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

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The Billy Bean Method for Building a Successful Professional Baseball Club

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The Houston Astros are right now the poster child for analytics. The A's as amazing as they were at Finding Talent never won a World Series. Billy Bean says, my sh** doesn't work in the playoffs. Baseball is constructed to have this very long season where randomness is sort of bled out.

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