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Activity Number: 539
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Sports
Abstract - #309026
Title: Antedependence Models for Major League Baseball Batter's Salary to Use the Weighted Offensive Average
Author(s): Chulmin Kim*+
Companies: Rochester Institute of Technology
Keywords: covariance model ; longitudinal data ; baseball statistics
Abstract:

Since each of batting average, home runs, and runs batted in may contain a meaningful interpretation but also some drawback to explain a batter's ability at the same time, often we use them together not separately. Kim (2013) introduced, as an alternative of those traditional three, a variation of on base plus slugging (OPS), weighted offensive average (WOA), which is a single number explaining not only a batter's hitting performance but also his non-hitting performance to generate runs for his team such as stolen bases, walks, and etc. We propose a salary model for the major league baseball batter's to use the WOA. We adopt Kim's (2012) unconstrained model for multivariate longitudinal and multivariate antedependence model for the covariance structure of this newly developed one.


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