Moneyball
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 7 weeks on the list, peaked at #4
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Our view
“Moneyball” uses a low-budget baseball team to tell a larger story about how badly people judge talent and luck. Lewis follows Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics as statistics replace instinct, and he writes it as a human story, not a manual. Readers who do not know baseball may find the stretches of numbers and player names hard going. Worth reading for anyone curious about decisions made against conventional wisdom.
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About the book
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. It describes the team's sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team on a small budget. It was adapted into the 2011 film Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 324 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 69% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 8.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.3 | 24 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 300 | 93% |
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