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About Matt Swartz

Matt Swartz finished his Ph.D. in Economics at Penn in 2009, and now applies his degree to the serious topic of baseball. Matt also writes regularly for FanGraphs, and has published at MLB Trade Rumors and Baseball Prospectus. He can be reached at matthewTswartz at gmail, or on Twitter @Matt_Swa.


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Game theory and baseball, Part 5: Generalizing the pitch selection model

December 21, 2012
Last of a week-long series on game theory and baseball strategy

Game theory and baseball, part 4: if batters were Bayesians

December 20, 2012
Part Four of a week-long series on game theory and baseball strategy

Game theory and baseball, part 3: more pitch selection

December 19, 2012
Part Three of a week-long series on game theory and baseball strategy.

Game theory and baseball, part 2: introduction to pitch selection

December 18, 2012
Part Two of a week-long series discussing game theory and baseball strategy.

Game theory and baseball, part 1: concepts

December 17, 2012
First of a week-long series.

Big, long deals

August 06, 2012
How do long contracts compare with short ones?

Free agent value and building teams from within

April 03, 2012
Marginal wins don't tell us everything we think they do.

Adjusting defense efficiency by the quality of pitching

December 15, 2011
What if you could adjust DER? What would it tell you?

You shall know our velocity

December 09, 2011
Matt uncovers an important piece of the pitching metric puzzle.

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