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SABR 36 ::
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SABR36 Presentation: Do Players Outperform in Their Free-Agent Year? (Phil Birnbaum)
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SABR36 Presentation: Do Players Outperform in Their Free-Agent Year? (Phil Birnbaum)
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| By The SABR Office |
4-4:30PM, Superior-Municipal Room
Do Players Outperform in Their Free-Agent Year? (T17)
Phil Birnbaum
It seems logical that a player looking for a big free agent contract would work extra-hard to build a solid record of achievement in the season just before he goes on the market. It's also logical for a player to try to maximize his achievements in highly important game situations, yet extensive research has failed to demonstrate reliable evidence of "clutchiness". If no such effect is evident for in-game situations, can we find a season-long effect of response to the free-agency incentive? After reviewing previous research on the topic, in this presentation Phil Birnbaum reports the results of his sabermetric examination of the statistical record through the 2003 free-agent crop.
Phil Birnbaum (birnbaum@sympatico.ca) is editor of By the Numbers, the newsletter of SABR's Statistical Analysis Committee. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
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SABR 36 ::
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SABR36 Presentation: Do Players Outperform in Their Free-Agent Year? (Phil Birnbaum)
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Page Link: http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,1737,34,0
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