Fantasy Baseball and Strategic Analysis Skills: Taking the High Road

I teach a capstone marketing course which includes a fairly sophisticated simulation, but I have noticed that one of the greatest difficulties for students is the analysis of situations. I'm not talking about the utilization of rigorous statistical techniques, but rather the ability to conceptualize and frame problems and approaches to analysis. Since this is a blog and not a lecture, I won't go into a lengthy discourse on the desired learning outcomes or the principles underlying "high road transfers" in the melding of creative and analytical skills. Rather, I've attached an edited version of the powerpoints illustrating fundamental baseball analysis, using what I interpret to be sabermetric principles (which may be flawed, for all I know, for while I know a bit about baseball, I have not studied sabermetrics, and put this stuff together in a few hours. An article by Christopher Liss of RotoWire.com got me thinking about this and was helpful.). These principles form basic premises for the analysis of a fantasy baseball league, which has some unique settings relative to standard 5x5 rotisserie leagues. The application of these principles culminates in models framing the analysis of value evaluation of hitters and pitchers for this league, and have implications for the development of metrics to implement the evaluation. I have not included the metrics (which would provide model values) here, and am hoping students will be able to develop strategies for developing such metrics.

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