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Concurrent Bursty Behavior of Social Sensors in Sporting Events
, 2015 The advent of social media expands our ability to transmit information and connect with others instantly, which enables us to behave as "social sensors." Here, we studied concurrent bursty behavior of Twitter users during major sporting events to ...
Arita, Takaya +3 more
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Rates of Self‐Reported Skin Cancer in Current and Retired Elite Australian Cricketers
Australasian Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Skin cancer rates are high in Australians, outdoor workers and physically active people. Australia is currently preparing a roadmap to better assess high risk groups for consideration of more targeted skin screening. Methods The membership of the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA), both current and retired cricketers, was ...
John W. Orchard +6 more
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Current State of Data and Analytics Research in Baseball
Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine, 2022 Joshua Mizels +2 more
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, 2008 Statistical analysis is a major aspect of baseball, from player averages to historical benchmarks and records. Much of baseball fanfare is based around players exceeding the norm, some in a single game and others over a long career.
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Should more teams “trust the process” of tanking?
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract In many professional sport leagues, the worst‐performing teams receive higher probability of earning top draft picks. This provides teams incentives to purposefully lose, or “tank,” if they are not likely to contend for the playoffs or championships.
Eduardo G. Minuci +2 more
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Machine Learning in Baseball Analytics: Sabermetrics and Beyond
InformationIn this article, we provide a comprehensive review of machine learning-based sports analytics in baseball. This review is primarily guided by the following three research questions: (1) What baseball analytics problems have been studied using machine ...
Wenbing Zhao +3 more
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Epidemiology and Impact of Hand and Wrist Injuries in Major and Minor League Baseball
HAND, 2019 Background: Professional baseball players are at risk of acute and chronic injuries to their upper extremities. Methods: Major League Baseball’s Health and Injury Tracking System, a prospective injury surveillance system, was used to identify and ...
P. Rhee +6 more
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Caught Stealing: Debunking the Economic Case for D.C. Baseball [PDF]
, 2004 District of Columbia mayor Anthony Williams has convinced Major League Baseball to move the Montreal Expos to D.C. in exchange for the city's building a new ballpark.
Brad R. Humphreys, Dennis Coates
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Surface-Enhanced Plasmon Splitting in a Liquid-Crystal-Coated Gold Nanoparticle [PDF]
, 2005 We show that, when a gold nanoparticle is coated by a thin layer of nematic liquid crystal, the deformation produced by the nanoparticle surface can enhance the splitting of the nanoparticle surface plasmon.
B. T. Draine +5 more
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From bias to bliss: Racial preferences and worker productivity in tennis
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate the impact of differences in consumers' racial preferences on worker productivity through the example of the home advantage (HA) effect using data on wins in men's tennis from 2001 to 2020 (pre‐COVID‐19). We identify players' racial affiliation as one of five distinct groups by combining clustering and facial recognition methods.
Carsten Creutzburg +2 more
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