Sentences with phrase «on sabermetrics»

Such decisions based on sabermetrics contributed to the Athletics» making it to the playoffs in 2002 and 2003.

They created statistics such as gERA, a measure of pitching effectiveness that they believe improves on the sabermetric mainstay FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) by taking into account different kinds of contact.

Not exact matches

Vargas believes sabermetrics will catch on in Cuba.

While the more serious - minded «Moneyball» focused on the true story of how sabermetrics changed the way baseball teams assess players, the fictional «Draft Day» ultimately is about the way in which character can prevail over combine figures during one of the biggest events on the National Football League's calendar.

So, on the advice of his nerdy, young assistant, Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an Ivy - educated economist he'd hired away from the Cleveland Indians, Beane began to employ a state - of - the - art system of computer analysis known as Sabermetrics.

Lewis» book burnishes a story that might have been dismissed as a formulaic underdog tale, like a high - toned Major League, and Beane's tortured route from big - league flameout as a player to sabermetric visionary as a general manager gives Pitt more to chew on than just tobacco.

Director Bennett Miller has already proven that he has the uncanny ability to spin exquisite, immersive, intelligent stories from material that on paper might not seem so appealing — we'll still never quite get to the bottom of why «Moneyball,» a film about baseball sabermetrics should be so rich and engaging.

They may have some information, based on observation and one or two spreadsheets about their own store's performance; but when it comes to what other stores are doing, what is new in the marketplace, and trends from quarter to quarter or year to year, they are operating without the equivalent of baseball's sabermetrics.

And firms, particularly in recent years following the popular success of Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game, Michael Lewis's book on the use of sabermetrics in US Major League baseball, have tracked how successful (or otherwise) their graduate recruitment policies and practices have been in hiring the best performing associates and, indeed, future partners.