
16. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?
The Freakonomics Radio Book Club
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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