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Regression Analysis Of Success In Major League Baseball, Johnathon Tyler Clark
Regression Analysis Of Success In Major League Baseball, Johnathon Tyler Clark
Senior Theses
This thesis is designed to explore whether a team’s success in any given season can be predicted or explained by any number of statistics in that season. There are thirty teams in the MLB; of these thirty, ten make the postseason bracket-style playoffs. The MLB is divided up into two leagues, the American League and the National League; these two leagues are then divided up into three divisions each, the West Division, the Central Division, and the East Division. To make the playoffs a team must either have the most wins in its division after the last game of the …