The Texas Rangers are rewarding innovative ideas in baseballbranalytics by rolling out a new scholarship opportunity.
The baseball club announced today via pressbrrelease the Texas Rangers Call-Up Scholarship for the 2018-19 academicbryear. It’s calling for interested college students to submit “original formulasbror statistics to provide previously immeasurable projections, indicators ofbrfuture success, measurements of risk or player valuation,” according to thebrclub’s press release.
The best original formula or statistic to be used in abrbaseball operations context will be awarded a one-time educational scholarshipbrof $5,000.
The scholarship is open to U.S. residents who will bebrundergraduate students enrolled for the fall 2018-spring 2019 academic year.brThe deadline for submission is September 30, 2018.
So if you know a college student interested in baseballbranalytics, tell them to step up the plate.