Devopdays MSP ignite talk

1. Putting the R in Sports
By: Daniel Willis

2. Installing R Easy

3. Type in R to start R

4. I Learned R Variables

5. Let’s Look at an Example

6. You can read files with R

7. Explaining Standard Deviation is Hard
http://www.isixsigma.com/tools-templates/variation/variation-root-all-process-evil

8. We put the Pizza into Vectors

9. Let’s go back to the earlier ERA Plot

10. How Many People Have Seen Moneyball?

11. Sabermetrics
• Society for American Baseball Research
• Bill James is the father of Sabermetrics
• He joined the Redsox in 2003
• In 2004 Redsox broke the curse

12. My Dad and I Found This Book

13. Lahman Baseball Database

14. The Lahman Database Has Great
Examples

15. In this example we load 5 players all
time career hits

16. In this example we only take years
where they had at least 300 AB’s

17. On Base Percentage

18. We took 5 great players and looked at
their career OBP’s

19. Moneyball in R

20. New Stuff
• More work with Baseball and R
• Fantasy Football Analytics
• Stocks and R