Hello all. I want to build a model for the upcoming baseball season and I literally have NO IDEA where to start. I read Justin7's book and it was very helpful but it still doesn't change the fact that I know nothing about modelling software and such. So here are my many questions(not necessarily in order).
1.) What modeling program do I use? Is free pascal good or is there a better one?
2.) How do I learn how to program? Is that what I'll be doing in pascal, programming?
3.) Where can I find a place that has historical lines(opening through closing) for MLB? How do I put this information into my model?
4.) Where can I find a historical database that has the correct lineups for each different game for the last 5 seasons or so? Again, how would I get this information into my model?
Many more questions to come once I think of them and/or have questions about any replies.