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Application of DEA to Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame

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  • Thomas Miceli

    (University of Connecticut)

  • Brian Volz

    (Assumption College)

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This paper applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame. The approach interprets a player's career statistics as inputs, and the percentage of votes he received for the HOF as the output. A constructed frontier based on past voting defines the maximum number of votes that a player should receive based on his statistical profile. Our results suggest that about a third of current members of the HOF (excluding Negro League players, managers, umpires, and executives) should be replaced by more deserving players. Our conclusions, however, do not account for those aspects of a player's career (both positive and negative) not captured by statistics.

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  • Thomas Miceli & Brian Volz, 2010. "Application of DEA to Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame," Working papers 2010-22, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:uct:uconnp:2010-22
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    Baseball hall of fame; data envelopment analysis; production theory;
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    JEL classification:

    • C44 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory
    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism

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