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Where Every Team Is Above Average: Home-Field Advantage and its Effects on Revenue

March 7, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Had an incredible time at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference yesterday. I got to tell so many people how long I’d been reading their books and blogs, or how important they were to my becoming interested in...

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Getting Down to Business: Part 2

March 5, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Jake Fisher In the first installment of this series, I looked at team values provided by Forbes. According to regression analysis, team value is a function of team revenue. I also looked at the correlation between a team’s...

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Getting Down to Business: Part 1

February 28, 2010
by harvardsports
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By Jake Fisher As the title suggests, this multi-part series of posts will take a step off the field and into the front office. The goal of the series is to examine some of the intricacies of the sports industry. Where do teams...

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HSAC To Appear in Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

February 23, 2010
by harvardsports
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A paper written by HSAC has been accepted into the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports! This will be the second paper HSAC has published in JQAS. HSAC’s first appearance in the journal came in 2007, when the club looked...

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The Comfort Zone, Part 1

February 18, 2010
by harvardsports
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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...

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(Supplement to the) Guest Post on the LoHud Yankees Blog

January 24, 2010
by harvardsports
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By David Roher I wrote a guest post for the LoHud Yankees Blog that appears this morning. I’m very grateful to Chad Jennings and Sam Borden for giving me the opportunity to write a piece for the best beat blog in the...

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The Media, Mark McGwire, and Chew

January 12, 2010
by harvardsports
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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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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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What Do Professional Athletes Have in Common With Bankers?

December 22, 2009
by harvardsports
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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...

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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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