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October 29-November 4
1. It’s Bono’s world this week and we just live in it. Or maybe that’s always been the case. The U2 singer’s long-awaited memoir, Surrender,
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10 min read
10 min read
October 29-November 4
1. It’s Bono’s world this week and we just live in it. Or maybe that’s always been the case. The U2 singer’s long-awaited memoir, Surrender,
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Jeff Bagwell railed against “farce” Moneyball during Houston Astros broadcast
Moneyball is one of the better sports movies made by Hollywood, mostly staying true to the book, while taking some creative liberties to paint the
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FOSC keynote: How data revolutionized baseball
Use of data in baseball is about far more than fans and commentators rattling off arcane facts about the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox.
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Commentary: It’s not about the money. It’s what the money says.
My favorite scene in the movie adaptation of Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball” occurred during 2003 in the darkened Oakland A’s locker room where
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Commentary: It’s not about the money. It’s what the money says.
My favorite scene in the movie adaptation of Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball” occurred during 2003 in the darkened Oakland A’s locker room where
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Moneyball 2.0: Real-time Decision Making With MLB’s Statcast Data
The Oakland Athletics baseball team in 2002 used data analysis and quantitative modeling to identify undervalued players and create a competitive
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Moneyball for law firm associates: a 15-year retrospective (257)
Pretty much everything was a counterintuitive curveball. In April of 2006, more than 15 years ago, I wrote a memo to file that would go on to exert
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Five Films
From background to foreground, reel baseball from 1898 on upJoe McGinnity; paper print for 1907 flipbook by Winthrop Moving Picture Co, which also
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Moneyball | FM21 | Part 2
Statistics, finances and transfers. Welcome back to Moneyball. In my first post of the series, I outlined what Moneyball is, the club I’d chosen to
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Indian Immigrant’s Winning Formula Helped Create $5.7 Billion American ‘Dream Team’
At $5.7 billion, the Dallas Cowboys, a National Football League (NFL) team from Texas, United States, is the most valuable sports franchise in the
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Moneyball | FM21 | Introduction
After looking for something to pull me back into the world of Football Manager recently, having once again failed to find myself invested in any of
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The eyeball test: How Brad Pitt tried to destroy magic in sport and how Mason Cox is the cure
Disclaimer: the views and opinions expressed by the author are that of an idiot. I have no right to judge elite athletes from my couch with a beer in
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Insane or Wise
The pure will be thought insane; and the impure will be honored and wise. ~ Hermetics To me, this quote seems to align perfectly with where we are
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Time is Running Out
The problem is that you think you have time. You don’t. Time has you; And it’s quickly running out. Your time and chances are not increasing.