Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis

Moneyball by Michael Lewis is the real life story of how the Oakland Athletics baseball team (the equivalent size of say a Fulham in the Premier League) are constantly able to stay in contention and beat teams such as the New York Yankees (equivalent size of Man U/ Chelsea) on a payroll of about 1/7th the size. Moneyball follows the story of Billy Beane who is the General Manager of the Oakland Athletic baseball team, and how he revolutionised the sport of baseball by following the stats led world of sybermetrics. This sounds a lot more confusing than it is, for example sybermetrics looks at how many times a hitter will hit the ball rather than how many times ...  Read the complete review