Comments on: Direct Marketing Is Like Baseball http://www.earlytorise.com/2008/06/05/direct-marketing-is-like-baseball.html The Web's Most Popular Newsletter Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:45:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: joy http://www.earlytorise.com/2008/06/05/direct-marketing-is-like-baseball.html/comment-page-1#comment-813 joy Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:23:59 +0000 http://www.earlytorise.com/2008/06/05/direct-marketing-is-like-baseball.html#comment-813 i agree with maurice or is there another way to look at your analysis of the above mentioned baseball game? i agree with maurice or is there another way to look at your analysis of the above mentioned baseball game?

]]> By: Maurice Shapiro http://www.earlytorise.com/2008/06/05/direct-marketing-is-like-baseball.html/comment-page-1#comment-521 Maurice Shapiro Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:09:52 +0000 http://www.earlytorise.com/2008/06/05/direct-marketing-is-like-baseball.html#comment-521 Hi Bob, I find your arithmetic appalling. If you have 23 wins and 14 losses it means you played 23+14= 37 Games. Therefore your percentage of wins is 23/37 = 62%. So “the best-performing team in professional baseball DOESN’T loses six out of every 10 games it plays". It loses four out of every 10 games. Regards, Maurice Hi Bob,
I find your arithmetic appalling. If you have 23 wins and 14 losses it means you played 23+14= 37 Games. Therefore your percentage of wins is 23/37 = 62%. So “the best-performing team in professional baseball DOESN’T loses six out of every 10 games it plays”. It loses four out of every 10 games.

Regards,
Maurice

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