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The MVP machine : how baseball's new nonconformists are using data to build better players /

"[T]he Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in val...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Lindbergh, Ben (Author), Sawchik, Travis (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Baseball > United States. Baseball players > United States. Baseball teams > United States. Baseball > Statistical methods. Baseball > Mathematical models.

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