A Whole New Ballgame: Leveraging Big Data in Baseball
- 55m
- Bruce Yellin
- EMC
- 2014
Big data and advanced analytics touch every facet of our lives. We see it in action with on-line advertising, cash register printed coupons, and the marketing of airline tickets. Big data measurements range from hundreds of terabytes to petabytes, with analytics refining data quantity into quality actionable information. Baseball has always been a data-rich statistical paradise and is called a data- driven sport, yet the amount of data it used to generate pales in comparison to today’s game.
In this Book
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A Whole New Ballgame—Leveraging Big Data in Baseball
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Preface
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Introduction – Baseball, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics
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Big Data and Baseball - Players, Coaches, Trainers, and Managers
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Big Data and the Business of Baseball
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Player Development
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Revenue From Fans
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Revenue From Media
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Big Data Helps Create Algorithmic Baseball Journalism
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Listen To Your Data - Grady the Goat - The Curse of the Bambino
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Conclusion—The Future of Big Data Baseball
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Appendix - PITCHf/x Metadata
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Footnotes
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