Glider Challenge

Glider Challenge

1.       For that last couple of week JP and I have been working on a glider for our class engineering design. We have had many problems and things that we have had to overcome. One of the main things that we had to overcome was the fact that me and him had to constantly leave early on blocks day for soccer so we had to make up for lost time.

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4.       The way that we tested our glider was we waited for a day with little to no wind and then we went out and tried it out but our wing broke off of our wing support and we had to fix that before the race.

5.       On the day of the competition our plane did not fly very well because we wound the rubber band to tight and it ripped off and caused damage that could not be repaired and we did not win any challenges.  We also did not have a lot of time when it came down to the decorations.

6.       Define a problem: are problem with this project was the fact that we had to keep leaving early for soccer so we then had to find a solution

Select a approach: me and JP’s idea to solve this problem was when we had time in class we would not get distracted and work for the entire period and try not to get distracted at any times to make good use of all the time that is given to us.

Refine the Design: we also used this step a lot of the time because are plane was in constant disrepair because with the test flight we had to repair the wing with tape because it was broken completely off and it was the day before the competition.



Money Ball Reflection

MoneyBall Reflection

1.       The approach that moneyball that Billy Beane and peter Bradnt applied was using statistics to find cheap and affordable players and the single stat that they were looking at was OBP (on base percentage)

2.       The formula for OBP is

3.       Design is that area of human experience skill and knowledge which is concerned with man’s ability to mould his environment to suit his material and spiritual needs

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a.       One of the situation were he used the twelve step program was when he was talking to his scouts and he was making his scouts define a problem

b.      He then brainstormed on how to fix the problem on how to game is unfair and he said the only way was to change the game 

c.       And his approach to this problem was to use the statistics approach to try to buy wins by finding players that nobody wanted because of things that people didn’t like and the math just saw right through it

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a.       Direction

b.      Alignment

c.       Correction

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a.       One of the situations where a character showed leadership was with David Justice when he was talking to the first basemen and asked him what his fear was and he said having the baseball hit in his direction it helped it define a problem.

b.      When Billy Bean was having trouble have the people he wanted to start he cut them or traded to them to make them start and this made his take leadership to make the head coach start the team he wanted him to.

c.       Another situation where a character had to show leadership was when Peter Brandt was asked by the coach if he agreed to what Billy Beane was doing he said 100% even though he didn’t just so that he had Billy Bean's back and he supported him.

7.       The A’s record at the start of their winning streak was 68:51

8.       This simplifies to 1.333:1

9.       The A’s record setting winning streak was 20 games won

10.   The odds of the A’s winning 20 games in a row was .0013%

11.   In my opinion I don’t think that the A’s got lucky because the way that they were playing was not just by luck it was based on an equation that was meant to score as much runs as possible and it worked only to a certain point but it still worked.

12.   Yes because later in the movie he got rid of some of his moneyball players like the brother of Jason Giambi because he felt that he did not have a good attitude and he was hurting the team because of this.

Bonus: the other of the book Moneyball is Michael Lewis and some other book that he wrote is; Liar’s Poker, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, The Money Culture.  There is a pattern to what he writes he writes non-fiction books about real events that have happened.