Boston University Course: "Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics"

[GD]

For fellow pasty baseball fans who have run out of stuff to do in their collective mothers' basements, Boston University is offering an online course called "Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics." It starts May 8th, and you can either take the course or audit it, which I'll be doing. It gets into using data, the basics of statistical regression, R language, and SQL.

 

This course will cover the theory and the fundamentals of the emerging science of Sabermetrics. We will discuss the game of baseball, not through consensus or a fan’s conventional wisdom, but by searching for objective knowledge in hitting, pitching, and fielding performance. These and other areas of sabermetrics will be analyzed and better understood with current and historical baseball data.

 

The course also serves as applied introduction to the basics of data science, a growing field of scholarship, that requires skills in computation, statistics, and communicating results of analyses. Using baseball data, the basics of statistical regression, the R Language, and SQL will be covered.

 

This course has been successfully taught at the Experimental College at Tufts University since 2004. Many of its former students have gone on to careers writing about baseball and working in various MLB baseball operations and analytics departments.

 

Thought it might be interesting for wannabe nerds who haven't learned this stuff like myself.

 

https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-sabr101x-sabermetrics-101-1558

[Abomination]

Interesting. For anyone wondering, it's free to audit it online.

[John_Havok]

Someone sign up AA for the distance learning course please.

[theblujay]

I think I might do this if I have the time