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Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 4d

For some reason only just saw this reply! My bad!

Job Posting: Cincinnati Reds - Multiple Openings

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 5d

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Cincinnati Reds – Multiple Openings blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

The Cincinnati Reds are hiring.

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Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 5d

Only able to skim but seems like a pretty cool paper. Data merging and munging must have been an enormous undertaking!

Job Posting: Cleveland Guardians - Baseball Technology Fellow

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 5d

Worth noting the full context here: "faculty...tend to shift toward more novel research after tenure...with declining hit rates...consistent with higher-risk research allocations...more than half of faculty add a new agenda. The new agendas further exhibit greater novelty for science"

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 5d

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.

But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 5d

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Cleveland Guardians – Baseball Technology Fellow blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

The Cleveland Guardians are hiring.

Job Posting: Chicago Cubs - Specialist, Pro Acquisitions

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 5d

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Chicago Cubs – Specialist, Pro Acquisitions blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

The Chicago Cubs are hiring.

Job Posting: New York Mets - Multiple Openings

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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 5d

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: New York Mets – Multiple Openings blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

The New York Mets are hiring.

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Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 6d

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 6d

I see Tyler Cowen is off being an utter embarrassment again today...

The Seductive, and Risky, Power of Live Sports Betting

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Brad "Pencil Necked Geek" Humphreys @bradhumphreys.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting long read on in game sports betting. I wonder about the prices offered on in game bets relative to pre game bets.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...

www.nytimes.com

Excel Turns 40: Join the Celebration! | Microsoft Community Hub

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 7d

You have Yamamoto-Snell-Glasnow-Kershaw-Ohtani-Sheehan as your starting rotation. No reason to ever bring in any of these relievers in the playoffs…

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 7d

*1 year for me

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 7d

I am older than Microsoft Excel (?) 🫠

B. David Tyler @drbdt.bsky.social · 7d

Excel turns 40 today. Probably. This is a date-based issue, so we can't be sure if Excel handled it correctly.
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...

This year marks a major milestone—Microsoft Excel turns 40! In honor of four decades of innovation, we’re kicking off “40 Days of Excel”, a global community...

techcommunity.microsoft.com

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 8d

FYI: this is for Sports Markets & Antitrust Issues discussion day (full disclosure: a very biased toward my friends & colleagues list):

Blair & Wang (2017) - American Needle
Fort (2017) - Rule of Reason
Winfree (2009) - Fan Substitution
Mills & Winfree (2016) - Market Power & Substitution

Will American Needle Burst the NFL's Balloon?

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 8d

Re-reading Blair & Wang (2017) on American Needle and reminded there is so much good stuff here and explained so clearly and simply. Adding it to the Sport Econ class required reading list (where it should have been all along).

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

For decades, the National Football League pooled their intellectual property and issued nonexclusive blanket licenses. No one complained. When the National Football League decided to award an exclusi...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 9d

Enjoying the Hornsby-Judge ‘22-‘24-‘25 pattern 100 years apart on the list…

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 9d

Aaron Judge just posted a 215 OPS+.

That's his third time topping 200. (Only 4 AL/NL hitters ever with more.)

It's the 4th-best righty batter season ever. It gives him two of the top four, and three of the top eight. stathead.com/tiny/0SA1J

Sometimes i feel like we underrate him somehow?

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 10d

And here I am about to beg for selection for my first one-semester “sabbatical” in year 15…

Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 10d

Not a Penn State fan but looking for single blades of grass is an extremely lame use of replay.