2026 Diamond Dollars Case Competition

The Diamond Dollars Case Competition will be held during the SABR Analytics Conference on the morning of Friday, February 27, 2026, at the Beus Center for Law and Society on Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix Campus in Phoenix, Arizona.

Here are the participating schools in 2026:

• Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
• Elon University (Elon, NC)
• Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School (Richmond, VA)
• Rice University (Houston, TX)
• Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
• Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
• Tufts University (Medford, MA)
• University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA)
• Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)

Presentation Schedule

• Room 240 — 9:10 a.m.: Syracuse University #1; 9:45 a.m.: Tufts University; 10:20 a.m.: Vanderbilt University #1; 11:00 a.m.: Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School #3
• Room 349 — 9:10 a.m.: Vanderbilt University #2; 9:45 a.m.: Syracuse University #2; 10:20 a.m.: Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School #4; 11:00 a.m.: Rice University #2
• Room 544 — 9:10 a.m.: Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School #1; 9:45 a.m.: Rice University #1; 10:20 a.m.: Syracuse University #3; 11:00 a.m.: Elon University
• Room 650 — 9:10 a.m.: Texas A&M University; 9:45 a.m.: Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School #2; 10:20 a.m.: Arizona State University; 11:00 a.m.: Syracuse University #4; 11:35 a.m.: University of the Pacific

In the Diamond Dollars Case Competition, undergraduate, graduate and professional school students from colleges and universities across the country compete against each other by preparing an analysis and presentation of a baseball operations decision — the type of decision a team’s GM and his staff is faced with over the course of a season. The cases are developed by Vince Gennaro, founder and Executive Director of the Lab for Transformative Leadership at NYU’s School of Professional Studies; author of Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball; host of Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM; and the former President of SABR’s Board of Directors. The Diamond Dollars Case Competition is the first national competition to be based solely on baseball operations issues.

Four- to five-person student teams are asked to evaluate a baseball operations case problem. The student team presents their analysis and recommendations to a panel of judges that includes MLB front office executives.

More than 120 alumni from the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Diamond Dollars Case Competitions have secured internships or permanent positions within Major League Baseball.

To learn more about the SABR Analytics Conference, or to register, visit SABR.org/analytics.