getPlayerDataTT: Get the Twenty20 International player data from ESPN Cricinfo...

In tvganesh/cricketr: Analyze Cricketers and Cricket Teams Based on ESPN Cricinfo Statsguru

Description

Get the Twenty20 player data given the profile of the batsman/bowler. The allowed inputs are home,away, neutralboth and won,lost,tied or no result of matches. The data is stored in a <player>.csv file in a directory specified. This function also returns a data frame of the player

Usage

getPlayerDataTT(profile, opposition="",host="",dir = "./data", file = "player001.csv", 
type = "batting", homeOrAway = c(1, 2, 3), result = c(1, 2, 3,5))

Arguments

profile	This is the profile number of the player to get data. This can be obtained from https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/index.html. Type the name of the player and click search. This will display the details of the player. Make a note of the profile ID. For e.g For Virat Kohli this turns out to be 253802 https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35263.html. Hence the profile for Sehwag is 35263
opposition	The numerical value of the opposition country e.g.Australia,India, England etc. The values are Afghanistan:40,Australia:2,Bangladesh:25,England:1,Hong Kong:19,India:6,Ireland:29, New Zealand:5,Pakistan:7,Scotland:30,South Africa:3,Sri Lanka:8,United Arab Emirates:27, West Indies:4, Zimbabwe:9; Note: If no value is entered for opposition then all teams are considered
host	The numerical value of the host country e.g.Australia,India, England etc. The values are Australia:2,Bangladesh:25,England:1,India:6,New Zealand:5, South Africa:3,Sri Lanka:8,United States of America:11,West Indies:4, Zimbabwe:9 Note: If no value is entered for host then all host countries are considered
dir	Name of the directory to store the player data into. If not specified the data is stored in a default directory "./data". Default="./data"
file	Name of the file to store the data into for e.g. kohli.csv. This can be used for subsequent functions. Default="player001.csv"
type	type of data required. This can be "batting" or "bowling"
homeOrAway	This is vector with either or all 1,2, 3. 1 is for home 2 is for away, 3 is for neutral venue
result	This is a vector that can take values 1,2,3,5. 1 - won match 2- lost match 3-tied 5- no result

Details

More details can be found in my short video tutorial in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9uMPFVsXsI

Value

Returns the player's dataframe

Note

Maintainer: Tinniam V Ganesh <[e-mail]>

Author(s)

Tinniam V Ganesh

References

https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/stats/index.html
https://gigadom.in/

See Also

bowlerWktRateTT getPlayerData

Examples

## Not run: 
# Only away. Get data only for won and lost innings
kohli <-getPlayerDataTT(253802,dir="../cricketr/data", file="kohli1.csv",
type="batting")

# Get bowling data and store in file for future
ashwin <- getPlayerDataTT(26421,dir="../cricketr/data",file="ashwin1.csv",
type="bowling")

kohli <-getPlayerDataTT(253802,opposition = 2,host=2,dir="../cricketr/data", 
file="kohli1.csv",type="batting")

## End(Not run)

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