Baseball batting averages versus wins. Baseball wisdom says, “If you can’t hit, you can’t win.” Is the number of games won by a major league baseball team in a season related to the team’s batting average? The information in the table, found in the Baseball Almanac (2007), shows the number of games won and the batting averages for the 14 teams in the American League for the 2006 Major League Baseball season. Construct a scatterplot of the data. Do you observe a trend?
ALWINS
Team | Games Won | Batting Ave. |
New York | 97 | .285 |
Toronto | 87 | .284 |
Baltimore | 70 | .277 |
Boston | 86 | .269 |
Tampa Bay | 61 | .255 |
Cleveland | 78 | .280 |
Detroit | 95 | .274 |
Chicago | 90 | .280 |
Kansas City | 62 | .271 |
Minnesota | 96 | .287 |
Los Angeles | 89 | .274 |
Texas | 80 | .278 |
Seattle | 78 | .272 |
Oakland | 93 | .260 |
Source: Baseball Almanac, 2007; www.mlb.com.
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