Going into 2023 Major League Baseball looked to make a change to increase offensive output. They decided to restrict where the fielding team could stand to help hitters produce at a higher rate. How much did this rule change truly affect hitters? We will focus on batting averages to see the impact that one rule change showed on the entire league.
How Banning The Shift Has Increased Batting Average
by crooks | Mar 1, 2024 | Math Seminar, Spring 2024 | 5 comments
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This is very interesting. There seem to be evolving rules within sports and it always interests me how the change of the rules affects the game. I cannot wait to be exposed to the impact that these rule changes have had on the sport of Baseball!!
Your topic seems very interesting. I am interested to see how changing the rules can affect different positions in baseball. I am looking forward to your talk to learn more about the batting averages to show how this rule has affected the league.
This is a very interesting topic to me! Knowing how much you like baseball, I am very happy to know how you will relate it to Battling average. I noticed all the hardwork you put in getting this together and can’t wait to see you present it!
I am very interested to hear about your talk Andrew. I am not the worlds biggest baseball fan, although I do love going to games for the food and the fireworks and my cousin was the bat boy for the Bisons and Blue Jays for a while. My dad and brother also talk about baseball religiously so hopefully I’ll be able to educate them on stuff I learned!
Your talk was very interesting! I liked hearing about the statistics behind certain rules of baseball. I know how interested you are in baseball and sports statistics, so it was great to see some of this presented in your talk!