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Previous Winners of the Diamond Dollars Case Competition at the SABR Analytics Conference: 


2023 Washington University-St. Louis  
  Runners-Up: Rice University
  Runners-Up: The Branson School
  Runners-Up: Arizona State University 

2022 Tufts University 
  Runners-Up: Elon University
  Runners-Up: Maggie Walker Governor’s School
  Runners-Up: St. John Fisher University
  Runners-Up: The Branson School

2021 University of Chicago-Booth  
  Runners-Up: Cornell University
  Runners-Up: Tufts University
  Runners-Up: Syracuse University (team 2)
  Runners-Up: Horace Mann High School

2020 Virginia Tech University  
  Runners-Up: Syracuse University
  Runners-Up: Maggie Walker Governor’s School

2019 Washington University-St. Louis  
  Runners-Up: Maggie Walker Governor’s School
  Runners-Up: Syracuse University (team 1)
  Runners-Up: Syracuse University (team 2)

2018 Washington University-St. Louis  
  Runners-Up: Maggie Walker Governor’s School
  Runners-Up: University of Southern California
  Runners-Up: Indiana University


2017 Elon University  
   Runners-Up: Columbia-Sports Management
  Runners-Up: Washington University-St. Louis
  Runners-Up: Maggie Walker Governor’s School

2016 NYU Tisch Institute  
  Runners-Up: Carnegie Mellon-Tepper
  Runners-Up: Ohio University

2015 Stanford University  
  Runners-Up: Arizona St-WP Carey
  Runners-Up: Ryerson University
  Runners-Up: Tufts University

2014 Duke-Fuqua  
  Runners-Up: University of Chicago-Booth          
  Runners-Up: Cornell University
  Runners-Up: Loras College   

2013 Pepperdine-Graziadio School  
  Runners-Up: NYU Tisch Institute      
  Runners-Up: University of Chicago-Booth          
  Runners-Up: Cornell University

2012 University of Chicago-Booth  
  Runners-Up: Yale University          
  Runners-Up: University of Florida-Hough            
  Runners-Up: Northwestern-Kellogg
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Everyone wants the opportunity to showcase their talents to the right people. That's exactly what the Annual Diamond Dollars Case Competition is all about. Graduate students from B-Schools, Sports Management programs, and other graduate and undergraduate programs across the country compete against each other by preparing an analysis and presentation of a real baseball operations decision–the type of decision a team's GM and his staff is faced with over the course of a season. Five-person teams of students are asked to evaluate proposed player transactions, apply statistical analysis of player performance, develop a roster strategy, or assess the financial impact of the team's proposed moves. The case is authored and led by Vince Gennaro, a consultant to MLB teams over 15 years, working with front office personnel to help teams analyze key baseball operations decisions. Vince is the author of Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball and the former President of SABR–The Society for American Baseball Research, and a regular contributor to MLB Network's MLB Now.

Once the student team has prepared its case, they will have the opportunity to present their analysis and recommendations to a group judges, which will include MLB front office execs. They will have a dialog, receive feedback and ultimately be evaluated, by the panel of judges, based on the quality of their insights and analysis. The Case Competition is a perfect fit for the avid fantasy player who believes they can match strategy with baseball execs, or for anyone who aspires to work in a Major League front office. It's a unique opportunity to demonstrate your talents and to network with current executives and other baseball industry insiders. Never before has there been a case competition solely focused on classic baseball operations issues, which is the perfect platform for any savvy analyst and student of the game, to differentiate themselves from the thousands who aspire to become baseball executives.

The 11th Annual Diamond Dollars Case Competition will be held in March 2022 in Phoenix, in conjunction with SABR's Baseball Analytics Conference, featuring 3 days of expert panels, guest speakers, research presentations, and networking events. Registration to participate in the Case Competition, will include admission to SABR's Analytics Conference, which will be sponsored by Major League Baseball and include participation by key personnel from MLB teams and analysts and writers from leading baseball analytic websites. More information on the SABR Analytics Conference, including highlights of the agenda and featured speakers will be coming soon at SABR.org/analytics.

For further information contact Scott Bush at: sbush@sabr.org



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