{"id":166,"date":"2004-10-11T20:32:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T00:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=166"},"modified":"2004-10-11T20:32:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T00:32:05","slug":"retail-moneyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Retail Moneyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Moneyball<\/i> takes a look at how unconventional baseball statistics can make even the poorest of teams into winners.<\/p>\n<p>In a way the sales summary spreadsheets I&#8217;ve been playing with could be looked upon as a kind of &#8220;retail <i>Moneyball<\/i>.&#8221;  Retailers will tell you about the importance of add-on sales, of high average sales, of high transactions per hour.  What I&#8217;m looking at are somewhat unconventional.  Minutes per such-and-such.  Trade dollars versus sales dollars.  Even more esoteric stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a personal project for my own use.  My supervisor likes the work I&#8217;ve done, thinks it would be a good idea if others used the same techniques as a way of understanding their stores better.<\/p>\n<p>I really should write up some documentation on the spreadsheet array.  It makes sense to <i>me<\/i>, but then I&#8217;m the one who put it together.<\/p>\n<p>Will this project ever end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moneyball takes a look at how unconventional baseball statistics can make even the poorest of teams into winners. In a way the sales summary spreadsheets I&#8217;ve been playing with could be looked upon as a kind of &#8220;retail Moneyball.&#8221; Retailers will tell you about the importance of add-on sales, of high average sales, of high<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=166\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Retail Moneyball&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[228,529,4124],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-eb-games","tag-statistics","tag-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}