11-04-2015, 02:39 PM
Quote:Believe this year's experience with Maddon may be glossing over studies which state that the managers impact on a team's wins appears to be minimal so why waste the cash.
Can understand the approach - if you are already spending over $100 MM on payroll what's another $3-4 MM on a manager but if payroll is limited, why waste the cash on something that doesn't appear to make much of difference.
The fact that data and its analysis can't see the value of manager may be a fault in the data (super small sample sizes for one) or the analysis. Just because something is un-measurable doesn't mean it is unimportant. I agree with you and Butch that Maddon, here, is a one-off (see ssss above) and each manager roster-pairing makes each one (and even each year) unique. That makes the right one invaluable.
I am comfortable, even if I am in a minority, in thinking that a manager can be vital. I think I started feeling this way when I realized that I am more like the managers than the players (age for one), so there is probably something psychologically self-serving in my belief, too.