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Evaluating An Mlb General Manager’S Bang For Their Buck, Devin Mathura
Evaluating An Mlb General Manager’S Bang For Their Buck, Devin Mathura
Honors College Theses
With my passion for baseball, I decided to calculate the value of each player on an MLB active roster and determine whether they are underpaid or overpaid. I then used that information to evaluate and rank how efficient each MLB general manager utilizes their money on players. With the luxury tax becoming more of an issue for teams with high payrolls, there has been an emphasis on general managers to construct a team that will be highly competitive at a reasonably low price. In my report, I imported data that reflected the position for each player as well as their …