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Levin: Top venture capitalists succeed at a .300 baseball average rate
“The best VCs do not bat a thousand, right? You know, in baseball, if you're hit 300, you're on the all-star team and you might be taking your team to the world series and venture capital is something like that.”
Rosenthal: The NFL's engineered scarcity drives its dominance over baseball
“The product is scarce. You know, a 162 baseball games a year. It's called America's Pastime. You pass a lot of time with it. But with the NFL, because the product is scarce, and then they have very smartly cultivated that and engineered it to be more scarce, m…”
Ainsworth: Working harder in baseball led to more injuries
“The harder I worked in baseball, the more injuries I had. You can only throw so much. You can only run and lift so much”
Hays: UFC will replace baseball as America's pastime within four years
“Because I think that by the end of the next four years, UFC will be baseball will have to have sort of stepped aside. No longer America's pastime. America's pastime is combat and combat sports.”
Massey: Football is adopting analytics more slowly than baseball or basketball
“Baseball's been doing this for a long time, but then basketball caught fire, and then football is slowly getting there, and I end up working more with organizations and professional sports than any other industry.”
MLB faces impending labor strife over perceived economic inequity among players
“I think on a labor front, baseball's in for a really rough time coming ahead, because I think that players are just seeing things as less and less equitable.”
Schwimer: Baseball is the only sport where all data is publicly available
“Baseball is the only sport that all the data is publicly available. So it's just about how good your team is.”
Chen: Average MLB viewer is late 50s; NBA average is 42
“Baseball, it's like you have the audience that is, you know, now in their kind of like late fifties you know, NFL, you know, NBA is, I think, like, you know, really young at, you know, 42 or something like that.”
Sports analytics remains early because continuous-motion sports are harder to analyze
“We're so at the infancy of this movement, because, you know, baseball, Again, that's where the start is. Baseball is easy because it's state-based. It's very discreet moments. Basketball is continually moving in fluid. Soccer, football, hockey. I mean, those t…”
Mauboussin: NBA outcomes rely on skill; hockey and baseball involve luck
“The NBA is the sport that's furthest from randomness, furthest from pure luck configuration, and sports like actually ice hockey and baseball are actually quite much closer to being random.”
Mauboussin: Elite Pitch Framing By Baseball Catchers Produces Substantial Win Deltas
“Simply bringing in a pitcher, a catcher, pardon me, who's really good at pitch framing can lead to, the numbers seem to me like unbelievable, you know, over a season, substantial delta in the number of games won.”
The average MLB fan is 54, with viewership dropping 3-4% annually
“If you look at, for instance, baseball. Baseball, the average fan of baseball is about 54 years old and male, and aging every year. The average demographic increases every year, and that, that, that fan next year will be 55, and it's decreasing on a viewership…”