If you’ve ever watched the movie Moneyball, or read the book
off of which it was based, you’ll know that the narrative goes something like
this: everything we thought we knew about the game of baseball might be, at
worst, just dead wrong, or, if we’re lucky, a little off. Either way, we’re
wrong. The solution, of course, is to merely focus on great analytics and
question the way things have been done. Problem solved, unbelievers be damned.
Well, a quartet of Washington State University students, led
by team leader and sport management student Dante Ludlow, is soon taking their
analytic prowess to a conference in Phoenix… a conference meant specifically
for baseball analytics. While there, they’ll take part in a competition in
front of baseball executives, with a dream of perhaps catching a few eyes and,
even better, job offers.
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