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 …
MLB Player Similarity - Calculation
An initial look into how to calculate the similarity between two players in Major League Baseball.
Introduction to Similar Players in MLB
An introduction to some thoughts on using data and analytics for determining player similarity in Major League Baseball.
Predicting Pitch Types
Predict the next pitch based on pitcher batter histories.
Optimization in SAS: Results
It's time to execute the model and examine the results from proc optmodel.
Optimization in SAS
This is an overview to optimization and Proc OPTMODEL in SAS.
Optimization in SAS: Proc OPTMODEL
With data, let's formulate our optimization model and get the code ready to execute.
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.
SAS and Optimization
SAS has some great tools for applying traditional constraint programming techniques.
MLB Player Similarity
Using stats to determine how similar baseball players are to each other.