Posted on October 3, 2011, 7:19 am, by Bill Rouse, under
Archetypes.
I have been thinking about how Michael Lewis’ Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, might be applied to American football. On-Base Percentage was found to be the best predictor of success for baseball. What might work for football? I tried a variety of statistics and found that a team’s total number of turnovers […]
I just finished reading Michael Lewis’ Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Lewis relates the story of the Oakland Athletics and their ability to use scientific management to maximize wins per dollar. I could not help but wonder how their empirically derived principles might apply to academia. What is the equivalent of On-Base […]
