The spray charts unfortunately use Gameday data, showing where the ball was picked up as opposed to where it was hit. Though you can mouse over a single hit to see the pitch details and video of it, for some reason you can't isolate zones like you can with the heat maps. So if I...
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Build and maintain data pipelines for processing, transforming, and integrating large volumes of baseball data from a variety of sources and tracking systems. Develop systems for reporting, monitoring, and quality control of incoming data to ensure that systems are performing as expected and the data...
My first exposure to coding came in the summer following 11th grade, when I signed up to be a part of a program called the Wharton Moneyball Academy. This program was a week long course that included a basic statistics class, an amazing set of speakers including MLB pitching coaches and b...
On the other side of the ball, the offensive players chosen were picked for similar reasons. As mentioned in the pitching, predicting these categories can be especially difficult to project because these statistics are so reliant on a player’s team/teammates. This is especially true with RBIs,...
As another fable moved into the realm of statistics, sometimes the great framers and the dreadful ones weren’t always who you might have guessed. The individual gaps didn’t shrink — Salvador Perez had a rough season, for instance — but the gaps between teams continued to tighten. Clubs...