Moneyball After 10 Years: How Have Major League Baseball Salaries Adjusted?

被引:11
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作者
Brown, Daniel T. [1 ]
Link, Charles R. [2 ]
Rubin, Seth L. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Delaware, Ctr Appl Demog & Survey Res, Newark, DE USA
[2] Univ Delaware, Dept Econ, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[3] Analyst Program, Yorktown Hts, NY USA
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Moneyball After 10 Years;
D O I
10.1177/1527002515609665
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F [经济];
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02 ;
摘要
Michael Lewis' Moneyball ... describes how the Oakland Athletics exploited an imperfection in the way player productivity was being evaluated pre-2003. On-base percentage appeared to be more important in determining team success compared to more popular statistics. We test the hypothesis that in a competitive market, other teams will increase the weight given on-base percentage in the reward structure for their players. Our results show that in the post-Moneyball (MB) era, the return to on-base percentage has indeed increased for free agents, the group whose salaries we expect to be most affected by the MB philosophy.
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页码:771 / 786
页数:16
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