HSAC Blog

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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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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Free Agency in Baseball
Given the current Hot Stove season and the big name trades taking place (we’ll ignore the big name drug busts for the moment), we have recently turned our attention to free agency in baseball. Recent history has demonstrated that free agency, for many teams, is a costly failure. Far too often, teams […]

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Analysis of Streaks in MLB
The world of sports remembers and records streaks, whether it is the University of North Carolina’s 103 consecutive NCAA women’s soccer wins, or Prairie View A&M’s 80 consecutive NCAA football losses. From the Los Angeles Laker’s 33 game winning streak to the US Ryder Cup’s team of 13 straight titles, streaks […]

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