The 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was postponed with an immediate effect for an indefinite time period after Covid-19 started infecting players inside the bio-bubbles across different camps in different cities as well. While the league came under the scanner for taking place amid this crunch time, the BCCI and the IPL Governing Council had to take a call after several players and support staff got affected.
However, a lot of speculation around the completion of the league is going on, a Reddit user, Adish Jain, has decided to program the rest of the tournament by running a simulation program based on Python to see the winner of the tournament as well.
“I made a Python program to simulate an entire season of the IPL (excluding the playoffs) using past data, predictive analysis, and randomization techniques. I mainly wanted to share this because there are some really interesting scenarios in the scorecards or some epic batting collapses, also I think RCB fans will like this one,” he wrote on Redditt while informing about this.
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However, he said that he used ball-by-ball data of the last 5 years of the cash-rich league, made identification for every player and stored that data of each ball they had played, including the pattern of runs, they have scored like singles, doubles, fours or sixes etc., against which bowlers those runs came, their mode of dismissals, as well as the similarity for the bowlers as well.
He explained: “make the decisions for the batsman” and “uses a randomizer to determine the outcome.” He also mentioned that the rotation of bowlers in that process is “such that a player with three overs and an economy of 9 is picked over a player with one over and an economy of just 3” and no Super Overs were included as well.
The Playoffs Scenario:
Qualifier 1: DC vs RCB
According to the simulator’s result, RCB beat DC in the first Qualifier after registering 188/6. Virat Kohli scored a 33-ball 66 and Devdutt Padikkal scored a 42-ball 63. Despite Prithvi Shaw and Marcus Stoinis’ quick-fire cameos: 41 from 42 and 45 from 30 respectively, DC lost by seven runs.
Eliminator: CSK vs PBKS
In the Eliminator match between CSK and PBKS, a 66-ball 113 from Faf du Plessis and a 34-ball 46 from Ambati Rayudu helps CSK to post 198 in their 20 overs. While chasing, Chris Gayle (51 off 28), Mayank Agarwal (43 off 40) and Nicholas Pooran (27 from 16) helps them win by five wickets.
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Qualifier 2: PBKS vs DC
A swashbuckling 104 off just 55 balls from Rishabh Pant helps DC to post 182 in the second Qualifier against PBKS. Later on, a stunning bowling show helps the Capitals manage to restrict PBKS by 41 runs despite Nicholas Pooran scored a blistering half-century.
Final: DC vs RCB
Having won the toss, DC put RCB to bat, who post 200 to win with both Kohli and Padikkal providing with a flying start. Later, Glenn Maxwell’s swashbuckling knock did the work. However, Maxwell dismissed both Shikhar Dhawan and Rishabh Pant to take RCB to a convincing win by 50 runs as well as their maiden IPL title as well.
