Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Author "Casey, Nathaniel"
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A Markov Approach to Modeling Baseball At-Bats and Evaluating Pitcher Decision-Making and Performance
Casey, Nathaniel (2016-06-21)The author models baseball at-bats using absorbing Markov chains, formed based on pitch-by-pitch data for 90 pitchers from the 2015 season. These matrices are used to reverse-predict performance statistics that compare ...