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Only tangentially related, but should be of interest to most HNers: If you haven't read _Money Ball_ (http://tinyurl.com/28ryy4b http://tinyurl.com/28ryy4b) yo
by dstorrs 16y ago
Only tangentially related, but should be of interest to most HNers:
If you haven't read _Money Ball_ (http://tinyurl.com/28ryy4b http://tinyurl.com/28ryy4b) you really should. It's the story of how a coach and a stats guy hacked major league baseball; they took one of the poorest, losing-est teams in the league (Oakland A's) and turned them into serious winners. I found it well written, informative, and quite a pageturner...and I don't even /like/ baseball.
- mattmaroon 16y agoNot serious winners, marginal winners. IE they made the playoffs every year and got promptly defeated. There's a big difference. While every hacker loves to believe that scrappy upstarts with data will conquer the good old boys every time, the reality of baseball seems to be the opposite. Sabermetrics just hasn't delivered. (It was a great book though).