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Dollars and Sense Part Seven: Dollar Win Values
In this fashionably late edition of Purple Row Academy, I shift gears from Positional Payroll Distribution to an examination of the Rockies' historical Win Value data, courtesy of Fangraphs, compared to both the Rockies' marginal wins over that period and their ODPs. This session is, (for now, at...
Dollars and Sense Part Six: Payroll Distribution by Position
In this session of Purple Row Academy, I will focus on the Rockies' (and NL West's) positional payroll distribution this year within the context of the rest of MLB. Note that all of the salary figures used in this session come from Jeff Euston at Cot's Contracts--which is one of my favorite...
Dollars and Sense Part Five: Marginal Payroll and Marginal Wins
In this fashionably late session of Purple Row Academy, I expand on last week's column about payroll efficiency by focusing a little more heavily on the concept of marginal wins and their relationship to marginal payroll. Marginal Payroll and Marginal Wins Though my primary reference last week,...
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