A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among
baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game
and this book addresses a number of questions that are of interest to many baseball fans. These
include how to rate players predict the outcome of a game or the attainment of an achievement
making sense of situational data and deciding the most valuable players in the World Series.
Aimed at a general audience the text does not assume any prior background in probability or
statistics although a knowledge of high school abgebra will be helpful.
