Statistical Considerations When Measuring Absolute Reliability And Variability Of Vector Data In Sport Performance by Chris Bailey

“…Acceleration data at three intervals from 0 to 27.4 m (0 to 90 ft) were calculated from publicly available sprint performance data from 310 athletes participating in the 2018 and 2019 Major League Baseball seasons. CV, LOA, and SEM were calculated to evaluate inter-season variability. …”
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Psychomotor and visual skills underlying position specialization in 1352 elite youth baseball players by Jessica Ho, Sicong Liu, Zeyu Feng, Lawrence Gregory Appelbaum

“…In the United States, the Prospect Development Pipeline (PDP) is a collaborative effort between Major League Baseball and USA Baseball to establish a developmental pipeline leading to the professional draft. …”
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Robust inference for matching under rolling enrollment by Glazer Amanda K., Pimentel Samuel D.

“…We demonstrate the practical value of these tools via simulations and a case study of the impact of short-term injuries on batting performance in major league baseball.…”
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The Study of the Factors Affecting Stadium Attendance of Yankees' Fans by Aydogan Soyguden, Robert C. Schneider

“…The study population randomly selected (n=707) supporters of the Yankees Baseball Team participating at the Yankee Stadium in the 2017 seasons of American Major League Baseball. Materials and Methods: The Stadium Attendance and Non-Attendance Reason Scale (SANARS) created by Soyguden in 2013 contained 30 questions to determine reasons affecting Yankee fans' attendance. …”
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Generating multiple summaries based on computational model of perspective by Oh, Alice H

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An Investigation of Wood Baseball Bat Durability as a Function of Bat Profile and Slope of Grain Using Finite Element Modeling and Statistical Analysis by Blake Campshure, Patrick Drane, James A. Sherwood

“…To counter a perceived increase in multi-piece fracturing of wood baseball bats, Major League Baseball implemented standards to regulate the quality of wood used in the making of professional-grade baseball bats. …”
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Wood Bat Durability as a Function of Bat Profile and Slope of Grain by Blake Campshure, Patrick Drane, James Sherwood

“…During the 2008 Major League Baseball (MLB) season, there was a perception that the rate at which wood bats were breaking was on the rise. …”
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Categorical Nature of Major Factor Selection via Information Theoretic Measurements by Ting-Li Chen, Elizabeth P. Chou, Hsieh Fushing

“…In particular, we refer to a specific Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher and we consider data of multiple seasons.…”
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The Line in the Sand for British Strength Sports. No Second Chances and the Creation of a Drug Free for Life Ethos by Crisp Philippe

“…From individuals such as Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong, to countries and organisations such as Russian Athletics and Major League Baseball. More recently, research has emerged that suggests that those who take drugs, even the once, are permanently advantaged over those who never have (Egner et al., 2013; Eriksson, 2006). …”
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Machine learning-based optimization of contract renewal predictions in Korea Baseball organization by Taeshin Park, Jaeyun Kim

“…We use data on foreign player performances in the Minor League Baseball and Major League Baseball immediately prior to joining KBO, in KBO upon joining, and player image data. …”
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SmartPitch: Applied Machine Learning for Professional Baseball Pitching Strategy by Otremba Jr., Stephen Eugene

“…Using the count, we’re able to directly map the states of this pitcher-batter match-up to a Markov Decision Process, with state-transition probabilities estimated from supervised machine learning models trained on publicly released data collected through Major League Baseball’s statistics arm. In this thesis, we will discuss how this model of baseball can be used to evaluate optimal pitching strategies that can exploit the tendencies of specific batters and leverage a pitcher’s arsenal of available actions to minimize offensive production. …”
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Pitch Sequence Complexity and Long-Term Pitcher Performance by Joel R. Bock

“…Winning one or two games during a Major League Baseball (MLB) season is often the difference between a team advancing to post-season play, or “waiting until next year”. …”
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Temporal trends in incidence of time-loss injuries in four male professional North American sports over 13 seasons by Garrett S. Bullock, Elizabeth Murray, Jake Vaughan, Stefan Kluzek

“…Public injury data from Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, and National Hockey League from 2007 to December 2019 were extracted and used. …”
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Unraveling Hidden Major Factors by Breaking Heterogeneity into Homogeneous Parts within Many-System Problems by Elizabeth P. Chou, Ting-Li Chen, Hsieh Fushing

“…We study one artificially designed MSP and then two real collectives of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitching dynamics with 62 slider pitchers and 199 fastball pitchers, respectively. …”
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Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets by Reshef, David N., Reshef, Yakir, Grossman, Sharon Rachel, Finucane, Hilary Kiyo, McVean, Gilean, Turnbaugh, Peter J., Mitzenmacher, Michael, Sabeti, Pardis C., Lander, Eric Steven

“…We apply MIC and MINE to data sets in global health, gene expression, major-league baseball, and the human gut microbiota and identify known and novel relationships.…”
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Fellowship Training Is a Significant Predictor of Sports Medicine Physician Social Media Presence by Brian LaGrant, B.S., Sergio M. Navarro, M.D., M.B.A, Jacob Becker, M.D., Hashim Shaikh, B.S., Irvin Sulapas, M.D., Theodore B. Shybut, M.D.

“…Methods: Team physicians for professional sports teams in the National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, and National Basketball Association were identified and characterized based on training background, practice setting, and geographic location. …”
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Magnus-Forces Analysis of Pitched-Baseball Trajectories Using YOLOv3-Tiny Deep Learning Algorithm by Bor-Jiunn Wen, Che-Rui Chang, Chun-Wei Lan, Yi-Chen Zheng

“…Using the ratio of the spin rate and ball speed as a parameter to analyze the pitching state of the pitcher’s four-seam fastball in the Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball matches, it was observed that when this ratio increased, the Magnus displacement of the ball increased, thereby decreasing its late break. …”
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Essays on status recognition and its consequences for top-talent mobility and productivity by Bond, Brittany M.

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Natural language search of structured documents by Oney, Stephen W

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Meniscal Injuries Are Decreasing but Are Increasingly Being Treated Surgically With Excellent Return to Play Rates in Professional Baseball Players by Bradley M. Kruckeberg, M.D., Aaron J. Krych, M.D., Abhinav Lamba, B.S., Corey A. Wulf, M.D., Michael L. Knudsen, M.D., Christopher L. Camp, M.D.

“…Methods: After approval from the Major League Baseball (MLB) Research Committee and our institutional review board, the MLB Health and Injury Tracking System was used to identify meniscus injuries occurring across MLB and Minor League Baseball (MiLB) from 2011 to 2017. …”
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