After exploring valuation in football, I turned to a very different sporting market: the Indian Premier League auction.

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I built BAT & BIDS - IPL Salary Predictor to explore how performance translates into price in a competitive auction environment. Using historical performance and auction data, the model estimates IPL player salaries and examines where bidding behaviour may diverge from underlying performance.

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I later had the opportunity to intern with Rajasthan Royals, where I gained first hand exposure to how data and analytics are used within a professional IPL team. I am now using what I learned from that experience to further develop and refine the model.

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Unlike football’s more conventional wage market, the IPL auction introduces factors such as scarcity, team requirements and competitive bidding, all of which can influence what a player ultimately commands.

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BAT & BIDS extends my study of market inefficiency into a different pricing system, asking the same underlying question in a new setting: what determines what a player is really worth?