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Moneyball

Science

How Two Trailblazing Psychologists Turned the World of Decision Science Upside Down

After Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists.

Adapted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.

Michael Lewis Vanity Fair Nov 2016 30min Permalink

Sports

Astro-Matic Baseball

Inside a struggling franchise’s radical rebuilding project.

Ben Reiter Sports Illustrated Jun 2014 Permalink

Best Article Sports

The Trading Desk

The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.

Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Mar 2003 35min Permalink

Sports

The Art Of Winning An (even More) Unfair Game

Eight years after Moneyball, nearly every MLB front office has integrated statistical analysis into its strategic process. So where does that leave a former wunderkind like Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein?

Tom Verducci Sports Illustrated Sep 2011 20min Permalink