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Numerical Evaluation of Baseball Players on Parallel Computational Environments

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24650404
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Sports science
Research InstitutionNational Agency for the Advancement of Sports and Health

Principal Investigator

OSAWA Kiyoshi  独立行政法人日本スポーツ振興センター国立スポーツ科学センター, スポーツ科学研究部, 契約研究員 (60601135)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) AIDA Kento  国立情報学研究所, アーキテクチャ科学研究系, 教授 (80247212)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Keywordsハイパフォーマンスコンピューティング / オペレーションズリサーチ
Outline of Final Research Achievements

A probability distribution of runs scored in a baseball game and a winning percentage of the game are able to be computed by multiplying matrices, which are defined by some results of players.
We proposed the method to evaluate players by the relation between the winning percentage and their results. The existing model to compute the probability distributions was based on only batting results, so that fielding results were not applied to the computation. We incorporated fielding results into the extended model.
The numerical experiment indicated that impact of difference in winning percentages, which were calculated from the model with fielding results of players who have good and poor fielding skill, corresponded to about 2 wins for a season. While this problem had large computational complexity due to adding fielding results to the model, the parallel computational environment enabled us to find an optimal batting order among about 210 million orders in 1 hour 22 minutes.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2015 2013

All Presentation (2 results)

  • [Presentation] The technique of finding an optimal batting order in baseball with base running results2015

    • Author(s)
      Kiyoshi Osawa and Nobuyoshi Hirotsu
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Scheduling 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      Kobe Industrial Promotion Center Convention Hall, Kobe, Hyogo, JAPAN
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-04 – 2015-07-06
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Effects of fielding results on a winning percentage of a baseball game2013

    • Author(s)
      Kiyoshi Osawa
    • Organizer
      The 9th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport
    • Place of Presentation
      Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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