Teaching Decision Making with Baseball Examples
J. Eric Bickel - ebickel@tamu.edu
Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3131 TAMU, College Station Texas 77843
Abstract
Sports examples can be wonderful vehicles for teaching OR/MS concepts. Baseball is particularly well suited to teaching statistics/probability, Markov decision processes, and decision analysis. This paper details a baseball example I developed to teach fundamental decision making skills. This example has been used successfully to teach decision making to undergraduates and graduates in technical and non-technical disciplines. It has also been used effectively in industry for training new MBAs and seasoned executives.
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Nickel, J. E. 2004. Introduction to the Special Issue: SpORts in the OR Classroom. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 5(1) 2-9. Available online at http://ite.pubs.informs.org/.
DOI: 10.1287/ited.5.1.2