A Book about Baseball: Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis's "Money Ball" is not just a book about baseball. Most people think so. This is a novel about business, leadership, personality, and overcoming difficulties and competition. The difficult part is to understand how to understand it by reading a book about baseball, but if you read and analyze the book carefully, the course is clear and easy to understand as in the daytime. Moneyball's plan is based on the true story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics baseball team, also known as the Oakland A team.

So far, Moneyball, Michael Lewis's book on Oakland A, baseball and data analysis is an easy way to find secret occasions. It was in the movies, and there were many articles that "criticized Michael Lewis' idea. But the basic point is that in many places, many smart people ignore how they can best function. This is almost free except for personal time. But excellent candidates of the kind you want to know would like to know that they are not running by themselves. They need help. They want to know that when they run, it's more than they fight the world. A good candidate wants to know that they need help in the range of 47% to 50% + 1 if they can make a real fight, then the cavalry will enter the finish line.

"Extra" announced by Michael Lewis in 2003 opened the data's eyes. Lewis recorded how Billy Bien, the general manager of the baseball team's Oakland team, formed a winning team with the smallest salary in the league. He uses the statistics to decide which player to add and to abandon which player to actually build the most effective team. In the process he challenged the myth of what is widely believed to be a successful team. Fortunately, the statistician Beane named Bill James collected and organized decades of baseball performance data and issued annual statistics, Bill James Baseball Abstract. If James has never spent studying baseball games for decades, can Beane do what he does? On the other hand, is it unavoidable for Bebe to do so sooner or later with James's data?

Baseball, America's past time. This is not the content of the movie Moneyball (one of my favorite authors, bestselling book, Michael Lewis). It is not the case for saber metrics, and the analysis of baseball metrics overcomes objective subjectivity. Certainly baseball and saber measurements are the key to Moneyball's story, but the core of that is the general manager of Auckland A, Billy Bene. The former struggle can not overlook pro pro baseball prospects to understand the game he should rule on the game day.