Sabermetrics: An Analytical Approach to College Baseball

Sabermetrics has revolutionized the way in which professional athletic teams think about sports. Professional athletic teams from all over the world now use analytic tools and techniques drawn from multiple disciplines, including mathematics, computer science, data science, and graphic design, to help coaches and scouts with decision making, and to help athletes train and strategize. Through this seminar, students will analyze data related to baseball using a range of tools and data sources and apply their understandings of technology and basic physics to develop a novel stereo-radar instrument alongside other existing tools.