Smart Decisions are Data Driven

Baseball’s overwhelming reporting of thousands of team and player statistics continues to amaze me.  Does all this data really matter and make a player or a team more productive? With baseball season in full swing, I was able to catch a recent game and I watched the scoreboard flash number after number.  It seems every year there are new ways to measure success.   The MLB acknowledges this change in an article on their website; “The entire language of evaluating player success has indeed changed, from batting average and RBIs to newer-age statistics like Weighted On-base Average.   While these metrics can sound like a mouthful to the casual fan, they’re simply the next step in evaluating which players help a team accrue the most wins and avoid the most losses”. As I think about the Buy Here Pay Here industry, I recall listening to a speaker years ago about a philosophy known as the balanced scorecard.  I liked the concept and have implemented components here at SDA with great success. Read More...