Progress, Product, and My Audience

Educationally speaking, I haven't really learned a lot from my project. I spend a lot of time on baseball websites and looking at statistics for baseball (I'd like to try and work in a front office after school) so none of the statistical stuff was all that new. I did; however, learn a few things about the application of sabermetrics. Like I said in my last post, more and more schools are teaching sabermetrics classes and a lot of employers are looking for people who have a lot of statistical knowledge. What I have had a hard time finding has been videos that are applicable to this, because there aren't that many. So, for my final product (a wordpress) I think I'm going to find some videos to add to the blog, they might not be related to statistics, but they'll at least be remotely related to baseball.

For my final product, I am going to do a blog. I'd like to expand what I have here into something a little more, with more website links, some videos, box scores, whatever I can find that seems relevant. I want it to be similar to the MLB Fan Cave blog and the Cut4 blogs at MLB.com. So, I'd like to have relevant box scores for that day, matchup previews, interesting statistical stuff from the day, and whatever else seems cool to have on there. 

Lastly, my target audience is probably going to be people like me, people who love baseball but hate math. Throughout all of high school I was good at math but never applied myself in the classes because I didn't see how it was practical to learn as a skill for the career I wanted to go into. It still isn't practical for me, but understanding statistics makes it easier to understand a lot of the numbers in baseball. Also, with my final product, I'd like for my blog to center around just regular baseball stuff rather than advanced metrics. Most baseball fans (all sports fans for that matter) have a favorite team, so I'd like to try and have separate links for each team (that might be too big of and undertaking) and then to highlight the big games or match-ups for that day so that it's easy to navigating and you're not just looking at boring stuff the entire time.

So hopefully all of that works out!