3 Data and Analytics
What Is Counted Ends Up Counting
As Michael Lewis chronicled in his hit book Moneyball, general manager Billy Beane made the perennially underfunded Oakland Athletics competitive against teams with deeper pockets. How? By being one of the first Major League Baseball managers to run statistical analysis on the troves of data collected about player performance. He appeared to perform a near-miracle by using the data to strengthen the Athletics’ talent recruiting methods and in-game decisions. When Lewis’s book hit the market, it spawned a public debate among baseball enthusiasts about whether analytics or more traditional means of scouting and recruitment, which relied on people finding and then offering star athletes ...
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