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The Triumph of Moneyball
Dave Studeman. "The Triumph of Moneyball." The Hardball Times / FanGraphs, January 23, 2014, https://tht.fangraphs.com/the-triumph-of-moneyball/.
Why this matters here
Dave Studeman’s “The Triumph of Moneyball” tracks how major-league clubs hired analysts and absorbed statistical methods after Oakland’s approach became public—changing which skills were undervalued because measurement itself changed what the sport paid for. The Game We Think We Saw treats that diffusion as the part of the Moneyball story easiest to compress away: the lesson was never only that one metric was “correct.” Studeman documents the spread; the book asks what happens when a correction becomes the new standard.
