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Redskin in Canada
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:38 pm Post subject: Moneyball |
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Worth watching this MOVIE (skip the ads)
I happen to think that this technique to manage a team actually works!
It only goes to show how wrong the Dumb and Dumber approach to hire expensive veterans and aging prima donnas was. 
Reviews HERE. |
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langleyparkjoe
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 10:52 am Post subject: |
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| To heck with that movie, they should make a movie about me called "Money Balls" |
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Countertrey
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| So, I see this thread is now for sharing fantasies... |
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Redskin in Canada
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| langleyparkjoe wrote: | | To heck with that movie, they should make a movie about me called "Money Balls" |
No drinking -and - driving.
No drinking -and- posting.
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Irn-Bru
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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The NFL is still waiting for a coach who has the courage — or maybe the "screw it" attitude  — to try managing his team based on advanced stats. Pretty much every academic that's studied fourth downs, for example, thinks that you should rarely, if ever, punt the ball. |
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Deadskins
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Irn-Bru wrote: | | The NFL is still waiting for a coach who has the courage — or maybe the "screw it" attitude — to try managing his team based on advanced stats. Pretty much every academic that's studied fourth downs, for example, thinks that you should rarely, if ever, punt the ball. |
That's how I play Madden. |
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Redskin in Canada
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Irn-Bru wrote: | | The NFL is still waiting for a coach who has the courage — or maybe the "screw it" attitude — to try managing his team based on advanced stats. Pretty much every academic that's studied fourth downs, for example, thinks that you should rarely, if ever, punt the ball. |
Sooooooo ...
you watched it!
What do you think? Is that system in place in the NFL or only the MLB? |
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Irn-Bru
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:19 am Post subject: |
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I haven't seen Moneyball (yet!) but I know the story.
I do not think that the NFL has an equivalent system in place. Part of it is that football's statistical analysis has been in the stone age compared to baseball (for a number of reasons), but that is changing over time. With advanced stats comes the opportunity to "play the averages" like never before.
The NFL also doesn't have the same depth of potential players that the MLB can draw on from its farm system. There's the draft, and then there are slim pickings. |
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langleyparkjoe
**LPJ**
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:55 am Post subject: |
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| hey RIC, you jerk! |
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Redskin in Canada
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| langleyparkjoe wrote: | | hey RIC, you jerk! |
Luv ya brothaaaaaaa!!!!  |
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