15.071 | Spring 2017 | Graduate

The Analytics Edge

2.3 Moneyball: The Power of Sports Analytics

2.3 Moneyball: The Power of Sports Analytics

Video 1: The Story of Moneyball

In this lecture, we will be using the dataset baseball (CSV). Download this dataset to follow along in R as we build regression models. This data comes from the Baseball Reference website.

A script file containing all of the R commands used in this lecture can be downloaded here: Unit2_Moneyball (R).

The slides from all videos in this Lecture Sequence can be downloaded here: The Power of Sports Analytics (PDF - 1.4MB).

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