If you watched this year’s World Series, you saw a lot of home runs. There were many dramatic home runs in late innings or extra innings. It might have seemed like a significantly high number. My friend Dan Markovitz asked me, via a Twitter DM, to look at this. Before speculating about cause-and-effect, let’s look at the data. In the news, we see headlines and news stories with a lot of “descriptive statistics,” including: Astros, … Continue reading The 2017 World Series Had the Most Home Runs Ever. So What?