{"id":623,"date":"2009-04-05T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2009-04-05T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:28:27","slug":"time-for-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/05\/time-for-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The baseball season started a few minutes ago with Atlanta playing Philadelphia.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been working with Major League Baseball for more than a dozen years, and my (along with partners, of course) company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-scheduling.com\">The Sports Scheduling Group<\/a>, produces the schedules for MLB (our chief scheduler Kelly Easton does all the hard work, but I do the final day assignments), as well as for the umpires (which I do, based on some fantastic work done a few years ago in a Tepper School\u00a0 MBA project, further developed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msu.edu\/~yildiz\/\">Hakan Yildiz<\/a>&#8216; dissertation).\u00a0 The start of the season is always a time of anxiety for me (not strong anxiety, but a gnawing fear):\u00a0 what if I forgot to put in a game?\u00a0 What if Philadelphia shows up tonight, but Atlanta&#8217;s schedule has them in Los Angeles?\u00a0 It is a rather silly worry, since thousands have people have looked at the schedule at this point, so it is unlikely that anything particularly egregious is happening.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was happy tonight to see Brett Myers toss the first pitch to Kelly Johnson (a ball).<\/p>\n<p>And know that he did so because of operations research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baseball season started a few minutes ago with Atlanta playing Philadelphia.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been working with Major League Baseball for more than a dozen years, and my (along with partners, of course) company, The Sports Scheduling Group, produces the schedules for MLB (our chief scheduler Kelly Easton does all the hard work, but I do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/05\/time-for-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time for Baseball&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-personal","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}