Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
This is the story of how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, turned a baseball team with one of the league's lowest payrolls into a perennial contender for the World Series: by using statistical analysis that no other team had ever heard of, and finding gaps in the market for baseball skills. Beane was a hot prospect when he was in high school. Baseball scouts loved him: by their traditional methods of judging a young player's potentia...
