Bukiet and Harold wrote a paper entitled A Markov Chain Approach To Baseball, which details their use of Markov models to study hitting order and the effect of trades in baseball. Yang and Swartz wrote a paper entitled A Two-Stage Bayesian Model for Predicting Winners of Major League Games uses a much smaller set of data to perform similar calculations. Alan Schwartz of ESPN wrote about why Barry Bonds 2002 season was statistically without equal, according to Carl Morris of Harvard. You could also visit another webpage which deals with the question “How long should a World Series last?