While many statistical measures have been devised to measure team and player performance in professional baseball, relatively little work has been done to study and improve measures of defensive performance. This project's goals were to model defensive contribution to team performance and develop related measures of individual player defensive production. Factor analysis was employed to extract positional factors and combine them with pitching and offensive measures into a final logistic regression model to determine effects of defense on team performance.

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Creator

• Teixeira, Christopher M.
• Lopes, Alyssa M.
• Haskins, Allison M.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 06D014M

Advisor

• Wilbur, Jayson D.

Year

• 2008

Date created

• 2008-08-04

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mathematical Sciences

Rights statement

• In Copyright