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http://dx.doi.org/10.7465/jkdi.2014.25.2.349

Measurements for hitting ability in the Korean pro-baseball  

Lee, Jang Taek (Department of Applied Statistics, Dankook University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.25, no.2, 2014 , pp. 349-356 More about this Journal
Abstract
In baseball, sabermetric batting statistics are used to compare an offensive performance of players. There exist dozens of sabermetric statistics, but baseball fans don't like the complexity of an abundance of measures. This paper provides a batting grade index (BGI) using principal component based on eight batting statistics. These are OPS, ISO, SECA, TA, RC, RC/27, wOBA and XR. We show that how standardized batting statistics are aggregated and weighted to arrive at a single composite measure of BGI. Also our result allows for segmentation of players into groups using the K-means clustering algorithm.
Keywords
Batting grade index; K-means clustering; principal components analysis; sabermetrics;
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