Probability and baseball in the news

“They Tried to Beat DiMaggio. Like Everyone Else, They Failed.” A great article in the NY Times including probability calculations from the MIT Sports Lab.

David Waldstein

“Getting a 56-game streak is incredible,” said Anette Hosoi, a professor of applied mathematics and data analysis at M.I.T. “The odds of that are really astronomically small.”

Read more on the NY Times.