MLB Player Similarity - Validation
As many of you are aware, Baseball-Reference calculates a similarity score for each player against other players. Although this is an accepted way to calculate the similarity between two players, I wanted to see if my methodology compares. I ran my methodology for Hank Aaron (someone we all know and can understand the comparisons) and compared the list I got against the list Baseball-Reference posted. First, let’s look at what Baseball-Reference has:
Nov 13, 2019
MLB Player Similarity - Calculation
An initial look into how to calculate the similarity between two players in Major League Baseball.
Nov 10, 2019
Introduction to Similar Players in MLB
An introduction to some thoughts on using data and analytics for determining player similarity in Major League Baseball.
Nov 8, 2019
Predicting Pitch Types
Predict the next pitch based on pitcher batter histories.
Mar 1, 2017
Optimization in SAS: Results
It's time to execute the model and examine the results from proc optmodel.
Jan 23, 2014
Optimization in SAS
This is an overview to optimization and Proc OPTMODEL in SAS.
Jan 22, 2014
Optimization in SAS: Proc OPTMODEL
With data, let's formulate our optimization model and get the code ready to execute.
Dec 8, 2013
Optimization in SAS: Background and Data Prep
In order to use some of the optimization proceedures, you need to process data in a certain way.
Dec 4, 2013
SAS and Optimization
SAS has some great tools for applying traditional constraint programming techniques.
Dec 2, 2013
MLB Player Similarity
Using stats to determine how similar baseball players are to each other.
Jun 1, 2013