Money Ball

1) What was the “Moneyball”approach that Billy Beane and Peter Brandt applied to the Oakland Athletics 2002 season? Was it an “art” or a “science”? What single statistic did they boil their value consideration down to? (In class research/discussion)

• science
• boiled down to on base precentiage
  
  2) What is the equation used to calculate OBP? (In class research/discussion)

 formuls used to calculate on base precentage


3) What is design? (In class research/discussion)

• it as the blend of art and sience

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 -step 1 define the problem

• when billy bean talks to the scouts about them knowing what the problem is

2 - the prototype whith the a A's experimenting with mone ball allowing the red soxs to use the money ball aproch



5) What is “Leadership”? List the three aspects of leadership that we come up with in class. (In class research/discussion)

1 - direction
2 -aliment
3 -commitment


6) Describe 3 circumstances from the story where a character exercised effective leadership:
1 -the firering of jieombie

2 - when billy bean  moves from the traditional approich to the money ball aproch

3 - peter shows effective leadership when he talks with the players



7) According to the movie, what was the A’s record at the start of their winning streak? _76__ : __51_8) What does this ratio simplify to (roughly)? __4_ :   5 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 (listed two questions above), what are the odds of winning 20 games in a row? Run the numbers. (In class research/discussion)

.000037

11) Based on your calculation, do you think the A’s got lucky or was there something to the Moneyball approach?

• the buying of players that got on base was a key thing in there 20 game win streak

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.

• he aplied the money ball approch to his life as well when he turned down the red soxs offer

• he broke of the money ball aproch when he fired geombi which was one of his money ball pickes because he was a bad influnce ofn the team.