What moneyball can teach you about fleet management

Could you get better results from your fleet with smarter management and statistics? We think you could. Moneyball, an excellent film starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill is the true story of how the Oakland A’s, a team on a tight budget used statistics to beat the biggest spenders in baseball.

They ruled out paying big money for all rounders or players with the right experience or aesthetics and simply concentrated on the statistics of individual positions.

Personally, I know more about football... My understanding is that Liverpool is trying to adopt this strategy in the Premier League under their new owners, but it hasn’t exactly worked yet.

There are some really interesting premier league stats from the season so far (today is the 13th of April). Here are some examples:

Interesting that Wolves (bottom of the league have had to make the most saves!)Yakubu... Despite being in a team struggling in the league and being the oldest of the other top scorers, his goal/shot ratio is the best in the league, how could Blackburn get the ball to him more? 

The only stat the Manchester United lead in from all the data gathered is shooting accuracy (apart from points in the league!). As they are leading the league, perhaps this is an important number. I would like to see this spread out over a few seasons to know if it means anything.

So how does this relate to you? Well at the moment we are not sure. Whilst all of our customers have one thing in common, vehicles or machinery out working, they are all playing different games! So we need to work closely with each customer to know what numbers matter to their fleet and the improvements that will be made.

We do this through our fleet analysis process: We use our fleet analysis process to work out what are the key metrics for your fleet and how we need to measure them and improve them. It is always interesting to see what an impact a comprehensive fleet analysis can have, in some cases companies we talk to are leaving hundreds of thousands of euros on the table.

If you would like us to take a look at your fleet performance numbers, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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