Who’s on first–with probability 0.4

In this paper, a model using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is proposed to rank the players of an existing professional baseball team in preparation for the expansion draft. This model was developed in collaboration with the San Diego Padres. In this paper, the AHP tree is displayed, the actual pairwise comparisons of the AHP are shown, the ranking of the 43 players is presented and insight into the development of the AHP tree and the pairwise comparisons is discussed. The paper concludes with an analysis of the results of this study.