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Category - MLB Baseball

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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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Television and the Potential NFL Lockout

November 18, 2009
by harvardsports
7 min read
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By Jake Fisher The Washington Post reported two weeks ago that NFL television ratings are the highest they’ve been in 20 years. Obviously, this is good news for business. The National Football League, as a business, is the...

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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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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
2 min read
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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
3 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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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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Meeting Notes – October 28

October 29, 2009
by harvardsports
2 min read
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By Jonathan Adler The leadoff question asked HSAC members to proclaim their favorite sports video game. Answers included: Backyard Baseball, Madden 08, Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey, Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball, FIFA Road to the World...

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Discussing the Kovash-Levitt Minimax Paper

October 27, 2009
by harvardsports
1 min read
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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...

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