Moneyball
yballThaddeus Johnson
Miss Maino
Comp and Crit
Paper 4, Draft 2
Moneyball Is A Business Baseball has always been an old fashion type of game. Of course it is America’s past-time, but in Moneyball, the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics Billy Beane and his assistant Peter Brand reinvent the game of baseball by using a statistical formula to rate players. The Oakland Athletics was the first franchise to apply Moneyball to the Major Leagues. Billy Beane did this because his team is a small market franchise, which means that they do not bring in as much revenue and TV ratings as other franchises. These small market teams have to rely on the draft and developing players, while the big market teams go out during free agency and sign big name players who are already established at the Major League level. The theme of Moneyball is changing the game of baseball by giving small market teams a way to compete with the big market teams because professional baseball is a business. Billy Beane wants to win a World Series just like any other General Manager in baseball, but what he wanted to accomplish by using the Moneyball philosophy was changing the game and creating a new system to build a franchise that allows small market teams to be able to find good players and to be able to stay within the teams budget. Moneyball is a business move for a franchise because each franchise wants to win, but also make money because baseball is a business and this helps organizations save money. Franchise owners are in professional sports to make money, but also have a winning team. Moneyball helps the owners save money, while making the fans happy. Moneyball is a statistical formula that generates the amount of runs a team needs to score over the course of a season to make the playoffs. There are a lot of stats involved in this process, but by using a computer to scout players, this illuminates the human aspect of scouting. Scouts sometimes can be bias and like players because
Miss Maino
Comp and Crit
Paper 4, Draft 2
Moneyball Is A Business Baseball has always been an old fashion type of game. Of course it is America’s past-time, but in Moneyball, the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics Billy Beane and his assistant Peter Brand reinvent the game of baseball by using a statistical formula to rate players. The Oakland Athletics was the first franchise to apply Moneyball to the Major Leagues. Billy Beane did this because his team is a small market franchise, which means that they do not bring in as much revenue and TV ratings as other franchises. These small market teams have to rely on the draft and developing players, while the big market teams go out during free agency and sign big name players who are already established at the Major League level. The theme of Moneyball is changing the game of baseball by giving small market teams a way to compete with the big market teams because professional baseball is a business. Billy Beane wants to win a World Series just like any other General Manager in baseball, but what he wanted to accomplish by using the Moneyball philosophy was changing the game and creating a new system to build a franchise that allows small market teams to be able to find good players and to be able to stay within the teams budget. Moneyball is a business move for a franchise because each franchise wants to win, but also make money because baseball is a business and this helps organizations save money. Franchise owners are in professional sports to make money, but also have a winning team. Moneyball helps the owners save money, while making the fans happy. Moneyball is a statistical formula that generates the amount of runs a team needs to score over the course of a season to make the playoffs. There are a lot of stats involved in this process, but by using a computer to scout players, this illuminates the human aspect of scouting. Scouts sometimes can be bias and like players because