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Introduction The Australian Women’s Cricket team have wrapped up their very long international season for 2024/2025 with another T20 series sweep, this time winning 3-0 over the White Ferns. And who was at the centre of the action? Beth Mooney piling on the runs. Naturally. New year, same run scoring machine. Cricket Australia reported that, in 2025, Moons has scored “575 runs at an average of 72”. Let’s dig into the details of this scoring spree from the ever-metronomic Mooney....

Introduction Like the shameless bandwagon-er that I am, I set aside my usual allegiances as an Australian, voluntarily woke up at an unmentionable hour in NZ time, and found myself cheering loudly for England as they brought home the Euros. Shortly after this momentous occasion, StatsBomb released a treasure trove of free data from the Euros tournament! Here are a few different ways I explored the data: Shot outcomes by team Code here: https://github....

Introduction On Tuesday, I launched the alpha version of the wnblr package, yahoooo!! (Guess I better write a blog post about that sometime.) wnblr currently contains live stats recorded from WNBL games played from 2014 to 2020, inclusive. You can find it here: https://github.com/jacquietran/wnblr Over on Twitter, I flagged down Paul Flynn (Assistant Coach, Melbourne Boomers WNBL) to take a look-see, and he asked for some specific advanced stats that can be derived from the standard game stats that are typically recorded (e....

Introduction On Tuesday, I launched the alpha version of the wnblr package, yahoooo!! (Guess I better write a blog post about that sometime.) wnblr currently contains live stats recorded from WNBL games played from 2014 to 2020, inclusive. You can find it here: https://github.com/jacquietran/wnblr Over on Twitter, I flagged down Paul Flynn (Assistant Coach, Melbourne Boomers WNBL) to take a look-see, and he asked for some specific advanced stats that can be derived from the standard game stats that are typically recorded (e....

Introduction It’s been a thrilling #WBBL07 so far - the competition seems well-balanced, with every team boasting world-class athletes alongside the young guns who are the next wave of Australian talent coming through. Coming off the back of the hotly contested Australia vs. India series, I have been glued to the TV. I thought I might as well turn my attention to another screen instead - my computer screen - and take a closer look at some key performances so far this season....

(source: Wikimedia) I shifted across the ditch early in 2018 to take up a role with High Performance Sport New Zealand. Remarkably, the one-year anniversary of our arrival here is right on the door step; I’ve learned so much in that time, particularly around qualitative methods and analyses. I enjoy the richness of insight that can be drawn from analysing text data, but a part of me does miss getting to work with numbers as much as I used to....