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Predicting Average Annual Value of Free Agent Contracts in Major League Baseball

This project uses multiple linear regression to predict the value of Major League Baseball free agent contracts, inspired by the low volume of published research on this topic. I found one published paper that shared my research goal but its predictive power needed improvement. An in depth comparison of our models is carried out with k-fold cross validation mean square prediction error being used as the main standard. The predictor variables considered in my models were related to performance evaluation and position, and the response variable was inflation-adjusted average annual value of the contract. The result of the project is two linear regression models, one for hitters and one for pitchers.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:wpi.edu/oai:digitalcommons.wpi.edu:etd-theses-2238
Date30 April 2018
CreatorsLibsch, Anton I
ContributorsThelge B. Peiris, Advisor, ,
PublisherDigital WPI
Source SetsWorcester Polytechnic Institute
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceMasters Theses (All Theses, All Years)

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