My proposal
1) Description of the data
a. Using the website espn.com, I would like to look at different baseball statistics over the last few years. Specifically, I would like to take a look at the number of homeruns hit by players each year between 2003 and 2007 for the top three paid batters for each team.
2) Why is this data interesting
a. This data is interesting because many players are paid an inordinate amount of money and provide little results while some players are paid little and provide many home runs for their teams. This data would provide fans, players, and teams with information about getting all they can for their money
3) How can we obtain this information
a. This data is rather easy to obtain whether from a google search for each of the teams over the last few years or just by going to espn.com and spending time looking at each team and player playing for the last five years of baseball.
4) What questions will this data answer?
a. Is a team getting the best results for the amount of money they are paying these players?
b. Who is the most economical player (has the highest homeruns to pay ratio)?
c. Who is the least economical player?
d. What team is getting the best deal (three players homeruns to pay ratio is the highest)?
e. What team is getting the worst deal?
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