SP POST 4

I have read a lot of Bill James, in fact I subscribe to his website, and have met him (he used to live in brookline and I was good friends with his son who has since moved back to Kansas). Also interestingly enough I just last night finally saw Moneyball, which I read a few years ago. I think that something in this direction would be very interesting, though I dont want to rewrite the same ideas expressed in Moneyball, I would rather focus on Ariely's ideas and try to apply them to the world of sports. Arielys book is all about decision making, and why we continue to make poor decisions and possible ways that we could try to avoid being so irrational. This meshes well with the thesis of Moneyball. Maybe its just because I have read so much on the topic, but I feel like this has been done a lot, so I would like to go at it from a new angle. Maybe try to answer a much more specific question relating to baseball, popularity, and decision making (tying together both books, and moneyball), Off the top of my head "why were Tim Wakefield and Jason Varitek so popular in Boston despite being mediocre players?" I will continue to mull it over and post again later this evening with some more concrete ideas