New Preprint: Causal inference for sports player evaluation

I have a new preprint on ArXiv with NYU Grossman PhD student Antonio D’Alessandro: The Counterfactual Combine: A Causal Framework for Player Evaluation. We show how evaluating the performance of healthcare providers is fundamentally the same problem as evaluating player performance in sports, and adapt causal inference methods developed for healthcare provider profiling to the sports setting. Antonio contributed a very nice baseball case study looking at using causal inference to evaluate MLB batter performance.