A dynamic pythagorean exponent: Applications to baseball and structural modeling in risk management
Albert Cohen
Abstract:The famous Pythagorean theorem relating a team's winning percentage over a season to it's total runs scored and surrendered has been the subject of much attention, in both popular culture and academia. In academia, a main focus has been to find the optimal value for the exponent in the formula, originally taken to be 2 in Bill James' work. The optimal value has been obtained in many published works via regression or other statistical estimation techniques, and calibrated to various sports to reflect the type o… Show more
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