Fun article about running baseball simulations:
Answering Baseball’s What-Ifs
One game has little meaning. A thousand seasons can take a while. Thank goodness for quad-core processors.
“Computer simulations work pretty well in baseball for two reasons,” said Carl Morris, a professor of statistics at Harvard University who has written several papers that commingled baseball and formal statistical theory. “In general, they allow you to study fairly complicated processes that you can’t really get at with pure mathematics. But also, sports are great for simulations — you can play 10,000 seasons overnight.”
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