teddypinion's Full Review: Michael Lewis - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an U...
When I saw Moneyball on the shelves I knew nothing about it other than it had something to do with baseball. But I had read Lewis' Liars' Poker many years ago, and loved it, so I decided I should give Moneyball a read.
I enjoy baseball, and used to go watch several Major League games each summer, but I'm not a fanatic of the game. That's the great thing about this book - you don't have to be a ball fan to find this book fascinating. I suppose some knowledge of the game is helpful, but that's not really the point of the book.
For the baseball fan, it answers the long asked question: "How do Billy Beane and the Oakland A's manage to compete so effectivley despite having one of the poorest payrolls in Major League Baseball?" (I'm not going to tell you how here, read the book).
For the mathemetician, it is a great case study into how interpreting raw numbers can yield far more accurate results than in depth subjective opinions.
For the MBA student or the finance/investment types, this book presents a beautiful study that could be extrapolated to explain why most stock analysts can't beat the market, and why quantitative analysis is a discipline to be taken seriously.
The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. A story about money, science, entertainment, egos, Moneyball traces ...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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