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Abstract
Oaklands As has a secret success story related to their most consecutive win in Baseball History. Michael Lewis owned a team with low budget of 38 Million Dollars and with poor management of team. General Manager Billy Beane with a high vision used statistical analysis along with Economist Peter Brand which lead them to win 20 Games back to back without spending huge amount of money behind players. Oakland As selected the best player according to the statistics of player with keeping high base percentage value .Oaklands As with this statistical technique created history with most back to back win in baseball.
Challenges for Oaklands As
Oaklands As were in the hands of General Manager Billy Bean and they were losing the matches at home in the best of five series because of low budget to the highest budget team of 120 Million dollars Yankees. Oaklands As lost all the best player because of the low pay roll to high pay roll team such as Yankees and Red Sox. Oakland As faced a big challenge when the were losing their top player Giambie and Jhonny Damon by 8 million dollars.
Oakland As did not have pitcher who can take up to the mark of winning the matches. Oakland As had problem in understanding their player capabilities and always lead to trade their good player in the hunt of win. Oakland As spending a money on unnecessary player which valued less then what they were getting as pay roll.
Oakland As always used quirky reason to take a player out from a team or trade them off Poor Management of the team also lead to failure to win the matches because they tried to get player regarding their social life. No statistical data was used by the team management to know proper form of a existing or trading player which lead them to lose matches.
How Oakland As had overcome challenges
General Manager Billy Beane used sabermetrics which was developed by James which changed the fortune of Oakland As. Billy Beane meeting up with the Peter Brand who was working for Cleveland Indians who was economist which helped Billy Beane to understand proper statistics of player.
Peter Brand Evaluated using 2000 player which helped Oakland As to select their top 25 player with low pay roll. After selecting player, they were still doing statistical analysis for trading of the existing player.
Oakland As selected a player with high on base percentage and low budget using Peter Brand mathematics and program. Oakland As selected 4 players which replaced Giambi, Isringhausen and Damon using on base value they were Jeremy, David Justice, Scott Hatterberg, Chad Bradford. As Oakland As faced problem of pitcher Chad Bradford was great finding who had unusual action which lead problem to batter to hit.
Oakland As major replacement did not work at the start which lead them to lose the matches which kept them at bottom of the table.
Outcome of Analytics
Analytics helped Oakland As to select top 25 player which would get fit into their low budget and get them a win. Oakland As made a change in their team using statistical analysis which lead them to win 7 in a row back to back series win in Boston and New York in Mid of June 2002. Oakland As wins made them to be ranked number one in the table.
Oakland As further replaced Pane and Jeremy based on recent analytics with Ricardo Rincon and Mabry to win further matches. Oakland As replacement helped them to win straight win 17 games which created history after 1953 as they were unstoppable to win further matches. On September 2004, created history of longest consecutive wins of 20 games when Hatterberg hits a home run which was almost took 103 years. 20th Consecutive game also made them to stand for elimination match, but statistical analysis did not played role in 2002 ALDS game which was elimination in which they lost as match against Minnesota Twins.
Reference
- Sony Picture Entertainment (Firm) 2012
- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/09/the-many-problems-with-moneyball/245769/
- https://www.mx3metrics.com/blog/2016/3/14/moneyball-overcoming-resistance
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