Authors: Justin Ehrlich, Christopher Boudreaux, James Boudreau, and Shane Sanders Abstract Contests are games in which the players compete for a prize and exert effort to increase their probability of winning. For sport contests, analysts often use the Pythagorean expected wins model to estimate teams’ expected wins (quality). We ask if there are alternative contestContinue reading “Estimating Major League Baseball Team Quality through Simulation: An Analysis of an Alternative Pythagorean Expected Wins Model”