Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game ; [with a new afterword]

Moneyball

Michael Lewis&#8217;s instant classic may be 'the most influential book on sports ever written' (<em>People</em>), but 'you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis&#8217;s] thoughts about it' (Janet Maslin, <em>New York Times</em>).<br /><br />One of <em>GQ</em>'s 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century • A <em>Kirkus Review</em> Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far), Moneyball, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis, 9780393324815

Moneyball (film)

Moneyball is a 2011 American biographical sports drama film directed by Bennett Miller and adapted by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. It stars Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Chris Pratt. The film is based on the 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's attempts to assemble a competitive team with half as much money as his rivals. Moneyball follows Beane and his deputy Peter Brand scout the major leagues for undervalued talent by taking a sophisticated sabermetric approach to scouting and analyzing players, triggering skepticism and resentment within the baseball community.

Home Field Advantage — Oakland Public Library

Home Field Advantage — Brekke-Miesner, Paul — In Home Field Advantage, historian Paul Brekke-Miesner examines why one relatively small American city produced not only an amazing number of professional athletes but individuals who changed the landscape of sports in America.--back cover.

The World Series Was Electric — So Was Bluesky - Bluesky

“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” — Moneyball 2011

BlATBall - Interdimensional Baseball on AT Protocol

Inside Baseball: The Automated Ball-Strike System as an Object Lesson in Technological Rule Enforcement

Clearly-defined rules are often assumed to be straightforward to automate and evaluate. We challenge this assumption through an in-depth study of Major League Baseball's (MLB) seven-year experimentation with the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS). ABS is envisioned to call balls and strikes accurately: a seemingly straightforward use of technology to objectively determine the distance between a pitch and the strike zone. Although the strike zone is an area clearly defined in the rulebook, it took MLB seven years to figure out how to automate calling balls and strikes with ABS, showing how even seemingly straightforward rules require a complex translation process to operationalize via technological systems. In this paper, we trace the design decisions that led to the current implementation of ABS. Our case study reveals that "distance" exists even between a clear rule and its technological implementation. Using analytic frameworks from Science and Technology Studies (STS), we show that such distance exists because (1) historically, the "ground truth" of the strike zone is contested: the rule in practice has always reflected a hybrid between the rulebook definition and umpires' enforcement decisions; and (2) the use of ABS is embedded in an existing eco-system, where the implementation of a technological enforcement system needs to balance multiple stakeholder values. This perspective challenges conventional evaluation paradigms that center on the distance between a formalized rule and its technological implementation, and instead calls for evaluating how such systems are experienced in practice. Addressing this question requires in-depth social science approaches, contributing to ongoing conversations in FAccT about the implementation and evaluation of sociotechnical systems.

The "Yips" in Baseball: Psychological Causes and Cures - Baseball Scouter

Demystifying the baseball yips: learn what they are, why they happen, and a practical four-week plan with mental skills and graded drills to restore smooth, confident throws under pressure.

Ball State Settles With Ex-Employee for $225,000 Over Charlie Kirk Posts

Ball State University is the latest institution to agree to pay workers who lost their jobs over their posts about the conservative activist.

The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

A philosophy of games to help us win back control over …

Analyzing Baseball Data with R (3e)

Back in the late 1980s, as a college student, I would go to the NHL offices in downtown Montreal, and pick up their official end-of-season statistics package. This was something that was reserved for the media, but somehow I had the idea to ask, and they were kind enough to oblige. Since I was learning dBase, I then had to manually enter every piece of data in that package, probably some 20,000 discrete data values. Combining sports, numbers, and computers was a labour of love for me. Add in that in the 1980s, Pete Palmer and Bill James inspired the sabermetric revolution: my career path was set, as was that of thousands more.

Against the day

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of…

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland — Oakland Public Library

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland — Dick, Philip K. — In 1950s San Francisco, elderly garage owner Jim Ferguson prepares to retire and sell his business, but when he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, Al Miller, one of Jim's mechanics who thinks that Harman is a crook, sets out to protect his mentor.

time for money — wingolog

wingolog: article: time for money

Anomalies: Saving, Fungibility, and Mental Accounts

Last New Year's day, after a long evening of rooting the right team to victory in the Orange Bowl, I was lucky enough to win $300 in a college football betting pool. I then turned to the important matter of splurging the proceeds wisely. Would a case of champagne be better than dinner and a play in New York? At this point my son Greg came in and congratulated me. He said, "Gee Dad, you should be pretty happy. With that win you can increase your lifetime consumption by $20 a year!" Greg, it seems, had studied the life-cycle theory of savings. The theory is simple, elegant, and rational—qualities valued by economists. Unfortunately, as Courant, Gramlich, and Laitner observe "for all its elegance and rationality, the life-cycle model has not tested out very well." In this column, however, I focus on an assumption of the life-cycle model that has not received very much attention, but which, if modified, can allow the theory to explain many of the savings anomalies that have been observed. The key assumption is fungibility. This column will review a small portion of the empirical savings literature, with the objective of showing how violations of fungibility, and more generally the role of self-control, strongly influences saving behavior.