Sabermetrics Analysis
The task involves the use of Excel spreadsheet data analysis capabilities to carry out a sabermetrics analysis comparing offensive performance in the 2018 and 2019 seasons in Major League Baseball and to answer other questions about the 2019 season’s offensive performance as detailed in the Information to Complete Task section on pages 2–5. You will write a business-style report in Microsoft Word or similar whichdocuments your findings using a maximum of 1500 words.
Introduction- Briefly outline the situation. You need not provide much background — you can assume that the readers are familiar with baseball — but you need to show that you have understood the situation and what is required of you
•Body- Briefly summarise the purpose of the analysis and the analytical methods you have used –you should not give technical details of how to use a spreadsheet to do the analysisoAnswer and discuss the various questions, supporting the points you make with copies of relevant sections of data from your spreadsheet and charts, using whichever is most appropriate for the question you are answering; discuss the policy implications for baseball of your answers as appropriateoCarry out some research and outline how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in baseball both off and on the pitch.
•ConclusionoSummarise the conclusions you have drawnoSummarise the policy implications for baseball where appropriate, and the information about the use of AI in baseball•References in Harvard formatoI do not expect you to use a large number of in-text references but there should be some; you must provide a properly-formatted reference list/bibliography at the end of the report
