Baseball Modeling Three Ways

The Challenge My fantasy football league had a fun way to determine our draft order: the person who most accurately guesses the amount of runs scored in all seventeen MLB games on Saturday, September 2nd gets to choose their draft position. The worse your guess, the worse your draft position. We had a wide variety of techniques from total guessing to some statistical modeling, and I thought this would be a good chance to think of each of these modeling practices. Read more