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Oakland A’s Moneyball vs. Cybercriminals’ GenAI Algorithms.

Armand here, RPost’s sporty armadillo product evangelist. You may not know, I am also quite nostalgic. My sporty nostalgia plus tech tip DNA is all jumbled together, after watching the Oakland A’s send-off game.

For those not immersed in Major League Baseball, the Oakland A’s have now played their final game in Oakland. Officially on November 16, 2023, a day that will not be forgotten by sports fans in Oakland, this was the day when it was approved that this season would be the A’s final season playing home games in Oakland. They’ll be moving to Las Vegas in 2028, and until then, they will play in nearby Sacramento.

I feel for the A’s fans, with my armadillo nostalgia. I could see the A’s fans were feeling every type of emotion except happiness and I don’t blame them. Imagine your childhood team that you grew up watching, going to games, rooting for, just all of a sudden relocated to a different state. Now I may not be a fan of the Oakland A’s, but I am still affected by this relocation for a reason beyond pure nostalgia. The power of advanced algorithms.

Just like the cybercriminals today are powering up their sophisticated impostor schemes and lures using the ultra-advanced algorithms of today, called Generative AI, the A’s of recent past powered up their team using advanced algorithms of those days, a story told in one of the greatest sports movies of all time, Moneyball. This movie showed the inside of the franchise and all the moves made by former A’s front office executive Billy Beane to help bring success into Oakland after a disastrous couple of seasons, and all of this anchored by a whiz kid and his ever evolving sports statistics and predictive algorithm.

While the A’s franchise has had sluggish recent years, trending towards the bottom of standings almost every year, last year was their worst year, having the worst record in baseball. This was the final straw in Oakland, as a bad record meant a bad crowd at each game. With the A’s losing money playing every home game in Oakland, they decided to (my words) punish the people of Oakland and move to Vegas. Sounds to me like the only solution to fixing their troubles would have been to bring back Billy Beane and his (I'll call it here in today’s terms) analytical AI algorithms that powered him (in the movie) to bring the team back to success.

Now, for the A’s, there is a happy ending. We’ll say it’s due to fan passion and use of remnants of Billy Beane’s AI algorithm.

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For the Oakland A’s fans, the A’s hosted the Texas Rangers in this final game inside the Oakland Coliseum. Usually (recently) a crowd of around 4-5 thousand people had been attending, but as this was the final “home” game forever, this final game recorded a sellout of 63,000 fans! Pure fan passion carried the A’s on to beat the Texas Rangers, making the sendoff game even more memorable for the fans of Oakland.

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