Posted by: Baseball Research
- [5514478] Thu, Feb 07, 2002, 08:47
Hello everyone:
After lurking on this forum for about two years, I post my first message asking for help from the fantasy baseball community.
A friend and I are undertaking a study of the effect of various research and media outlets on fantasy baseball. The output of this study will hopefully provide everyone with some valuable fantasy tips, and will further our ongoing market research.
We are looking for approximately one hundred 10-team draft – based leagues to participate in a short survey throughout the season. The leagues should be competitive, in that all members use one or more outside research sources to aid their team management, such as rotoguru.com, fantasy.sportingnews.com, Baseball Tonight, etc. The survey itself will be transmitted via email, and should take no more than 5 minutes to complete. There will be a pre-draft questionnaire, followed by monthly roster updates (these will be really short), and finally an end of season round up.
Please make sure all members of your league agree to participate, as only complete league data can be used in our analysis.
We’ll need no personal information aside from an email address, and are not affiliated with any company or fantasy baseball related entity. If you are interested, email us at baseball_research@hotmail.com and we’ll get you and your league started.
Thanks:
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Sludge Donor
ID: 113368 Thu, Feb 07, 2002, 09:19
Forgive me, but why require that all 100 leagues use outside help? Further, why require that all members use outside help? What kind of control are you going to compare them to?
Thanks for the insightful tip, but there are a few road blocks on the road to the "perfect" test: 1) If you are on this site and reading this post, you use outside help. 2) Pretty much everyone playing fantasy baseball uses outside help, even if it is as simple as watching Baseball Tonight.
Also, the experiment isn't trying to figure out whether outside resources help performance...it's obvious that they do. We are looking at which resources provide the greatest benefit. Additionally, we are investigating how some heady economic concepts that don't need to be discussed right now work in the fantasy baseball world.
Again, thanks for the advice, and I hope you and your league agree to sign up.
Thanks:
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Sludge Donor
ID: 54131712 Thu, Feb 07, 2002, 13:50
I would if I were in a draft-style baseball league.
I'm a professional statistician, and I was just taking a mild interest.
Not having any idea of your qualifications, I was going to try to gently help if help was needed and/or wanted.
"To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a postmortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of." - R.A. Fisher
Thanks very much for your advice and kind offer. Depending on what sort of participation we get out of the study, we may ask you for some advice. BTW, we're management consultants who are doing this study strictly because we are nerds. :)
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