ABOUT ME
I am Michael McBride, a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine whose research and teaching focuses on game theory and experimental economics. You can browse my professional website for more information.
My creation of fair-credit baseball statistics combines my professional and non-professional interests. I am also a big baseball and softball fan and have coached both sports for many seasons at the youth level. I have even published two books (here and here) on how to apply sabermetrics when coaching youth. My work on the FCB Statistics will be published in a forthcoming book Game Theory, Machine Learning, and Production in Sports: The Fair-Credit Baseball Statistics (World Scientific Publishing).
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Many thanks go to Steve and Linda Borowski for their financial support that enabled the creation of this web site. The FCB Website could not have been created without their generous support.
RESEARCH AND OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
The FCB Website and larger FCB research has also benefited from the support of many others (in alphabetical order):
- Kevin Flannery: original website designer.
- Robert MacDonald: graduate student research assistant, lead programmer in machine-learning model creation and training.
- Solomon Midwinter: undergraduate research assistant, leaderboard creator.
- Casey Stanford: undergraduate research assistant, lead programmer in automating the 2023-present FCB calculations and FCB Website integration.
- Katelyn Vuong: undergraduate research assistant, college baseball data collection programmer.
- Zhihan Zhang: undergraduate research assistant, college baseball data collection programmer.