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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"major league baseball"”.
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Final offer arbitration and major league baseball
<p>In 1974 Major League Baseball implemented the use of Final Offer Arbitration (FOA) to settle contract disputes 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 …
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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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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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APPLYING MATCHING EQUATION TO PITCH SELECTION IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
This study applied the generalized matching equation (GME) to pitch selection in MLB during the 2016 regular season. The GME was used to evaluate the pitch selection of 21 groups of pitchers as well as 144 individual pitchers. The GME described pitch selection well for four of the 21 pitching …
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REMEMBERING THE NATION’S PASTIME: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND PUBLIC HISTORY
This study explores what happens when baseball and public history collide at physical sites. It specifically examines corporate and vernacular exhibits and tours at six Major League ballparks and exhibits at the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. I study these primary sources within the …
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Media Framing of the Steroids Scandal in Major League Baseball
… of media coverage of the steroid scandal in Major League Baseball. Research guided by framing theory found 2,353 frames present in the initial analysis and 2,834 frames present after the post hoc analysis. Generic frames were more prevalent than issue-specific frames in coverage in initial …
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Comparison of Career Statistics and Season Statistics in Major League Baseball
… of the best seasons and careers of players from Major League Baseball; using data collected on batting average, at bat to homerun ratio, and earned run average. Two teams were created, composed of season leaders and career leaders, chosen for their outstanding offensive and pitching abilities, …
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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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Short Term Economic Costs and Head Trauma: Examples from Major League Baseball
… in the head with an object. Pitchers at the major league level of baseball whom have been struck in the head with a batted baseball are used as a generalized analog for society due to the available statistics produced by on field performance. This study hypothesizes that pitchers will perform …
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Data driven approach to sports management : a case study using major league baseball
Baseball is considered to be the national sport of the USA but its popularity has declined in the last few years, mostly due to people’s interests in other sports. Not many sports come close to baseball regarding statistical analysis where everything concerning the sport is carefully registered. …
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The many dimensions of competitive balance and the attendance of major league baseball
… affect teams’ standings in their divisions or league. Fans show no specific preferences to upset games.
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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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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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Ballparks as America: The Fan Experience at Major League Baseball Parks in the Twentieth Century
… ballparks to understand what it meant to go to a major league game in the twentieth century. I examine the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium in the first half of the twentieth century, what I call the classic ballpark era, Dodger Stadium and the Astrodome from the 1950s through the 1980s, what I …
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The relationship between travel and won/loss records and performance measures in Major League Baseball
… on the road) and the performance of professional baseball teams (i.e. won/loss, runs scored, hits, errors committed, double plays executed, and runs allowed). Stepwise multiple regression analyses will be used to determine the amount of explained variance in each performance variable attributable …
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