The Oakland A's Used New Metrics to Assess Player Potential

question 56

Multiple Choice

The Oakland A's used new metrics to assess player potential.This gave them an ability to do what?

• A) Use their high-salary athletes to their best advantage
• B) Publish new metrics in the Oakland Tribune newspaper
• C) Launch a new advertising campaign for season tickets
• D) Field low-cost teams that were still competitive

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Definitions:

Analytical Intelligence

The capacity to assess, critique, differentiate, and compare data.

Practical Intelligence

A type of intelligence related to the ability to solve everyday problems by utilizing knowledge gained from experience in contrast to theoretical or academic knowledge.

Intrapersonal

Relating to or within a person's own mind or self.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles of a data set, representing the middle 50%.