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Improving Offensive Player Performance Measures For Assessing Free Agent Major League Baseball Players, Henley Wells
Improving Offensive Player Performance Measures For Assessing Free Agent Major League Baseball Players, Henley Wells
Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Professional sports teams are important to their local economies, so successful franchises are significant contributors to their prosperity. This need for successful teams drives the owners and general managers to perform in-depth analyses on potential players to gain insight, so the best players can be chosen. Major League Baseball is one of the largest sports leagues in the world, so their analysis of players must be excellent to ensure they sign the best players and can compete at a high level.
Baseball is a complex sport with many different statistics evaluating nearly every part of a player’s game. Because of …