 100%.
I think it is something that we need to often.
Correct for, right? So when we look at so we have a
metric is very similar to a lot of that.
You have to predict. What is a win like to you after
every ball, right? And what happens in that
particular ball is in assigned to the pattern of the Border
accordingly. Yeah, makes sense to use that
whole most cash for outrageous jumps.
So, for example, sometimes you take two wickets in an oval,
right? That's a my changing exercise in
itself. You know, what is the border is
done that? Just once in his career, you
know, you have to give it that way.
They said you can assume that he's always a match winner.
Yeah, of course. Yeah.
And and but what he would have
done put 10 because any do aggregated into look very
Exciting because he's had 14 ticket Hall.
Yeah, and the season. Something looks like it looks
very different. But if you look at WP is
actually done it. In one game is added.
You fantastically given a win in a game, but then, it has just
been a setup, you know, is not lost two games.
Yep. The drawing that difference in
data is very tricky because like you said is 14 games and and The
Fringe players get to play 34 games, if they are lucky.
So Cricket has a challenge because depth of data is very
very limited compared to MLB. Oh, yeah, so I - Cricket itself
as a challenge with respect to MLB.
What's it like in like this is sports like badminton volleyball
covered. Eh, it's a the same thing, you
know? Yesterday.
We were reading this article on the Olympic site where they were
where sine squared, which Carolina's Martinez, given an
interview. She has been collecting data for
15 years of all her matches. And now, Fifteen years.
How old is he? She's about 20 cheaply the lead
with his 2007. He won the gold in 2014.
So I guess she must convince not that young as well.
So p60 they didn't do anything serious, 2016.
Yeah. Yeah, that's when we started
working with sign erect. It was in the run-up to that
obesity and and even doing this for 15 years, right?
And they have 15 years worth of data bank and update that.
She said she said my biggest Different issues that I have
these 15 years worth of data on my opponents and on myself.
Okay, and and honestly, that is the investment.
You need to make in a sport. If you want to really stand up a
right Djokovic, did this in tennis a few years ago when we
were following ten is very closely.
Okay, he bought out the company that does 10 is analytic and
make them work with him exclusively.
Okay. Okay.
And to biginsights, right? One was he?
The job Djokovic was world number three for the longest
time, if you remember, right? Yes, he is.
And he's 49 percent of the shots.
He played. So it's not like he was, he was
doing exceptionally. Well, yep, and then, he moved
ordinary person up to 51. Yeah, and I'm from World.
Number 32 such an Undisputed world.
Number one. It is fascinating, right?
And then he will start, he basically needed to break down
the games of his two major opponents.
Nadal and Federer, you have to Tote The Note, right?
And yeah, of course. And he he always believed a
model of the breaking down Federer's game, right?
Where they resist, it is Stark. So he used to hit more than 50%
of the boys to Federer's backhand.
Okay, and he kept doing it even if he was in a bad position.
Even if Federer was expecting, but he still kept going and his
model of hitting at the back and through the game because he said
over a match. If I do that long enough.
I'm going to get enough errors, so He started playing the
percentage game there, although he moved is more aggressive.
I guess. But on the contrary there are
very few players who are able to apply the insights from
analytics and transform their game, you know, if we look at
even the but by that time that would keep that is according to
us. The main reason that Nadal
Federer and Djokovic have dominated intense generation and
a dominating the Next Generation.
Also, right, we're evolving their game, which is just, I
mean, it is not reasonable to win the number of B is a three
of them everyone here it is. Just not reasonable.
Yeah, especially when you're playing in the same generation
rate. Someone should be with you.
We also saw this. A lot is federal, right?
He had a terrible Year in 2012 that he was tried in the peak of
his game was winning titles and then he went through a year and
a half its own retail. Single finals, obviously capable
in a dollar. Federal is not like he kept
losing the everyone understand. Why branca won three titles in
that period also, right? And then so Frederic came back
and Transformers game just to be in a game of shorter rallies.
He started sacrificing points. To go for shorter rallies and he
basically started cutting into the net.
So he realized that people are going people as an Italian joke,
which are going at his backhand through an entire Minds.
Yeah. So he's only way to counter that
is to either walk into the net or play even more aggressive.
In the first three, four shots in the denominator.
We have read that, he tuned screaming also to being that he
stopped doing any long rally trainings.
He only did for some trainings is really even care.
Obviously. He had the game to completely
change training schedule for this happen.
If the dings I'm leading with the pinch of the player being
able to execute, right? He always had the belief that he
can pay the rest of the Murray. Just played for Scott rallies in
all his practice. So, it changes practice
partners. He changed his approach to the
game. And now we're at 3940, if it
wasn't for the locker, I can email know the last two years
would have looked the semifinals and finals.
Now, we lose a few even win a few, but it's just a percentage
is game way that he gets that obviously Djokovic is at this
point. Two years ago, pointed probably
the peak of his career and he's held up in for two.
Long, however, however, you slice and dice the data.
They are all standout players. The thing is what you thought of
you were there. With this example of Critter is
that like analytics, in some sense is a bit of herb
competitive game, right? Like you figure out some
weakness in your opponent. And if you are playing each
other regularly, the opponent then figures out how to counter
what you found, assuming that they can, they can follow
through on the idea that they got and so on.
And then it's a sort of a back and forth from there in terms of
like how to sort of how Oh my God, what do you say?
How to outsmart each other in and so on terok, nor spot on?
Because I see I would think about daytime's portrayed in a
few Dimensions where we are right now, only talking about
performance analytics till now the conversation, right?
Yes. Yes, performance analytics.
With this is probably the only thing where you are looking for
an inside yourself and often inside will take a couple of
years to combine, and then another couple of years to
really Implement. Yep.
And then why? By the time you implement in a
year of other people has to go to do.
They are all starting to come to it.
Yep. So, you already have started
looking for her next inside you needed or started training for
an extension. So, that is where analytics kind
of helps push the game forward when, you know, as you can
imagine has you as a low-hanging fruit fruits, get discovered.
The next level of insight is much longer to discover a much
much longer to implement date. Yep.
Play people think of Spain in the World Cup right?
Where they played the style of short passes.
Yeah, once it worked, the way that it got adopt adapted very
quickly or countered, very quickly, was also interesting to
watch, right? The style did work in the next
World Cup itself. Very next World Cup with
drop-down spectacularly in the defense of solder is too short
passing game. I mean, while Spain won those
three titles 2008-10 912, the two euros, and the World Cup.
And then like they have not been a force on the worldsheet of it.
But somebody like same Pep Guardiola with Manchester city
has now won three out of four titles.
So in the last four years by slightly adapting is here.
But again, I guess Club football you play at a much higher
frequency than than its Russian Football.
So it's easier to sort of adapt in the, in club football.
I guess. Compared to International.
Seaman human trait of having lot of data on football or say we
have a slightly different point of view analytics, right?
Okay, football is a very continuous game and and I almost
believe that, you know, the largest value analytics can
bring into football, is selecting the right squad for
the opposition in front of you and selected the right Squadron
and postseason. You know, what?
Because in season In a match, if you to break those who take
analytics right down to the match, right?
Given that this is it you have a only value analytics release to
pre-plan for, who is our opponent.
What are they typically doing then?
What can you do to counter that? After that?
What happens on the ground? That is how good is your
execution versus a plan? It also requires at least, 45
people to come together for any part of the plan to work.
Yep, right. So often deviation from plan
also is not a function one. Person and the analytics is
honestly the ability of analytics to take five moving
bodies and take a plan. Measure how these five movie
bodies are doing against the plan is impossible, especially
when you don't even know what the plan is.
It has an analyst unless you're a journalist sitting right in
setting, this was the plan and these are the big deviations
from the plan. So in football, I feel like all
of the thinking unexpected goal. It's a lot of Statistics, but
Well, I believe that the impact of all of this on actual
performance is almost negligible, right?
Analytics is really a planning tool in football, but I do not
believe anything is a fairly controversial.
Belief, in today's world, where I think the the value of
analytics and football is really to help help a coach with
planning or the manager planning for an upcoming opposition and
the bigger package was really, how do you build a meaningful
score, which you, which can deliver two?
Ian's having input voltage, especially like I see all these
like sort of. I hate those these spider charts
that keep getting proper put up. I mean, recently be athletic as
recruited one. Analytics writer is their
football team and like this full of fur spider chassis, like okay
wind. I got injured would you replace
them with? Look at all the spider charge of
all the other Defenders all over Europe and say like, okay, maybe
we could go with this guy that again.
So it's a bit of a sort of and XD itself is a bit of a In my
opinion itself reasonably use this metric because it just dip.
It's just a function of where you shoot from.
It's a function of where you should try.
Mine. It doesn't.
You don't it doesn't matter whether you have an open goal,
whether there's a full wall in front of you, whatever it
doesn't matter. It's just a function of x and y
coordinate in front of the goal. What's the likelihood?
You are going to shoot from. There is the herb, in my
opinion. It's a meaningless metric.
Yeah, you know, we we all agree, we completely concur on on that.
We think also is listen to be for us to work in football.
There. Only choices are Indian clubs.
Yeah, it's let's be there is not at the Pinnacle of the sport,
right? Yep, and I guess it, what we've
observed in India. Also, is that working with with
franchisees and teams are not requires, a lot of buy-in at the
other end of the bar. One of the content of what
you're sharing needs to at least be Even water sharing, they need
to invest their time to grow the asset even angle.
It is not an acid that it's not going to deliver returns in the
first three weeks. If somebody believes that then,
you know, they should work with who can offer that.
I believe. I need is a long-term
investment, right? You have to go to the process.
Has to kind of be done and the outcome will slowly start
falling in place. Especially in something like
sport because you need to, also your whole system needs to align
to work with the data you're getting, or with the principles
of using data in decision. Making right.
The esight probably has to come from the other side, right?
From the management, from the coach.
You just give the tools and when the internalized it, that's when
there is some connection to implementation, finally, on the
field. Yeah.
I need the think loaded Sports, Sportsmen and sportswomen.
Experts in their field in their own right and to expect them to
kind of apply analytics which is not their core competency.
Right. Is some unfair to do.
Yeah, I guess I'd also like a I guess in some sense some sense,
a lot of people the stuff that they do is like this is do
things because it's sexy because it's like sort of it's a cool
girl cool thing. Okay Liverpool got a PhD in
physics to head their Analytics. See so Manchester United with
also higher, if PhD in physics to hit their analytical,
something like that. I would think what analytics
right is for the gentlemen take for big Dimensions, right?
There. Is that what we have open till
now is really performance analytics.
There's a lot of Indonesian Squad selection when there's a
lot of the count, there's a lot of analytics, which is relevant
for fan engagement, right? Yep.
There is this whole layer which is what you and we have done for
a living, which is an analytics for the, for running the
business. Yep, and I've been running the
sports business. Also, you need to look at a
time. It is not just a single fit.
All right, and and often any talk of sports analytics, right?
Everyone focuses very, very quickly on performance analytics
and why I believe the account of what we vote was saying that
outcome and performance analytics is dependent on so
many factors. Beyond just the analysts
ability. Yep.
It is dependent on the ability of the athlete to execute
command. It is the ability of the athlete
coach and the analyst to come up with an Eatable plan that means
analysts needs to not just do. The analytic were also converted
into into language that the coach and athlete can buy into.
And to be honest you and we should know this, right?
Converting an observer and insight into and into something
that the athlete or the course can execute is not an easy
switch. Absolutely.
Absolutely, especially in sports.
I guess the coaches usually not somebody who is like, even in
general very well versed with Data and things like that.
Exactly. So they have to, they have to
understand the process, right? Yep.
Take for us working with Chennai, Super Kings has really
been exciting because, you know, the management and the coaching
staff have made the effort to understand what we are doing.
Yep. They don't just the understand
what we are able to and what we are not able to.
So sometimes there's no expectations of.
Obviously, we are doing a lot of predictor work with them.
And, you know, when you have a predictive, when you do
predictive of you, say there's a Like business 35 percent
likelihood that this will happen and then they come back and
Signal, will it happen or not happen?
And I googled, you know, there's a 35% chance.
It will happen. Yeah.
Yeah, and then how we measure success of predictions, right?
Thank you. The league at least has 14
games. So we can say, we predicted when
likelihood for a team to be 57 percent over 14 games and, you
know, over 14 games. Are we, are we on track that
attics times? We have been working with
Chennai, Super Kings 44, Yours now, right?
And and obviously it is a it is an investment on both sides to
to understand the other side and honesty, try and deliver value
in that period to each other, right?
Yeah. Do you think it's a very
continuous continuous process that needs to keep happening?
Yep. Okay, let's sub slightly change
tack again. I mean, I have a brother.
So we, I think I was very excited by how you broke down
the badminton court into your 7 into 3, grid and so on.
So, how do you buy? I'm assuming you guys have done
similar work in, like cupboard be volleyball Etc as well.
Because, like there again, I'm guessing there is a sort of a, I
mean, if you think about something like football, which I
watch a lot of it's like, usually you talk about 4, 3 3 4
2, 3 1, and so on which is the main we will.
Formations in zone. So I'm pretty sure there's
something similar that is there, which I have not watched too
much of it, but in sports, like, company, volleyball Exeter.
So, how do you kind of how do you go about analyzing a new
game? New sport that you sort of get
into and Etc? See, couple D.
Obviously, we are is very close to us.
Right? We have, we have not lie.
We started doing comedy analytics.
We have now built a couple D business itself.
You've commandeered L is aiming to kind of bring all the
information of cricket of all the information of covered being
together, you know, we're trying to connect the comedy fan to the
play. Are we doing a lot of that?
So obviously analytics for the fan is very is integral to the
cupboard, get the story right? Yep.
Help me the cookie fan, just look at the sport, like the
cricket fan looks at sport. Right?
And that is that, that something dear to us.
But, you know, coming to Cabo Verde, we haven't recovered.
T is really nice. Isn't all said, and done, right.
All credit to the league with brought the sport to the
Forefront. That's when analytics even came
close to the sport. We have actually this season on
season here on here as a sport, is the world.
The way the sport is being played itself is getting very
different. So at this point analytics that
I did two years ago is almost completely redundant today.
In the way. We started the way we break the
players away. We analyze players we Rank and
build a squads all very different now, because when we
started when cavity probably started the something we started
observing. Professionally, what the
prevalence of all around us was quite significant ready.
For example, can you break it down for our listeners, many of
whom I have played comedy, when I was a kid, but I think many of
our listeners may not have played it.
So, can you just break this down into the?
You just make some noise on the sport?
Yeah, maybe that will help. Yeah.
It's a maybe 30 seconds. One team will be ready.
The other team will defend. Yep.
There's always one Raider who's reading against a defense which
starts with People every time but he loses a point, a player
leaves the coat. Yes, so if you think about it,
so you're not really getting a point.
You're also losing the opponent, also losing a player.
So you would think that the reading the team that is gaining
points. Gains in power very, very
quickly. Yes, but what really happens in
Cabo Verde is when your, when your defenses down to four and
five people, it's almost impossible for the data to get
points. It is really tough tough
balance. So in some sense, when you lose
those first two point, you're actually make your Defense much
better. Okay, so that man's then, pulls
it back in favor of the team. That is down a couple of points.
And then we go down to three players If you defend you get
two points instead of the typical one point.
Very, very Priceless. Is that a PK lonely or is that
in all be about, 220 root even defenses down with three people,
you get two points. If you get a defending point,
you have to make it a one-point. Yeah, and I guess when you get a
point, you can also bring back one player onto the field,
right? But you bring backup clear.
Not equal to point players. Equal to number of players going
on that. Many players come in.
Yep. Yep.
So in defending the three people
you get two points, but one pair comes back in.
So you both to for third offense again dangerous.
He walked 25 your defense again. Dangerous.
Yeah, right. And so through this transition
from disorder since they were players who could you know, as a
league started never players who could defend and Ray?
Yeah Ray Dozer, just barely ever even had multi-skilled.
Eels, and when the sport is being played on mud, you know,
the defense is much better than reading grade has really
struggled in the game environment because it's slow.
Yeah. So the trader speed is slower.
Whereas in the game is move to Madison become much faster.
So Defenders struggle, much more open areas are a lot of readers
are able to get points, especially if you have in mind,
and then you play on Mac to become much faster.
And the other way doesn't work. Right?
If you've always played in math and going to Mud becomes not
easy for the for a reader. But Defenders, of course it
makes sense. And now what we are using is a
sport is about to becoming one of our Specialists also because
there are more matches happening, you know, it's very
tough for the body to record if you're doing too many things you
need the time. So there is kind of two ways of
playing, you know, when there are small tournaments, the 34d
tournament you would see both Specialists and all around us
being relevant and when you, when you see the law, Longer
format tournaments, whether a lot of matches happening over to
3 months, then people start saying, you know, start noticing
special to someone important. I play one role in the in that
team. Yeah, and you would even look,
which would we have noticed the parallels between poverty and
basketball is fascinating. Okay, and that would be the Lord
of our analytics and analytical thinking also and storytelling.
And so please, oh, please. Oh, please tell us about that.
Because I think this is a very Fascinating analogy.
I mean apart from you have like in one you have five players in
one you have between three and seven players.
So apart from that click were the how are they similar?
So, I mean you can think of basketball.
Also, as a Quantum sport, right? Just like a birdie cover T.
Every 30 seconds, some event happens when a radio goes to the
position. Same thing happens in basketball
team because actually, we have 30 seconds to actually shoot
their basket and learning and another Parable, when it
especially comes from, what is it?
This strong link weak link. Sort of analysis, right?
Yep. So basic In basketball, your
best shooter can take practically every shot that your
team takes into the basket. Right?
So we're obviously improving your probability of winning.
Where is similarly? Similarly, poverty, your reader
can go for alterations. Your team has to go for.
So, thank you. When you getting a team, you get
one Superstar readers, a smart thing to do because he can
actually go for 40 of out of the 45 raids.
If he has the Well, make sense. On the other hand.
It's more like football, right? It's a clean sport.
Do you want one the weakness in your defense?
Because that guy is going to get caught more often than not very
similar to basketball. Great defense needs to work
together. When you can keep hitting the
ball to your 1, Min shooter. If you have the ability,
obviously in the NBA at the highest level is now become
different. That is one big battle is with
the evolution of spirit. Quality in be involved.
It was considered a black sport as if its early days of a
solution, right? It's still dominated by a lot of
athletes of color. For, what is really exciting is
that, you know, it keep it in its Evolution.
It really came. It was a sport played by, not
the rich by the not rich State segment of society.
Yes, but the best players of the sport version of the home
country of this port, right? Yep, all you can probably create
10 basketball teams, 10 USB. Basketball team, which will win
the Olympics. Yes, you mix up your similar to
a birdie, right? You can create 10 teams.
Although India lost the Asian Games, gold this time.
You can have 10 teams from India, which will be in the top
ten or twelve teams. Yeah, with an Iran, in The
Courier coming in baby. And which again credit to the
last two years of development that has happened, even in these
countries that is parallel in how the sport Ebbs and flows,
right? Is something you can see,
Manifest itself in analytics, all back.
She said the strongly how the Raiders, what the reader, that
contributes to your team. There is often very, very it's
very tough to quantify because there are there are two impacts
supposed a reader who gets a gets one point every rate,
right? Yes, you're not taking out the
player and that player goes, make your and then you bring the
opposition down to five players. At that point.
You're not really able to get ready and then the opposition
sends a Raider, he gets out. So they get back to 16 to take
another pointing. You haven't read.
Better take single poems is very different in value delivery to a
player who can take a multi-country.
Here's a multi-point, a movie of would opposition of 624 very
quickly. And I know that in price, he
does that in two games, you are likely to win those games if we
can pull it off two or three times in a game.
So yeah do the the multi-point shooter becoming very valuable,
ya know like the image I have in my head about cup of tea, maybe
some movies and stuff is that The reader goes pretty much six
out of the seven guys would have touched him and the rate of
which great difficulty comes back and manages to slap The
Lion and the the other team gets all oh does it?
That's the image of Comedy that you have from Bollywood.
Let's say and then like from mastered their most recent
movie. I ever watched any movies in the
last 10 years. So I'm talking about like some I
wrote on some old Salman Khan movie.
I'm thinking of I don't even know which movie but but But he
is so in pickle that doesn't happen.
I guess, I guess you only get like one or two outs in a raid
and so on, once a to say, it's happened, once, Okay, who wants
took six points in a rate of Fox Point, 6 Plus, and then the
Slick guy and he got six points with the.
There were only six players on, Matt.
You got all six on the mat and and because the team were
already got two points on a date, so it was neat.
Point rate effective bomb. Obviously, the game was over,
right? The team won the game.
It didn't matter to bigger lead. So this is a short after that,
the game just. It was a good game to let point
and it just dissipated. Oh, how is company in science?
Some say some music, for example, in IPL what we saw this
year is that like, there are some games which are which are
like very well in contests. And so on, there are some games
are let's say there's some gives a weak King, Solomon, made him
110 120 and you you that there's no point watching the game from
the Not that it is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
It quickly becomes one side and I see this more in ODI Cricket
than a T20 where a game can very quickly become one-sided, while
about 10% of the game's called, possibly like, remain exciting,
till the end zone. So how's it going, buddy, and
other sports. That you cover that is, you
know, you brought the other thing that is very similar
between Capaldi and basketball trade, but still has a lot of
close games. It's a district Ali, right?
And nobody is very similar because the ability to come back
is actually Tight, I have seen a few games team has gone up. 10
0. Good happens very quickly.
You get to three first user ID, a first 10 points, but once
other team regroups way, they can also get back to the same
evening points. And, you know, it it's a game
where a couple of Errors can suddenly turn the game on.
Yeah. So I have seen games with the
teams are one being eight points down with three minutes to go.
It should not happen. You have as to error different
and you will certainly have a lot of pressure and because it's
it's So fast, like worst of all the time for the code, there's
no time for courts to step in and, you know, kind of calm the
situation if you don't have a timeout left, yes.
Yes. Yes, you're acting under
pressure. And you know how you'll react
when the president only made more errors, right?
Yep, that would be so exciting. There is, you know, there is a
very small percentage of games that were actually, you know,
where you can predict the result very very quickly into the game,
right? When to average teams play, the
still high quality match. When two really strong team
spirit, still very hyper. And over the users, like what
you seen with, you know, even in the cup of tea Nationals Talent
is spreading over. So there is not two or three,
who teaches already eight or nine good stating, otherwise,
Ariana Railways and services of the three strong teams, even in
the tournament. We conducted in the K7, you
know, there were 16 teams. We think there were 12
outstanding team went because we were limited.
We couldn't conduct a longer event because of code can the
quality of gameplay between teams so high.
They were there were three years at that ended with a 1-point
difference, right? Okay, click yes to time.
And these are all the nude, all these big debates on, who should
rank higher because the fact is, you know, using a small sample
set of decided ranking team is not fair also, right?
Yes. Yes.
Yes, interesting property. That is what we are seeing.
We are seeing a lot of Close Encounters because quality is
generally stepped up, right? That's what we are.
Open the K7 and even the senior Nationals on the other hand.
If you look at International matches, very, very well
deserved. It is putting them in the local
matches us quite interesting. Whereas, when you look at it at
an international skills. It's still not scaled across the
country yet again like basketball.
Yeah, exactly. Was the word we use an analogy.
But every day we see it. You know, they just, it is
staring at you of is actually, you know, what, the next time I
watch basketball. I don't think based on the
energy that you give me. I don't think I can unsee it
when I see, but I keep wondering why in NBA.
First one team attacks, then immediately, another team
attacks. And so.
And so now if I just think of it as a game of kabaddi, it's
really it's just going to be the it's going to make more sense to
me. Yeah, it is.
Okay, so being in. So I guess it's covered in terms
of analytics and so on, you do things like cup.
How does it rate of perform given?
How many players are in the picture near the side and so on?
And and those are some of the things that you quantify.
And I guess you also have like your regions of the cortex
things like that. I'm guessing select and
happening difference is very exciting to do and latex for
right? Okay, because the defense just
not a function of how, you know, we, when we started doing
analytics and Cover TV were really visually how each player
was doing in the Did you ever hear of?
So, and then we started talking to coaches and present in
coaches kept saying. No, but this is not how it
works. See this way didn't do enough.
We just started the tackle. Those four guys who came after
are much more important, others is really useless tackle.
Yeah, right. Okay, so and that is almost
impossible to quantify. You think?
Tell you how you would quantify that, right?
Yeah. You guys know if I didn't
quantify, how do you collect the data?
Like the okay. I see.
Now tell me about how you collect the data for somebody
having liquid. Because it's a Continuous within
each. I mean each rate is a discrete
event. But within that there is a lot
of micro events that happen unless it's in badminton with
each shot is a discrete event and women is very easy compared
to cover D because every shot has a has a life of its own,
right? And it has a starting point and
an ending point yet. Clear within the rate.
There is no starting point and ending point.
There is something that's going on.
Their number of humans. I would say on the court is
their biggest difference and it also there are eight.
People on the code, red. I mean number of Defenders plus
one Accord during any rate continues.
Yes. Yes.
So because he has very nice
scent in covered a great. I would say, I mean, if I have
to qualify quantify where your, I think there's a long way for
analytics, to grow in comedy still, but we are doing things.
Like, who are The Defenders on code, how many of them, how are
they positioned? Well, when people stand, during
any radiant defense also, very big impact, right?
Some people are very good in some positions.
On the mat that some people are very good in the same position
when there are lesser people on the map.
Yeah, right. Yep.
There are these. If I had to name the defensive
position just for swear. I don't, I'll explain them.
Yeah, that the do corner positions And Then There are the
to cover positions, the two covers play, inside the two
corners. What do the four main defensive
positions, but the to Raider, it's often the Raiders who stand
with the two Corner Defenders is one of the Traders is an
all-rounder. We are very valuable Defender
because the guy standing next to the corner Defender, right,
whether the opposing writers, always looking at the corners.
Yes. So, the person standing inside,
the corner can get a lot of good points.
If your corner, Israel is standing in the right position.
The Raider is trying to avoid the corner and this the corner
in as you call. It has the ability to get a lot
of good tactic points, you know? Good as in three or four talking
points in the game, extremely Priceless.
If one different is going into three teams in the game.
Yep. Here's the ability to do that
very consistently if he has a skill so specific skill, right?
And but, but the minute you become four Defenders, that guy
was standing next to the corner is a pointless Defender.
You can do very little. Yeah.
Yeah, sodium skill level player.
So that's and then you have to start quantifying.
What are the skills, you know, we've tried to break down the
skills of each defensive position.
So there are two kinds predominant skill for each.
Defensive position is slightly different right for the corner.
The predominant skills would be to put in an ankle hold to time
the start. Yeah.
In this context, which he just said now, right?
We did a small biomechanics sort of study.
Okay, so there is the call for deep novel and we're deep level
of 8 points cream. Yes.
He was. He was a huge Nemesis for all
the teams. So we thought.
Okay, let us break down his successful rage and unsuccessful
rates. Really?
What is the difference between the two from the aspects of his
positioning? And when the defense tackles,
right? Yeah.
And the thing which we came With.
It seems obvious in hindsight, is that every time his center of
gravity, slightly outside his feet, right?
Yeah, then it's the dash comes from the Defenders.
It's a, it's a success for the Defenders.
Okay? Okay, but it's the timing of the
difference is one second before that when he is, you know,
comfortably stable. Then he takes away all of them.
Within when you do go to the code.
I mean, it is a very interesting piece of analytics, but I don't
know if but Deep can use it or the Defenders can use how you
would connect the data for this. Because I think it's almost like
you are. How are you?
I mean, it's such a continuous support.
If I had only one microsecond one millisecond later.
I get it's almost like you have got back to your center of
balance and so like you can do that.
Same sort of analysis of very center of gravity is where his
body is, how is like angle is. And we looked at a lot of these
things. But the thing, which matter was
the co g. Wow.
Wow, this completely fascinating.
It was a one, one and a half month exercises just to give you
context. I will these important for
people to recognize, it's not to go with my dad, all your fears.
So, I think now, this brings me to a question of a, I mean,
obviously like sports, like a NBA there.
Of the MLB. Even to some extent.
IPL football etcetera, they have money.
So they could they can afford to pay for this kind of a analytic
and so on if it takes 11 and half, once you get this kind of
an inside, I'll be like and if you are paid fairly for it, I
can imagine it being like, fairly expensive but I can't.
So, how do you get, how do you find the analytics?
I mean like analytics has a long-term project.
So how do you really find it and what to what our teams and
different sports doing on that so far?
I do think we started covered data to make money.
Your analytics, if we will recap, we really enjoy doing
comedy analytics, right? And there was no way a franchise
team, an athlete, anybody in the ecosystem, code, funded,
exercise, until we know. And we think the sport has a way
to evolve and we wanted to be part of the journey.
So it made sense for us to kind of, at least in comedy to be
part of the entire growth story. Right?
To help the growth along. So we'll cover T.
I think it is very much an investment, a tyrant, and it is
really our interest and incentive to do it.
It. But in other sports it has to be
the funded exercise and you know, you are seeing as you can
imagine. You know, what we did with the
city Only rather than you just said is automatable.
It can be you know, automatable has it can be moved into video
analytics. If you get the right that you
you have the video you just need to start cutting it.
And you need to First build a tool.
You need to train the tool, both our Global exercises painful
time consuming but very doable. And then it will start
collecting the data for specific readers.
And then obviously include a human, because you have to do
error correction. Every time be that gets
collected. Correct?
Yep. So, we want to get there and we
believe poverty will get the probably in a few years right
there. In the meantime, once you've
discovered the inside, you can you can expect that cameras will
start collect recording videos. It said that will let you
collect this data so you can set up cameras for data collection,
right? They create exactly it.
Exactly. Yeah, we can has cameras for
data collection. Okay.
Yeah, you need live in poverty. For example, you will need a top
view and the job you will it attract all players on the mat.
But the fact is how do you track players?
When when a tackles happen to those are suddenly eight players
who look like one lump in. All of these efforts will will
take its own related Zone interest.
It will we believe that all of this will come if the fan.
Is tied into the sport, that is a fan, enjoys a sport.
The analytics will follow that. And which is probably what both
all the is drawn and MLB and we NFL of also new and of course, I
will show you the same thing away.
Yes. I just got fan Cricket.
Had one thing going for a rated always at data over the last 20
years it is they have made data storytelling element.
It's not happen today or yesterday, right?
Has happened over 20. Years, very actively, every
commentator, every platform using data to tell the story.
Yeah, and I think that that is a mindset that we are trying to
build in kabaddi and it's, it will be a similarly, long
journey probably shorter because, you know, people now
and crickets already educated the audience to look at data.
Yeah. So a lot of the analytical
initially Camuto, Drive value to the fan, but if your ass and do
you have your own narrative for the sport?
Which brings me to the other thing?
You have got you've led me on to my next question.
What role does they say? Things like betting wherever
it's legal and fantasy wherever betting is not legal.
What what role does that play in sort of in sort of developing
the game overall and in sort of the developing analytics and and
things like that because the p7 tournament, right?
We were getting around, say fine. 100 users watching the
match live at any point. So then nine matches nine out of
24 matches. We had dream level putting out a
game on their platform. Yeah, right.
On the fantasy platform. Immediately the data on our
website, for a player called neeraj Kumar spiked up, because
people are now looking at stacks of neeraj Kumar and the place
even, I don't know who he is, right?
Okay. So what is the need for
consumption of Statistics data number?
For the staff and suddenly we're fantasy.
Come, the equation. I think it creates that need and
that's the that's probably where the meat in some sense.
We noticed that it brings a fan closer to the sport, right?
You are invested in the sport. We're just watching a person.
Yeah, and that that that is what the u.s.
Always had reduced always at Fantasy 4 years running rate.
Yep, please my favorite Fantasy game was a part of sitcom
culture sitcoms used to talk about people.
Running to create this Fantasy game in the middle of sitting in
the loom. It was an Indian popular sitcom
side. Yeah.
And so you're talking about fantasy as a part of basic
culture, paying your regular Frankie game.
We never spoke about betting as part of the regular ones.
With the always spoke about creating a fantasy inviting
friends as a couple of episodes. Two and a Half Men has a
girlfriend that principle to Modern I'm doing all the
long-running sitcoms have fantasy brought up enough times.
Yep. So it's a part of basic culture
and and like Daniel just said, right, the traction bestowing
our own data for games where where there was an ability to
put a fantasy team, Andre Miller versus game where you couldn't
create a team on finances and driven.
It was still very interesting. Yeah, and a site went down, that
is not happen to us in the last, okay.
So what I say is they can normally you have the exam
server core audience which are which will watch the game
anyways, and so you would have the data from that and they'll
be watching and I think once you bring in fantasy and a
well-designed fantasy and so on, then that can that will also
bring in a sort of a marginal audience, people who are in it
just because like I know friends who live in the UK, who bet on
dog, Gracie, I mean, I don't think they've ever gone to see a
dominating show. Dog.
Crazy, dog race, but they bet on it because it's there on on the
betting sites in. Yeah, I guess they just listing
one of your events on deemed. Evan means that like, they'll be
some interest in that. Will that can in induce organic
interesting, cupboard, if you think about it, because people
would have watched it just for the heck of betting and then
like they like the sporting so on.
Yeah, and and, you know, I think see fantasies are level of way
from betting regular scientist. He's is making, you think about
a player level and that makes it very different, because you're
not right, you're hunting. A macro decision, you're saying,
will this one player be interesting today or Windows has
been? And because has a fan, you're
taking that move about these one or two players being
interesting, you're making a call, right?
This guy is going to be testing today.
So you're suddenly watch. This one is already said that
playing who helped you are not. Yeah, yes.
I did the watching the sport. You're not looking the result on
the spot. You can we bring that the fangs.
He's tied to the story. Come back was an extremely busy
like watching that game because X obviously the steam will
definitely come back. System doesn't mean he may not
come back, but we feel like that connect to the sport grows.
I mean, like, I think I had the so when we talk about like sort
of sports and it against the analytics and stuff.
Most people will talk about the word uses Moneyball after the,
the Michael Lewis book and movie later on.
So and I'm sure you would have gotten questions from everyone.
Like what is the scope of my money voluntary K towards the
core scope of Moneyball in comedy and so on.
So that probably the Android that like, why don't you talk
about? Like, I mean, I guess this is
the sort of you spoke about performance analytics versus
like, Business analytics Moneyball I guess is more of a
macro business analytics kind of a thing where you try to where
you use data to sort of build build squads and so on.
Right? So, how was that worked out in
in different sports? Like, where is it under used?
Where is it? / used in your opinion and like,
and what? And yet talked about everything
and finally come to the ability. So I think see, we've done a lot
of this work in cricket and comedy specifically, right?
So in cricket, we think, See, one of the big differences
between, you know, the most natural comparison is cricket
and baseball, right? The biggest difference between
baseball and Cricket is that baseball me?
It is it's kind of unconstrained spending spending.
So some teams can spend 4X of what other team spent.
So one of the reasons something like money will happen in
baseball is because the teams had less money still wanted to
be competitive and for them to be competitive.
They had to step away from the traditional.
Definition or understanding of this port.
So if I take the equivalent in cricket, the tradition
understanding is, you need young players to build a T20 scorer,
right? Yeah.
Thankfully in the first season and cska.
That is only thing with this pain.
We said that doesn't make any sense, you know, players really
peak in their 30s. Yeah, and that that was our,
that was our big inside for the season and that is probably why,
you know, it would add is one of the places where we got a lot of
buying because then we were able to buy players like so.
Half Shane Wynn that once auction, we got fast.
She wasn't in her words and sing, right?
Yes. Yes, but, but to be fair, all
three have been matched winners over this period of time, yeah.
And and, and similar insights, right?
So, so that is, for example, one big.
So money, collinsport really requires you to death first
demonstrate, an insight, and then user inside to build your
team before others catch up on that, right?
Yep. And so, for example, in cricket,
that was a Those one specific Insight which allowed us to
build a team. Now, the other, for example,
very interesting thing that happens between nobody in
baseball and covered cricket. Is it Cricket?
Everyone's running a limited purse, right?
All the twelve eight teams have the same defined purse.
So it is now a function of how much do you spend on whom, you
know, cska always retaining a large part of their core, right?
Yes. They very rarely try.
To bring too much change into their thinking if something
works. Why break it?
And in the process works, why I try to create a new one.
Yeah. It's clearly a mantra of
success. All said and done it is it is 10
years, 10 years of data to say no stealing something, right?
Of course they have. Yeah, and, and one of the other
things we are beginning to notice itís.
If you look at the, if you look at the cricket field, and if you
look at, if you look at where the catches, I think, you know
where the most teal events happen to have four or five.
Dominant positions in feeling, right?
So this whole theory of saying, you want fantastic Fielder's
across a cricket field is is I think fairly Humber, you know,
it is sad. It's a little like baseball
where they, where you want pictures, who have a strong arm
and we'll throw fast. You don't you just need a mix of
you beneath Regal fielders in baseball.
Yep. You don't need several filters.
Emily. You need two or three.
Good filters on your field, probably, for if you want to be
a great feeling, right? This one who thing, right?
When we are forming teams for instance, in cricket.
I think while in forming a team, you need to have an idea about
what the role of the person is. Yeah, right, like for instance.
Do I look at dhoni as just a batsman or just as a batsman and
a captain? So that was one question.
We kind of came up with Ray. Yeah, and you come to the
question. What is the role of a captain
and what we realized was that every time?
When he is on the field, the bowlers have a win probability
5% more than they have if he's not on the field.
So suddenly, let me stop you here.
How did you even get this data? Because cfk the VA almost never
played Without zoning. So how did you even get your
cheetah? Three matches in 2004 Battle, of
course, a few years back problem back spasm.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
See if this is noise or data. Also is not something I can even
argue with heavily for or against yet.
Yeah, we feel we have collected enough noise out.
We have looked at a player by player.
We this something we did over a long period of time that we
looked at all players who have played with dhoni.
However, they played outside, how have they defend their best?
So what do we do? We said, how do they play in
cser? Did they play outside?
Then in case k? How did they play?
When he The renewal is not there in the four games.
It's for bullers, then for players who have played with cs.
Can Garner what? What have they done on set?
So we have tried to correct for noise when we still think there
is a 5% Delta that he brings over to the bowling unit.
Wow, right? Okay, and I think in some sense
right? It's very tough to buy something
like that. And if it is true, as you can
understand, I mean, obviously the system management.
Peter seen it yet when there is a doesn't exist right now.
And if I have to quantify and you add 5% performance
Improvement for a player, when you put them in the squad, you
can use what happens. Why it has neither.
Why? The thing looks pretty I can
imagine playing Tony, you know standing like Gail is doing it.
Kind of brings you into one more thing right?
Which we did in the course of this Moneyball, analytic sort of
thing. Yes.
We looked at just 25 metrics in cricket.
Which might lead to a, you know, win in the end for instance to
your top. Best Batman scoring or be the
Matrix. We were looking at were trying
to address. What is the likelihood a team
can qualify for a season exactly, right?
Yeah. We looked at these 2030 Matrix,
right? How much is your top order?
Batsman, scoring? What is your death?
Batsman, scoring? When is the first week it taken
and the most? Don't metric which came out of
all. This is again, a weak Link in
your boning. So what's teams their match
because of the worst 40 was of the match.
So I don't irate. Yeah, if I don't prioritize
getting a footballer and I do not know how to imagine, what
will happen in the Dead Two Worlds, right?
If I don't have a problem that just connects back to Tony
adding value to the bowlers, right?
So we have is able to use them correctly at the right times.
Sister and it was a standard metric.
Right? Your worst four overs.
Just the worst Horrors in every match.
Can if you just tell me what the worse for was for both here.
I can tell you which team won the game about 90% of the time.
That's how I couldn't admit. I mean, that in hindsight, it
sounds, it sounds quite obvious, but obviously, to reach it, more
forward-looking was quite tricky.
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