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Stumbling on Wins in Basketball: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports
Author: David J. Berri
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 137
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats. Why NFL general managers keep making so many mistakes: the shocking realities hidden in the statistics!How many wins a quarterback produces depends on two factors: his number of plays and per-play productivity. High draft position gets him on the field, but doesn't appear to say anything about how well he'll play. Per-play numbers reveal that players taken with picks 11-50 were more productive than those taken at the top; QBs taken from picks 51-90 were as productive as those in the top ten.
Stumbling on Wins
Author: David J. Berri
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780132357784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Don't they want to win? Every sports fan asks that question. And no wonder! Teams have an immense amount of detailed, quantifiable information to draw upon. They have powerful incentives for making good decisions. Everyone sees the results of their choices, and the consequences for failure are severe. And yet, they keep making the same mistakes over and over again - mistakes you'd think they'd learn how to avoid! Now, two leading sports economists reveal those mistakes in basketball, baseball, football, and hockey - and explain why sports decision-makers never seem to learn their lessons. You'll learn which statistics are linked to wins and which aren't and which statistics can predict the future and which can't (information that just might help you dominate your next fantasy league!) ... this book offers powerful new insights into all human decision-making.
Stumbling On Wins in Basketball
Author: David J. Berri
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 137
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats. In basketball, spending explains less than 10% of the variation in wins. Discover what explains the other 90%! In basketball, success takes more than money. From 1997-98 to 2003-04, the Knicks finished either first or second in p.
Stumbling On Wins in Basketball
Author: David Berri
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2010-04-08
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0132120984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the eBook version of the printed book. Like what you've read? Get more in Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats. In basketball, spending explains less than 10% of the variation in wins. Discover what explains the other 90%! In basketball, success takes more than money. From 1997-98 to 2003-04, the Knicks finished either first or second in payroll—and won only six more games than they lost. Their “averageness” led them to hire Isiah Thomas. Few people knew more about basketball. Thomas’s path to disaster began with his first move: sending several players and draft picks to the Suns for players, including Stephon Marbury.
Stumbling on Wins
Author: David J. Berri
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780133854374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wrong Numbers in Sports
Author: David Berri
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2010-03-31
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 0132089556
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats. Why sports decision-makers are wrong so often — and why they keep making the same mistakes, year after year. When Bill James introduced his findings on the importance of on-base percentage–and the unimportance of steals–decision-makers in baseball didn’t embrace his work. Their initial reaction fully reflects the lessons of behavioral economics: people have trouble accepting information that contradicts their viewpoints. The same story has been seen again and again across the North American professional sports world.
Knicks Don't Click
Author: Martin Schmidt
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 21
ISBN-13: 0131388541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats. Anatomy of a sports disaster: Isiah Thomas and the New York Knicks. Isiah Thomas’s tenure running the New York Knicks was not exactly successful. But that’s not the way it started. William Rhoden of The New York Times stated soon after the Knicks announced the hiring of Isiah: “If you love the Knicks and don’t like this move, you must be delirious. This was a great move.”
Wrong Numbers in Sports
Author: David J. Berri
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 5
ISBN-13: 9780132089548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Success Equation
Author: Michael J. Mauboussin
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1422184234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin offers the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck, offering concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage by making better decisions.
