...inside, outside. The coach must make the decision of which players to play on certain nights and whether or not to take a pitcher out of the game. I think baseball has the most decisions to be made out of all the “big four” sports. Most decisions in baseball are structured problems, they are easily definable. If a slugger keeps hitting the fastball, it’s time to make the decision of pitching him curveballs away from his hotspot in the strike zone. There is a standardized way of handling almost every type of player and situation. Granted, there may be certain decisions that are unstructured problems and are not faced everyday by the manager such as a star player going down with an injury. The manager must make the decision of how to fill the void left by the injury. If you believe in it, luck can be an unstructured problem as well. In baseball all decision makers are faced with either risk or uncertainty. I don’t believe there is any certainty in any sport. Even the best pitchers have games where they falter so nothing is to be expected. To be the best manger you can be in baseball you have to have as much risk as you can and as little uncertainty as possible. Knowing you will never have total certainty you have to make the most accurate decision you can and it seems now the more stats you put into making your decision the better off you are going to be. 2. If you have results to back up your decisions and statistics then I absolutely think it is appropriate to evaluate players...
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...Case Executive Summary Learning Team A Johnny Reed - Problem Statement & Analysis Sophia Myron - Hypothesis & Hyperlinks Ron Hunter - Limitations/Assumptions & Advantages of Statistical Analysis Justin Hartman - Graph & Workplace Examples Austin Rentsch - Conclusion & Recommendation Research and Evaluation II (RES/342) University of Phoenix August 10, 2009 . Problem Statement In business, the ultimate goal for most companies is to make a profit. In order to achieve profits, companies need people. With the world being full of varying and competitive candidates to fill positions, companies need to approach their desired staffing core with a cost benefit mindset. Although some consider baseball just a sport, baseball is also a business. Considering baseball as a business and considering that major league baseball has 30 teams, formulating a cohesive team that can produce the most wins and conduct a successful season is a goal that can mean profits for the team owners. Based on the data set provided, 53% of the teams spent less than the league’s salary means and had equal to or more than the league’s wins and losses mean. At the .05 level of significance, is it conclusive that 53% of the baseball teams that spent less than the salary means did in fact, have more wins...
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...might disagree, but at the end of the day everyone will have their own opinion of who is better than whom. Lebron James and Michael Jordan do have many things in common even though they play different positions in the national basketball association. They both can dominate the court with their leadership, their skills, and their strength. Surprisingly, there are just as many differences as there are similarities between the legend and the soon to be if all goes well. The differences that set them apart from each other are their statistical analysis, NBA achievements, and their history with the NBA finals. The NBA has changed over the years and over those years many of basketball players have been compared to well-known basketball stars but they have never been put on a pedestal to where they’re are better than legends until now. Although Lebron James is a well –respected basketball player, he is not a better basketball player than Michael Jordan. Lebron James is no doubt a better rebounder and passer, but if you see Jordan’s stats, you will see that he is a better scorer and shooter. Lebron’s first seven season he accumulated a 27.8 point per game average along with seven rebounds per game, and seven assists per game. Michael’s first seven seasons as a pro, he averaged 31.1 points per game along with 6.2 rebounds and 6.1 assists. Again you have to know that they played totally different positions with Lebron being a small forward and Michael being a shooting guard. With that...
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...“5’s Cupcakes” Kimberly Grissom MKTG 522 Professor Mary Duboise March 16, 2014 1.0 Executive Summary 5’s Cupcakes will be the leading provider of egg-free cupcakes to the Shreveport-Bossier City area in Louisiana. It is owned by Jazmine Sims, a young stay-at-home mother. Having a young son, BJ, allergic to dairy products, Jazmine Sims has educated herself extensively on what can and cannot be provided to persons with dairy allergies. BJ, also known as 5 to family and friends, loves cupcakes and cakes. In order to be able to see her son enjoy what he loves, Jazmine began experimenting and has perfected her egg-free cupcakes. In order to serve the community best, 5’s Cupcakes will be located in Shreveport, LA. 2.0 Situation Analysis 5’s Cupcakes is in its first year of operation in the Shreveport, LA area. With not that many businesses offering dairy-free cupcakes, 5’s Cupcakes is able to meet an unmet need. The egg-free cupcakes are made without eggs and soy milk substituted for regular milk. With the cupcakes tasting like ordinary cupcakes, everyone is able to enjoy them. 2.1 Market Summary According to CNBC, “Growth within the cake decoration stores industry is expected to slow to 3.7 percent annually over the next five years” (http://www.cnbc.com/id/46752522). Initially, the percent of growth was expected to be 4.9 percent. Due to there being a low barrier to entry, the market has become extremely saturated with individual bakeries, chains, and grocery stores...
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...PRIORITY OBJECTIVES (These need to be more specific and challenging) ACTIVITIES (existing Star Alliance projects/input shown in heavy shade, potential role in light shade) TIMESCALE April 2003 May–Nov 2003 ACHIEVEMENTS BY DECEMBER All staff briefed and engaged in thinking through what Vision, Mission, Aims and Values mean for them, their work and their teams. As above and possible sample audit of PWPs/ PRPs and safety. Directorate and team operating plans which clearly reflect Vision, Mission, Aims etc. E.G. Top 55 managers have more focused personal development plans Clear statement of intelligence priorities. Better use of intranet. Knowledge sharing Strategic Plans, Operating Plans have clear strategic priorities. Provision made for linking PWPs and PDPs to priorities Acceptance that “health and safety is cornerstone”. Increase in businesses placing health and MEASURES OF ACHIEVEMENT/TARGETS Feedback from team briefing. Feedback from Values Workshops Staff Survey questions Audit of PWPSs/PRPs. Fit of plans with strategy. Recognition by stakeholders that HSE more focussed. Staff feedback on leadership behaviours Improved use of intelligence both strategically (eg re Strategic Plan) and tactically (eg in support of operational work). Resources allocated behind priorities. Visibly not doing non-priority work. All staff understand HSE’s Vision, Mission, Aims and Values by December 2003 All staff understand how they contribute to the realisation of the vision, mission, aims and...
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...Rockets) Oklahoma City Thunder player comments Houston Rockets team essay For the last two seasons, Basketball Prospectus has been at the cutting edge of the NBA's statistical revolution, exploring how teams win and why as well as integrating plenty of old-fashioned tape and first-hand observation to analyze players and teams. Now, we're following in the footsteps of our predecessors at Baseball Prospectus and our college counterparts by providing that same level of insight in book form. Pro Basketball Prospectus 2009-10 features: Essays on all 30 teams Five-year team trend tables Info-packed tables on every player who saw NBA action in 2008-09 or who can be expected to be seen in the upcoming season, including their advanced stats for the last three seasons, their skill ratings and their contract status Commentary on every player Team and player contract information and salary-cap analysis The results of Kevin Pelton's dynamic SCHOENE projection system, both for players and teams Exclusive quotes from key basketball-operations personnel Insight from blog authors on their teams A special section for fantasy leaguers, including an essay from veteran fantasy NBA writer Brian Doolittle as well as our unique player-rating system which utilizes SCHOENE's projections An essay explaining the microfracture procedure from Will Carroll, as well as essays on the NBA's economic future and how reinterpreting the rules on hand-checking has affected the...
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...The Al Gore Effect: An Inconvenient Truth and Voluntary Carbon Offsets∗ [Job Market Paper] Grant Jacobsen University of California-Santa Barbara 2120 North Hall University of California Santa Barbara, 93106-9210 jacobsen@econ.ucsb.edu Phone: (717) 315-5503 Fax: (805) 893-8830 I thank Matthew Kotchen, Robert Deacon, Olivier Deschenes, and Charles Kolstad for helpful comments. I also thank participants at a UCSB seminar, the Western Economics International Association’s Conference, and the University of Colorado Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop. ∗ 1 The Al Gore Effect: An Inconvenient Truth and Voluntary Carbon Offsets Abstract This paper examines the relationship between climate change awareness and household behavior by testing whether Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth caused an increase in the purchase of voluntary carbon offsets. I find that in the two months following the film’s release, zip codes within a 10-mile radius of a zip code where the film was shown experienced a 50 percent relative increase in the purchase of voluntary carbon offsets. During other times, offset purchasing patterns for zip codes inside the 10-mile radius were similar to the patterns of zip codes outside the 10-mile radius. There is, however, little evidence that individuals who purchased an offset due to the film renewed them again a year later. This research has implications for how information campaigns, which are commonly used by policy-makers to...
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...PARTIES | NUMBER | YSK | ECONOMICAL STATUS OF VOTERS | NUMBER | VOTERS | COLLEGE GRADUATES/ECONOMICAL RATIO | RATIO | MINISTARY OF EDUCATION | DEGREE RESTRICTIONS | DUMMY (1,0) | MINISTARY OF EDUCATION | As data, exact values that are collected from governmental data. Only one part of it is from Voters and they are used to reach unbiased and accurate results. Table 1 indicates that which data has get used in which unit of measurement and whats the source of it. To reach an econometrical result, rate of parties has used as dependent variable. Economical status of voters, College graduates/economical ratios and age restriction is additional control variables. Research is more appropriate to be categorized under cross section data analysis in terms of data belongs in different zones of Turkey. Number of political parties filed and announced by YSK that are reported by in charge people. Economical status of voters actually represent the citizens of Turkey and their economical status. Ministay of education meausures College graduates/economical ratio. Finally as dummy variable there is a degree restriction which is different than college graduates. In that term, it indicates wheather he/she has gone to...
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...ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS. INDEX: - Introduction..................................................................................3 -Background....................................................................................8 -Empirical Analysis.........................................................................9 -Conclusion.....................................................................................31 -Bibliography..................................................................................31 * INTRODUCTION: For many years it has tried to explain and predict economic phenomena. In the present work we destructive her to perform an econometric study of the function of the number of travelers who occupy tourist accommodation in Andalusia. The data required for such analysis have been collected from the database of the Institute of statistics and cartography of Andalusia, for easy access through the official website (http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/institutodeestadisticaycartografia/index.html). The National Statistical Institute(NSI) sends every month to the Institute of statistics of Andalusia provisional results which offers survey during the previous month in the eight Andalusian provinces. The survey is exhaustive in all provinces, except in some categories where sampling procedures are performed. The estimates are published disaggregated by categories up to the level that allows the maintenance of statistical confidentiality. The highest...
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...Factors Influencing Visitor's Choices to Visit Urban Destinations Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation Canadian Tourism Commission Canadian Heritage Parks Canada PREPARED BY: PREPARED FOR: Global Insight, Inc. June 2004 Table of Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................. 1 Highlights................................................................................................................................ 1 Study Summary........................................................................................................................ 1 Recommendations ................................................................................................................... 2 Next Steps................................................................................................................................ 3 II. III. IV. A. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 4 STUDY OBJECTIVE....................................................................................................... 4 METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................... 5 LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................................................... 6 Introduction............................................
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...at: www.cognizant.com. World Headquarters 500 Frank W. Burr Blvd. Teaneck, NJ 07666 USA Phone: +1 201 801 0233 Fax: +1 201 801 0243 Toll Free: +1 888 937 3277 Email: inquiry@cognizant.com European Headquarters Haymarket House 28-29 Haymarket London SW1Y 4SP UK Phone: +44 (0) 20 7321 4888 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7321 4890 Email: infouk@cognizant.com India Operations Headquarters #5/535, Old Mahabalipuram Road Okkiyam Pettai, Thoraipakkam Chennai, 600 096 India Phone: +91 (0) 44 4209 6000 Fax: +91 (0) 44 4209 6060 Email: inquiryindia@cognizant.com © Copyright 2009, Cognizant. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the express written permission from Cognizant. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. All other trademarks mentioned herein are...
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...the tactic of your team and give the last directives. You can talk to the team before the match starts, at half time and at the end. During the match you can change the tactic if you wish and make substitutes just like a real match. You can even give touchline instructions to your players such as “retain possession” or “get the ball forward” and many others. Football Manager 2010 give you the opportunity to be a manager of a football club and to feel the pressure from the board and the fans and to manage the up and down of the players. Story The story of Football Manager 2010 is all the history of the professional football. It has history for all the teams, all the managers and all the players of the world. Lets take Lionel Messi for example. Full Name: Lionel Andres Messi Born: 24/6/1987 Place of birth: Rosario (Argentina) Lionel Messi is truly one of world football's global super stars. Having made his Argentina debut against Hungary in August 2005, Messi has gone on to 56 appearances and score 16 goals for his country. Lionel Messi began his career at F.C Barcelona in 2000/01 but failed to make a league appearance during his 2 years at the club. He joined...
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...Dr. Cale Final Project Part 2- Marketing Plan Introduction The Doggy Land Daycare marketing plan consist of all matters from pricing to implementation strategies. Utilizing a marketing dashboard will assist in understanding performances and assess the efficiency of a marketing plan. Budget estimates will include estimated forecasted sales, direct cost of sales and the marketing expense budget. I. Pricing Strategy Doggy Day Land will utilize premium pricing/differentiating strategy to encourage great perception to the buyers. This is because the buyers will regardless that the more the service cost the better the service is. Sometimes this is done to exploit the inclination for consumers to assume that having an expensive, reliable, desirable quality or distinction without justification. Even though when it comes to the consumer trusting someone to take care of their dog the way Doggy Day Land will do along with the extensive services provided will portray the true reputation Doggy Day Land intends to uphold (Bangs, 1998). II. Breakeven Analysis This analysis shows the number of units that need to be sold in order to show a zero profit. This tells you when the services you provide stop costing the company money and start producing a profit. The graph below will help in the understanding of the analysis(Kotler, 2011). Q = Break-even Point, i.e., Units of production (Q), FC = Fixed Costs, VC = Variable Costs per Unit UP = Unit...
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...Declaration | 5 | Objectives of study | 6 | Scope off project | 6 | Executive summary | 7-8 | Introduction | 9 | Vision & mission | 9 | Customer profile | 9 | Identification of personalities according to VALS 2 | 10 | Brand personality | 11 | PEST analysis | 12 | Market analysis summary | 13 | Market segmentation | 13 | Target market segmentation strategy | 14 | Competitive edge | 14 | Products and services | 15 | Marketing strategy | 16 | Brand anthromorphizm | 16 | Brand personification | 17-19 | Conclusion | 19 | Appendices | | Acknowledgements “It is a great pleasure to thank everyone who helped us to carry out this project successfully. First of all, we are truly indebted and thankful to ALLAH Almighty for giving us such extraordinary abilities and making us privileged enough to take part in such activity. Our all respects and regards to Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) for giving us the faith and leading us to the right path with the essence of faith in Allah. We would like to thank our Teachers who have always been a great inspiration for our team. They helped us to understand this topic and guided us in the best way. They provided us all possible assistance in order to tackle the hurdles. The co-operation of our teachers was great. Without their co-operation we were unable to do this project. Through the courtesy of the PROF. KASHIF MEHMOOD, we got this opportunity. It was very difficult to sum up but we...
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...Jovana H. Graham OBJECTIVE I am seeking an opportunity to utilize my medical, surgical, and organizational skills to effectively execute my responsibilities as a Surgical Technologist. With stellar stewardship, I will work earnestly with diligence proving that hard work and dedication foster a strong foundation in which to build success. 8 years of consistent service in the workplace and my education has prepared and qualified me to bring my best and be a valuable asset to your fine institution. QUALIFIATIONS I have gained knowledge coupled with speed and accuracy to provide the optimum in surgical and aseptic technique. Having the ability to work from both sides of the surgical field while maintaining a sterile environment reveals my surgical dexterity. Patient confidentiality, service excellence, and surgical prowess define me as a true medical/surgical professional. I have the aptitude to work well and closely with Surgeons, Nurses, Doctors, Anesthesiologists, and Patients. Adapting swiftly to change, working well under pressure, and being a team player while maintaining personal accountability makes me the prime candidate for this position. SKILLS * Anatomy and Physiology * Aseptic Technique * Surgical Instruments and Equipment * Decontamination and Sterilization * Surgical Counts * Intraoperative Pharmacology EMPLOYMENT Riddle Hospital - Media,PA 11/01/2011-11/20/2012 : Surgical Tech General Surgery * Plastic and Reconstructive...
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