Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

By T. Maclennan. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A User's Guide to Debiasing (2014, background): “As recounted in the book Moneyball (Lewis, 2003), equations have revolutionized the market for professional baseball players.”
Big data and tactical analysis in elite soccer: future challenges and opportunities for sports science (2016, methodology): “…techniques from TV game broadcasts data as well as publicly available internet soccer databases these blogs provide novel approaches to data driven performance analysis in soccer much in the same spirits as the sabermetrics community has for American baseball during the late 90’s (Lewis 2004).”
A data-driven approach to predicting successes and failures of clinical trials (2016, result): “…we reasoned that a new approach that includes overlooked features related to the results of a drug’s performance could prove to be highly impactful, similar to the effect that adopting sabermetrics had on the base-ball scouting process as described in Michael Lewis’s Moneyball (Lewis, 2003).”
The character of innovative places: entrepreneurial strategy, economic development, and prosperity (2014, background): “The need for new models can be illustrated in Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2004). The book is about baseball but the example also challenges conventional wisdom.”
Tutorial: Big Data Analytics: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications (2014, background): “This was seen in Moneyball, which tells the story of the Oakland Athletics and general manager Billy Beane’s use of analytics to make personnel and other baseball decisions [Lewis, 2003; Miller, 2011].”