Maximizing someone's expected utility automatically determines a player's most preferred option.
Instead, he determines a player's specifications and leaves it to the customers to decide on a brand.
The situation has raised questions about the roles a coach and a university play in determining a player's future.
That is truly murky territory -- when voters use their suspicions to determine a player's ultimate place in history.
By calculating speed, distance and the separation between players, SportsVU can tabulate the number of dribbles, touches and passes to determine a player's offensive efficiency.
There are factors other than skill and physical talent that determine a player's draft status that I'd rather not put into my analysis.
That would presumably take the responsibility for determining a player's fitness away from team personnel and place it with someone who does not have to answer to the head coach.
But as measured by FanGraphs' formula for determining a player's worth in dollars, Gomez's 2013 season has been worth $28.8 million and the contract extension does not even begin until 2014.
Fox's statistic applies this methodology to five subcategories — ground-ball outs, fly-ball outs, hits, stolen bases and other events such as passed balls and balks — and adds up the results to determine a player's overall contribution on the basepaths.
And yet they are not considered sufficiently important to determine a player's sporting nationality.
