Superstitious Baseball Fans Wonder: Is Ballpark Concessionaire Aramark bad for their team?

According to a look at the numbers by Workers United, baseball teams with home stadiums that use Aramark to sell beer, hotdogs and other ballpark snacks, get caught stealing bases more, hit fewer home runs and have worse "luck". The experts at www.baseball-reference.com track a statistic called Pythagorean Win-Loss, the expected win-loss record based on the number of runs scored and allowed by the team. They also track Pythagorean Luck, the difference between the actual win-loss and the Pythagorean win-loss. In a comparison between teams with home stadiums that use Aramark and teams that do not, Workers United found that non-Aramark teams are luckier than Aramark teams.

While we are not saying that Aramark causes bad luck, we do think that Aramark workers are unlucky to have an employer that is so cavalier about violating workers' rights.

Click here to learn more about the stats and Aramark workers