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
4.
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
5.
a. Direction
b. Alignment
c. Correction
6.
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.
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