American League Baseball Championship 2017 Prediction using AHP

Abstract

Baseball one of the most popular sports in the United States and are worth billions of dollars. American League (AL) is a premium baseball championship in North America. The goal of the paper is to predict the winner of the 2017 American League Baseball Championship. There are various factors in the game which can influence the win for a team. We are considering four major factors among the other factors Home/Away, Day/Night, Ranking, and Division respectively. The data was taken from previous AL match records and has been preprocessed by converting nominal values into binary values for prediction purpose. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique was used to predict the winner of the game and conclude.