1) Description of the Data
a. My Data Project would use different aspects from Baseball-Reference.com extensive history of baseball statistics. Baseball-Reference.com has complied data for all teams, players, managers, and box scores from the last 50 years in the sport of Baseball.
2) Why is this data interesting
a. I find this data extremely interesting because hands downs, baseball is a sport that involves the most math. You can calculate the outcome of some sort of event based on what has happened previously. And since every single stat is a ratio between certain events that take place in game, i feel like if you can compile the data and enter it into some sort of equation, andcould predict to a certain percentage the probability of anything happening in a game, a streak, or a career.
3) How can we obtain this information
a.By browsing the site and collecting the needed data. Baseball-Reference.com for each player has Sub-Categories of stats for each player. From browsing the columns of data you can find the information that would aid in your question.
4) What questions will this data answer?
a. Are any players today on paths to set records?
b. What past player does any current player resemble statistically?
c. Comparison of teams that would never play each other due to the year they played
d.What to do you in any given scenario based on a player’s career?
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