Moneyball
A book by Michael Lewis that looks inside the innovative approach of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Bean to assemble a competitive baseball team on a small budget using data analytics.
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"I watched the film Moneyball the other day on an airplane and it's like, you know, the whole thing around baseball being about the craft and the talent, and then the numbers come into it and the maths comes into it, and now it's all about the numb..."
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