A successful operational research intervention in one-day cricket

Duckworth, Frank; Lewis, Andrew

doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601717

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“…To test the effectiveness of the method, we have applied the method on four other international ODI matches where D/L method had been applied due to the interruption 4 . Table 11 presents a summarized comparison between revised targets and final results calculated based on the D/L method and proposed method.…”

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A new Net Resource Factor Based Alternative Method to Calculate Revised Target in Interrupted One Day Cricket Matches

Singh

Adhikari

2015

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This paper proposes an alternative method to calculate the revised target in interrupted 50 overs One Day international (ODI) cricket matches. Existing Duckworth Lewis (D/L) method and its modified versions only take available batting resources of the batting team into account and ignore the individual player's excellence to calculate the revised target. Here, it is worth mentioning that individual player's excellence varies in reality, and therefore quality of the available resources may affect the revised target significantly. Further in D/L method, revised target calculation depends only on the available batting resources of the batting team and does not consider the available bowling resources of the fielding team. Proposed method overcomes these two shortcomings by taking individual player's excellence and available bowling resources of the fielding team into account. Individual player's excellence has been determined by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a well-known non parametric mathematical programming technique. A new idea of "Net Resource Factor" has been introduced to capture both batting and bowling resources to calculate the revised target. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to incorporate the ability of individual players and bowling resources of the fielding team for calculating the revised target. A comparative analysis between the proposed method and D/L method has been carried out using the data of real ODI matches held in the past. To facilitate ground application of the proposed method, a flow chart and a "Net Resource Factor Table" have been designed.

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“…Apart from these, existing literature indicates the presence of several scholarly works like VJD method [1], Thomas method [2], and CLARK method [3], to calculate the revised target. But the method which is in practice and widely accepted is D/L Method [4].…”

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A new Net Resource Factor Based Alternative Method to Calculate Revised Target in Interrupted One Day Cricket Matches

Singh

Adhikari

2015

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“…Research still continues into the method (e.g. Duckworth and Lewis (2004); Stern (2009);Shah et al (2015)) demonstrating that it is subject to refinement. We would suggest that the D/L Method provides an excellent example of how the sporting community, and the scientific community, are able to collaborate in a way that meets the needs of both parties.…”

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When sports rules go awry

Kendall

Lenten

2017

European Journal of Operational Research

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Mike Wright (Wright, M. OR analysis of sporting rules -A survey. European Journal of Operational Research, 232(1):1-8, 2014 ) recently presented a survey of sporting rules from an Operational Research (OR) perspective. He surveyed 21 sports, which consider the rules of sports and tournaments and whether changes have led to unintended consequences. The paper concludes: "Overall, it would seem that this is just a taster and there may be plenty more such studies to come". In this paper we present one such study. This is an interdisciplinary paper, which cuts across economics, sport and operational research (OR). We recognize that the paper could have been published in any of these disciplines but for the sake of continuity with the paper that motivated this study, we wanted to publish this paper in an OR journal. We look at specific examples where the rules of sports have led to unforeseen and/or unwanted consequences. We hope that the paper will be especially useful to sports administrators, helping them to review what has not previously worked and also encouraging them to engage with the scientific community when considering making changes.We believe that this is the first time that such a comprehensive review of sporting rules, which have led to unexpected consequences, has been published in the scientific literature.

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“…Various researchers like Machale(1990) and Lemmer (2006), (2008) Cricket has recently experienced a highly-successful intervention from the field of Operational Research in the form of the "Duckworth-Lewis" method of adjusting target scores in one day matches Duckworth & Lewis (1998) which was subsequently adopted by the International Cricket Council Duckworth & Lewis (2004). Player performance remains of significant interest to cricket team selectors and coaches who are trying to build winning teams from a fixed pool of players or within a limited budget, and this imperative to win will probably lead to developments in the use of cricket statistics -at least among cricket professionals.…”

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