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What is the Probability the Royals’ Offense Would be this Bad?

July 3, 2025July 3, 2025micahmelling@gmail.com
At the time of writing, the Royals are a disappointing 40-47. This performance is disappointing considering they won a playoff series last year. [...]

Clustering Negro Leagues Baseball Players

April 16, 2025April 23, 2025micahmelling@gmail.com
I have visited The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City many times in my life. I would highly recommend it to anyone. [...]

Player Height and Weight Over Time

April 16, 2025April 16, 2025micahmelling@gmail.com
Recently, someone posed the following question to me, “have the physical builds of MLB players changed over time?” I went to the Lahman [...]

Visually Analyzing the Royals Turnaround

November 24, 2024micahmelling@gmail.com
The 2024 KC Royals were a pleasant surprise, making the franchise’s first postseason since 2015. Finishing 86-76 was a marked turnaround from the [...]

Predicting Winning Percentages

September 20, 2022micahmelling@gmail.com
Earlier this season, my beloved Royals got off to a terrible start. Through 40 games, they were 14-26. The organization said they would [...]

Scraping Spring Training Rosters

April 2, 2021April 1, 2021micahmelling@gmail.com
Earlier this spring, I wanted to pull down spring training rosters and found that Wikipedia was the friendliest source. Below is the approach [...]

World Series Predictions

April 1, 2021micahmelling@gmail.com
Who will win the World Series? That is the classic question asked before the start of every MLB season. As with many baseball [...]

Tutorial: Machine Learning on Cy Young Voting

July 14, 2020micahmelling@gmail.com
This post serves as a tutorial for building machine learning models in Python. The entire codebase for this tutorial can be found on [...]

Are MLB Stars More Ephemeral?

March 13, 2020micahmelling@gmail.com
I have long hypothesized that current MLB stars are more ephemeral compared to past decades. That is, they more quickly come and go, [...]

Analyzing the MLB’s Home Run Boom

November 22, 2019micahmelling@gmail.com
In recent years, Major League Baseball has experienced a boom in home runs. Anyone who remotely follows the game likely know this fact. [...]

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