May 30, 2022

StatCast and History

Big Bad Baseball presents a chart summarizing StatCast data. It is not an intuitive chart, but it’s worth spending the time to understand, as once it is explained it turns out to be a great summary of the data. The author suggests a fascinating project that could grow out of this data:

The best intellectual exercise that that the would-be data hierophant we call the Tango Love Pie™ could do for us is to use a table such as this one to reverse-engineer what this data would have looked like in the 1920s and 1930s…that would be a data model that could actually have some use as a target for how to modify the game in ways that would restore its long-lost diversity. 

BigBadBaseball.BlogSpot.com

That sounds like a great final project for a college level statistics course.

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