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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Major League Baseball (MLB)"”.
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Former Major League Baseball (MLB) players and athletic identity
At the height of their professional careers, Major League Baseball (MLB) players are considered the best in the world at their sport. For these men, athletic identity is the dominating force in their lives, yet all MLB players must eventually retire from the sport that has defined their lives for …
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The Effects of Changes in Major League Baseball Playoff Format: End of Season Attendance
This paper examines the effect on attendance of Major League Baseball (MLB) games as a result of the additional playoff round added by the MLB in 2012. Adding another round to the playoffs increases the number of teams qualifying for the playoffs from eight teams to ten teams. More teams towards …
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Quantifying Consistency: Developing New Metrics for MLB Player Valuation
… during a player’s pre-arbitration years in Major League Baseball (MLB) influences their first-year arbitration salary, offering novel insights for player valuation. Consistency is quantified based on three categories: short-term volatility, in-season adaptability, and environmental …
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Making Memories in 140 Characters or Less: Testing the Effectiveness of CSR Messages Disseminated by Major League Baseball Teams via Twitter on Recognition and Recall
… disseminated via Twitter by professional baseball teams. Using priming theory and Lang's (2000) Limited Capacity Model for Mediated Message Processing, this study tested the effects of priming and message sequencing on a persons' ability to recognize and recall these CSR messages. While no …
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Analyzing the effects of human performance under stress
… of stress on human performance, we examined baseball players because of the large body of data and many measures of performance available. Clutch hitting is examined because a baseball player batting in a clutch situation is analogous to a person who is performing in a stressful situation. …
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Quantifying Grit in MLB Batters
… investigates the quantification of grit in Major League Baseball (MLB) batters, a crucial yet underexplored area in sports analytics traditionally gauged through qualitative assessment. Utilizing 2023 game data from the top 160 most utilized MLB batters, this study develops a Grit Score for …
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Analysis of Statistical Impact of Steroids in Professional Major League Baseball Players
Rampant steroid usage tainted Major League Baseball (MLB) in the late 1980s, and decades later, steroid usage is still a serious issue. Steroids, along with other illegal substances, have heavily impacted various statistics in professional baseball (Petersen, Jung, & Eugene Stanley, 2008). Many …
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Modeling the Performance of a Baseball Player's Offensive Production
… abilities of players from different eras in Major League Baseball (MLB). We will study players from the perspective of an overall offensive summary statistic that is highly linked with scoring runs, or the Berry Value. We will build an additive model to estimate the innate ability of the …
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Incorporating spatiotemporal machine learning into Major League Baseball and the National Football League
Rich data sets exist in Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) that track players and equipment (i.e. the ball) in space and time. Using machine learning and other analytical techniques, this research explores the various data sets in each sport, providing advanced …
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Effectiveness of Spatial-temporal Data Using GIS in America’s Professional Sports Leagues (MLS, MLB, and NFL)
… field advantage (HFA) in professional sports leagues in the United States. The literature related to the HFA conceptual framework and the game location factor—which represents four major impacts on teams (crowd, learning, travel, and rules)—led to an investigation into whether a relationship …
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Novel Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for the Forecasting and Analysis of Major League Baseball Player Performance
<p>Baseball has quickly become one of the most analyzed sports with significant growth in the last 20 years [1] with an enormous amount of data collected every game that requires professional teams to have a state-of the-art analytics team in order to compete in today's game. Statcast, introduced …
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Rebalancing the Major League Baseball Through Social Investment
… the enduring economic disparities within Major League Baseball (MLB) that threaten its competitive balance and the sustainability of its operations. Through an extensive data-driven analysis, this research identifies the foundational causes of the current imbalances that disproportionately …
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Development of a scale to evaluate the branding effect of major league baseball in Taiwan
The purpose of the present study was to develop a league brand association scale from the perspective of Taiwanese toward Major League Baseball (MLB). A mixed methods approach, including a qualitative pilot study (thought-listing and semistructured interview) and an Interne survey, was used to …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Sport
… of sport, examining salary discrimination in Major League Baseball (MLB), determinants of dismissals of college football coaches, and star player effects on attendance in the National Basketball Association (NBA). New Evidence of Salary Discrimination in Major League Baseball Salary …
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Amateur baseball players: what are the relative merits of attending college versus going directly to the minor leagues?
… training on the performance of professional baseball players was studied using a secondary dataset consisting of 112 players and five years of play at the Major League level, classified as hitters from the 1990 through 2000 seasons. The study revealed that higher education significantly …