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Sean Forman
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Saint Joseph's University
Philadelphia, PA
Sabermetrics: Baseball Science
http://www.sju.edu/~sforman/research/talks/baseball_2006-02-21/
Some statistical tables in this talk are taken from
ESPN.com
My Background
History and Origin of Sabermetrics
Sabermetric's Goal
(some) Ideas important to sabermetrics
Sabermetric examples: Talk Outline
Bill James's Main Discoveries
What kind of park is Citizen's Bank Park?
Does it matter?
What offensive stats are important?
Goal of an offense is to score runs.
Runs Created and Linear Weights
How can we use this?
Conclusions
Determining strategy
Is a bunt a good play?
Is stealing second a good play?
On a sac fly, what is the cutoff probability for success on attempting to score
Recent Discoveries
Defensive Statistics
Clutch Hitting
DIPS
Batter Protection
The Platoon advantage is different for Righties and Lefties
Additional Snippets and other Sports
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