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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Umpires"”.
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The Etiology of Impact Related Concussion for Catchers and Umpires in Baseball
… from foul tips to the masks of catchers and umpires in baseball. Media reports of such occasions were researched on video and pitch speed data from the Pitch F/X system recorded to suggest speeds and locations at which impacts occur. To evaluate mask performance, a pneumatic-wheel, …
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An investigaton of umpire performance using PITCHf/x data via longitudinal analysis
… the history of Major League Baseball (MLB) umpires, MLB data collection, and the use of technology in sports officiating. We use PITCHf/x data to answer 3 questions. 1) Has the proportion of incorrect calls made by a major league umpire decreased over time? 2) Does the proportion of …
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Alis volat propriis: pathways, challenges and strategies for Australian women in elite-level sport leadership
… as elite-level coaches, officials (referees, umpires), and administrators (managers, directors, executives).
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Estimating the Impact of Automated Umpiring in Baseball via Monte Carlo Simulation
… system would get rid of human mistakes that umpires make due to the high-speeds of MLB pitches and other challenges. We present a method to estimate the impact of automated umpiring given MLB pitch data. We define a novel pipeline for simulating the statistical changes in MLB games following …
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Outside the Lines of Gilded Age Baseball: Profits, Beer, and the Origins of the Brotherhood War
… including abuse of alcohol, treatments of umpires, physical training techniques, violence on the field, cheating, gambling, mascots, team finances, and racism in baseball. The dissertation illuminates various Social and economic aspects of life in Gilded Age America as well. Finally, it …
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Seemingly Unrelated Research in Economics
… design exploiting the quasi-random assignment of umpires to MLB games, I find a significant effect of outcome uncertainty on consumer demand for live game attendance providing further causal evidence that baseball game consumers exhibit reference dependant preferences with loss aversion.</p>
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The authenticity of the middlebrow : Warwick Deeping and cultural legitimacy, 1903-1940.
… of the very quality on which the self-appointed umpires based their claim to cultural superiority: moral intelligence and discrimination. In a similar way commentators on the left, anxious to assert their affiliations with the working class, were only able to register the petit-bourgeois 'image' …