LEADER 04967nam 2200493 450 001 996499871803316 005 20231110230604.0 010 $a9789811964824$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789811964817 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7132894 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7132894 035 $a(CKB)25289753600041 035 $a(PPN)266350631 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925289753600041 100 $a20230319d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aManagement of the cricketing ecosystem $ean analytic approach /$fSubhasis Ray 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (201 pages) 225 1 $aSports Economics, Management and Policy ;$vv.20 311 08$aPrint version: Ray, Subhasis Management of the Cricketing Ecosystem Singapore : Springer,c2022 9789811964817 327 $aIntro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Cricket and Its Evolution -- 1.2 The Cricketing Ecosystem -- 1.2.1 Political Dimension -- 1.2.2 Commercial Dimension -- 1.2.3 Social Dimension -- 1.2.4 Technical Dimension -- 1.3 Crises and Resilience -- 1.4 IPL: The Game Changer -- 1.5 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Management of the Cricketing Ecosystem -- 2.1 Stakeholders and Governance -- 2.2 Scant Management Focus in Contemporary Research -- 2.3 Establishing the Research Paradigms -- 2.3.1 Methodology -- 2.3.2 Sentiment Analysis of Viewpoints -- 2.3.3 Summary of Action Points -- 2.3.4 Evidence Based Assessment of Gaps -- 2.3.5 Research Paradigms -- 2.4 Finalising Scope of This Book -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Impact Assessment Framework across Cricket Formats -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Modus Operandi -- 3.3 Ranking Three Formats of Cricket -- 3.4 Meta-Metric Framework for Formative Assessment -- 3.4.1 Influence of T20 on Test Matches -- 3.4.2 Influence of IPL on India's Test Performance -- 3.5 Suggestions for Making Test Matches Popular -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Formative Assessment of T20 Influences -- 4.1 Defining the Metrics under the Meta-metric Framework -- 4.2 Scraping Secondary Data from the Web -- 4.2.1 Strategy for Secondary Data Collection -- 4.2.2 Approaches for Scraping from the Web -- 4.3 Analysis-Ready Data Preparation -- 4.3.1 Data Validation -- 4.3.2 Data Transformation -- 4.4 Impact Assessment of T20 on Test Matches -- 4.5 Impact Assessment of T20 on India's Test Performance -- 4.6 Summary Findings -- References -- 5 Cricketers' Career Pattern -- 5.1 Sportspersons Career Transition -- 5.2 A Look at the Related Works -- 5.3 Preparing the Base for Analysis -- 5.3.1 Hypothesis Formation and Data Identification for the First Question. 327 $a5.3.2 Research Planning and Data Identification for the Second Question -- 5.4 Data Preparation -- 5.5 Career Patterns (Indian Players) -- 5.6 Career Patterns (Australian Players) -- 5.7 Closing Discussion -- References -- 6 Fans' Expectations from Cricket -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Sports as a Service and Fans as Its Consumers -- 6.3 Deriving the Construct REST -- 6.4 Hypotheses Formulation -- 6.5 Data Preprocessing -- 6.6 Results and Discussions -- 6.6.1 Effect of Age and Gender on Liking a Cricket Format -- 6.6.2 Modeling Overall Liking Using SEM -- 6.6.3 Performance Analysis for Test Matches -- 6.6.4 Performance Analysis for ODI Matches -- 6.6.5 Performance Analysis for T20 Matches -- 6.7 Managerial Implications -- 6.8 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Steady-State Cricket Mix -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Volumetric Analysis of Cricket Mix -- 7.3 Country Progression across Formats -- 7.4 Identifying Homogeneous Cricket Regions -- 7.5 Steady-State Cricket Mix Using Markov Chain Analysis -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Fine-Tuning the Cricket Mix -- 8.1 The Concept of Value -- 8.2 Problem Formulation -- 8.3 Value Creation and Appreciation Matrices -- 8.4 What-If Analysis -- 8.5 Conclusion -- References -- 9 Concluding Remarks -- 9.1 Theoretical Novelty -- 9.2 Management Implications -- 9.3 Future Directions -- References -- Appendix -- A.1 Questionnaire for Expert Panel -- A.2 Questionnaire for Cricket Enthusiast -- A.3 R Code Snippet -- A.4 Google Sheets Code Snippet -- A.5 Python Code Snippet -- A.6 Java Code Snippet. 410 0$aSports Economics, Management and Policy 606 $aCricket 606 $aCriquet$2thub 606 $aGestió$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aCricket. 615 7$aCriquet 615 7$aGestió 676 $a617.1027 700 $aRay$b Subhasis$01265599 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a996499871803316 996 $aManagement of the Cricketing Ecosystem$92967942 997 $aUNISA