Elo Ratings of International Cricket Teams By Format

The ICC only lists the current ranking of cricket teams. To address the paucity of historical ranking data, we generate monthly ELO ratings of all international cricket teams by format. We use

Cricket Match Outcome Data

To construct dataset of outcomes of cricket matches by date, we used the python wrapper to espncricinfo.

Elo Ratings Data

To generate the Elo ratings and graphs, we wrote the following script

1. Download monthly men's test team ratings (1881--2021) here

2. Download monthly men's ODI team ratings (1972--2021) here

3. Download monthly men's T20I team ratings (2006---2021) here

Figures

Men's Test Team Ratings as of 6/18/2021

Smoothed Men's Test Team Ratings (1881--2021)

Smoothed Men's ODI Team Ratings (1972--2021)

Smoothed Men's T20I Team Ratings (2006---2021)

Authors

Gaurav Sood and Derek Willis