Visually Analyzing the Royals Turnaround
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
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Data Visualization
Understanding Common Sabermetric Statistics
WAR, wRC, SPD…all are common sabermetric stats. What do they all mean? How much insight do such stats provide over and above standard
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Machine Learning to Predict Player Decline
This past off season was interesting for the MLB. Mike Moustakes never signed a big contract. All-star players like Eric Hosmer and Jake
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Testing Hypotheses using Data Viz
As documented previously on this blog, I am a pretty big Royals fan. The month of July was, then, pretty exciting for me
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Finding Similarities Among Pitchers
I’ve had several conversations recently about the nature of baseball stats compared to statistics in other sports, like football and basketball. Baseball, to
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