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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2016.29.7.1271

Suggestion of batter ability index in Korea baseball - focusing on the sabermetrics statistics WAR  

Lee, Jea-Young (Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University)
Kim, Hyeon-Gyu (Department of Statistics, Yeungnam University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.29, no.7, 2016 , pp. 1271-1281 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wins above replacement (WAR) is one of the most widely used statistic among sabermatrics statistics that measure the ability of a batter in baseball. WAR has a great advantage that is to represent the attack power of the player and the base running ability, defensive ability as a single value. In this study, we proposed a hitter ability index using the sabermetrics statistics that can replace WAR based on Korea Baseball Record Data of the last three years (2013-2015). First, we calculated Batter ability index through the arithmetic mean method, the weighted average method, principal component regression and selected the method that had high correlation with WAR.
Keywords
principal component analysis; principal component regression; sabermatrics; wins above replacement;
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