Stumbling on wins two economists expose the pitfalls on the road to victory in professional sports
The next quantum leap beyond Moneyball, this book offers powerful new insights into all human decision-making, because if sports teams are getting it wrong this badly, how do you know you're not? Sometimes the decisions that teams make are simply inexplicable. Consider: sports teams have an imm...
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| Language: | English |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J.
FT Press
2010
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Maybe the fans are right
- Defending Isiah
- The search for useful stats
- Football in black and white
- Finding the face of the franchise
- The pareto principle and drafting mistakes
- Inefficient on the field
- Is it the teacher or the students?
- Painting a bigger picture
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index