This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Monday, 08/02/2010
Money Can't Buy You Love (But It Can Buy You Playoff Spots and Championships in Major League Baseball)
Jay R. Schaffer, University of Northern Colorado


What Makes a Winning Baseball Team?
Daniel Mundfrom, New Mexico State University; Javier Lopez, New Mexico State University; Jay R. Schaffer, University of Northern Colorado


Does an MLB Team's Disabled List Influence Their Performance in the Post Season?
I. Elaine Allen, Babson College; Julia E. Seaman, Genentech


Tuesday, 08/03/2010
Spatial Modeling of Fielding in Major League Baseball
Shane Jensen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
10:35 AM

Improved Estimates for the Impact of Baserunning in Baseball
Benjamin Strong Baumer, CUNY Graduate Center
10:55 AM

Modeling the Impact of MLB Bullpen Use and Abuse
James J. Cochran, Louisiana Tech University; Martin S. Levy, University of Cincinnati
11:15 AM

Exploring the Count in Baseball
Jim Albert, Bowling Green State University
11:35 AM

Applications and Implications of a Nested Dirichlet Model of Baseball Player Ability
Brad Null, AOL Research
11:55 AM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
Mapping Batter Ability in Baseball by Using Spatial Statistics Techniques
Dana Draghicescu, Hunter College, CUNY; Benjamin Strong Baumer, CUNY Graduate Center
9:05 AM

Building Time Series Into Hierarchical Bayesian Models with Applications in Baseball Fielding
James Martin Piette, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Shane Jensen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
10:50 AM

Empirical Bayes In-Season Prediction of Baseball Batting Averages
Wenhua Jiang, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University
11:20 AM




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