The litter in littérateur. Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports

2/15/2009

Moneyball comes to the NBA

Filed under: Baseball,Books,General — Ricky @ 9:18 pm

I feel like every time Michael Lewis talks about Moneyball, someone asks him if Billy Beane’s approach to fielding a team based on statistical analysis has taken hold in other sports. Although people have calculated win shares in basketball based on other statistics, i.e. through regressions, no one has really told a Moneyball-like story of the sport. That is, until today when Lewis himself published an article about Shane Battier and the Houston Rockets in the New York Times Magazine. It’s highly recommended to anyone who enjoyed Moneyball.

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