Search Results - "Ehrlich, Justin"

Measuring individual worker output in a complementary team setting: Does regularized adjusted plus minus isolate individual NBA player contributions? by Ghimire, Shankar, Ehrlich, Justin A, Sanders, Shane D

“…Adjusted plus minus (APM) measures have redefined our understanding of player value in basketball and hockey, where both are team games featuring player…”
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The alliance formation puzzle in contests with capacity-constraints: A test using American football reception-coverage contest data by Ehrlich, Justin, Harmon, Matthew, Sanders, Shane

“…We utilize a contest-theoretic model to demonstrate a version of the alliance formation puzzle that aligns with reception-coverage contests in American…”
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Should offensively oriented players receive a salary premium in the national basketball association? by Potter, Joel, Ehrlich, Justin A

“…PurposeSince recent research has found that offensively oriented players receive a salary premium, the current study recognizes this observed premium might…”
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Simpson's aggregation paradox in nonparametric statistical analysis: Theory, computation, and susceptibility in public health data by Sanders, Shane, Ehrlich, Justin, Boudreau, James

“…This study establishes sufficient conditions for observing instances of Simpson's (data aggregation) Paradox under rank sum scoring ( RSS ), as used, e.g., in…”
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Policy and Policy Response on the Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Three-Point Line Extension in Basketball by Ehrlich, Justin A., Ghimire, Shankar, Sadler, Thomas R., Sanders, Shane D.

“…This paper considers recent and historical changes in the three-point line distance at the NCAA and NBA levels as an example of policy change with…”
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Mortality risk factors among National Football League players: An analysis using player career data [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] by Ehrlich, Justin, Kmush, Brittany, Walia, Bhavneet, Sanders, Shane

“…In general, National Football League (NFL) players tend to live longer than the general population. However, little information exists about the long-term…”
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Mortality risk factors among National Football League players: An analysis using player career data [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Ehrlich, Justin, Kmush, Brittany, Walia, Bhavneet, Sanders, Shane

“…In general, National Football League (NFL) players tend to live longer than the general population. However, little information exists about the long-term…”
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Cycles in team tennis and other paired-element contests by Sanders, Shane, Ehrlich, Justin, Boudreau, James

“…Team Tennis competitions produce aggregate scores for teams, and thus team rankings, based on head-to-head matchups of individual team members. Similar scoring…”
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Estimating the effect of attendance on home advantage in the National Basketball Association by Ehrlich, Justin, Potter, Joel

“…Using COVID-19 safety protocols as a natural experiment, we are able to delineate three distinct attendance categories in the NBA: 1) unrestricted games played…”
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Rule selection invariance as a robustness check in collective choice and nonparametric statistical settings by Sanders, Shane, Ehrlich, Justin, Boudreau, James

“…This study establishes conditional equivalence between Borda rule and rank sum collective choice. We apply the equivalence condition toward a comparison of the…”
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Constructing and validating a best-fit economic well-being index for urban U.S. counties: a Tiebout model approach by Ehrlich, Justin, Medcalfe, Simon, Sanders, Shane

“…This study builds on the history of economic well-being (EWB) index construction to develop such an index for urban U.S. counties (population > 62,437). Unlike…”
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Shot selection and managerial efficiency in the NBA by Ehrlich, Justin Andrew, Sanders, Shane

“…Purpose We introduce a novel type of basketball shot chart, a true shot chart, that incorporates total points, accounting for both field goals and free throws,…”
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COVID-19 countermeasures, Major League Baseball, and the home field advantage: Simulating the 2020 season using logit regression and a neural network [version 1; peer review: 3 approved with reservations] by Ehrlich, Justin, Ghimire, Shankar

“…Background: In the wake of COVID-19, almost all major league sports have been either cancelled or postponed. The sports industry suffered a major blow with the…”
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Head Impact, Concussion, and Salary in the NFL: Is There a Compensating Wage-Risk Premium? by Walia, Bhavneet, Owora, Arthur, Kmush, Brittany, Ehrlich, Justin, Sanders, Shane

“…Sport epidemiological studies have estimated cumulative head impact and concussion rates by American football position group. Meanwhile, the sports economics…”
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Luck in high-stakes firm lottery allocation: A natural experimental test of Coasean efficiency and invariance in a prominent sport finance setting by Ehrlich, Justin, Potter, Joel, Sanders, Shane

“…The NBA Player-Draft is a prominent sport-finance setting, with large rents allocated to teams. Several properties make this setting ideal to study the Coase…”
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Composite Index Ranking of Economic Well-Being in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: How Prevalent are Rank Anomalies? by Ehrlich, Justin, Medcalfe, Simon, Sanders, Shane

“…Composite indicators have the advantage of summarizing complex multi-dimensional concepts in a single measurement. They also suffer from disadvantages such as…”
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NFL team revenue distribution and revenue sharing: a median voter theorem by Ehrlich, Justin, Ghimire, Shankar, Sanders, Shane

“…PurposeRevenue sharing is ubiquitous among North American professional sports leagues. Under pool revenue sharing, above-average revenue teams of a league…”
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Age at League Entry and Early All-Cause Mortality among National Football League Players by Walia, Bhavneet, Kmush, Brittany L, Ehrlich, Justin, Mackowski, Madeline, Sanders, Shane

“…A growing body of research suggests that American football players are exposed to higher cumulative head impact risk as competition level rises. Related…”
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Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift by Sanders, Shane, Potter, Joel, Ehrlich, Justin, Perline, Justin, Boudreaux, Christopher

“…Do informed electorates choose better candidates? While that question is straightforward, its answer often is elusive. Typically, candidate-quality information…”
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Spectators or Influencers? The Crowd Effect Upon Winning in the NFL: A Natural Experiment by Ehrlich, Justin, Potter, Joel, Sanders, Shane, Paul, Rodney

“…Previous research has determined that home field advantage (HFA) is positively related to crowd density. Isolating this effect is a substantial empirical…”
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