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 package http://billpetti.github.io/baseballr/
