OT: Free online college sabermetrics course

[Bear of Bad News]

Boston University is offering a free online course in Sabremetrics, starting May 8th:

https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-sabr101x-sabermetrics-101-1558

I'm sure that this is focused on baseball exclusively as the sport of interest, but will also cover R and SQL, and my guess is that it will also help with thinking through data issues in a sports setting as well as techniques for sporets analytics (all of which will help enthusiasts here).

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[Michael Farkas]

I will have to consider taking this. How difficult you think this will be math-wise, Doc? Any clue? I had taken two base-level prob&stats classes and survived to pre-calc in college...though, they were a few years ago now certainly...I'm not worried about having prior knowledge of that kind of math, but more, my ability to learn the mathematical concepts...

Wish it wasn't during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but I will have to consider taking this to better understand just what hell is going on on this board...

Thanks for posting!

 

[Mathletic]

I will have to consider taking this. How difficult you think this will be math-wise, Doc? Any clue? I had taken two base-level prob&stats classes and survived to pre-calc in college...though, they were a few years ago now certainly...I'm not worried about having prior knowledge of that kind of math, but more, my ability to learn the mathematical concepts...

Wish it wasn't during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but I will have to consider taking this to better understand just what hell is going on on this board...

Thanks for posting!

You should have plenty already. Typical Sabremetrics books will go as far as Markov Chains. So if you know your basic linear algbera and probability stuff, there shouldn't be any issue. Seems like a part of the course will be on SQL and R. If you've already done some C, C++, Python or other programming languages, it will be very easy to learn. SQL is made for non-programmers and mimics natural english language as much as possible. Some of it may be a bit harder at first when talking about normalization and whatnot but it shouldn't be an issue.

Most of the stats computation will be done in R I guess. The prof will likely go over the formal maths during the course but will invite students to use various packages coming with R to compute linear regressions and that sort of thing.

I prefer Coursera over EdX but hey, can't complain about having some sports stats courses for free on the internet. Btw, courses are typically archived, so even if you skip a week's lesson, you can still do it later.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

I bet that the maximum math courses would be intro to stats coupled with intro linear algebra.

I may follow along just to see how they handle the case studies and the treatment in R.

 

[Thirty One]

It is 404ing me.

 

[COwens12]

It is 404ing me.

https://www.edx.org/course-list?page=1

Then scroll down until you find it

 

[Bear of Bad News]

It's odd - the link worked earlier.

Now, the link doesn't work. But if you enter it in directly (not using the link), then it works.

[x]https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-sabr101x-Sabremetrics-101-1558[/x]

 

[Thirty One]

They still hate me and won't let me learn.

 

[Thirty One]

I just Googled the thread title and it came up as the second result (behind only this thread).

 

[Kane One]

I'm also not able to view it.

COwens12's suggestion worked.

Edit - Registered. I tried to put down that I don't want to pay. I'll see how that works out.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

An interview with the professor running the online course:
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/...eaches-baseball-analytics-course-through-edx/

Bonus - the link to the course actually works.

 

[hatterson]

An interview with the professor running the online course:
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/...eaches-baseball-analytics-course-through-edx/

Bonus - the link to the course actually works.

That page could not be found

Perhaps you should internet harder?

Not your best thread Doc

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Okay, this is asinine.

It's weird - when I paste the link in raw into a fresh browser, it works great. Otherwise, it doesn't resolve. Same exact freaking URL.