JACKSONVILLE - Wharton Business Radio consistently has great, relevant content regarding the "data analytics" revolution, which makes sense, they are an Ivy League school.
It puts the "Moneyball Revolution" in proper context and where it should be IMO, less about re-inventing, re-tooling and re-configuring the game ( and I agree with MadBum's recent comments re: this issue, "too may changes" to the game ) and more about just good, old-fashioned decision making within a business context.
If you change the fabric of the game too much, you lose much more than you gain. Introducing a "shot-clock" to a game that has historically been promoted as charming due to the fact that it is not chained to a clock is IMO, the last shoe to drop. Then we'll see what happens.
MLB had better be dang sure that the number of millennials or other previously disinterested fans gained outnumbers the number of so-called "purists" lost. Put that in your risk-return analysis pipe and smoke it.
Listen to Smart Baseball: Discussion on New Stats v Old Stats from Wharton Business Radio Highlights in Podcasts.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wharton-business-radio-highlights/id1147257638?mt=2&i=1000411580568
Baseball clubs now rely less on subjective scouting reports in hiring players, using data to tell an accurate picture of player performance, past performance and future performance, preventing costly hires. Senior baseball ESPN writer, Keith Law, joins host Dan Loney to discuss how the analytic revolution in baseball is here to stay as outlined in his book "Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats that Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones that are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball" on Knowledge@Wharton.
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