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Moneyball

Disciplines:
economics
analytics
management
baseball

Summary

Michael Lewis's 2003 account of the Oakland A's use of statistical analysis to find undervalued players — the book that brought sabermetrics to mainstream audiences and launched the analytics revolution in professional sports.

Core Contribution

Creates the sabermetrics narrative — Moneyball's account applies finance theory (market mispricing) to baseball and shows how a systematic analytical approach can create competitive advantage in markets of conventional wisdom.

Historical Influences

Bill James Kahneman and Tversky

Intellectual Lineage

Michael Lewis W.W. Norton

Allied Works

The Big Short The Signal and the Noise

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Sports analytics

Intellectual Posterity

Moneyball Moneyball approachBilly Beane as analytics pioneer

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