Caught Looking

Caught Looking: A Bayesian Approach to Fantasy

On optimizing a fantasy baseball draft, with science.

Caught Looking: On ‘The Body As Commodity’

How baseball's changing marketplace affected the way players' bodies are treated--by both teams and the players themselves.

Caught Looking: The Twice-TJ’d Club

by Michael Wenz 4/13

A study focuses on 26 pitchers who underwent revision Tommy John surgery.

Caught Looking: Building A Better Run Expectancy Matrix

by Michael Wenz 3/10

Beyond simple run expectancy and to the statistical frontier.

Caught Looking: Two New Looks at Umpires and Racial Bias

by Michael Wenz 2/05

Five years ago, economists found evidence of umpire discrimination based on race. Two new academic papers investigate further.

Caught Looking: Declaring openWAR

by Michael Wenz 1/04

A new measure of player value appears in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. How does it differ from the otheres, and how well does it hold up?

Caught Looking: Baseball from the Ivory Tower

by Michael Wenz 12/10

Kicking off a new series focusing on baseball-related academic literature. Today: Did Moneyball really shift the market for OBP?