Analyzing Player Involvement in the Indian Pro Kabaddi League: A Network Analysis Approach

TL;DR

This study applies network analysis to the Indian Pro Kabaddi League, revealing small-world properties and ranking players based on their network connectivity, providing insights into player involvement and performance.

Contribution

It introduces a novel network analysis approach to evaluate player involvement and performance in the Pro Kabaddi League, using degree and PageRank algorithms.

Findings

The Kabaddi network exhibits small-world characteristics.

Player rankings correlate with network-based importance measures.

Network analysis offers new insights into player involvement.

Abstract

This paper aims to apply network analysis to all players who have participated in the Indian Pro Kabaddi League since its inception. The Kabaddi network has been constructed based on the number of teams and players they have played with. The players have been ranked with the help of the degree and PageRank algorithm. Small-world phenomenon is observed in the Kabaddi network. The significance of the player performance has been compared with the player rank received by the network analysis.