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http://dx.doi.org/10.7465/jkdi.2017.28.6.1501

Top batter select through the BAI in 2016 KBO -Focusing on the sabermetrics statistics WAR  

Kim, Hyeon-Gyu (Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University)
Lee, Jea-Young (Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University)
Cho, Gyu-Tae (Department of Civil Engineering, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society / v.28, no.6, 2017 , pp. 1501-1509 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wins above replacement (WAR) is the most commonly used statistics of the sabermetrics that measure baseball players' abilities. The advantage of a WAR is that it enables to compare performances of players even though they have different roles such as pitcher and hitter. However, WAR is difficult to obtain with common records. Thus, a past studies (Lee and Kim, 2016) suggested the batting ability index to determine the ability of the batter focused on the sabermetrics statistics WAR. In this paper, we selected the best hitter with applying Korea baseball 2016 data based on a proposed model and then observed a total raking of others according to BAI. We are assured that BAI is very excellent statistics through comparing BAI and WAR which is in the spotlight in evaluating performances of players.
Keywords
Principal component regression; sabermatrics; wins above replacement;
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