
Moneyball or Moneyhire:
Hire on Intelligence
I recently saw the movie Moneyball, in which Brad Pitt plays Oakland Athletic’s GM Billie Bean who pulled together a competitive MLB team on a shoe string budget in 2002. Billie found a statistics wiz-kid who helped him identify the undervalued KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to look for in ball players.
With this approach, Billie was able to pickup overlooked players for a song, who could make strong contributions to the team.
