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Using Multi-Class Machine Learning Methods to Predict Major League Baseball Pitches.
... Major League Baseball (MLB) is a massive organization with close to 10 billion dollars in revenue in 2015 [ 10 ] , and is only getting ...the league in on-base-percentage (OBP), and 21 of those were ...
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Team Production Function and Player Shirking in Major League Baseball
... Major League Baseball has long been recognized as a useful tool in modeling other labor markets. Not only does the system perfectly replicate personal psyche and motivation, but few other industries record ...
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An Econometric Analysis of the 2013 Major League Baseball Season
... This study empirically examines the outcomes of the 2013 major league baseball season in the United States. Regular season team victories for the 162 game schedules are used as the dependent variable. Even ...
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Major League Baseball and Globalization: The World Baseball Classic
... Major League Baseball has certainly been aware of its attendance successes and failures as well as the potential issues regarding its current and future fan ...
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The Impact of Retro Stadiums on Major League Baseball Franchises
... of Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises had played in multipurpose facilities with minimal player amenities, few luxury boxes, and poor playing ...other Major League Baseball franchises ...
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An Analysis of Expansion and Relocation Sites for Major League Soccer
... in Major League Soccer for the long term. As a young league, the growth of MLS is anticipated to be slow, however Commissioner Garber believes the financial support of ...the league long-term ...
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An Examination of Branding Strategies for Selected Major League Baseball Organizations
... Since the researcher had an internship experience with the San Francisco Giants prior to the study, the findings may have been impacted through subjective bias. Also, the researcher was restricted to online means; ...
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Concussion rates and effects on player performance in Major League Baseball players
... the league implemented a 7-day DL in 2011, which gave team physicians and injured players more flexibility to address head ...the league has been con- tinually striving to provide better protective ...and ...
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Regime switching and wages in major league baseball under the reserve clause
... Regime switching and wages in major league baseball under the reserve clause Haupert, Michael and Murray, James University of Wisconsin - La Crosse.[r] ...
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A Test of the Optimal Positive Production Network Externality in Major League Baseball
... 1988 Major League Baseball season and concludes that the attendance maximizing ex ante probability that the home team wins (using gambling odds data) is about ...
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Predicting Attendance at Major League Soccer Matches: A Comparison of Four Techniques
... Sport team managers need to predict attendance levels at sporting events to plan staffing levels, plan inventories, and decide upon possible promotions. This paper discusses predicting attendance at Major ...
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Television Commercial Violence During Nonviolent Programming: The 1998 Major League Baseball Playoffs
... the major league baseball playoffs in 1998 and to compare it with the 1996 ...National League Championship Series (NLCS) televised by Fox, and 5 of 6 American League Championship Series (ALCS) ...
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Situational Underlying Value (SUV) – A Single Statistic for Individual Performance in Major League Baseball
... This effort began as a desire to return to the simplicity of an earlier era when a few statistics were all that were used to characterize player performance. Today’s myriad of statistics provides unique insights into the ...
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Variable Ticket Pricing in Major League Baseball
... Variable ticket pricing (VTP) has recently been a much-discussed topic in the business of sport, especially as it relates to professional baseball, professional hockey, and college football (King, 2003; Rovell, 2002b). ...
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Implicit Discrimination in Major League Baseball: Marginality Decisions based on Minor League Offensive Production
... in Major League Baseball surrounding centrality and ...minor league players must have offensive skills significantly better than their white competitors in order to be placed on a professional ...a ...
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Major League Baseball and World War II: Protecting The Monopoly by Selling Major League Baseball as Patriotic
... II. Major League Baseball (MLB) lost players to military service, endured equipment substitutions, and created war relief programs to improve morale of the American ...
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Peculiarities of the Major League Baseball Posting System
... Professional League) as a way to both discourage Japanese players from moving to major league baseball (MLB) and to provide compensation to Japanese ...
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Major League Soccer as a Case Study in Complexity Theory
... Major League Soccer’s Roster Rules and Regulations are complex, but that complexity is a design feature rather than a flaw in execu- ...provides. Major League Soccer, however, is better ...
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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Review and Reference to Stroke in a Major League Pitcher
... Arteriography on March 3, 1983, revealed complete occlusion of the left external iliac graft, narrowing of the right external iliac graft, complete occlusion of the left distal radial ar[r] ...
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Turning up by turning over : the change of scenery effect in major league baseball
... Hypothesis 4: For employees with stable or improving performance prior to changing organizations, the negative effects proposed in Hypothesis 2 will exhibit stability such that performan[r] ...
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