Can fans collectively manage a baseball team? Well, one of Bill Veeck's old teams went through this briefly, but the new experiment, involving an independent league baseball team, is going to have fans collectively managing a team for the second half of the season.
Interesting...
In other baseball news, the Dodgers recently put Eric Gagné back on the Disabled List. Also, if the Diamondbacks lose today, we'll be back in first place by ourselves.
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How does one manage by committee, exactly? I suppose I should read the link, but I'm reading this right before going to bed, and am just about outta steam...
The chief worry that comes up is something that I've seen before--taking the "average" of a bunch of different strategies is often a very poor approach. Much like when we're tossing the frisbee around--it's never good when someone says, "uh, I was throwing it at ya'll's average!"
I think it's going to be majority vote (with lots and lots of decisions phrased as yes/no decision problems), which we know has worked extremely well in US elections.
Also, there are certain provisions banning ridiculous things like bringing the mascot in to pitch. (Maybe instructing the pitcher to hit the mascot with a pitch will be allowed?)
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