Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 030796695X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 8 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael Lewis is everything people says he is- A Great Writer I saw the movie, good movie. I heard of Moneyball a lot and recently I read Trading Bases by Joe Peta that talks about baseball and gambiing and Wall Street. It whetted my apetite to read Moneyball and even though the book was written 2003, it still resonates today. I was not disappointed. It was easy to read and being a sport fan, I recognize players of years ago but what like about the book is that you were like a fly in the wall with strong narrative skills explaining what Billy Beane was doing in a easy and simple way that you sort of understand this fascination with. Moneyball After losing star players like Jason Giambi and Johnny Damon, what are the Oakland A's to do with a payroll about one third of that of a rich team like the New York Yankees? Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Oakland A's General Manager Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage, high slugging averages, and pitchers who ge. Movie Much Better Let me first start off by saying I am a big Michael Lewis fan. "The Big Short" and "Liar's Poker" are two great books in my opinion. That said, I found "Moneyball" lacking their depth and energy. I bought the book after absolutely loving the movie, which was fantastic. I found that the book jumped around an awful lot (and I read it quickly), making it difficult to follow. At some point, I was just wanting Lewis to get back to the story of the Oakland A's and finish over-analyzing Bill James and the dry history of baseball statistics. Seeing as how the book is about baseb
Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. --John Moe. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front
The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win how can we not cheer for David?. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors.In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. Moneyball is a