Sabermetrics 101 at Tufts University
http://sabermetrics.hnrc.tufts.edu/index.html
This course will teach Tufts students the fundamentals of Sabermetrics, the objective analysis of baseball. In addition, the course will cover important concepts in statistics and statistical analysis needed to perform sabermetric research. Students will design and implement their own research study in Sabermetrics. We will discuss baseball, not through conventional wisdom and consensus, but by searching for the truth of baseball performance. Hitting performance, pitching performance, and fielding performance will all be analyzed and better understood with current and historical baseball data.
My friends at Tufts are taking classes like this, my friends at Seattle University Law School are taking sports arbitration/negotiation classes, and friends at UIUC are taking baseball contracts classes.
Me? I spent my time in classes like Discrete Math and Information Systems II.
Oh, and Information Systems II was merely shorthand for “COBOL Programming.”
What a waste my higher education was.
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