Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Baseball
Wednesday July 15, 2009, 10:00am-2:00pm
University of Missouri – St. Louis
College of Business Administration
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121
What would Babe Ruth do if he faced Pedro Martinez?
How would Tony LaRussa have done managing Whitey Herzog’s roster?
Paul Bessire of Fox Sports’ What-if-Sports Unit will demonstrate how he simulates these scenarios. Paul is among the featured speakers at the Third Symposium on Statistics in Sports.
The third Symposium on Statistics and Operations Research in Baseball will be another meeting of the baseball, industrial, and academic worlds. The focus is on how Statistics and Operations Research methodology is used within baseball and associated businesses and on how baseball inspires the expansion of the frontiers of Statistics and Operations Research as scientific fields. The theme of this year's Symposium is “Answering Sports Questions with Rigor.”
The meeting is jointly sponsored by the following organizations:
University of Missouri – St. Louis College of Business Administration
Section on Statistics in Sports of the American Statistical Association
Information about joining the ASA/SIS
What is Statistics?
Section on Operations Research in Sports of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Information about joining OR in Sports
What is Operations Research?
Click here for the program for the Symposium.
Click here for the Speaker's Biographical information.
Presentations:
Simulating Sports: The Inputs and the Engines - Paul Bessire
Simulating Sports: The Outputs - Paul Bessire
Performance Curves of Home Run Hitters - Gilbert W. Fellingham, Ph. D.
Mathematical Modeling for Understanding and Analyzing Baseball - Bruce Bukiet
Participants Open Forum: St. Louis Debates - Dr. Stephen R. Moehrle
Registration information
Registration for the program is free. However, please register by July 8 so that a complimentary parking pass can be mailed to you in time for the program. Register by emailing Professor Stephen Moehrle (Moehrle@umsl.edu). In your email, please indicate an address where a parking pass can be mailed. There is guest parking available on campus should you register too late for a parking pass to be mailed to you.
All sessions and events will be held at the UMSL College of Business Adminstration, which is conveniently located two MetroLink stops from St. Louis’ Lambert International Airport
For more information, please contact symposium organizer Stephen Moehrle.