Discussing Linear Programing


Discussion Question

 

“This is TALK OF THE NATION. I’m Neal Conan in Washington. No position in team sports is more important or more mythologized than a professional football quarterback. The men who stand behind the center make the most decisions, the most money and the most mistakes.

Over the years, these central figures in America’s favorite sport acquired stereotypical characteristics: Quarterbacks are tough, savvy, field generals, leaders of men who stand calmly amidst the madness to deliver pinpoint passes downfield, in two words: Peyton Manning.

Agile quarterbacks like Michael Vick, Tim Tebow and Robert Griffin III are gaining ground on traditional players who sit in the pocket, timing the perfect pass.

NPR correspondent Mike Pesca and Super Bowl-winning QB Joe The is mann talk about how quarterbacks and the game of football have changed.

https://www.npr.org/2012/03/21/149080049/athletic-quarterbacks-challenge-pocket-passers

Finally, after reading this article express also, how your knowledge of linear programming could help you set up a model to prove which style of quarterbacking making the game more exciting and even reducing quarterback injuries, might be better?

Lastly, Bernie Sanders is promising FREE HOMES to those who vote for him. What are your feelings of whether this might allow Bernie a solution to FREE HOUSING but if not whether or not the Tiny Home market will become a solution to a future program rental and a need for home ownership problems among students with huge student debt?

https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/tiny-homes