HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In their run to be World Series Champions, the Houston Astros focus on more than just winning and they're using math to do it. "You can get an advantage," said Jimmy Disch, ...

The high school algebra teacher has a fastball that touches 90 and pitches out of the bullpen for Southern New Hampshire. That’s when he isn’t either grading papers or completing his next assignment ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- At "Angels Science of Baseball," students learn about velocity, force and statistics from fantasy baseball and fielding percentages. The brand new program is funded by the ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Baseball and math came together for a friendly competition at Raley Field for the 4th annual Fantasy Baseball Math Tournament. More than 100 fourth- through eighth-graders teamed ...

Donohue adds to the math lesson by having each student design and build a baseball stadium that has to fit on the student’s desk, which is 17 by 23 inches. He encourages them not to go to a store but ...

Thanks to a new generation of analysts, baseball and math has never been so intertwined. Bill James and the Society for American Baseball Research, or the more familiar term, sabermetrics, the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — WAR, what is it good for? For Edwin Starr, the answer was “absolutely nothin’” — although “somethin’” might be a better answer, since he had a No. 1 hit with the tune in 1970. But ...

Let’s say-just for the sake of argument, you understand-that you’re a die-hard baseball fan and you can’t figure out the "new math" propounded by Major League Baseball owners hell-bent on contraction.

Time to do a little less #GoryMath. Really. On these pages here at Baseball Prospectus, it’s common that we spend a good amount of time agonizing over methodology and coming up with (let’s face it) ...

Where we used to consider whether we wanted just peanuts or cracker jacks at the ballpark (Why not have them both?!), now we’re forced to spend the down-time (95% of a game) understanding calculations ...