Pitchers and Catchers and Fundraisers: Why Nonprofits Don't Really Play Moneyball - Forbes

Pitchers and Catchers and Fundraisers: Why Nonprofits Don't Really Play Moneyball - Forbes: But as someone who is always poking around the nonprofit sector looking for a new trend or a new measurement, I’m struck this week by the massive gap between, say, baseball data and philanthropy data. Baseball data is rich: every player’s appearance since turning professional is recorded and tracked. There are all sorts of new, modern statistical indexes to measure performance that now supplement batting average and runs batted in. Any fan can sift the data endlessly because you basically have the same dataset as the professionals do. Any fan can play Moneyball. If there’s a golden age of baseball statistics, this is it.