What did you take from it?įirstly, I enjoyed reading the book. Where you may indeed pick up stuff, is probably the relatability of the situation where there is plenty of resistence to doing things differently to how they have always been done, particularily in sport. In terms of sports analysts and coaches, in terms of learning new approaches, you won’t get many here. It is a well written book, which would allow someone who may be daunted by the prospect by the subject of sports analytics being a bit dry and lacking character to still read it and very much enjoy it.
Who is it for?Īs the book reads, it is almost for baseball fans but it certainly has a far wider ranging audience.
Michael Lewis is a best selling writer with 5 of his books becoming big screen pictures including The Big Short and of course Moneyball. The book looks at backstory’s such as Beane’s upbringing and baseball career and how that impacted on how he ran the Oakland A’s. They consistently out performed against their budget and this books delves into why. The book is about the Oakland A’s and how Billy Beane, their General Manager came to runnning the Oakland A’s differently to the majority of other Teams in Major League Baseball. Published: 2004, Norton and Company, New York
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