Bruce Bukiet: 2014 Major League Baseball Projections
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 16:31
in Mathematics & Economics
NJIT Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences Bruce Bukiet has released his annual Major League Baseball projections and he doesn't say see good things for the Pittsburgh Pirates - the official baseball team of Science 2.0 - but at least his favorite team, the Mets, are going to stink too. Well, in the world of Bayes projections anyway. They still have to play the games. Bukiet's model, published in Operations Research, can be used to project the number of games a team should be expected to win, the optimal batting order for a set of 9 batters, and how trading players will likely influence a team's number of wins. read more