Chennai, April 12:  IIT-Madras BSc Programme will be organising the ‘Cricket Hackathon 2021’ and the online registrations for the event will commence on April 13.

A release from IIT-Madras today said registrations from students, professionals, and data science enthusiasts are being for this academic competition, which has been designed for beginners to learn and compete, as well as for professionals to showcase their capabilities.

Those interested can participate individually or as a team with a maximum of four members. There is no registration fee to enter the contest and participation is free.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Data Science is one of the fastest-growing sectors, predicted to create 11.5 million jobs by 2026.

The IIT Madras B.Sc program aims to spread more awareness about Data Science as a field of study through this event.

As part of this competition, all participants will be provided with data from past T-20 matches which can be used to train the code for the contest.

The release said this competition is structured as an academic activity where participants will try to predict the score at the end of six overs in every innings for a set of matches. The contest is expected to run for about 50 innings of the T-20 matches. The results of the score predicted versus the actual score will be released the day after the match is played. There will be two leader boards–the leaderboard of the day showcasing those whose predictions were closest to the actual score on that day and the leader board for the contest based on cumulative scores obtained.

The individual or the team with the lowest error in their prediction over the 50 innings will be declared as the overall winner of the Hackathon.

Cash prizes and certificates await the top 50 winners of the overall contest and there will be T-shirts for daily winners.
For the cricket enthusiasts who are not programmers, IIT-Madras has a contest for you too! Guess-The-Score event.(UNI)