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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

Summary & Key Takeaways

How did the Oakland A’s, one of the poorest teams in baseball, manage to break record after record while competing against the unlimited budgets of the Yankees and Red Sox? The answer wasn’t luck; it was a ruthless exploitation of market inefficiency.In today’s 5-minute briefing on Michael Lewis’s business classic “Moneyball,” we explore how General Manager Billy Beane used data to expose the ignorance of the experts. Discover why the metrics everyone else valued (like batting average and “good looks”) were worthless, and how finding the one metric that actually mattered changed sports forever.

About the Author

Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis is a premier non-fiction author and financial journalist who famously exposed Wall Street’s excesses in "Liar’s Poker," drawing on his former career as a bond trader. He is an authority on finance, sports analytics, and behavioral psychology, known for turning complex subjects into …

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