Trade-off between fitness and experience: insights from historical data on ODI cricket by Vipra Jain, Subrato Banerjee, Subrato Banerjee, Priyanka Kothari

“…Using a unique data-set of all one-day international (ODI) cricket matches played from 1971 to 2000, we find that there is an inverted U-shaped performance-age curve where performance first gets better with age, then reaches a peak before finally declining (when experience can no longer undo the effects of declining fitness). …”
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Modeling Sports Engagement: A Game Refinement Theory Perspective on Game Length and Scoring Frequency by Muhammad Numan, Hiroyuki Iida, Mohd Nor Akma Khalid

“…This paper investigates how these structural components impact engagement across three globally popular sports, One Day International (ODI) cricket, Twenty20 (T20) cricket, and soccer. …”
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