They went by the statisticks not by what the scouts thought about the players. It was much more of a science rather than an art because of how they went around finding out who they would have taken up rather than who they felt in their gut. The single most important statistic that they used as their core value was that they got on base rather than a conjoined of several lower things or how they looked.
2) What is the equation used to calculate OBP?
OBP-On-Base Percentages= Hits +Walks +Hit By a Pitch
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At Bats +Walks +Hit By a Pitch +Sacrifice Flies
3) What is design?
Design is the prose’s of defining the problem to finding possible solutions to getting a solution and the two revising the solution, and starting it all over again.
4) Describe 3 situations where movie characters (intentionally or not) applied a step from the PLTW 12 Step Design Process. Explain both the (a) situation as well as (b) how the step is relevant:
1 -In the beginning where Billy is with all the scouts and they are think of who to hire to make up for the people they lost and Billy makes them think of what the real problem is.
2 - Peter's whole reason that he has to hire some people and fire others is that he has a long equation that gives him the averages of the player. And that lets him help the players even more.
3 - And through the whole move Billy is revising his team and making it better and making shure that his coach plays the team how he wants them to be coached.
5) What is “Leadership”? List the three aspects of leadership that we come up with in class.
1 - Direction
2 -Alignment
3 - Vision
6) Describe 3 circumstances from the story where a character exercised effective leadership:
1 - Through the movie Billy always has a direction he wants his team to go in and it is always a good one and its consistent.
2 - Billy always on track and never straying from what he has to do for his team.
3 -Billy consistently is trying to do what is best for his team even though he is staring in the face of great challenge.
7) According to the movie, what was the A’s record at the start of their winning streak? 68:51
8) What does this ratio simplify to? 1.33: 1
9) How long was the A’s record setting winning streak? 20 games won.
10) Given the A’s win/loss ratio at the start of the streak, what are the odds of winning 20 games in a row? Run the numbers.
9) How long was the A’s record setting winning streak? 20 games won.
10) Given the A’s win/loss ratio at the start of the streak, what are the odds of winning 20 games in a row? Run the numbers.
The odds were about 0.000013 chances that they would win the 20 games. And it would take about 474 seasons to achieve this 20 game winning streak,
11) Based on your calculation, do you think the A’s got lucky or was there something to the Moneyball approach?
I think that they had a bit of luck with some of the Moneyball approach filling in the rest of the reason that they won.
12) Did Billy Beane strictly apply the “science” of Moneyball to his management approach? Was there an “art” to his efforts as well? Describe a circumstance where he broke from the Moneyball approach to make a positive change for the team.
Billy Bean did not go completely Moneyball but was greatly influence by it and it was partly his art that helped him to make other decisions. The only time that he strayed from his plan was when he had to triad some people to twist they had of the coach so that he would play the team how Billy wanted him to.
Bonus Question
Money Ball was originally a book. What author wrote the book? What other books has this author written? Is there a theme to his writing?
Michael Lewis wrote the book along with The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life, and Liar's Poker. All of these have a common theme of the little guy coming up and winning it all.
I like the connections you've made between the movie and a design process. Please call out specific steps from our PLTW process to make those connections more clear.
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