Billy Beane

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The Undoing Project: Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the 1970s. Photograph courtesy of Barbara Tversky
To err is human: mistakes and why we make them

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 (...)

Vincent Janssen is eager to join Tottenham. Photograph: VI Images via Getty Images
AZ Alkmaar perplexed - Tottenham yet to make second bid for Vincent Janssen

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(...)

Michael Lewis, Bill James and Paul DePodesta at the Sloan Sports Analytics conference in Boston.
Numbers Game: Sloan Sports Conference needs to refocus

“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(...)

Paul DePodesta has excelled is at harvesting the reams of information now available to coaches and scouts. Photograph: Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
America at Large: Sceptics line up as ‘Moneyball’ mould-breaker tackles NFL

In 2002, Professor David Romer, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote an academic paper for the Journal of Political Economy (...)