Freakonomics meets Moneyball(economist.com)

2 pointsby DEinspanjer17 lat temu1 comments

http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14587290

Mozilla's metrics guru, Ken Kovash and Steven ("Freakonomics") Levitt compile statistics and explore minimax play in Football and Baseball showing interesting correlations in choices that can cost teams wins.

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DEinspanjer17 lat temu

Also an article in the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870442930457446...

Here is a link to the NEBR.org digest report of the paper: http://www.nber.org/digest/oct09/w15347.html