“This was the ugly part of the stats-vs.-tradition debate in baseball: Rather than a conversation about the best way to make baseball decisions, it had become an argument, in which it increasingly felt as if the purpose was to score…
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Book Report: The Only Rule Is It Has To Work
Tagged with: analysis, analytics, availability heuristic, base rate fallacy, baseball, Ben Lindbergh, Bill James, clustering illusion, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, Dan Deeth, Dunning-Kruger effect, focalism, Kurt Russell, sabermetrics, Sam Miller, Sonoma Stompers, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, The Only Rule Is It Has To Work, The Tragically Hip, tradition
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science, Sports
Living life backward: the power of visualization
“It is said that extraordinary people live their lives backward. They create a future, and then they live into it.” – Gary Mack, in Mind Gym Mind Gym is full of examples of the power of visualization, from the relatively…
Tagged with: ACT, baseball, Dwight Smith, Gary Mack, goals, inspiration, Mind Gym, visualization
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Sports
Big Data! Metrics! Analytics!…a cautionary tale from the world of baseball
“In the information age, things that are precisely measured are rewarded disproportionally relative to impact.” – Theo Epstein, President of the Chicago Cubs I work in telecommunications, and one of the major developments of recent years is “big data” (if…
Tagged with: analytics, baseball, big data, goals, metrics, Scorecasting
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Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management, Sports
