the.com/roster building
assembling humans into a machine that outperforms the sum of their contracts.
means the strategic process of acquiring, developing, and balancing players to build a team that wins now and later.
from emerged as sports front offices split scouting from management, borrowing portfolio logic from finance: diversify assets, manage risk, plan for depreciation.
cap mathoften matters more than talent evaluation.
aging curvesdecide who to pay, not who to like.
chemistry costthe best player on paper can break a locker room.