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MLB Unravels Home Run Mystery with Analytics, Modeling and Simulation

Since the 2015 season, the ball has been flying out of Major League ballparks at a remarkable clip. While people had ideas about what caused the surge, nobody knew for sure. But now an in-depth analysis of hitting data a Read more…

Baseball Analytics Yields MVP Contenders

As the Major League Baseball trading deadline approaches on Friday (July 31), one sabermetric statistic is ubiquitous in all trade rumor reports: WAR. WAR stands for "Wins Above Replacement," and the metric is touted Read more…

Today’s Baseball Analytics Make Moneyball Look Like Child’s Play

Baseball has always been a game of numbers and statistics. But thanks to an explosion of data over the past seven years and the advent of new analytic software running on supercomputers, the game is on the cusp of change Read more…

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