Moneyball
4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 13, 2017 by Steve Galbraith · said 26 times in 12 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Ted Seides (10), Clare Flynn Levy (3), Ben Reiter (3), Ryan Batchelor (2), Mario Therrien (2), Dr. Joe Sweeney (2), Michael Schwimer (1), Michael Mauboussin (1)
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2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
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Apr 13, 2017 positive
Apr 13, 2017 positive
Perold: Moneyball is Michael Lewis's most profound book
“The one I think is most profound is Moneyball. I think it's not that recent, but it's an example of how he wrote about applying Techniques of investing to talent management and finding great players on a team, and it extends to so many aspects of life.”
Aug 13, 2018 positive
Reiter: Astros combined qualitative human scouting with quantitative performance analytics
“The Astros recognize that humans can detect things especially in players that numbers can't describe, that there aren't numbers for, and the trick is to properly process those observations and incorporate them with the performance data to kind of get the best …”
Oct 15, 2018
Schwimer: Process Metrics Predict MLB Success Better Than Standard Moneyball Statistics
“The basic money ball stuff, exactly. And it really didn't matter in the minor leagues in terms of predicting major league success. And what I had to, the lesson I had to learn was it's not, the results are not predictive to future results. It's actually the pr…”