Billy Beane
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A beautiful, happy accident - Moneyball is the best sports movie ever
- Sport
- March 28, 2020, 10:00
It will never make the highlight reels at the Oscars or the 100-greatest-movie-moments lists but there is a small point worth fiercely arguing that am(...)

To err is human: mistakes and why we make them
- Books
- January 7, 2017
How can we make sense of our world? How should we make the best decisions? Why do we make certain mistakes over and over again? And what implications (...)

AZ Alkmaar perplexed - Tottenham yet to make second bid for Vincent Janssen
- English Soccer
- July 6, 2016, 10:57
AZ Alkmaar have thrown Tottenham’s move for Vincent Janssen into doubt after their sporting director revealed they have yet to receive an improved bid(...)

Numbers Game: Sloan Sports Conference needs to refocus
- Sport
- March 16, 2016, 05:06
“It’s time to clam up”. Moneyball. It’s the book that launched a thousand nerds, many of them gathering in Boston last weekend for the tenth Sloan S(...)

America at Large: Sceptics line up as ‘Moneyball’ mould-breaker tackles NFL
- Other Sports
- January 13, 2016, 22:04
In 2002, Professor David Romer, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote an academic paper for the Journal of Political Economy (...)