{"id":3201,"date":"2018-04-19T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2018-04-30T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T18:34:34","slug":"champion-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/2018\/04\/champion-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theory of the Big Dance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“The baseball season is structured to mock reason, because science doesn\u2019t work in the games that matter most.”<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u2014Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball<\/span><\/p>\n

“My sh*t doesn\u2019t work in the playoffs. My job is to get us to the playoffs. What happens after that is f***ing luck.”<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u2014Billy Beane, General Manager of Oakland Athletics.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Playoff Probability<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Champion Effect Convexity<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Open and Closed Case<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Trade Deadline<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Theory of the Big Dance. “The baseball season is structured to mock reason, because science doesn\u2019t work in the games that matter most.” \u2014Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball “My sh*t doesn\u2019t work in the playoffs. My job is to get us to the playoffs. What happens after that is f***ing luck.” \u2014Billy Beane, General Manager…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5558,"featured_media":352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-economics-basics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/vrooman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}