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Originally Posted by rimon88
"MoneyBall" concept is the maximisizing the use of resources (that will be the talent scouting and the financing) to play the 'odds' in your favaour to solve a puzzle.
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that is all well and good but too general as far as we are concerned. unless we get to know what are the actual parameters used and if the cricketing parallels are relevant or not it's all mumbo-jumbo to us, the latest fashionable fad if you will.
pardon me if I'm not overtly willing to fall for the latest management magic word.
after all, the devil lies in the details.
another thing we should keep in mind, it's not that the conventional wisdom in choosing future talent doesn't work, big budget teams that still follow the old ways are not doing too badly are they ?
only downside is that they will create a larger pool of not so good players but perhaps that is not such a bad idea for a nation !!
think for a moment what would happen if all baseball clubs went the minimalist way in order to conserve resources, the result would be a massive shrinkage in junior level players, would that be really good for the sport as a whole ?!
US can afford to go this way in baseball only as long as they don't have to play a powerful foreign team in that !