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The Moneyball Myth?

by Jason Brannon

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Allen Barra in the Wall Street Journal:

↵↵“Moneyball” did not, maintains Alan Hirsch, change the game very much. “Consider Beane’s most revered stat...

↵↵Billy Beane loves stats, much like you or I love our families, or the king.

↵... on-base percentage. In 2002 the American League average was .331, the year before that it was .333. Last season the league’s OBP had dropped to .327...”↵League scoring is down, therefore Moneyball (which is just OBP, which is just sabermetrics, which is just stats) is repudiated. We win!

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