January 29, 2009
If you build it, will they win?
I should probably make a big spreadsheet and run correlations to respond to this, but I'll leave that to someone else with more free time today.
I did, however, do a study for Baseball Between the Numbers that looked at MLB team performance before/after moving into a new stadium, in which I concluded that a new ballpark is worth, on average, 5.5 wins a year to a ballclub. I further noted: "a $500 million stadium is an awfully expensive way to pick up five and a half games in the standings." Unless, of course, somebody else is paying for it - as is the case with the Arizona Cardinals.
Posted by Neil deMause in team success
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