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Tag Archives: MLB
MLB Playoff Home-Field Advantage Is Tinier Than David Eckstein
By David Roher These playoffs have been one for the road. In the Division Series, the home team went a combined 4-11, including a 1-7 showing in the ALDS. Why this happened isn’t that important — you can come up … Continue reading
Should MLB Realign Its Divisions?
By Ben Blatt Some people believe that baseball faces a serious parity problem. While most would acknowledge that the root of the problem is in unequal payrolls, the position of many owners and the player’s union makes it unlikely that … Continue reading
The Comfort Zone, Part 1
By David Roher Pitchers and catchers! I don’t need much of an excuse to start talking about baseball, but I probably need one to assume that people might listen. So I’m taking the opportunity presented on Wednesday by baseball’s first … Continue reading
The Media, Mark McGwire, and Chew
By David Roher Mark McGwire may have taken steroids, but he didn’t get the mileage out of them that Mike Lupica has. Lupica benefited from the 1998 home run chase, publishing a book about it a few months after its … Continue reading
Posted in MLB Baseball
Tagged Baseball, Mark McGwire, Mike Lupica, Minor League Baseball, MLB, PEDs, Steroids
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What Do Professional Athletes Have in Common With Bankers?
By Daniel Adler Today, we will examine two industries. Neither produces a tangible product. Both have close ties to the government and receive billions of dollars in government assistance. Both pay their top performers millions of dollars. Wall Street firms … Continue reading
Posted in Business, MLB Baseball, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, NHL Hockey
Tagged Government Spending, MLB, Money, NBA, New England Patriots, NFL Football, NHL Hockey, Wall Street
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The Iverson Gap: Why Valuing Players Is Even Harder Than You Think
By David Roher Note: This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post. The value of Allen Iverson is one of the most contentious topics in the world of basketball statistics. HuffPost’s own Dave Berri is well known for thinking that … Continue reading
Posted in NBA Basketball
Tagged Allen Iverson, Business, Dave Berri, Derek Jeter, Economics Philadelphia 76ers, MLB, NBA, Player Value
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A New Way to Measure Payroll Efficiency (And what it says about the Yankees and Parity)
By David Roher Note: This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Did the 2009 New York Yankees have the most efficient payroll in baseball? According to some recent research we’ve done, they did indeed. Just not in the conventional … Continue reading
Posted in MLB Baseball
Tagged Baseball, Competitive Balance, MLB, New York Yankees, Parity, Payroll, Salary, Yankees
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Strikeouts and the Anna Karenina Principle, or: Why K’s Don’t Hurt MLB Batters
By David Roher “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So begins Leo Tolstoy’s 1878 masterpiece, Anna Karenina, an engrossing novel about late 19th century statistical analysis in baseball. Or about Russian aristocratic … Continue reading
Posted in MLB Baseball
Tagged Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina Principle, Baseball, Minor League Baseball, MLB, Selection Bias, Strikeouts, Survivor Bias
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