I am an RCB fan and I have posted a pic of an underrated legend here. Can the fans of RCB Or even other teams guess him?

Tip:- he was an important player of RCB in their 2009 and 2016 final campaigns!

- CSK GT RCB PBKS won't change their captain
- MI have Bumrah Sky Tilak Rohit all capable to lead.
- DC have Axar who is under pressure
- SRH have Cummins and i doubt they'll remove him until he is unavailable.
- KKR have Rahane whom i think will be removed
- LSG have no Captain
- RR have Parag who is under pressure but young and i doubt will be okay with being removed as Captain

The team I picked whitewashed the All - Star 11. I'm pretty sure things would've been different in reality though. I just went with the numbers. I guess I could've picked someone else for number 5. Most of the batters are from the flat track era and the bowlers from the fair pitch era, and therefore the landslide imo.

I wanted to explore how far historical data and machine learning could go in predicting IPL outcomes, so I built a project that combines season-by-season backtesting, Elo ratings, Monte Carlo simulations, and batting forecasts.

It also has an interactive web app where you can tweak team strengths and player form to run your own simulations.

One interesting finding: the models don't significantly outperform a coin flip at predicting match outcomes. That was worth learning, too.

Live demo: https://ipl-prediction-beryl.vercel.app

Tech stack: Python, scikit-learn, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vercel.

Would love to hear your thoughts, especially on the modelling approach and what could be improved.