Analyzing Baseball Data with R

Jim Albert is a Distinguished University Professor of Statistics at Bowling Green State University. He has authored or co-authored several books including Curve Ball and Visualizing Baseball and was the editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports. He received the Significant Contributor to Statistics in Sports award in 2003 from the Section of Statistics in Sports of the American Statistical Association.

Ben Baumer is a Professor of Statistical and Data Sciences at Smith College. Previously a statistical analyst for the New York Mets, he is a co-author of The Sabermetric Revolution and Modern Data Science with R. He has received the Waller Education Award from the ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, the Significant Contributor Award from the ASA Section on Statistics in Sports, and the Contemporary Baseball Analysis Award from the Society for American Baseball Research.

Max Marchi is a Baseball Analytics Analyst for the Cleveland Indians. He was a regular contributor to The Hardball Times and Baseball Prospectus websites and previously consulted for other MLB clubs.