Deadball lesson library
STEM-style tracks and units—physics, modeling, Statcast analysis, and communication—in one lesson library.
Navigate by track, then drill into units and lessons. Each lesson includes objectives, full exposition, worked examples, practice, and reflection.
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Each track includes expected outcomes, pacing hints, and prerequisite guidance so you can plan your sequence before opening a unit.
Translate baseball planning questions into unit-safe expressions and equations.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Arithmetic fluency
- Primary outcome
- Solve and rearrange linear relationships with verification and feasibility checks.
Model field and flight geometry with coordinates, distances, and angles.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Algebra I
- Primary outcome
- Apply triangle and circle geometry to measurement and scaling problems.
Use trig and vector tools to decompose motion and orientation in baseball models.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Geometry essentials
- Primary outcome
- Interpret periodic and transformed functions as signals in athletic performance data.
Compute and interpret derivatives and integrals for motion and accumulation questions.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Precalculus / trig
- Primary outcome
- Apply optimization and related rates to constrained baseball decisions.
Work with partial derivatives, gradients, and multivariable constraints in models.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Calculus II
- Primary outcome
- Set up and interpret ODE-based dynamic models with stability intuition.
Derive and validate mechanics-based ball-flight models.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Multivariable calculus
- Primary outcome
- Connect geometric and trigonometric structure to measurable game outcomes.
Build, validate, and critique predictive/statistical models for baseball outcomes.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Probability/statistics
- Primary outcome
- Report uncertainty and robustness checks in professor-reviewable form.
Construct reproducible data workflows from event-level baseball data.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Python or notebook workflow
- Primary outcome
- Engineer and validate features without leakage.
Explain atmospheric and environmental factors that alter ball flight and operations.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Intro chemistry/physics helpful
- Primary outcome
- Analyze climate and weather variability implications for baseball decisions.
Explain how major body systems support baseball-specific demands without clinical diagnosis.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- Intro biology vocabulary (cells, tissues, organs) or willingness to learn it in-lesson
- Primary outcome
- Connect muscle physiology vocabulary to observable pitching and hitting actions.
Translate technical findings into decision-ready narratives.
- What to expect
- Confirm listed prerequisites for this track before starting.
- Time commitment
- Self-paced. Phase length scales with lesson count; backend catalog stores per-lesson minute estimates for dashboard scale.
- Prerequisites
- At least one completed technical track
- Primary outcome
- Defend methodology choices under peer review.