Johns Hopkins math students a hit with minor league baseball schedulers

With the help of some Johns Hopkins University math students, minor league baseball is catching up with the majors in using computers to produce its game schedules.

The students and their professors used complicated mathematical formulas to coax computers into churning out workable schedules for several minor leagues—a marked improvement over the tedious and more time-consuming method of developing schedules by hand. On Friday, the New York-Penn League will open its 76-game short season with a schedule produced not by hand but by students in a JHU computer programming class under two faculty members' direction.

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