Not 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 be

Not 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).