| Sam Edgemon, Tony Cooper |
Introduction to Baseball Analytics is an introduction to sabermetrics, baseball analytics, data science, the SAS Language,
and SQL. It covers the theory and the fundamentals of the emerging science of Sabermetrics. We will discuss the game
of baseball, not through consensus or a fan’s conventional wisdom, but by searching for objective knowledge in baseball
performance.
Other areas of sabermetrics will be analyzed and better understood with historical baseball data. The
Workshop also serves as applied introduction to the basics of data science, that requires skills in computation (accessing
data), statistics, and communicating results of analyses.
Using baseball data, the basics of descriptive statistics, the
SAS Language, and the SAS Data Step (and SQL) will be covered. |