Abstract

With baseball becoming an increasingly competitive sport, professional baseball teams are looking to the statistical side of the sport to find ways to win more games. With my analysis, I studied baseball statistics to look for interesting patterns and relationships. For example, I investigated the effect of a trade on a player's performance (both batters and pitchers) and analyzed the relationship between a player's performance and salary. My analysis also determined the statistics teams should utilize to win more games. To effectively analyze these patterns and relationships, visualizations were made in Tableau, and linear models were fit with R. Overall, several interesting patterns were revealed, which will be discussed during this poster presentation.

College

College of Science & Engineering

Department

Mathematics & Statistics

Campus

Winona

First Advisor/Mentor

Tisha Hooks

Start Date

4-19-2023 10:00 AM

End Date

4-19-2023 11:00 AM

Presentation Type

Poster Session

Format of Presentation or Performance

In-Person

Session

1b=10am-11am

Poster Number

19

Included in

Mathematics Commons

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Apr 19th, 10:00 AM Apr 19th, 11:00 AM

An Analysis of Major League Baseball Sabermetrics

With baseball becoming an increasingly competitive sport, professional baseball teams are looking to the statistical side of the sport to find ways to win more games. With my analysis, I studied baseball statistics to look for interesting patterns and relationships. For example, I investigated the effect of a trade on a player's performance (both batters and pitchers) and analyzed the relationship between a player's performance and salary. My analysis also determined the statistics teams should utilize to win more games. To effectively analyze these patterns and relationships, visualizations were made in Tableau, and linear models were fit with R. Overall, several interesting patterns were revealed, which will be discussed during this poster presentation.

 

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