Measuring productivity in Major League Baseball

Stacey Brook

Chapter 15 in Teaching Sports Economics and Using Sports to Teach Economics, 2022, pp 226-234 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter describes two computational activities that are designed to have students estimate the marginal revenue product of Major League Baseball players. In the first activity, students use team statistics to estimate Runs Created by various batter outcomes. In the second activity, the students use the regression estimates created in the first activity to estimate the run production of individual players.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Teaching Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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