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Sports x Education: Michael Lewis' Princeton Graduation Speech on 5/6/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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The "Moneyball" story has practical implications. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Michael Lewis , giving the undergraduate commencement at Princeton on Sunday, adding: "Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky."

MORE ON LUCK IN SPORTS: "Luck comes in a lot of different varieties. Knowing which kind you're working with matters when you're figuring out whether to pat a coach's back sympathetically, or to stab it and move on solemnly to the next best future for all concerned." (Spencer Hall, SBNation.com)
For the Oscars, a Fun Moneyball Story on 24/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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In thinking along the same lines, Crowley began to focus on a stat that football coaches obsesses over, but basketball largely ignores: time-of-possession. The longer St. Bonaventure kept the ball in its hands — and, importantly, away from its opponents — the better their chances. Just as Oakland relished walks, St. Bonaventure would come to loathe turnovers. Sean Gregory(via Time.com) , on how a mediocre women's college basketball coach reinvented himself as a Moneyball-style acolyte -- and found crazy success.
Sports x Pop Culture: "Moneyball" at the Oscars on 24/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Can "Moneyball" further resemble its plucky Oakland A's and make history as the first baseball movie ever to win Best Picture -- all while taking down "The Artist" and leapfrogging assumed closest challengers "The Descendants," "Hugo" and "The Help"? "The short answer," wrote Sasha Stone, founder and editor of the long-running Oscars blog Awards Daily, "is no." Patrick Dorsey(via ESPN.com) , who catalogs the up-and-down history of sports movies at the Oscars.
Sports x Pop Culture: "Moneyball" Racks Up Oscar Noms on 24/1/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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For now and forever, it's "Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill" to you. New York Times' Dave Itzkoff(via Twitter) , about Hill, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Moneyball," which made the cut for "Best Picture." Brad Pitt -- as A's GM Billy Beane -- was nominated for Best Actor.
MLB Playoffs: "Moneyball"-ish on 14/10/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Baseball is more competitive than ever, and we have this year’s postseason to prove it. Behind each of the surviving teams is a story of shrewd management that flies directly in the face of Beane’s self-serving assessment of the state of the game [that Goliath's rule]. Jonathan Mahler(via New York Times) , who adds: "If you’re interested in learning how agile, innovative thinking can triumph over deep pockets, go out and see “Moneyball” — or just stay home and watch baseball’s 2011 playoffs."
Funny: "Moneyball" x Yankees on 3/10/11 | Tipped by Jimmy Traina |
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Moneyball: The Repercussions on 27/9/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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It's no longer a league where 30 teams are playing hunches, and if they keep making movies like "Moneyball," it's no longer fair to expect fans to want it that way. Henry Abbott(via ESPN.com) , on the shift in expectations by fans that their teams will move from a GM's "gut" or scout's intuition to a balanced approach that includes quantitative analysis.
Quickish's "Moneyball" Mania on 23/9/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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*But what's it really about? (Craggs, GQ) | Expanded version here (BPro)
*"The Ballad of Bill James" (Posnanski, SI.com)
*Movie reviews: Posnanski | Ebert | Leitch | Neyer
*Moneyball Beyond MLB: Rockets GM Morey on impact
*"Baseball After Moneyball" (Futterman, WSJ)
*Longish: Beane's Next Chapter (Sternbergh, NYT Mag)
*This Week's SI: "Worth the wait" | BoSox Moneyball 2.0 | The Pitt Cover Some of the best of the week's obsession with "Moneyball" -- both the movie and the reflection on what the story has meant to sports over the past decade.
"Baseball After Moneyball" on 23/9/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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What's the legacy of "Moneyball"? One thing it's not anymore: a raging culture war. ... Both sides acknowledge that statistical analysis has a place in baseball, but so does gut instinct, tradition, money, mystery—and plenty of dumb luck. Yet the influence of the strategies explored in "Moneyball" did have a seismic impact on the game, even if the consequences were somewhat unintended and are still playing out. Matthew Futterman(via Wall Street Journal)
"Moneyball" Reviews, Cont'd on 23/9/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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If anything, I think this movie, however skillfully made, however successful at the box office, might finally put Moneyball to rest. ... I don't mean to suggest that the paperbacks will suddenly disappear from the airport bookstores, or that you won't still hear broadcasters reference Moneyball during baseball games. I do mean to suggest that Moneyball: The Movie should and might serve as a sort of denouement for the particular arguments and bad feelings that the story created. Rob Neyer(via SBNation) , who has a fairly deep connection to the movie's source material (as his review reflects when you read the full version).

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