Showing posts with label Sport Metrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sport Metrics. Show all posts
Friday, November 25, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sabermetrics
Sabermetrics is something I've become very interested in since I was over in America for a while. Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through statistics that measure in-game activity.
Since there is such a lot of data available, I've written loads of code to explore what factors are the key criteria to determine if a team will win or lose -- I have had very little success, but here's something interesting to think about:
2010 became known as the "Year of the Pitcher" as opposed to previous years where it was the batter who determined the outcome of the game. Commentators have suggested that it may be rigorous testing and penalties for performance-enhancing drug use as a possible factor for this. Runs per game fell to their lowest level in 18 years, and the strikeout rate was higher than it had been in half a century.
Since there is such a lot of data available, I've written loads of code to explore what factors are the key criteria to determine if a team will win or lose -- I have had very little success, but here's something interesting to think about:
2010 became known as the "Year of the Pitcher" as opposed to previous years where it was the batter who determined the outcome of the game. Commentators have suggested that it may be rigorous testing and penalties for performance-enhancing drug use as a possible factor for this. Runs per game fell to their lowest level in 18 years, and the strikeout rate was higher than it had been in half a century.
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