Monday, March 07, 2005
GAs, baseball & the Hall of Fame
AndrewKoch.com has a terrific post about a paper by one David Cohen (I have a cousin named David Cohen, but he doesn't do GAs) that uses genetic algorithms to induce a rule that helps determine whether or not a player is elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Apparently the rule is as follows:
if
Games >2794 and AB >3967 and Runs >1145 and Hits >1297 and TotalBases >4432 and Doubles >252 and Triples >14 and HR >355 and RBI >325 and StolenBases >341 and BB >658 and HBP >9 and Strikeouts <2087>9 and Psbb >1 and Psstrikeouts <42>0.269 and PSOBP >0.010
then
its Cooperstown Time
Read the whole paper here. Now, if only someone would use a GA to determine what it takes to get tenure at a major research university.
Apparently the rule is as follows:
if
Games >2794 and AB >3967 and Runs >1145 and Hits >1297 and TotalBases >4432 and Doubles >252 and Triples >14 and HR >355 and RBI >325 and StolenBases >341 and BB >658 and HBP >9 and Strikeouts <2087>9 and Psbb >1 and Psstrikeouts <42>0.269 and PSOBP >0.010
then
its Cooperstown Time
Read the whole paper here. Now, if only someone would use a GA to determine what it takes to get tenure at a major research university.
