http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/tim_marchman/03/03/gm.rankings/index.html
They rank the GMs in baseball by how successful they have been, but fail to take into account what they have had to work with. The Yankees payroll is nearly 4-5 maybe even 6 times the payroll of the Oakland As, but Brian Cashman gets ranked way higher. Sure the As haven't been winning recently, but you will not always win when it is David vs Goliath.
This reminded me of the other night when I had a poster presentation at our industrial affiliates meeting at the College of Optical Sciences and I got into an argument with some kid about what the point of moneyball was. He said that the point of moneyball was batting average! No you fucking moron. The point of moneyball was to shed light on the fact that if you have only limited resources, what was the best way to maximize you ROI and that way was trying to get guys with high OBPs. Batting average is great and who wouldn't want that?, but the point was that you could create a good cheap team if you looked at commodities that the market had undervalued while simultaneous buy low/ sell high on commodities that they overvalued. Fucking moron.
Also, I have heard from anyone about the baseball statistics weights or about the move to yahoo! (I think Shiner was left out of that one, sorry) so I will just continue crunching numbers on my own. I will make some executive decisions after next week if I don't hear any opinions.
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Moneyball has quite rightfully changed your life.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that that kid actually read Moneyball if he thought the point was to focus on batting average.
I think you should plan on making all the executive decisions.