Author(s)

Patrick R. McMullen

School of Business, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

This effort describes a successful classroom exercise to introduce simple and multiple linear regression to working professional MBA students. The exercise starts by exploring the relationship between a baseball team’s payroll with its winning percentage. The exercise then continues with the introduction of additional predictor variables so that the students are able to build a strong predictive model for winning percentage. Student feedback consistently praises the exercise as an effective way to learn about linear regression.

Teaching, Linear Regression, Statistics, Survey, Baseball

McMullen, P. (2015) Using Baseball Data as a Gentle Introduction to Teaching Linear Regression. Creative Education, 6, 1477-1483. doi: 10.4236/ce.2015.614148.