Upon Further Analysis — Archives
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Was Bob Welch’s 1990 Cy Young Award a Travesty?
Baseball fans love to engage in retrospective arguments. Who really deserved the MVP or Cy Young Award (CYA) twenty, thirty, or fifty years ago? These arguments often pit old school statistics against sabermetrics. One especially controversial choice was Bob Welch winning the 1990 AL Cy Young Award over Roger Clemens. But was Welch’s selection really…
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Lessons Learned? A Report Card
We all make mistakes. But it’s also important to learn from those mistakes. Banking regulators frequently go thought a lessons learned exercise following bank failures and other events that expose weaknesses in the bank supervision system. We’ll look at some of the lessons learned from the 2023 bank failures and give out a report card…