This workshop will introduce several explorations of baseball data including the search for the ultimate batting statistic, looking for true streakiness and clutch ability, modeling run production by a Markov Chain model, and comparing great players such as Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds who played in different eras.
This workshop will be directed both to instructors who wish to infuse their teaching of probability and statistics with applications from baseball and to baseball fans interested in learning about sabermetrics (the analysis of baseball through objective evidence).