Have you seen the movie "Moneyball", featuring Brad Pitt, and Jonah Hill? You have? Great. If you haven’t then you’re missing a great film that teaches you how analytics is used in the all American sport, baseball.
"Moneyball" is a film that tells the story of how Paul
DePodesta uses analytics to find undervalued baseball players and creates a
winning team from a small budget. Other teams with larger budgets had looked
right past these players because they didn’t realize how valuable these players
were, and only focused on the top players that the entire league was raving
about. Without DePodesta, the Oakland A’s wouldn’t have identified these
players either. DePodesta was really the first person recognized in the
industry to use data to analyze players’ performance and scout who he believed
(according to the players’ data) to be the next best players to add to his
team. Now all sports are using data to create their roster, not just baseball.
Sounds like a good movie!
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