Baseball Season Simulation Help

If someone could give me the basic idea and code to start this, i just have no idea where to begin

Your function should simulate a 9 inning game, with three outs per inning, using nested loops. You will use the player data probabilities and Monte Carlo simulation to simulate a given player when they come to bat (more below). If they get a hit, they advance to whatever base their hit corresponds to (a single to first base, double to second, triple to third, homerun back to home plate). If they get an out, they do not advance and the number of outs in the inning increases by 1. Any baserunners on base when a batter gets a hit advance the number of bases that the hitter gets. If the batter was to hit a double all base runners would advance 2 bases, a triple 3 bases and so on. We will assume no base running errors or advances other than that previously mentioned. The order of the hitters should carry over through innings, so if the 5th batter made the last out, then the 6th batter leads off the next inning. In this simulation you will only worry about one of the teams so once one inning is over, you can go right to the next. A 9x1 matrix will also be needed to keep track of where each player is on base. Remember that any time a player reaches over 3 bases, they have scored. An RBI is defined as the number of runs that score when a player gets a hit. So if there are runners on all bases and a double is hit, the batter ets 2 RBI. If they hit a homerun, they get 4 RBI (you get an RBI for a homerun for driving in yourself) You should create a sub-function that uses a Monte Carlo simulation to determine what each player hits when they are up to bat. Then in you main function you should call your subfunction for every at bat.

Answer 1

[John D'Errico]

So you need to make an effort.

Score = [0,0];
for inning = 1:9
  for team = 1:2
    onbase = [0 0 0];
    for outs = 1:3
      DO STUFF HERE! Start writing!

      end
    end
  end

[John D'Errico]

You can read in a text file using load, or you can use textread. For example,

load hits.txt

will create a variable named hits in your workspace.

hits
hits =
          0.1          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.7
          0.2          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.6
          0.3          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.5
          0.1          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.7
          0.2          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.6
          0.3          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.5
          0.1          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.7
          0.2          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.6
          0.3          0.1         0.05         0.05          0.5

So for batter k, you can see what happens in one at bat as simply as

1+sum(rand >= cumsum(hits(k,:)))

This will be a random integer from 1 to 5, based on the probabilities for batter k.

k
k =
     1

1 + sum(rand >= cumsum(hits(k,:)))
ans =
     5
1 + sum(rand >= cumsum(hits(k,:)))
ans =
     2