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https://thesportjournal.org/article/an-examination-of-the-moneyball-theory-a-baseball-statistical-analysis/

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7439490

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/19136288.pdf

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Data-Mining-Career-Batting-Performances-in-Baseball-Tung/ae99c8144778da6701e67e61ff0ac061d33de4a8

https://vixra.org/pdf/1205.0104v1.pdf