Most Valuable Batter

From the data of partnerships in the current season we can figure out which batter is the most valuable to the team.

Data

Since it was not easily available i got data for the only the 4 main batsman of team “Delhi capitals”.

1,S Dhawan,PP Shaw,204,188
2,S Dhawan,SS Iyer,179,182
3,S Dhawan,RR Pant,75,101
4,SS Iyer,PP Shaw,88,80
5,RR Pant,PP Shaw,73,66
6,SS Iyer,RR Pant,111,101

Explanation

For the 6th it means for the partnership between Iyer and Pant Iyer added 111 runs and Pant made 101 runs.

Creating graph

A weighted edge of weight difference of runs is added from the less dominating batter to the more dominating batter.

Running the code

python3 most_valuable_batsman.py

Results

The neural network looks like

This data is from 2019 so if Delhi had to retain only 1 player among these 4 so they should go for Shreyas Iyer.