{"id":12974,"date":"2014-04-05T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12974"},"modified":"2014-04-05T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T17:33:36","slug":"inside-major-league-baseballs-hypothesis-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12974","title":{"rendered":"Inside Major League Baseball\u2019s \u201cHypothesis Machine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Baseball data, over 95% of which has been created over the last five years, will continue to mount\u2014leading MLB decision-makers to invest in more powerful analytics tools. While there are plenty of business intelligence and database options, teams are now looking to supercomputing\u2014or at least, the spawn of HPC\u2014to help them gain the competitive edge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/2014\/04\/03\/inside-major-league-baseballs-hypothesis-machine\/\">Inside Major League Baseball\u2019s \u201cHypothesis Machine\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please.\u00a0 The problem with current baseball analytics isn&#8217;t the deluge of data, it&#8217;s the deluge of crackpot theories that add more and more irrelevant variables to the mix.\u00a0 Most baseball analytics misuse mathematics and created by people who are simply selling a website.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of selling a website; is this a good place to introduce the sister site to bucktownbell.com?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"baseball.brandylion.com\">baseball.brandylion.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All data in above data model crunched using perl,awk, and bash on a standard PC.\u00a0 Baseball is not that complicated where it requires a supercomputer to crunch historical or current season data.\u00a0 More\u00a0 from the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He explained that what teams, just like governments and drug development researchers, are looking for is a \u201chypothesis machine\u201d that will allow them to integrate multiple, deep data wells and pose several questions against the same data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball data, over 95% of which has been created over the last five years, will continue to mount\u2014leading MLB decision-makers to invest in more powerful analytics tools. While there are plenty of business intelligence and database options, teams are now &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[1200,170,447,1290],"class_list":["post-12974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-baseball","tag-data-modeling","tag-supercomputers","tag-witchcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12975,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions\/12975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}