Our sports group has just made its first mark in the academic world! Follow the link to the spring issue of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports to read our first published paper, “Improving Park Factors in Major League Baseball“. In it, we devise an alternate method of calculating park factors for MLB ballparks […]
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HSAC Publication in Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
April 28th, 2008 · No Comments
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Peer Review
January 10th, 2008 · No Comments
tangotiger has been kind enough to post our paper, “Improving Major League Baseball Park Factor Estimates” on his blog. You can view the comments and leave your own here.
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Park Factors Paper Accepted to JQAS
January 1st, 2008 · No Comments
I want to congratulate HSAC for having a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. Our paper, written by (alphabetically) Alex Ahmed, Alex D’Amour, Bobby Swift, Brad Oglevee, Carl Morris, Drew Peterson, Haibo Lu, and Rohit Acharya entitled “Improving Major League Baseball Park Factor Estimates” was accepted just before the […]
Tags: Baseball · Carl Morris · JQAS · Papers
Paper Posting: New MLB Park Factor Estimates by HSAC
December 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Better Park Factor Estimates
We’ve always known that there was something wrong with ESPN’s MLB park factor estimates. For example, we couldn’t believe that ESPN listed Oakland’s park factor as 1.357 in 2001, 0.703 in 2002, and 0.515 in 2003, despite there having been no alterations to McAfee Coliseum in this century. How can a […]