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The SABR Diamond Dollars Case Competition pits undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the country against each other in an analytic major league baseball operations decision — the type of decision a team’s general manager and staff is faced with over the course of a season. The teams presented their analysis and recommendations to a panel of judges that includes MLB front office executives on Thursday March 12th in Phoenix.
A record 21 colleges and universities participated in the 2015 Diamond Dollars Case Competition.
In this year’s case, students were asked to determine the best possible trade package for Philadelphia Phillies star left-hander Cole Hamels in terms of present and future value to both teams involved in the deal.
In the Diamond Dollars Case Competition, undergraduate, graduate and professional school students from colleges and universities across the country compete against each other by preparing an analysis and presentation of a baseball operations decision. The cases are developed by Gennaro, author of Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball, and consultant to MLB teams. The Diamond Dollars Case Competition is the first national competition to be based solely on baseball operations issues.
Four- to five-person student teams are asked to evaluate a baseball operations case problem. The student team presents their analysis and recommendations to a panel of judges that includes MLB front office executives.
A team from Arizona State University won the Graduate and Professional School Division. In the Undergraduate Division, the winning team was from Stanford University.
Participating schools in the Undergraduate Division were: University of Colorado-Leeds School of Business; Elon University; Loras College; NYU-SCPS Tisch Center; Ohio University; St. John Fisher College; Syracuse University; Tufts University (two teams); and VCU-Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School, finishing just behind the top two winners in this division.
Maggie Walker’s team was guided by faculty advisor Dickson Benesh, and comprised of students Ben Bowers (Hanover), Joseph Boyle (Hanover), Matt Moore (Hanover), Tyler Walker (Chesterfield), and Justin Wilck (Chesterfield).
Other participating schools in the Graduate and Professional School Division were: University of Alabama-Manderson School of Business; Carnegie Mellon-Tepper School of Business; University of Chicago-Booth; DePaul University; University of Nevada at Las Vegas-Lee Business School; Pepperdine University-Graziadio School of Business and Management; University of San Francisco; and Stanford University.
