Manager Efficiency Archives

Recently, on the NBA Network, I caught the tail end of a conversation between Kenny Smith and another announcer about

As a young sports fan, I came of age watching but not liking UCLA basketball in the late 1960s and

Ran across a recent piece on the evolution of Jason Garrett’s playing calling by Jonathan Bales of DC Times (an

Game 1 of the ALCS between the Tigers and Yankees once again spotlighted the flaws in the use of MLB

Two years ago, I dissed the hiring of Gene Chizik by Auburn. I didn’t predict failure but highlighted how poorly

“When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks, subordinates have an incentive to

Related to the prior post on managerial decision making, Jim Harbaugh has finally won over almost all his critics for

Most U.S. sports fans don’t know who Sir Alex Ferguson is much less his accomplishments as manager of the most

On CollegeFootball Talk/NBC Sports, Keith Arnold makes a funny observation: If the goal of hiring a Carroll disciple was the

As WKU recently endured a humiliating home beatdown by Louisville, my thoughts turned to one of the assistant coaches on

Ryan Jazayerli at Grantland offers a thorough and insightful survey of the demise of the Astros in “Rock Bottom in

In 1968, Gates Brown hit .450 as a pinch hitter and .370 in total with an OPS of 1.12. Yet,