Quantitative Methods Case Study

Case Title:

The Strategic Break: To Be or Not to Be

Abstract:
With lot of controversies and issues, Indian premier League’s T20 world cup event was held in South Africa recently. In that, the head Lalit Modi introduced an innovative ‘Strategic Break’ in between the innings. Again it attracted many controversies. Moreover, players also argued that it hampers the momentum of the match. However, Lalit gave reply that it is not an innovative break. It is adopted from other games like Basketball events. The case ends with a question – Can Modi reach to a conclusion whether the players’ claim that the strategic break hampers the momentum of the game is correct or not?

Pedagogical Objectives:

• To discuss the testing of hypothesis
• To understand the concepts of Sample size and level of Significance
• To test the hypothesis and to draw inference.

Keywords : Quantitative Methods; Decision Science; Analysis; Hypothesis Testing; One Tailed Test; Statistics; Decision Dilemma; Sampling Distribution; Sampling Error; Type I Error; Type II Error; Indian Premier League (IPL); Twenty20; MBA Course Case Mapping; Business Statistics; Quantitative Methods; Course Case Mapping

Contents:

• Introduction
• The Strategic Break