Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Moneyball

For anyone who has any interest whatsoever in baseball, this is a great book:
For anyone who enjoys movies, this is a great movie:

The book really gets down into the details of how the Oakland A's operated as a franchise in the early 2000's.  A lot of really good stuff about stats and how to understand stats to form a major league baseball team.  The movie is solid.  Even if you are not a fan of baseball, probably worth watching.

I am hoping the Cubs are applying this moneyball management style right now.  They actually have money that they can spend though, so the results should (hopefully) be much greater.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Watched it with two eyes closed most of the time :(