Posted in Financial statements, Sports on Apr 28th, 2008
I was recently included in the Carnival of Personal Finance hosted over at Lazy Man and Money. The article of mine that was included was a piece I wrote on the similarities between financial statements and baseball statistics. Lazy and I will have a discussion on how important certain stats are, but that’s for another […]
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Posted in Financial statements, Sports on Apr 14th, 2008
So I’ve written before about my idea to churn out some kind of robust analogy between baseball statistics and financial statements. The reason is twofold: the analysis that baseball fans like myself do every day with baseball numbers is pretty involved—this isn’t simply looking at batting average and homeruns. It’s pretty sophisticated stuff and the […]
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Posted in Happiness, Sports on Feb 26th, 2008
Life can get pretty complex and pretty hard sometimes, so having something you are passionate about can really help keep you balanced and happy, while giving you an outlet to channel any stress or anxiety you may feel. For me, that’s playing baseball.
The winter is awful because there is no baseball for a very long […]
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Posted in Investing, Sports on Jan 28th, 2008
I have a long-term goal of building a simple yet robust analogy that will tie investing with baseball. I’ve posted a few times on this (here and here) and I’m always keeping an eye out for more/better ways to tie the two together.
Why am I doing this? Well, it gives me something to blog about, […]
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So I’m still on the quest to deciphering financial statements. And I still think that a sports analogy will help me draw a parallel between the two so I can be a more informed investor.
I’ve been asking around different forums and groups of people with more experience than myself, and one of the suggestions was […]
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