2.3 Moneyball: The Power of Sports Analytics

• <Moneyball: The Power of Sports Analytics
• 2.3.1A Quick Introduction to Baseball
• 2.3.2Video 1: The Story of Moneyball
• 2.3.3Video 2: Making it to the Playoffs
• 2.3.4Quick Question
• 2.3.5Video 3: Predicting Runs
• 2.3.6Quick Question
• 2.3.7Video 4: Using the Models to Make Predictions
• 2.3.8Quick Question
• 2.3.9Video 5: Winning the World Series
• 2.3.10Quick Question
• 2.3.11Video 6: The Analytics Edge in Sports
• 2.3.12Quick Question
• >Video 2: Making it to the Playoffs

Video 1: The Story of Moneyball

In this lecture, we will be using the dataset baseball (CSV). Download this dataset to follow along in R as we build regression models. This data comes from the Baseball Reference website.

A script file containing all of the R commands used in this lecture can be downloaded here: Unit2_Moneyball (R).

The slides from all videos in this Lecture Sequence can be downloaded here: The Power of Sports Analytics (PDF - 1.4MB).

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