Tigers pin hopes on Moneyball buys (David King in Herald-Sun)

[Mr Magic]

Yeah Nah

[Rampstar]

Moneyball doesnt work

[Judge Roughneck]

Hawthorn?

[jezza]

Hawthorn?

Read the article. Hawthorn have taken the strategy of trading high picks for gun players. It's not "moneyball".

[Penelope]

my guess is most people have little or no understanding of what moneyball actually is

[Willy]

Yes it seems Hawthorn have taken the strategy of 'being a good club', whereas we have gone down the 'lets continue to wallow in poo' path. Be interesting to see who wins out.

[Willy]

Here's Hartley implementing his moneyball strategy last trade period.
Always hard for him to contain his excitement at that time of the year.

[tigs2011]

Yes it seems Hawthorn have taken the strategy of 'being a good club', whereas we have gone down the 'lets continue to wallow in poo' path. Be interesting to see who wins out.

[Diocletian]

Hawthorn?

Are you autistic?

my guess is most people have little or no understanding of what moneyball actually is

An irrelevent seppo concept that was applied to the non-conact sport of Baseball in a league with no salary cap by a team that's still yet to actually win anything from it and adapted to the full-body contact sport of Australian Rules Football in a league with a salary cap by a team that's still yet to win anything from it and now looks to be going backwards largely due to it.

[Penelope]

on that i rest my case

[Diocletian]

on that i rest my case

You need to actually have one first.

[Muscles]

Moneyball doesnt work

It kinda works in baseball.  It gets teams to the playoffs and increases revenues from games, but it's questionable whether it can deliver championships.

As a drafting strategy, out of the A's top 20 picks in the 2002 draft, there are only 3 players who had successful careers - Nick Swisher, Joe Blanton and John Baker.

That's a 15% success rate.

[Penelope]

on that i rest my case

You need to actually have one first.

oh?
you're saying that most people actually do understand moneyball? - it's underlying principle, how and why it came about, why it was actually sucessfull for the Athletics (in that they outperformed many clubs with a bigger budget, but ultimately couldnt compete with those that had basically endless money pits) and what aspects may or may not be relevant to AFL?

do tell........

[Rampstar]

Moneyball is no good for clubs in AFL Footy and its also for clubs who want to be stingy with money so they go and get average C grade players on cheap salaries and at a cheap cost and hope for the best. Richmonds next Premiership will be 174 years away at this rate. Its a stuffen joke. The supporters and sponsors plough $50 million a year into the club and all we get is crap in return.

[Penelope]

exhibit b