"A black pitcher throwing a nonterminal pitch in the early innings of poorly attended games in a non-QuesTec ballpark gains over 6 percentage points by matching [the umpire's ethnicity] (41.4 versus 35.2 percent called strikes)."They also found that pitchers would throw in ways that would take advantage of the bias... Hmmm... Who wouldn't?
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Someone's watching you -- and it might be a good thing...
from ArsTechnicaEthnic biases were found when the authors of an article in the American Economic Review compared baseball games with automated pitch monitoring systems vs those without.