The Numbers Game: Big Data and the Business of Sport

It’s been more than a decade since Michael Lewis’ bookMoneyball opened the sporting world to the potentially positive impact of statistical analysis, with his portrait of Billy Beane’s transformation of the Oakland Athletics’ fortunes using the power of numbers to turn established wisdom on its head in the risky business of scouting baseball players...

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