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buying wins on sale by trusting spreadsheets over scouts' gut feelings.
means a strategy of exploiting undervalued statistics to build a winning team on a shoestring budget.
from coined from michael lewis's 2003 book about the 2002 oakland athletics, whose gm billy beane used sabermetrics to compete against teams spending three times his payroll.
payroll gapa's spent $41m, yankees spent $125m same year
key staton-base percentage beat batting average as the holy grail
movie versionbrad pitt played beane in the 2011 film
real architectpaul depodesta did the actual math, renamed peter brand
for instance
houston rockets analytics — daryl morey applied moneyball logic to basketball shot selection
liverpool fc transfers — fsg used data models to sign salah and mane cheaply