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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Introduction - Chapter 2))
Objective
The objective of this lesson is for students to analyze Daryl Morey's approach to picking new players for the Houston Rockets basketball team, for which he is the general manager. Morey follows the statistics-based methods of picking players that was popularized by the Oakland Athletics baseball team in the early 2000s and explained in one of Lewis's previous books, Moneyball. But Morey encountered resistance from basketball experts who were skeptical that algorithms and other mathematical models could pick players better than they could with their experience and gut instincts.
Lesson
Class Discussion: How would you explain Daryl Morey's approach to picking players for the basketball team he manages, the Houston Rockets? What was different about his model as compared to the way most other teams picked their players? What were some of the negative reactions to his method based on? When did people begin responding more...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1(e), 9-10.5, 9-10.9, 11-12.1(e), 11-12.5, 11-12.9
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