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Annotated Bibliography
Research Question:
How can the implementation of Sabermetric practices in a college baseball clubhouse optimize
decision making?
Berri, David J., and John Charles Bradbury. "Working in the Land of the Metricians." Journal of
Sports Economics11, no. 1 (January 13, 2010): 29-47. Accessed November 8, 2018. doi:
10.1177/1527002509354891.
Ibáñez, Sergio J., Jaime Sampaio, Sebastian Feu, Alberto Lorenzo, Miguel A. Gómez, and
Enrique Ortega. "Basketball Game-related Statistics That Discriminate between Teams’
Season-long Success." European Journal of Sport Science8, no. 6 (November 2008):
369-72. Accessed November 8, 2018. doi:10.1080/17461390802261470.
Ibanez, Sampaio, Feu, Lorenzo, Gomez, and Orgeta sought out to fill the
gap that existed in existing research so as to determine game-related statistics that
could translate to prolonged success. They preformed their research using a
sample from the premier Spanish Basketball League (a total of 145 average
records) and believed that the results could help coaches, management, as well as
players determine what aspects of the game could be regarded as highly important
and, thus, implemented in such strategies as player recruitment, practice planning,
execution, and control (370). Their methods included several statistical analyses
including one-way variance analysis, discriminant analysis and cross validation
analysis. These statistical processes allowed the researchers to discriminate
between those statistics that proved to be statistically significant in determining
success, not just in a “given instant” (370), but, as stated, over the course of
several seasons. The group of scholars came to the conclusion that with 95%
certainty (P≤ .05) a combination of steals, blocks and assists correlates to
continued success.
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McHugh, Patrick P. "“Batter Up, Student On Deck”." Journal of Management Education33, no.
2 (November 21, 2007). Accessed November 8, 2018. doi:10.1177/1052562908321712.
Muehlheusser, Gerd, Sandra Schneemann, Dirk Sliwka, and Niklas Wallmeier. “The
Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success." Journal of Sports Economics19,
no. 6 (December 05, 2016): 786-819. Accessed November 8, 2018. doi:
10.1177
Muehlheusser, Schneemann, Sliwka, and Wallmeier, all German scholars,
directed their research in sports economics towards the efficiency of human
capital, in particular the effect of managers on team outcome. They predicted that
prominent figures at the top of an organization should behold qualities that causes
a “trickle down” (787) of success throughout the organization as a whole. They
sampled the German Bundesliga due to the frequency by which managers float
among teams, and used econometric algorithms, such as cross-validation
exercises in order to properly reach their conclusion. They excluded managers
that lacked a condition defined footprint”(789), that discriminated against
managers who were with the organization for only a short period of games, while
other points of emphasis focused on categorizing managers as movers vs. non-
movers. The conclusion reached was somewhat unclear; the researchers found
large variations in the data due to the high turnover (808) rates in the league,
however they were able to conclude that managers with previous playing
experienced faired better than those without.
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Treme, Julianne, and Robert T. Burrus. "NCAA Basketball: When Does Recruiting Talent
Translate into Wins for Power Conferences?" Journal of Economics and Finance40, no. 4
(May 21, 2015): 735-53. Accessed November 8, 2018. doi:10.1007/s12197-015-9323-9.