Comments on: Evaluating Human Capital Investments Through the Prism of Baseball http://billpetti.com/2009/10/25/evaluating-human-capital-investments-through-the-prism-of-baseball/ Trying to separate the signal from the noise, one post at a time. Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:49:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Most Viewed Posts: November 2010 « Signal/Noise http://billpetti.com/2009/10/25/evaluating-human-capital-investments-through-the-prism-of-baseball/#comment-8132 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:21:35 +0000 http://billpetti.com/?p=858#comment-8132 [...] Frequently Viewed Posts Visualizing my Social NetworkVisualizing the 2011 US BudgetPredicting flu outbreaks, fashion trends, and political unrest with social networksCounter-signaling in the Luxury Brand Market: Snookie editionHigher Education ROI: How good was your investment?"Statistics is the New Grammar"Evaluating Human Capital Investments Through the Prism of Baseball [...]

]]> By: pierre http://billpetti.com/2009/10/25/evaluating-human-capital-investments-through-the-prism-of-baseball/#comment-281 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:21:55 +0000 http://billpetti.com/?p=858#comment-281 Hey i hope you will post this as it is about BASEBALL and Money….

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]]> By: Mark http://billpetti.com/2009/10/25/evaluating-human-capital-investments-through-the-prism-of-baseball/#comment-159 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:59:18 +0000 http://billpetti.com/?p=858#comment-159 Bill — Very good piece. I agree completely with your analysis. As much as I, like most baseball fans, like to opine that certain players are extra special in the clutch, it usually comes down to our memories of how a player performed in that “big” game that we watched at some point. Yet, Rodriguez was 0 for 20 with runners in scoring position in the postseason from 2005-2007, while this year he is 7 for 17. He is certainly far more clutch this year than years past (at least in the post-season). Did he make adjustments? Was he putting too much pressure on himself the last three years? Or was it a statistical aberration that is finally being corrected to reflect his true talents?

The only thing I would say with respect to applying your analysis to business is that, sometimes a company needs to provide an opportunity to certain employees before they can judge how clutch (or valuable) that employee really is. As with baseball, you need to judge employees over the course of time so that you have an accurate statistical sampling of performance.

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