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> Sports are filled with numbers and any teams/players who can afford it has such a leg up, its not even a joke I remain unconvinced. There are a lot of number
by JackFr 7y ago
> Sports are filled with numbers and any teams/players who can afford it has such a leg up, its not even a joke
I remain unconvinced. There are a lot of numbers and anecdotes thrown out. But how much is confirmation bias? And does it withstand robust hypothesis testing?
The A's have been in Oakland since 1968. They've been to the World Series 6 times and won 4. None of those World Series appearances occurred during the tenure of Billy Beane as GM, 1997 to the present day.
- dylan604 7y agoThere's still a lot to be said about locker room cohesion. Just look at any of the teams managed by Jose Mourinho. His teams quit playing because of his management style. (I still think the players are wrong from this.) Once he's gone, that same crap performing squad suddenly start winning. Personalities are a huge thing in sports. The English national team is an example of having an enormous amount of talent on paper, but just didn't play well together as a team. (Until this most recent squad at the World Cup).
- cleetus 7y agoI think part of that is "Moneyball" has tended be more successful over the course of a 162 game season rather than the 5 or 7 game series of the playoffs where there can be a lot more variation in outcomes. I also think the analytics quickly caught on across the league so the A's advantage was short lived. Now pretty much every team is very heavily invested in it.