This is our project for Carnegie Mellon's 2021 CMSACamp. This project began with one central question: can we prescribe a launch angle to players based on their power profile? It progressed into an analysis of a player's attack angle (or swing plane) and how changing this might affect their output as measured by wOBA.
Please see the final code folder for everything we did for this project in a concise fashion. How we loaded the data from statcast can be seen in the public_data folder. After this, the files should be viewed in this order: Final_EDA, Density_per_Player, Creating_GAMs, Tuning_Final_GAM, Chng_Launch_Angle_Function, Joint_Probabilities, Adjusting_Attack_Angles
Click here for the link to a 10 minute video describing the project.
Click here for the presentation slides to the 10 minute video.
Click here for the presentation slides to the department.
Click here for the presentation slides for the CMSAConference.