{"id":652,"date":"2009-04-25T18:44:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T22:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-04-25T18:44:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T22:44:24","slug":"baseball-and-operations-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/25\/baseball-and-operations-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball and Operations Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogged at the <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/Practice09\/blog\/\">INFORMS Practice site<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/Practice09\/blog\/?p=130\">how to make a trip to a baseball game a legitimate business expense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just arrived in Phoenix, and I\u2019m off to this evening\u2019s game between the Giants and the Diamondbacks.\u00a0 There is an operations research connection, of course:\u00a0 both the teams and the umpires are <a href=\"..\/?p=623\">scheduled with operations research<\/a>.\u00a0 So this is kinda like a site visit:\u00a0 I\u2019m there to be sure exactly two teams show up, along with four umpires!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>More serious posts tomorrow when I attend some of the Technology Workshops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogged at the INFORMS Practice site on how to make a trip to a baseball game a legitimate business expense. I just arrived in Phoenix, and I\u2019m off to this evening\u2019s game between the Giants and the Diamondbacks.\u00a0 There is an operations research connection, of course:\u00a0 both the teams and the umpires are scheduled with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/25\/baseball-and-operations-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baseball and Operations Research&#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":[13,28,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-informs","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}