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Moneyball is a totally different matter. Moneyball is simply saying the metrics used in the past were wrong. Let me ask you this. Who do you think would win
by kenjackson 12y ago
Moneyball is a totally different matter. Moneyball is simply saying the metrics used in the past were wrong.
Let me ask you this. Who do you think would win a chess match. The top 5 rated players in the world on one team, our five random adults chosen from the population who knows the game of chess?
Furthermore I'm dating their theory need not be tested with a poor computational model. You can easily test it with real people with problems to solve.
Lastly you add the caveat of "with no hard data". The paper makes the EXACT opposite claim, which is, if you HAVE hard data you should NOT pick the top performing individuals but rather sample randomly to create a team.