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...teams are being offered a six-month trial, and Squadron says almost every team is toying with it right now. Though Bloomberg won't say how much it will charge the clubs for the product, a source close to the company says Bloomberg plans to price it at a rate similar to the fees for its financial terminals, which cost between $1,500 and $1,800 a month. Even for the lowest-revenue clubs, such an investment is probably worth it. And as more teams continue to hire quant experts to help evaluate players, the market should be strong...
...Bloomberg tool worth the $31.95 for consumers? So far, the product is drawing impressive reviews. "Bloomberg is very good at visualizing data," says Maury Brown, president of The Biz of Baseball, a site dedicated to covering the baseball industry, and a fantasy player. "It definitely has that wow factor." The site is fairly intuitive, even for a rookie, and the news ticker that scrolls across the top is candy for baseball junkies. Hard-core stat heads, however, might be disappointed that the product does not allow you to export data into, say, an Excel spreadsheet for further saucing...
...student group meetings in Quincy. Everyone wants to crash the Masters’ open houses and party on the roof. Clearly everyone wishes they could be in Quincy. And people who live in the House can tell you, those wishes are well-placed. Have you ever heard a Quincyite say, “Quincy is great, despite. . .”? Didn’t think so. Although Quincy may not be the most aesthetically pleasing or have the most house spirit, there are no serious drawbacks to living there...
Sophomores don’t get much say in their rooming assignments. You fill out a form and then it is up to House Administrator Beth Terry to sort out the rest. Expect a walk-through your first year here. The rooms can be a bit small, especially compared to your friends’ suites in the Quad or your linkmates’ rooms in Adams. But the housing gets better (Lowell is certainly no Winthrop). Next year, Lowell will be taking over a floor of DeWolfe, so sophomores will also have that option. Eventually, if you are looking...
...Say your insurance covers chemotherapy and you don’t have cancer but someone else does,” she posited. “That’s why it’s called insurance—it’s supposed to cover you for many conditions you never have and some you might have someday...