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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 …
Ranking World Class Chess Players Using Only Results From Head-To-Head Games, Sterling Swygert
Ranking World Class Chess Players Using Only Results From Head-To-Head Games, Sterling Swygert
Senior Theses
This honors thesis explores a method of ranking the world’s top ten chess grand- masters using only the outcomes of games containing only players in that very set. This method allows for players in a single era to be quickly ranked via algorithmic and numerical means, including very specific information, from a statistical stand- point. Furthermore, unlike the rating systems that are commonly used, the Elo and the Glicko systems, this method is Classicist in its statistical approach, rather than Bayesian. Finally, this ranking method also differs from others as it limits the infor- mation to games between the individuals …