Jim Albert has a baseball blog: Baseball with R I sent a link internally to people I knew were into baseball, to which Andrew replied, “I agree that it’s cool that he doesn’t just talk, he has code.” (No kidding—the latest post as of writing this was on an R package to compute value above […] The post Jim Albert’s Baseball Blog appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and…
Yesterday, all 15 home teams in Major League Baseball won on the same day – the first such occurrence in history. CTV News published an article written by Mike Fitzpatrick from The Associated Press that reported on this event. The article states, “Viewing every game as a 50-50 proposition independent of all others, STATS figured the […]
Yesterday, all 15 home teams in Major League Baseball won on the same day – the first such occurrence in history. CTV News published an article written by Mike Fitzpatrick from The Associated Press that reported on this event. The article states, “Viewing every game as a 50-50 proposition independent of all others, STATS figured the […]
Masahiro Tanaka stands on the mound, rubbing the ball vigorously between his hands. It's a crisp, cool night in the Bronx. Stepping back, he digs his right foot into the rubber, winds up and, with a seven-foot stretch, steps towards the catcher, unleas...
Thursday afternoon, before the 2013 CAE Faculty Conference, Stuart Klugman should invit us to go and watch the Cubs playing, in Chicago. That should be fun. First baseball game, ever. I will be back in Montréal (and on the blog) next week ! That will be an opportunity to discuss with mathematicians and baseball fans. Actually, a colleague told me that there was a nice anecdote about baseball and mathematics.…
One of my friends pointed out this video to me. I realize this is not new, but it is still worth watching… Thanks to Jeff Masters, Anthony Broccoli, and other researchers who have introduced the “weather on steroids” analogy to the climate science community and Noah Besser who produced a video to explain the interesting analogy that involves […]
Jack Welch got a little conspiracy-theory crazy with the job numbers. Thomas Lumley over at StatsChat makes a pretty good case for debunking the theory. I think the real take home message of Thomas’ post and one worth celebrating/highlighting...
To celebrate the beginning of the professional baseball season here in the US and Canada, we revisit a famous example of using baseball data to demonstrate statistical properties. In 1977, Bradley Efron and Carl Morris published a paper about the Jame...
(This article was originally published at Graph of the Week, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)
Description: Year by year total annual payroll for Major League Baseball. Data: http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/112/highlights/cu11_0523.jsp http://www.baseball-databank.org/ Analysis: The entire yearly budget for the National S...
