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16. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Analytics Revolution in Basketball

There's been an analytics revolution in basketball. How well has the style of analysis transferred to other team sports? And if less than baseball, let's talk about why that might be. It's just so much harder to generate good statistics out of a flow sport like basketball or a really complicated sport like football.

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