Billy Beane's Determination Of Power In Sports

Billy Beane had made his decision to base his drafting of position of players hitting on certain statistics. The two that he had decided were important were the on base percentage and slugging percentage. Together those form on base slugging. Billy Beane didn’t place any type of emphasis on power. Whereas before power was a main focus point. Although Mr. Beane thought that power could be developed. A player had the ability to develop and gain power, but the ability to master patience at the plate and to get on base could not. The importance of patience at the plate in turn results to how often that player was able to get on base.

Since sports in general have moved towards the direction of an analytical approach it has benefited and lead to more wins. Now teams with much larger budgets are obviously using all the data they can get their hands on where teams with much smaller budgets may not have access or the ability to. Although in baseball there are three main resources that a team would need in order to create a
Those are: physical capital resources, human capital resources, and organizational capital resources. Physical capital being the technology used for the baseball department and the geographic location