
16. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?
The Freakonomics Radio Book Club
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The Hidden Side of Everything
The Oakland A's out of necessity challenged that orthodoxy. They hunted down good data and analyzed it ruthlessly to answer a simple question. When a baseball team wins a game, exactly why did they win? Which characteristics or behaviors were truly valuable and which ones just appealed to the tastes of the orthodoxy? Michael Lewis: I'm not a writer with lots of regrets.
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