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Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a way to make more consistently better decisions? That's very similar. - Paul DePodesta
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Baseball ultimately is a drama without a script. It's the original reality TV. - Paul DePodesta
#Baseball
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The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability. - Paul DePodesta
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#Playground
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#World
I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach. - Paul DePodesta
#Coach
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Analytics is not about sitting behind a computer and pushing enter and having it produce an answer. - Paul DePodesta
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Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys. - Paul DePodesta
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In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better decisions. - Paul DePodesta
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#Data
#People
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If you have to remind people you're the boss, I don't think you're going to be a very effective leader. - Paul DePodesta
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The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had to figure out a way of cobbling together players into a team that might be competitive. - Paul DePodesta
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That's sort of my mindset, more than anything else, whenever I get into anything new. I'm in this constant pursuit for new knowledge. I think I sometimes focus more on all the things that I don't know and what I'm trying to figure out. - Paul DePodesta
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#Sometimes
#Trying
There probably isn't another position in all of team sports that I can think of that has the same level of import as the quarterback. - Paul DePodesta
#I Can
#Position
#Quarterback
#Sports
A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message. - Paul DePodesta
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#Everyone
#Important
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It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it. - Paul DePodesta
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#One Thing
#People
#Rally
#Vision
There are certain times when you see a guy, and you say, 'He's a big-leaguer.' - Paul DePodesta
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#He
#Say
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Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances. - Paul DePodesta
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