The Science of Coaching: Building a Better Draft

February 17, 2011   ·   Ken Sloan   ·   Jump to comments

This week on Jeopardy!, millions of viewers who tuned in were treated to a modern version of “Man vs. Machine.” 
IBM’s supercomputer, dubbed “Watson,” was pitted against two Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. If you follow current events, you are already aware that the two champions were felled by the processing power of the machine.
Watson is built upon IBM’s POWER7 system, albeit a very beefed up configuration.  In short, Watson is made up of over 2,500 processor cores and accesses a database containing the text of more than 200 million scanned pages.
So the computer won, right?
Not so fast.
Watson is programmed by human beings. He could not add “1 + 1” without human intervention. Consider this short Jeopardy! match:
Answer: “The world’s most powerful supercomputer sitting upon a desk with every line of its programming code removed.”
Question: “Wha...

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