Stat 536 - Final Report : Analysis of 2008 Pitchf / x Data for Jon Lester
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Major League Baseball (MLB) generated over $6 billion of revenue in 2007. Despite the sizable revenuegenerating capacity of this sport, the league’s 30 franchises (29 based in the US and 1 in Canada) have until recently relied primarily on the subjective wisdom of baseball insiders to guide personnel decisions and game strategy. Only in the last years has quantitative analysis played a substantive role in team decision-making.
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Analysis of PITCHf/x Pitched Baseball Trajectories
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