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\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations<\/p>\n
Is it possible to rank Major League Baseball teams and predict their day-to-day play by looking through the prism of\u00a0a few mathematical concepts? Maybe so. At least that\u2019s what two Furman math professors and their students are attempting to do.\u00a0The work, which was done this past summer by Drs. John Harris and Kevin Hutson of Furman\u2019s math department and their undergraduate research assistants Will Decker, Jordan Lyerly, Aaron Markham, and Rob Picardi,\u00a0was chronicled in a piece for the\u00a0Huffington Post<\/em> by Davidson College math professor Tim Chartier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Is it possible to rank Major League Baseball teams and predict their day-to-day play by looking through the prism of a few mathematical concepts? Maybe so. At least that\u2019s what two Furman math professors and their students are attempting to do.<\/p>\n