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An analysis of the game-by-game batting logs for Babe Ruth’s 1923 season shows an interesting movement of the AB and Hits data along a series of parallels with the general equation y = hx + c. Here x is the number of At Bats (AB) and y is the number of Hits (H)..
Babe Ruth’s batting statistics also serves to illustrate the significance of the nonzero c that we observe in the analysis of our empirical (x, y) observations on many complex problems of interest to us. The nonzero c is like the “work function” conceived by Einstein, in 1905, to explain the photoelectric effect. Einstein’s photoelectric law is also a linear law which suggests a movement along parallels for experiments with different metals. The nonzero c in baseball statistics is related to the missing hits, or the “difficulty” of producing a hit, or a home run (if y is taken as home runs). The same “work function” applies to many other problems. Some examples are financial data (profits and revenues of companies) or other performance related data (airline quality ratings), or fatality data (deaths due to traffic accident, guns, cancer, etc.).
An analysis of the game-by-game batting logs for Babe Ruth’s 1923 season shows an interesting movement of the AB and Hits data along a series of parallels with the general equation y = hx + …