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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"free agency"”.
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The Effect of NBA Free Agency on Player Utility
<p>Observably, free agents in the National Basketball Association often make misguided decisions during the free agency period. These decisions may have a direct effect on a player’s performance and salary, affecting their overall utility. Research exists confirming that moving through free agency …
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Reinforcement Learning, Modeling Markets, and Professional Basketball Free Agency
… decision-making in professional basketball free agency and related economic environments. A Markov Decision Process (MDP) framework is introduced to capture the strategic interactions of NBA teams bidding for free agents under budgetary and roster constraints. To address computational …
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Final offer arbitration and major league baseball
… for those players who were not yet eligible for free agency. Final Offer Arbitration was chosen because of its design to have parties reach settlement before the actual arbitration hearing. The purpose of this research is to evaluate if this system is the best method for settling contract …
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Memory in the Early Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
… terms--stifles consciousness and obstructs freedom. In the dissertation I explore the ways in which memory becomes responsible, according to Sartre, for the constitution of selfhood and for the creation of a solid character with a defined history, which eventually leads to the evasion of the …
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How free are free agents? : the relational structure of high-end contract work
… a polarized image of contingent employment as "free agency" versus "exploitation." I argue that, in order to comprehend this phenomenon, we need to acknowledge and understand the triadic structure of contingent labor markets, in which transactions between workers and firms are mediated by …
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Footprints of Resilience: Tracking the Career Development Steps of African American Male Musicians
… for independent AA male musicians who work in a free agency workforce. The study explored resiliency and adaptability constructs such as survival, initiative, recovery, preparation, and thriving through a conceptual filter that sifts through individual, interpersonal, and sociocultural factors …
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Sports analytics and optimization for team formation problems
… first to consider the NBA's draft, trade, and free agency aspects of player acquisition simultaneously. To inform vital parameters in this model, we develop predictive models to assign amateur players to archetypes, to quantify synergy between archetypes, and to predict the individual value of …