Baseball analytics and performance enhancing drugs

Abstract

This study provided insight into the relationship between the usage of performance enhancing drugs and Major League Baseball performance analytics. This study utilized a logistical hierarchical model to analyze the performance analytics of twenty Major League Baseball players, ten of whom are suspected of using performance enhancing drugs and ten who were not suspected of using performance enhancing drugs. This study found evidence that the use of performance enhancing drugs was significantly related to heightened on-base percentage statistics, but was not significantly related to fielding percentages. This shows us that there is a statistically significant relationship between performance enhancing drugs and on-base percentage, but there is no significant relationship between performance enhancing drugs and fielding percentages.