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Understanding Career Progression in Baseball Through Machine Learning
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Authors: Brian Bierig,Jonathan Hollenbeck,Alexander Stroud
ArXiv: 1712.05754
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Abstract URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05754v1
Professional baseball players are increasingly guaranteed expensive long-term contracts, with over 70 deals signed in excess of \$90 million, mostly in the last decade. These are substantial sums compared to a typical franchise valuation of \$1-2 billion. Hence, the players to whom a team chooses to give such a contract can have an enormous impact on both competitiveness and profit. Despite this, most published approaches examining career progression in baseball are fairly simplistic. We applied four machine learning algorithms to the problem and soundly improved upon existing approaches, particularly for batting data.
ArXiv: 1712.05754
Document: PDF DOI
Abstract URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05754v1
Professional baseball players are increasingly guaranteed expensive long-term contracts, with over 70 deals signed in excess of \$90 million, mostly in the last decade. These are substantial sums compared to a typical franchise valuation of \$1-2 billion. Hence, the players to whom a team chooses to give such a contract can have an enormous impact on both competitiveness and profit. Despite this, most published approaches examining career progression in baseball are fairly simplistic. We applied four machine learning algorithms to the problem and soundly improved upon existing approaches, particularly for batting data.
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