{"id":2684,"date":"2013-07-08T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/07\/08\/for-love-of-the-numbers-game\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:39:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:39:58","slug":"for-love-of-the-numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/for-love-of-the-numbers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"For love of the numbers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the chances that a professional baseball player in Japan will excel in Major League Baseball? Furman graduate Connor Jennings is doing his best to predict that very thing. Jennings, who graduated in May with a degree in Computer Science and Asian Studies, is using the power of sabermetrics to analyze why some Japanese players succeed in the U.S. and some don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>His research, which he did in conjunction with the Furman Math Department, led to articles by both Peter Keating, a writer with\u00a0<em>ESPN the Magazine<\/em>, and Bart Wright, sports editor of\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130705\/sports\/307050019\/bart-wright-furman-grad-jennings-develops-sophisticated-baseball-analysis-system\">Read Greenville News article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(graph photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/shutterstock.com\">Shutterstock.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the chances that a professional baseball player in Japan will excel in Major League Baseball? Furman graduate Connor Jennings is doing his best to predict that very thing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}