tomschloss/espn-cricket-data

Data and analysis of cricket since 1999. Data pulled from stats.espncricinfo.com

cricketR

Aims

• Scrape data from stats.espncricinfo.com since the Australian summer of 1999.
• Develop new metrics and models for understanding performance.
• Assess the validity of current cricket metrics.

Source

Data is currently sourced from:

• stats.espncricinfo.com

Always looking for more data sources!

RProject

V1.0

• Simple scrape of stats.espncricinfo.com with rvest package (https://github.com/hadley/rvest). Following API settings:

cricinfo_html <- paste0(  
                          "http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=11;",  
                          "filter=advanced;",  
                          "orderby=runs;",  
                          "page=",i,";",  
                          "size=200;",  
                          "spanmin1=01+Dec+1999;",  
                          "spanval1=span;",  
                          "template=results;",  
                          "type=batting;",  
                          "view=innings"  
  )  

• Some cleaning applied to the scraping.

Upcoming features

• Automated scraping: currently the number of pages needs to be set manually
• Data: other data from stats.espncricinfo.com
• Data cleaning: R scripts to clean data
• Analysis: some initial analysis tools