%0 Journal Article %A Chih-Cheng Chen and Yung-Tan Lee and Shih-Yang Lee and Shih-Kuei Huang and Tien-Tze Chen and Qiu-Jun Chen %D 2012 %J International Journal of Sport and Health Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 62, 2012 %T Evaluation of the Contribution of Starting Pitchers in a Professional Baseball Team by Grey Relational Analysis %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11949 %V 62 %X The evaluation of the contribution of professional baseball starting pitchers is a complex decision-making problem that includes several quantitative attributes. It is considered a type of multi-attribute or multi-criteria decision making (MADM/MCDM) problem. This study proposes a model using the Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) to evaluate the starting pitcher contribution for teams of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. The GRA calculates the individual grey relational degree of each alternative to the positive ideal alternative. An empirical analysis was conducted to show the use of the model for the starting pitcher contribution problem. The results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed model. %P 187 - 190