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Kaplan took his research and interviews with the Dodgers
and made a career. “I was able to
articulate
it so effectively
that Caltech allowed me to present to the [school’s] Board of
Trustees,” says Kaplan. “I explained what I thought was a better
system of evaluating pitchers. It was a big thing to say that a
billion-dollar industry was not using the best analytics.
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Analytics: Sports Stats and More
Creative use of statistical analysis helped Ari Kaplan have his Dodgers’ dreams come true.