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The Media, Mark McGwire, and Chew

January 12, 2010
by harvardsports
4 min read
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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...

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  • MLB Baseball

What Went Wrong with the Hall of Fame Vote

January 6, 2010
by harvardsports
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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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  • MLB Baseball

A New Way to Measure Payroll Efficiency (And what it says about the Yankees and Parity)

December 10, 2009
by harvardsports
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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...

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  • MLB Baseball

Strikeouts and the Anna Karenina Principle, or: Why K’s Don’t Hurt MLB Batters

November 25, 2009
by harvardsports
6 min read
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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...

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  • MLB Baseball

Moneyball: Dead, Alive, or on Life Support?

November 17, 2009
by harvardsports
5 min read
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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...

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  • MLB Baseball

HSAC in the Wall Street Journal

November 17, 2009
by harvardsports
2 min read
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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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The Curvature of the (Sports) Universe

November 8, 2009
by harvardsports
5 min read
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By David Roher Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click...

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A History of MLB Parity, Part 2: Labor Relations

November 7, 2009
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Click here for the original post on parity. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit...

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A History of MLB Parity

November 4, 2009
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click...

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The Swing Game

October 31, 2009
by harvardsports
5 min read
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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...

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