Classrooms across Washington state sat empty last week, as teachers in seven districts went on strike when negotiations over salaries and benefits failed to result in contracts by the first day of school.

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Dale L. Zimmerman, Jun Tang, Rui Huang.

Source: The Annals of Applied Statistics, Volume 13, Number 4, 2416--2451.

Abstract:
We extend statistical shape analytic methods known as outline analysis for application to the strike zone, a central feature of the game of baseball. Although the strike zone is rigorously defined by Major League Baseball’s official rules, umpires make mistakes in calling pitches as strikes (and balls) and may even adhere to a strike zone somewhat different than that prescribed by the rule book. Our methods yield inference on geometric attributes (centroid, dimensions, orientation and shape) of this “called strike zone” (CSZ) and on the effects that years, umpires, player attributes, game situation factors and their interactions have on those attributes. The methodology consists of first using kernel discriminant analysis to determine a noisy outline representing the CSZ corresponding to each factor combination, then fitting existing elliptic Fourier and new generalized superelliptic models for closed curves to that outline and finally analyzing the fitted model coefficients using standard methods of regression analysis, factorial analysis of variance and variance component estimation. We apply these methods to PITCHf/x data comprising more than three million called pitches from the 2008–2016 Major League Baseball seasons to address numerous questions about the CSZ. We find that all geometric attributes of the CSZ, except its size, became significantly more like those of the rule-book strike zone from 2008–2016 and that several player attribute/game situation factors had statistically and practically significant effects on many of them. We also establish that the variation in the horizontal center, width and area of an individual umpire’s CSZ from pitch to pitch is smaller than their variation among CSZs from different umpires.

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