By David Roher It seems to me that most of the negative response to this afternoon’s Hall of Fame vote is going to be focused on Andre Dawson’s getting in, which is unfortunate. I wouldn’t have voted for him...
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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...
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...
By Daniel Adler The following article also appears on Huffington Post. This summer, much was made of the end of Moneyball. The teams with the five highest win totals—the Yankees, Angels, Dodgers, Red Sox, Phillies—rank 1st...
By Daniel Adler We’ve hit the big-time…an article in the Wall Street Journal (the real deal–print edition!). The article looks at whether increasing payroll leads to more wins. The short answer: no. The...
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By David Roher Update: An astute commenter below pointed out a key mathematical error that I made. The corrected values on the table are in italics. It seems that every game in a short series gets classified as either a...
In addition to our own research, a major part of HSAC is the discussion of other projects in the sports world. Steven Levitt (of Freakonomics fame) and Kenneth Kovash recently released a working paper on game theory in the NFL...