Title

Predicting the Cy Young Award Winner

Author

Stephen Ockerman

Matthew Nabity

Faculty Sponsor

Matthew Nabity

Abstract

Here we examine the application of a decision model to predicting the winner of the Cy Young Award. We investigate a current model cast as a linear programming problem and explore its ability to correctly predict award winners for recent seasons of professional baseball. We suggest the addition of another baseball statistic which leads to a new model. We explore the success of both models with numerical experiments and discuss the results.

Subject

Applied Mathematics

Numerical Analysis and Computation

linear programming

mathematical model

sabermetrics

Rights

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Type

Text

volume

3

Date Published

5/28/2014

Note

Matthew Nabity

Alternative Title

Predicting the Cy Young Award Winner

Identifier

pure/vol3/iss1/9

Language

eng