Writing a baseball research paper with Claude: a shrinkage plot stats folks love
StatsbyLopez · x · 2026-10-19
albertbayes shared his process of writing a baseball research paper using Claude. A figure showing observed vs shrunken (estimated talent) 2025 home-run rate and BABIP for 256 qualifiers — arrows from observed to estimated, BABIP shrunk strongly toward the league mean, home-run rate much less — drew praise from tangotiger, StatsbyLopez and other statisticians.
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