Hitting theaters is an adaptation of Michael Lewis» non-fiction book Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt as manager Billy Beane of the Oakland A's baseball team, trying to reinvent the way baseball is played
using sabermetrics.
No doubt, certain individuals have more «isolated power» (to
use a Sabermetric term) in the debate than others.
Not exact matches
We are not
using standings,
sabermetrics, or scouting reports to determine who the best have been.
In 2002, he developed a player evaluating system called PECOTA, which popularized the
use of
sabermetrics and advanced scouting in baseball (think Moneyball).
The recently retired Juan Pierre
used to be a
sabermetric flashpoint.
And firms, particularly in recent years following the popular success of Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game, Michael Lewis's book on the
use of
sabermetrics in US Major League baseball, have tracked how successful (or otherwise) their graduate recruitment policies and practices have been in hiring the best performing associates and, indeed, future partners.