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New Techniques in the Evaluation and Prediction of Baseball Performance |
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Visualizing Managerial Tendencies |
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Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA |
Abstract: |
Baseball fans intuitively know which individual players are similar or different. For example, Rickey Henderson and Tim Raines are similar to each other, whereas both differ from Mike Schmidt. But which managers are similar, and which are unusual, in terms of the managerial strategies they employ? Is Joe Torre more similar to Terry Francona or to Bobby Cox? Which managers use their bullpen in unorthodox ways? Which managers play "little ball" most often? We address questions such as these by using statistical techniques to visually explore data on managerial decisions. Because such datasets are complex and contain many variables, we take advantage of recent developments in visualizing high-dimensional datasets. |
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