Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks
We formulate the head-to-head matchups between Major League Baseball pitchers and batters from 1954 to 2008 as a bipartite network of mutually-antagonistic interactions. We consider both the full network and single-season networks, which exhibit structural changes over time. We find interesting stru...
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| author | Saavedra, S Powers, S McCotter, T Porter, M Mucha, P |
| author_facet | Saavedra, S Powers, S McCotter, T Porter, M Mucha, P |
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| description | We formulate the head-to-head matchups between Major League Baseball pitchers and batters from 1954 to 2008 as a bipartite network of mutually-antagonistic interactions. We consider both the full network and single-season networks, which exhibit structural changes over time. We find interesting structure in the networks and examine their sensitivity to baseball's rule changes. We then study a biased random walk on the matchup networks as a simple and transparent way to (1) compare the performance of players who competed under different conditions and (2) include information about which particular players a given player has faced. We find that a player's position in the network does not correlate with his placement in the random walker ranking. However, network position does have a substantial effect on the robustness of ranking placement to changes in head-to-head matchups. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:c0fc8b51-542b-4040-b93c-f8e05b93ad6a2022-03-27T05:58:17ZMutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networksJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c0fc8b51-542b-4040-b93c-f8e05b93ad6aEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Saavedra, SPowers, SMcCotter, TPorter, MMucha, PWe formulate the head-to-head matchups between Major League Baseball pitchers and batters from 1954 to 2008 as a bipartite network of mutually-antagonistic interactions. We consider both the full network and single-season networks, which exhibit structural changes over time. We find interesting structure in the networks and examine their sensitivity to baseball's rule changes. We then study a biased random walk on the matchup networks as a simple and transparent way to (1) compare the performance of players who competed under different conditions and (2) include information about which particular players a given player has faced. We find that a player's position in the network does not correlate with his placement in the random walker ranking. However, network position does have a substantial effect on the robustness of ranking placement to changes in head-to-head matchups. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Saavedra, S Powers, S McCotter, T Porter, M Mucha, P Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks |
| title | Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks |
| title_full | Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks |
| title_fullStr | Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks |
| title_short | Mutually-antagonistic interactions in baseball networks |
| title_sort | mutually antagonistic interactions in baseball networks |
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