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As many of you are aware, Baseball-Reference calculates a similarity score for each player against other players. Although this is an accepted way to calculate the similarity between two players, I wanted to see if my methodology compares.

An initial look into how to calculate the similarity between two players in Major League Baseball.

An introduction to some thoughts on using data and analytics for determining player similarity in Major League Baseball.

Predict the next pitch based on pitcher batter histories.

It’s time to execute the model and examine the results from proc optmodel.

This is an overview to optimization and Proc OPTMODEL in SAS.

With data, let’s formulate our optimization model and get the code ready to execute.

In order to use some of the optimization proceedures, you need to process data in a certain way.

SAS has some great tools for applying traditional constraint programming techniques.

Using stats to determine how similar baseball players are to each other.