Thursday, March 11, 2010

Professor Predicts Baseball Winners, Uses Baseball to Tout Power of Math

"We've long had a problem convincing US youngsters to embrace mathematics in school," says Bukiet. "Studying how math applies to baseball demonstrates not only that math can be fun, but how it is really a part of things people care about." (Credit: NJIT)

From Science Daily:

Science Daily (Mar. 10, 2010) — With pitchers and catchers having recently reported to spring training, once again Bruce Bukiet, an associate professor at NJIT, has applied mathematical analysis to compute the number of games that Major League Baseball teams should win in 2010. The Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers should all repeat as winners in their divisions, while the Atlanta Braves will take the wild card slot in the National League (NL), says Bukiet.

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