<p>I am starting college in the fall, I am starting at St. Paul College for at least a year and then plan on transferring to a four year university. I could have gone to the U of M right away but I felt like this plan was better for me. Lately I'm not sure if I want to go there though because I don't know how good of a SM program they have. The dream is to work for a major league team in the baseball operations department. I have been running a blog about advanced statistics so I hope that helps get me somewhere along with a degree. Would it be better to get a degree in something like business instead? I know that it'll be difficult but this is my dream, and I know someone who's worked for a major league baseball team and currently works for a NHL team.</p>
<p>Peter Brand (Moneyball) aka Paul DePodesta, majored in economics. I hear U of M - TC has a pretty good program. Lots of statistics in economics.</p>
<p>Just my opinion, but it seems to me that a business major can get hired for a sports management job, whereas a sports management major is unlikely to get hired for an unrelated business job; so in that case business might offer more flexibility - it’s pretty unlikely you’ll be doing sports management all 40 years of your career.</p>
<p>Oh you know I read that book! I thought about economics, and I’m okay in math. I don’t know how I’d fair in the higher courses though.</p>
<p>That’s true…I guess I could always minor in sports management.</p>
<p>“I don’t know how I’d fair in the higher courses though.”</p>
<p>Do you have some examples?</p>
<p>I took calc this past year and got a B+ but I assume econonmics requires you to go pretty high. I assume multivariable calc would be needed and I’m not sure how good I’d be. I also assume econ majors need to go to grad school. I assume the math gets really tricky.</p>
<p>Roger Goodell has a BA in economics. DePodesta only has a BS. So you really don’t need to go to grad school. UM require Calc 1 (differentiation) and 2 (integration techniques), and a class that combines linear algebra (not too bad) and Differential Equations (which I thought was easy but many hate). Econometrics uses linear algebra as it is basically a multivariate statistics class. </p>
<p>For your electives, you could get into some higher level stuff, but that would be up to you. In mathematical economiics, you will use multivariate calc but they will show you what you need. Game theory is different in that it is more analysis than calc and diff eq. Of course, you would want to take a class in labor economics. But I hear what you are saying about the math.</p>