{"id":7365,"date":"2022-10-11T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T09:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/?p=7365"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T10:29:22","slug":"ipl-player-trading-what-could-a-mutually-beneficial-trade-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/ipl-player-trading-what-could-a-mutually-beneficial-trade-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL Player Trading: What could a mutually beneficial trade look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2  blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  thought-leadership-heading '><div class ='av-subheading av-subheading_above  ' style='font-size:15px;'><p>Thought Leadership<\/p>\n<\/div><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >IPL Player Trading: What could a mutually beneficial trade look like?<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '  style='color:#80808a; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><h4><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 9<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">MIN READ<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock thought-leadership-author '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3><strong>By Ben Marlow<\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>October 11, 2022<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; 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Naturally, we wanted to put our intelligence engine to work to identify three mutually beneficial and logical swap deals that could make sense for both teams in the event of a player trading system being introduced.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to do this, we have utilised our \u2018Win Probability Added\u2019 (WPA) model, which quantifies the win probabilities for each team throughout the game, giving us the ability to measure the impact on the outcome of the match of individual player performances or team performances during a certain phase of the match, among other things. We applied WPA to this exercise as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identified phases in IPL 2022 where teams were weak using WPA <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(E.g. CSK were losing on average 15% WPA when bowling at the death).<\/span><\/i><i> <\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysed that this is because they have lower-quality players rather than high quality players just happening to have a bad season. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(E.g. DJ Bravo has historically been good, but no other player has generally had positive impacts at the death in previous seasons). <\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identified players with fewer than four appearances from other squads who have performed well in that phase since 2019 to help \u2018close the gap\u2019<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (e.g. Nathan Ellis only played twice for PBKS but on average increases his team\u2019s chances of winning by 5% at the death). <\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Repeated this process to find a \u2018match\u2019 that is mutually beneficial for both teams and where squad rules on overseas players are not impacted. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(E.g. Where PBKS needed a CSK player who didn&#8217;t play).<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Below are three example swap deals that we believe would be mutually beneficial for both teams considering their performance in the 2022 IPL:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-20  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-21  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-22  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-7346 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-7346 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13.png\" alt='' title='TFG - IPL 1-13' height=\"1892\" width=\"5539\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13.png 5539w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13-1030x352.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13-768x262.png 768w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13-1536x525.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13-2048x700.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13-1500x512.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-1-13-705x241.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5539px) 100vw, 5539px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-23  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-24  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock thought-leadership-main-content '  style='font-size:20px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><i>Benefit to Punjab Kings<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PBKS struggled in the middle phase of the innings with the bat last season (-8.5% WPA). While PBKS have strong overseas options (Bairstow, Livingstone, Rajapaksa), their domestic middle order batters (Shahrukh Khan, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Bawa, Harpreet Brar, and Rishi Dhawan) had a negative impact in the middle phase of the innings.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mandeep averaged +2.9% WPA in this phase in IPL 2019-20 playing for PBKS, meaning a return to the side would help close this gap for them without costing DC significantly having played fewer than 4 times for the team.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>Benefit to Delhi Capitals<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While PBKS struggled with the bat last season, Delhi Capitals (DC) were weak at the death with the ball (-6.2% WPA).\u00a0 For DC, Nortje was good at the death, but other overseas options struggled. Mustafizur was -2.2% WPA last season, and Ngidi didn\u2019t play, but has performed averagely at the death (0% WPA) since 2019.\u00a0 DC\u2019s Domestic bowlers were also below average at the death with Thakur (-2.6% WPA) and Khaleel (-3.7% WPA).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PBKS\u2019s Ellis is good at the death, having averaged +5.1% WPA in that phase since 2019 but is surplus to requirements for PBKS given other bowlers in their squad &#8211; PBKS also have Arshdeep (+7.2% WPA) and Rabada (+4.8% WPA) who were excellent at the death in 2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khaleel was very good for DC in the Power Play overs (+2.4% WPA) and middle (+1.8% WPA). Bringing in Ellis would allow him to predominantly focus his overs in that phase of the innings allowing DC\u2019s bowlers to play to their strengths.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-27  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-28  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-29  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-30  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-7347 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-7347 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15.png\" alt='' title='TFG - IPL -15' height=\"1892\" width=\"5539\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15.png 5539w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15-1030x352.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15-768x262.png 768w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15-1536x525.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15-2048x700.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15-1500x512.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TFG-IPL-15-705x241.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5539px) 100vw, 5539px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-31  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-32  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-33  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock thought-leadership-main-content '  style='font-size:20px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><i>Rajasthan Royals Benefits<\/i><\/strong><i><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rajasthan Royals (RR) team balance was precarious in 2022 &#8211; while Jos Buttler was able to carry them through the weakness of Ashwin at 7 followed by the 4 bowlers, this is something that they will need to improve through finding a strong all rounder.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To help with their team balance, all rounder Sean Abbott could replace Obed McCoy\u2019s bowling in the middle, where he averages +1.7% WPA.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Abbott does struggle at the death, averaging -3% WPA, which is an area where McCoy was very effective last year, this could be partly covered by shifting more of Ashwin\u2019s overs to the death, where he averages +5.3% WPA.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abbott also has a positive impact with the bat in both the middle (+1% WPA) and death (+3.5% WPA), and is only dismissed every 11.6 balls, compared to 7.9 balls for McCoy. This extra depth would take some of the pressure off the top order batting.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>Sunrisers Hyderabad Benefits<\/i><\/strong><i><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Sunrisers Hyderabad\u2019s (SRH) perspective, they struggled with the ball, particularly at the death (-7.7% WPA) in 2022, and Saini has averaged +2.5% WPA since 2019 in that phase.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Umran Malik (+4.5% WPA) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (+5.9% WPA) were good at the death last year, previously Malik has been more effective in the middle overs than at the death (+5.2% WPA v -5.7% WPA) and Bhuvi in the powerplay (+3.3% WPA v -1.9% WPA).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, Natarajan is often talked about as a strong death bowler for SRH, but he averaged -5.6% WPA last year and -0.6% WPA over the last few years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-35  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-36  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-37  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-38  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-7369 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-7369 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16.png\" alt='' title='Updated-16' height=\"2210\" width=\"8101\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16.png 8101w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16-1030x281.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16-768x210.png 768w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16-1536x419.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16-2048x559.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16-1500x409.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Updated-16-705x192.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 8101px) 100vw, 8101px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-39  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-40  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-41  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock thought-leadership-main-content '  style='font-size:20px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong><i>Mumbai Indians Benefit<\/i><\/strong><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mumbai Indians (MI) are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/crictoday.com\/ipl-2022\/kieron-pollard-will-be-released-by-mumbai-indians-former-player\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">believed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be prepared to release Pollard, given that they now have Tristan Stubbs and Tim David to cover their batting at the death.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last season MI were weak in the middle overs with the ball (-8.6% WPA). Middle over specialists are crucial in T20 cricket, as shown by\u00a0 Rashid Khan, Chahal, Bishnoi and Hasaranga all playing for the top 4 teams in the table last year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Howell (+2.5% WPA) and Brar (+1.4% WPA) have both succeeded in the middle over phase since 2019. Both players would also represent an upgrade on Murugan Ashwin in this area (-0.5% WPA since 2019).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Howell and Brar are also both good enough to bat at 7 for MI; with Howell having a\u00a0 +3.4% WPA and Brar a +4.2% WPA batting at the death.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>Punjab Kings Benefits<\/i><\/strong><i><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PBKS struggled for balance in 2022, with their aggressive approach with the bat coming unstuck without having the required batting depth, they struggled throughout the middle phase of their innings with the bat with a WPA of -8.5% on average in the middle overs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pollard would fit their aggressive, six hitting heavy strategy (SR = 153) but also adds extra solidity with a dismissal rate of one in every 21.4 balls faced.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pollard and Liam Livingstone can both bat in the top 7 and bowl 4 overs. In the middle overs, Pollard averaged +1.3% WPA with the ball in IPL 2022, and +1.2% WPA since 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only downside for PBKS signing Pollard is that he would be the 4th overseas player, alongside Bairstow, Livingstone and Rabada. This means Rajapaksa would miss out, despite an impressive IPL 2022, with +6.8% WPA in the middle overs) and Asia Cup.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The introduction of a player trading system in the IPL would create an interesting new dynamic to the competition. As shown above, performance insights can help teams learn where their strengths and weaknesses lie and identify what potentially mutually beneficial trades could look like that could improve the fortunes of both sides.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you would like to learn more about our Performance Intelligence services, please contact <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfirstgroup.com\/contact\/get-in-touch\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben Marlow<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-43  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_codeblock  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,52,33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IPL Player Trading: What could a mutually beneficial trade look like? 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