Also a "backronym" for former Major Leaguer Bill Pecota, PECOTA is Baseball Prospectus' system for projecting player performance. The acronym stands for "Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization ...

The Sports Analytics Research Group employs quantitative analysis to give teams the hard numbers they need to perform better ...

At the beginning of the season, if you said that the St. Louis Cardinals would be five games over .500 and holding a Wild Card spot at the season's halfway point, we would all be ecstatic. That is ...

Whether you’re a baseball fan or not, there’s a lot to love about Ribbie, a vibe-coded website that turns real-time Major League Baseball (MLB) data into 8-bit broadcasts with arcade-style, animated ...

This package and its authors are not affiliated with MLB or any MLB team. This API wrapper interfaces with MLB's Stats API. Use of MLB data is subject to the notice ...

A statistics major prepares students to use data to confront real-world problems. Statistics is relevant to topics ranging from disease prevention to storm prediction, and learning how to collect and ...

Two approaches to NBA prediction: This project (NBA Betting) focuses on data collection—aggregating multiple sources where signal comes from combining many weak predictors. Modeling uses AutoML. NBA ...

Could you build an air-powered canon to launch a baseball faster than the speed of sound? Apparently, the answer is "yup." Check out this build from Smarter Every Day on YouTube. It's pretty awesome.