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    Oakland has a high crime rate and it all evolves around gangs. Gangs are the major thing in Oakland‚ they are the ones to sale drugs‚ guns and are also the ones who are committing all kinds of crimes such as robbery and murders. In order to stop all of this there’s a lot to be done and it will need help from everyone in order to be able to make a difference. Making a positive change is always good‚ specially when it comes to bringing safety to people’s lives. Gang activity is found all over Oakland

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    of law. And if anything in this post offends anyone I apologize in advance. I only want all to be able to have a visual experience to understand what Oakland is like and how it plays a role in one’s life. Having moved here from California a little more than year ago and working with youth (youth is defined 13-24 in the field I was in) in Oakland‚ this case really hit close to home. I have very strong feels about this particular incident and find it very hard to take an open minded approach. Never

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    Moneyball Movie Analysis

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    Relationship to Statistics Statistics is “the science of collecting‚ organizing‚ analyzing‚ interpreting‚ and presenting data.” – D.P. Doane & L.E. Seward. In the movie Moneyball‚ the influence of statistics is clearly demonstrated in the story of the Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane when he drove his team to great heights by beating all odds in spite of the great obstacles they encounter. A game of baseball consists of two teams. For a team to win‚ they must make more home runs in their

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    The 2003 sports novel “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis‚ is the true story of Oakland Athletics‚ an American professional baseball team‚ as they try to build a competitive team with a limited financial budget. The General Manager of the Oakland Athletics‚ Billy Beane‚ realizes that his team can never compete in free agency against teams with twice as large budgets and begins to implement a sabermetric approach. Sabermetrics is identifying and exploiting market inefficiencies

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    Moneyball

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    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

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    Sabermetrics In Baseball

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    Luck is known for being heavily involved with America’s pastime‚ but the way the game is being recently evolved is challenging whether that theory is really true. In the last couple of decades‚ advanced statistics‚ also known as sabermetrics‚ are gaining traction and importance in the game of baseball. Sabermetrics have boomed‚ in the recent era allowing teams to calculate more situations. However‚ if they are taken out of context‚ these complicated measurements can lead to confusion and the misleading

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    and why the Oakland A’s economic situation after 1995 shaped its: a) Compensation Strategies In the world of major league baseball‚ Oaklands A’s defied the laws of baseball economics. The team spent only $34 million (the 2nd lowest payroll) had won 102 games and lost only 60 in 2001. On top of this‚ they finished first in their division and made the playoffs. Major baseball teams would hire high school players than college players. This made high school players costly. Oaklands A’s strategy

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    Moneyball Review

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    Moneyball Executive Summary The film Moneyball is about a General Manager for the Oakland Athletics‚ Billy Beane‚ who faces the problem of finding a way to compete against large market teams that have a bunch of money to spend on high caliber players. Due to the Oakland Athletics being a small market team‚ they are unable to keep up with large market teams that use their money to sign these all-star quality players. Billy Beane hired Peter Brand from the Cleveland Indians and used his brilliant

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    Bay Area Meteorologist

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    Francisco Bay Area‚ also known as the Bay Area‚ is a vastly populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California‚ United States (wiki). The region hosts the major cities and metropolitan areas of San Francisco‚ Oakland‚ and San Jose‚ along with smaller urban and rural areas The San Francisco Bay Area offers a significant variety of microclimates because the hills‚ mountains‚ and large bodies of water produce such vast geographic diversity within this region. The

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    however a sole experience arises and stands out from the rest. All through my adventurous life I have been blessed to travel and perceive stunning scenery‚ thus creating unforgettable experiences‚ but not one compares to my breathtaking visit to the Oakland Athletics stadium. That episode of my life is imprinted into my brain‚ furthermore divided into three sections. Starting off with my arrival to the grandiose stadium‚ followed by exploration of such‚ and topped off with unprecedented events unfolding

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