• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.485-492
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• 2014

In baseball, the traditional measure of pitchers are wins and ERA. But these statistics are influenced by luck or team power. So sabermetrician proposes a number of indicators that predict future performance. We determine a new measure, which we call pitching grade index (PGI) that efficiently summarizes a pitcher's performance on a numerical scale using principal components analysis. The PGI statistic can often be useful to assessing a pitcher's individual contribution. Also K-means clustering algorithm are used for segmentation of players into groups.