Variable Neighborhood Search for Major League Baseball Scheduling Problem

Scheduling Major League Baseball Umpires and the Traveling Umpire Problem

The scheduling needs of umpires and referees differ from the needs of sports teams. In some sports leagues, such as Major League Baseball in the United States, umpires travel throughout the league’s territory; they do not have a “home base.” For such leagues, balancing the need to minimize umpire travel and the objective that an umpire should not handle the games of a particular team too freque...

Gaussian Variable Neighborhood Search for the File Transfer Scheduling Problem

This paper presents new modifications of Variable Neighborhood Search approach for solving the file transfer scheduling problem. To obtain better solutions in a small neighborhood of a current solution, we implement two new local search procedures. As Gaussian Variable Neighborhood Search showed promising results when solving continuous optimization problems, its implementation in solving the d...

Causal Inference and Major League Baseball

Customer-Based Discrimination in Major League Baseball?

We investigate the existence of customer-based discrimination in Major League Baseball using a direct measure of customer preference, allstar balloting. Unlike other measures used in the literature, such as trading-card prices, our data do not su er from hard to measure monetary in uences on preference. Using allstar votes from 1992 through 1996, and controlling for various player and team-spec...

Major League Baseball Players' Life Expectancies.

OBJECTIVE: We examine the importance of anthropometric and performance measures, and age, period, and cohort effects in explaining life expectancies among major league baseball (MLB) players over the past century. METHODS: We use discrete time hazard models to calculate life tables with covariates with data from Total Baseball, a rich source of information on all players who played in the major...