This is a review of the MLB payroll research conducted by Martin Kleinbard applying cross sectional analysis and longitudinal analysis. Over the years, there has been a complaint among stakeholders in the MLB that a payroll inequity creates an uneven playing field among the teams. Is there any validity to this argument? If money plays…
This is a review of the MLB research conducted by Joe Rosales and Scott Spratt applying the Strike Zone Plus/Minus. Every baseball game creates some controversy regarding the calls of strikes and balls. No one ever completely agrees with the umpire and umpires, being human, are not 100% accurate. It seems that some players in…
This is a review of the soccer research conducted by Patrick Lucey, Alina Bialkowski, Mathew Montfort, Peter Carr, and Iain Matthews applying conditional random fields and point-in-polygon calculations. Within any soccer game, the team with the most shots on goal is often not the winner. Why is this? Obviously, not every shot has the same…