Rising Bandits for Best Athlete Identification

  • Conducted a literature review on rising and rotting rested bandits (subset of multi-armed bandits), compiling use cases, regret bounds, and regret measures
  • Leveraged successive rejection algorithms to estimate early career baseball players’ underlying OBP with confidence intervals
  • Constructed a dataset of Retrosheet play-by-play data simulating Bernoulli rewards of plate appearance results