2025 Diamond Dollars Case Competition

The 2025 Diamond Dollars Case Competition winners were announced Friday, March 14 during the SABR Analytics Conference.

The winning teams selected were from Vanderbilt University, Syracuse University, NYU-Tisch Institute for Global Sport, and the Branson School.

The Branson School team — which was picked to deliver an encore presentation in front of the full SABR Analytics Conference on Saturday — included Remy DeJean, Christopher Mao, Zach Redlin, Spencer Weinberg, and Theo Zak.

The Vanderbilt University team (pictured above) included Adam Burns, Riley Hewitt, Ethan Schulman, Jacob Silverman, and Dylan Tovitz.

The Syracuse University team (pictured above) included Andrew Diamond, Jacob Kalamvokis, Owen St. Onge, Payton Smith, and Jonah Soos.

The NYU team (pictured above) included Logan Burt, Jim Chang, Lucas Hoye, Maddie Mendelsohn, and Tyler Oshima.

In the Diamond Dollars Case Competition, high school and college students from schools 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 former SABR Board President Vince Gennaro, co-founder of the SABR Analytics Conference, author of Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball, and consultant to MLB teams. 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.

In this year’s case, students were asked to evaluate the performance of relief pitchers and redefine the save statistic.

This year’s judges included Kyle Bland (Pitcher List), Adam Brodie (Houston Astros), Cody Callahan (Arizona Diamondbacks), John Edwards (Seattle Mariners), Andrew Fox (MIlwaukee Brewers), Michael Girsch (St. Louis Cardinals), Matt Lehman (Miami Marlins), Diego Martinez (Houston Astros), Timothy Pugh (Miami Marlins), Michael Schatz (Cleat Street Capital), Michael Topol (Texas Rangers), and Keith Woolner (Cleveland Guardians).

Callahan is a former winner of the Diamond Dollars Case Competition at the SABR Analytics Conference.

Other participating schools were: Elon University; Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School; Rice University; Tufts University; and Tulane University.

For more coverage of the 2025 SABR Analytics Conference, visit SABR.org/analytics.

Nearly 200 alumni from the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Diamond Dollars Case Competitions have secured internships or permanent positions within Major League Baseball.