Math 215 Statistics Project 1 Name: Christian Baldino and Nicholas Baldino

1. PROBLEM: Data from the 2017 Major League Baseball (MLB) season was collected to determine
whether there was an association between errors committed by a team and wins for the 30
MLB teams.

2. DATA: Errors Committed and Wins were compiled for each MLB team. See Attached Sheet for
data.

3. DATA: The data that We used for the analysis can be found at the following website:
https://www.mlb.com/

4. ANALYSIS:

Errors Committed:

Mean = 94.00, Median = 94.00, Standard Deviation = 13.09

Wins:

Mean = 81.00, Median = 79.00, Standard Deviation = 11.53

5. ANALYSIS:

MLB y = -0.0485x + 85.553

R² = 0.003
110

100

90
Wins

80

70

60

50
70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 115 120
Errors Committed

Correlation Coefficient = 0.05505

There does not seem to be a linear association between errors committed and wins.
6. ANALYSIS:

Regression Equation: y = -0.0485x + 85.553, R-Square = 0.30%

7. CONCLUSION:

There does not seem to be a linear association between errors committed and wins. There are
teams with MLB leading fewest errors committed that has near the top of the league in wins
and near the bottom of the league in wins. This same trend is true for times that committed
the fewest errors.

The reported R-Square value is 0.003. Hence, 0.30 % of the variance in wins can be accounted
for by the variable errors committed. Thus, the regression equation would not be a good
predictor of wins in the MLB. For example, if a team commits 100 errors during the season, we
would predict that they would have about 90 wins during the season. However, if a team
committed 50 or 5 errors during a season, we would predict that they would have about 88
and 86 wins during the season, respectively.

Calculations:

100 errors: y = -0.0485(100) + 85.553 = 90.40 predicted wins

50 errors: y = -0.0485(50) + 85.553 = 87.98 predicted wins

5 errors: y = -0.0485(5) + 85.553 = 85.85 predicted wins