In the first official Open Source Sports podcast episode, we discuss openWAR (available on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7158 and JQAS ) with author Gregory J. Matthews (@StatsInTheWild), Associate Professor of Statistics at Loyola University Chicago.

Additional resources mentioned in the show:

  • openWAR code repository: https://github.com/beanumber/openWAR
  • Baseball Prospectus example articles (deserved runs created, NOT defensive runs created as incorrectly stated in the show):  https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/48293/entirely-beyond-wowy-a-breakdown-of-drc/ and https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/41748/prospectus-feature-the-expected-contribution/*
  • Bill Petti’s baseballr packagehttp://billpetti.github.io/baseballr/