For You Baseball Statisticians and Historians

[Outshined_One]

I present you with one of the oldest statistical analyses of baseball.

 

The World Series Competition

 

Enjoy.

[seanimal]

I present you with one of the oldest statistical analyses of baseball.

 

The World Series Competition

 

Enjoy.

 

You should have pointed out that you have to be in college or work at one, or for some odd reason have a subscription to jstor in order to read the journal. though, i'm sure there are ways around it...

[Outshined_One]

I present you with one of the oldest statistical analyses of baseball.

 

The World Series Competition

 

Enjoy.

 

You should have pointed out that you have to be in college or work at one, or for some odd reason have a subscription to jstor in order to read the journal. though, i'm sure there are ways around it...

 

Really? I'm able to read it just fine. Weird.

[FergieJ31]

Mosteller was a huge Red Sox fan; I'm sure he enjoyed writing that paper. Quote from the abstact:

The National League has been outclassed by the American League teams in a half-century of World Series competition. The American League has won about 58 per cent of the games and 65 per cent of the Series. The probability that the better team wins the World Series is estimated as 0.80, and the American League is estimated to have had the better team in about 75 per cent of the Series.

 

His wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Mosteller is interesting, especially his methods of teaching.