BA1530 COURSE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

2019-20

Report On

(THE BASEBALL DATA ANALYSIS )

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INTRODUCTION:

MLB (Major League Baseball) is a big professional organization in which NL (National League)
and AL (American League) teams in United states and Canada comes under this body. MLB
arrange several sports game and evaluating it through offensive performance measurement to
develop robust methodologies and predictions regarding the team and the players performance
and improvement. Mainly Baseball sports game consisting on the nine player team opposing of
other team and every team always try to perform best from opposing team. Hence, the offensive
performance of players focus in scoring the goals as it is important in evaluating the statistics and
in assessing the performance of baseball. Moreover, the player’s run, hitting and fielding are
major part to ensure the offensive performance. Furthermore, the BA (Betting average) was a
best measurement tool used by earlier analyst to identify the player’s offensive performance as
the hitting is more important for a player, as much as he hit the more runs he can take. In recent,
several other measurement tools produce to identify the players and team offensive performance.
Some of the studies regarding the measurement of offensive performance of Baseball players
suggest that Hitter plays an important role in this sport if he use a strong force to hit this will
make him better performer than others.

Moreover, this paper totally depends on the study of offensive performance of player and team in
baseball sports game. Furthermore, the analysis regarding offensive performance will perform
through the help of given data in excel sheet related to the matches played in year of 2017 &
2018. This analysis report help to understand and answer the various required question such as
either the team offensive performance in 2018 has decreased as compare to the match of year
2017 or improved in this year. Moreover, the OPS, Batting average and On Bases % will
compare and analysis to answer the question that whom are the league leader in both of the
matches in 2017 & 2018. Likewise, try to answer and identify the powerful measurement among
OPS and Average batting measures of all-star team. After that the discussion and suggestion will
concluded that which information system will be the best in respect of measuring offensive
performance and how it can be further improved through various data and methodologies.

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PURPOSE OF THE ANALYSIS

Through the analysis, in this area we will identify the each baseball match and the players
offensive performance with the help of an analysis report prepared on excel sheet related to the
matches played in the year of 2017 & 2018 respectively. In this analysis section we only focus
on given data in excel sheet such as (AB, BB, PA, IB, 2B, 3B & H) and then draw some
measures of OPS, Total base, player’s age, Slugging in %, Batting average and on-base in %, to
measure the offensive performance of each player as well as the team.

DATA ANALYSIS

As stated above that data analysis helps to answer the several required question in which first
was comparison of offensive performance of 2018 match with the prior match played in the year
of 2017. To answer the question some results has been drawn below which exhibit the offensive
performance of the team and the players in the match of 2017 & 2018.

Avg.-Plate Avg. Total Average Average strike

Year appearance Base Batting Average OPS out
2017 376 148 0.254 0.743 79
2018 387 146 0.246 0.717 82

In above table offensive performance is measuring through Average Plate appearance, Average
total Base, Average Batting, Average OPS and the Average strike out, which shows that extreme
improvement in Average plate appearance in the year of 2018 as compare to the year 2017 but
rest of all going negative such as Avg. total Base decreasing by 2, Average Batting is decreasing
by 0.008 and Average OPS is also reducing by 0.026 which is showing the offensive
performance is decreased in the year of 2018 as compare to the year of 2017. Moreover,
incremental change of 2 is showing in Average Strike out but it has also a negative impact on the
offensive performance. Since we get the results so, finally we can conclude that the offensive
performance of the year 2018 was not better from the prior year of 2017 and the overall
performance has decreased in this year.

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The second question was related to identifying the league leader among the players in the match
of 2017 & 2018 year. To answer this, an output has shown below which identifying the league
leaders in respected years.

2017 2018
Name Value Name Value
Batting Avg altuvjo01 0.346 voitlu01 0.346
On Base % abreujo02 0.452 troutmi01 0.454
OPS martijd02 1.109 voitlu01 1.091

In above figure, we can conclude that the league leaders of the match of 2017 are Altuvjo01
which has highest record in Batting Avg. of 0.346, abreujo02 has highest value on base % which
is 0.452, and martijd02 has highest OPS of 1.109. As likely, voitlu01 recorded 0.346 in batting
Avg. and 1.091 in OPS and comes in the category of league leader in the match of 2018.
Similarly, troutmi01 has highest value in base % of 0.454 in this match.

Moreover, the below results implies to answer the third question which was explore and
identifies the best measures of offensive performance among OPS and Batting average.
However, many of the analyst focuses on batting average instead of OPS but some has their
contrast opinion related to this, they give more priority to OPS instead of Batting average. So,
here we try to emphasis of these both measures that either OPS is powerful measure or Batting
average measure is best for offensive performance of players and teams as well. In respect of
identifying the results, below mentioned table has drawn which elaborate it clearly and shows
that ramsoswi01, voitlu01 & machama01 has Max OPS and Max Batting Average, since all of
these players make a highest record in both measures, which means both measures are equal for
this case. In Contrast, other players has different score with Max OPS and Max batting averageso
this measure would work separately to measures offensive performance.

Max
Max
Name Team Position Name Team Position Batting
OPS
Avg.
ramoswi01 Rays Catcher 0.834 ramoswi01 Rays Catcher 0.297
voitlu01 Yankees First Base 1.091 voitlu01 Yankees First Base 0.333
troutmi01 Angels Outfielder 1.082 phamth01 Rays Outfielder 0.343
bettsmo01 Red Sox Second Base 1.075 bettsmo01 Red Sox Second Base 0.346

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 machama01 Orioles Shortstop 0.996 machama01 Orioles Shortstop 0.315
arenano01 Rockies Third Base 0.935 turneju01 Dodgers Third Base 0.312

PIVOT TABLE ANALYSIS:

Evaluation of offensive performances For Players of Age 27:

This part of report includes the scenario in which the hypothesis was developed based on the
research and the capabilities that the players of the age 27 provides best results in the field for
this purpose the data was presented in the statistical model which carried out the various analysis
of data sample of 201 players ranging from age 22 to 29 years from total of 30 team of MBL and
the result of year 2017 and 2018 were presented for the comparison based on the average
percentages of OPS other than this the offensive measure has also been measured for better
results of the hypothesis the total of the resulted average data of OPS calculated the figure of
0.723 which is a reason to claim that the decrease in the performance was observed after the age
of 26 in their game and the result also provided the fact that the player of age 22 has the higher
stamina to perform in the ground with better results, this statement was supported by the
numbers provided in the calculated figures mentioning the higher OPS percentage at the age of
22 while the sample size of data contain the higher respondents from the player aging 28
providing total of 53 players under this age, However the total performance average of OPS for
the year 2018 has been improved if we compared it with the previous year results it shows that
the 2018 average OPS was 0.742 while as discussed about the respondents were in large numbers
in the year 27 and 29 in the year 2018 the measurement of performance provides the results that
the OPS is also seems higher in 2018 with the age of 22 players so it is eliminating the belief of
the sport analyst who thought that at the age of 27 players are at their prime form because as per
the statistical analysis the result assure the fact that in both years 2017 and 2018 player under the
age of 22 performs best in the light of data available moreover the data in summarized on the
basis of team and individual players comparison, the scope of players in 2018 was 189 the
slugging capabilities by the players , strength and the power of the players is depend on their
younger age more than the age of 27, however it was measure in the statistical too that more the
elder player is more his power of penetrating and performing in the game will reduced, so the

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assumptions made in the content of MBL was proved wrong by the evaluation of the statistical
data.

Comparison of Teams Batting averages:

Accumulated data of 30 teams based on their competency and capacity to improve was examine
the results of 2017 and 2018 provided the results for the teams which rank the teams based on the
criteria whether the improved or fail to improve and the base was created on their batting
averages to provide the comment on their performances it provides with the result that in the
overall 30 teams the minimal number of 8 teams represent the improvement tag whereas rest of
the teams fall short to meet the provided criteria of the pivot table analysis, the top of the team
whose numbers are sufficient to justify their progress in the development phase was Marines
who have the best batting averages of 0.03 among all teams compare to two years performance
and the low ranked side team was Rays with lower batting average of -0.018 while the other
portion of the data for year 2017 and 2018 compares the result of 4 teams which were Rockies,
Yankees, Astros and Reds with the information for the year of 2017 and 2018 along with the
analysis of their team players individual data the results shows that Astros has the best results in
the year 2017 and its player altuvjo0 acquire best place due to better average OPS of all players
with number of 0.952 while the batting average of the Blackch02 is better in the year 2017 who
is the member of team Rockies. If we accumulate the average performance of Astros in OPS data
shows that the team players recorded balance performance and other side of the data presents the
comparison analysis of team Reds and Yankees for the year 2018. The overall data measure the
OPS and the batting average performances of their key players and ranking them according to
their best results.

Conclusion:

The above mentioned report summarizes the results of total 30 teams and their players for the
year 2017 and 2018, the key performance indicator was the average performance of the OS and
the batting averages of the players however some of the team fall short to maintain their critical
phase of improvement measures and only 8 teams achieve the target to accomplish their criteria
of improvement, however the mentioned hypothesis was also rejected by the statistical data
analysis which claims that the baseball player of the age 27 are more driven towards better

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results in the ground. All the relevant data measures provided the performance indicators for
MLB management to identify those areas where improvement is required to make their event
more competitive and the report also highlighted the importance of using statistical tool to
measure the performance the analyst rather to provide result based on the manual data prefer to
use the provided quality measurement tool to declare effective results.

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