My Paper on Predicting Baseball Hall of Fame Odds

[Bobmuhthol]

I put enough effort into writing this that I'm slightly annoyed at how few people are actually exposed to it, so here's what I spent my last month of undergrad on. I wrote it with a reasonably literate but not very mathematical audience in mind, so it should be easy to understand. I liked writing it, and I hope people like reading it (it is not short).

Hopefully my link works (it might not in IE but it at least worked for me in Chrome): https://www.dropbox.com/s/qfsekhcyxkxukkv/CapstonePC.pdf

[WRoss]

I'll read it bud.

[AnticorRifling]

Didn't work for me using IE here at work.

[Latrinsorm]

Did you copy this from basketball-reference or what. I don't think Prof. Bob would approve of that.

I'll read more of it later but I would stay away from position to position comparisons, especially something like LF to C, and if you ever speak ill of Ralph Kiner again I will find you and weep quietly until you get so embarrassed you issue a retraction.

[Bobmuhthol]

I applied the basketball-reference methodology to baseball, yes. I'm not hiding it -- it's cited and explicitly mentioned.

There are a few ways I considered separating players. Differences between position might matter but it's not like a 2B has a better shot because he was the best 2B, otherwise the Hall would be evenly distributed among positions. It would also be way too segmented, well beyond usefulness, if I separated by position given that I already separated by time period. There are only so many possible candidates, and each one being a category would be silly.

[SHAFT]

Bob, if I read this, will I enjoy baseball more? I've tried to like baseball, I really have.

[Bobmuhthol]

I like to think that you will. If nothing else, I have at least a few clever lines in there. (The Pete Rose section just said "This is obvious" before my advisor recommended actually writing a paragraph.)

[Latrinsorm]

I applied the basketball-reference methodology to baseball, yes. I'm not hiding it -- it's cited and explicitly mentioned.

There are a few ways I considered separating players. Differences between position might matter but it's not like a 2B has a better shot because he was the best 2B, otherwise the Hall would be evenly distributed among positions. It would also be way too segmented, well beyond usefulness, if I separated by position given that I already separated by time period. There are only so many possible candidates, and each one being a category would be silly.Oh, ok. C-. :|

No seriously it's good Bob. Good job. :)