2012-04-17, 11:27 PM
With respect to the reliance on sabermetrics, people were getting to know what was up. Boston Red Sox's assistant GM Theo Epstein had Billy Beane on his radar since he began employing the statistical criteria. The book could have served as a small time catalyst, but we're talking about a couple of months to a year before people wised up.
People are without a doubt stupid when it comes to certain things, but they are not that stupid. To take an example I noticed, when laptops were transitioning from 2 gig RAM to 4 gig RAM by HP and most other distributors in retail stores, the distributors continued running Windows Vista OS 32 bit which clipped off RAM usage at 3.6 gig RAM which meant that laptops essentially wasted .4 gig RAM. So it was stupid. People were buying excessive RAM that wouldn't be used because their OS limited them. However, market forces eventually rectified this blunder as Windows 7 32 bit raised the benchmark yet again for how much RAM the software could use effectively.
People are stupid. But people aren't that stupid. Especially people who want to win. There is a limit to how stupid they can be and still keep their jobs.
People are without a doubt stupid when it comes to certain things, but they are not that stupid. To take an example I noticed, when laptops were transitioning from 2 gig RAM to 4 gig RAM by HP and most other distributors in retail stores, the distributors continued running Windows Vista OS 32 bit which clipped off RAM usage at 3.6 gig RAM which meant that laptops essentially wasted .4 gig RAM. So it was stupid. People were buying excessive RAM that wouldn't be used because their OS limited them. However, market forces eventually rectified this blunder as Windows 7 32 bit raised the benchmark yet again for how much RAM the software could use effectively.
People are stupid. But people aren't that stupid. Especially people who want to win. There is a limit to how stupid they can be and still keep their jobs.