That degree in engineering or your background in logistics might prepare you for the situation facing the Staples Center’s staff this weekend! Three sports, four events, two days.
Really, there’s a journal for that?
Ben Alamar is an assistant professor of management at Menlo College and the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.
He has written articles such as Who Controls the Plate? Isolating the Pitcher/Batter Subgame and The Passing Premium Puzzle.
How can you get a job like his? Easy, just find ways to sneak sports connections into your doctoral program in Public Finance and Mathematical Economics, the degree Alamar earned at UCSB.
Alamar recently analyzed which baseball teams will benefit most from the addition of two more teams to the MLB playoffs.
As general counsel for The Ultimate Fighting Championship, Ike Lawrence Epstein isn’t worried about his safety, but his work as counsel to the UFC deals with fighter safety, as well as contracts, intellectual property, regulatory and political issues.
Kevin McGuire leverages his law degree and personal experience to help his clients, which include nearly all of the U.S. professional sports teams, make their venues accessible to people with disabilities. Read more about his work here.
High tech helmets no better than leather?
A recent study suggests that for the everyday hits football players absorb hundreds or thousands of times, new helmets are not any better than what players wore decades ago.
Looking for an IT job? How about designing intelligent cleats like this at Adidas? Have a pro athlete give you a tour of the jobs, or browse on your own.
“Using statistical physics theory, [Boston U. graduate student Alexander Petersen has] found a way to compare baseball players over the generations, whether they played in the dead-ball era in the early 1900s or the steroids era beginning in the 1990s.”
