Exploratory Data Analysis of IPL Matches
2 min readJul 6, 2021
IPL is a professional Twenty20 cricket league founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2008. The league has 8 teams representing 8 different Indian cities or states. It enjoys tremendous popularity and the brand value of the IPL in 2019 was estimated to be ₹475 billion (US$6.7 billion). So let’s analyze IPL through stats.
The dataset has 18 columns. Let’s get acquainted with the columns.
- id: The IPL match id.
- season: The IPL season
- city: The city where the IPL match was held.
- date: The date on which the match was held.
- team1: One of the teams of the IPL match
- team2: The other team of the IPL match
- toss_winner: The team that won the toss
- toss_decision: The decision taken by the team that won the toss to ‘bat’ or ‘field’
- result: The result(‘normal’, ‘tie’, ‘no result’) of the match.
- dl_applied: (1 or 0)indicates whether the Duckworth-Lewis rule was applied or not.
- winner: The winner of the match.
- win_by_runs: Provides the runs by which the team batting first won
- win_by_runs: Provides the number of wickets by which the team batting second won.
- player_of_match: The outstanding player of the match.
- venue: The venue where the match was hosted.
- umpire1: One of the two on-field umpires who officiate the match.
- umpire2: One of the two on-field umpires who officiate the match.
- umpire3: The off-field umpire who officiates the match
Objectives:
- To find the team that won the most number of matches in a season.
- To find the team that lost the most number of matches in a season.
- Does winning toss increases the chances of victory.
- To find the player with the most player of the match awards.
- To find the city that hosted the maximum number of IPL matches.
- To find the most winning team for each season.
- To find the on-field umpire with the maximum number of IPL matches.
- To find the biggest victories in IPL while defending a total and while chasing a total.
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