Baseball’s batting lineup has changed from what seemed to make sense to what…
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Reordered baseball lineup over decades
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Dashboard for L.A. Dodgers baseball
To keep track of performance, Matt Stiles made the Dodgers Data Bot, which…
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Comparing home run in distance different stadiums
In Major League Baseball, a player hits a home run when the ball…
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Shortening baseball games
Baseball games grew longer over the decades, with the average length well over…
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Falling spin rates in baseball after rule enforcement
NYT’s The Upshot analyzed spin rate on pitches before and after enforcing a…
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Machine learning to steal baseball signs
Mark Rober, who is great at explaining and demonstrating math and engineering to…
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Pitch speed distribution, a decrease with age
Pitch speed starts to decrease with a baseball player’s age at some point.…
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Counting baseball cliches
Post-game sports interviews tend to sound similar. And when you do say something…
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Little League baseball analytics that would change the game forever
Oh. So that’s why I was always placed in right field that one…
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Umpire strike zone changes to finish games earlier
When watching baseball on television, we get the benefit of seeing whether a…
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Baseball hitting angles on the rise
After the crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs, home runs in professional baseball dipped the…
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Using baseball bats to display data
When a baseball player is hitting well, commentators will sometimes say that it…
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Powers of Ten, Derek Jeter style
You’ve likely seen the classic Powers of Ten video from 1977. It starts…
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Detailed map of baseball fandom →
For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…
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Analysis of baseball ticket pricing
If you’ve ever looked at ticket prices for sporting events, you probably noticed…
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Baseball Hall of Fame voting trajectories
Carlos Scheidegger and Kenny Shirley, along with Chris Volinsky, visualized Major League Baseball…
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Why sports statisticians should be more involved in games
Hot off the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Sean Gregory argues for more…
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Every baseball game and play since 1951 on your iPad
If you love baseball and have an iPad, you need Pennant, a project…
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