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The Prince of Slides: March 2013
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Refs Complicit in Fighting? To begin, I'm not much of a hockey fan. I just don't get it. That doesn't mean it's not entertaining to you. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Assumed risk does not include violent assaults in any profession (and I would argue that this even includes boxing and MMA). In the 2011-2012 seaso...
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The Prince of Slides: Advanced sab-R-metrics: Parallelization with the 'mgcv' Package
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Thursday, July 18, 2013. Advanced sab-R-metrics: Parallelization with the 'mgcv' Package. Carson Sievert (creator of the really neat pitchRx. Package) and Steamer Projections posed a question about reasonable run times of the mgcv. A while back, I posted on using Generalized Additive Models instead of the basic loess. Package in R to fit Pitch F/X data. Is that it u...
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The Prince of Slides: Revisiting Umpire Discrimination: New Paper at JSE
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Thursday, May 9, 2013. Revisiting Umpire Discrimination: New Paper at JSE. Two colleagues (Scott Tainsky and Jason Winfree) and I have a new paper just posted online at the Journal of Sports Economics. And makes up the most important contribution. In fact, this is why the paper was published in the prestigious journal American Economic Review. The link directly to t...
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The Prince of Slides: Refs Complicit in Fighting?
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Refs Complicit in Fighting? To begin, I'm not much of a hockey fan. I just don't get it. That doesn't mean it's not entertaining to you. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Assumed risk does not include violent assaults in any profession (and I would argue that this even includes boxing and MMA). In the 2011-2012 seaso...
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The Prince of Slides: Brawling Costs Teams Money
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Friday, April 12, 2013. Brawling Costs Teams Money. I honestly don't know where to begin with the stupidity involved in this:. Http:/ www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/04/12/quentin-charges-greinke-after-being-hit-by-pitch/2076525/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Also Find Me At:. My UF Faculty Page. Analysis and Blog Links. Business of Sports Network.
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The Prince of Slides: February 2013
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Tuesday, February 12, 2013. Employment Bias Toward Athleticism. Something I have always suspected happening in labor markets does, in fact, seem to be happening: hiring managers tend to give a premium to those signalling athletic ability or sport participation. The paper, by Dan Olof-Rooth, looking at these results is linked below:. This is why I tend to always put ...
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Authors | Exploring Baseball Data with R
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Exploring Baseball Data with R. Analyzing Baseball Data with R. Lives in Bologna, Italy. He started playing baseball when he was 5 and has been performing statistical analysis on baseball data since 2002. His works have been published at Baseball Prospectus. And The Hardball Times. Lives in Findlay, Ohio. He grew up in Philadelphia and remains a passionate Phillies fan. Although he grew up playing Little League baseball, tennis is his favorite sport. He has coauthored Curve Ball. Jim’s home page. Brian i...
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The Prince of Slides: May 2014
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Monday, May 26, 2014. UF Competition Policy Workshop. Long time no post. I'm using this medium to announce the schedule for the University of Florida's Competition Policy Workshop on June 4. This is a university-wide workshop put on jointly by the Department of Economics and the School of Law. It should be fun, and I hope we will have a large and active audience!
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The Prince of Slides: Dynamic Pricing and Sports Business Models
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Dynamic Pricing and Sports Business Models. Interestingly, there is built-in product differentiation when buying tickets to athletic events. Do you think the Yankees front row box seats are the same product as the upper level bleachers? What about a Yankees game against the Red Sox game versus a game against the Royals? Teams have been doing ...
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The Prince of Slides: Rethinking 'loess' for Binomial-Response Pitch F/X Strike Zone Maps
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The Prince of Slides. Sports. Statistics. Economics. And a naive junior faculty member pretending to know more than nothing about something. Sunday, December 5, 2010. Rethinking 'loess' for Binomial-Response Pitch F/X Strike Zone Maps. So after a long hiatus, I'm back for today. I've been crazy busy with a number of different things- including getting engaged and helping plan out wedding dates and things of that sort- and unfortunately have not kept up here on this blog (or on Fantasy Ball Junkie. Or my ...
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