Do Major League Baseball Hitters Engage in Opportunistic Behavior?

Customer-Based Discrimination in Major League Baseball?

We investigate the existence of customer-based discrimination in Major League Baseball using a direct measure of customer preference, allstar balloting. Unlike other measures used in the literature, such as trading-card prices, our data do not su er from hard to measure monetary in uences on preference. Using allstar votes from 1992 through 1996, and controlling for various player and team-spec...

Competitive Balance in Major League Baseball

The nature of Major League Baseball (MLB) requires competition in order to keep the business alive. In any sports league, the presence of competitors allows for the livelihood of the game through producing an event with an uncertain outcome. The current state of the game lacks the competitive balance necessary for a thriving industry. Much of this competitive imbalance possesses the underlying ...

Causal Inference and Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball Players' Life Expectancies.

OBJECTIVE: We examine the importance of anthropometric and performance measures, and age, period, and cohort effects in explaining life expectancies among major league baseball (MLB) players over the past century. METHODS: We use discrete time hazard models to calculate life tables with covariates with data from Total Baseball, a rich source of information on all players who played in the major...

Predicting the Major League Baseball Season

This paper attempts to predict the outcome of games from the 2012 Major League Baseball season. Sporting events are very important to many people, and professional leagues are worth billions of dollars. Baseball, in particular, is not only one of the most popular sports in the United States, but the vast amount of recorded data and statistics made publicly available also lends itself well to ma...