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It’s that time of year again. The passing of the summer, the start of the fall. Most importantly, it signals the start of that most magical of times–the start of the fantasy football season. This year I am in three leagues–one for work, one for “stat-geeks”, and one for family and friends. I decided to [...]
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For those that follow the debate around Michael Lewis’ Moneyball and its effect on front office strategy there is a fantastic article over at The Hardball Times. For the uninitiated, Moneyball follows Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane during the summer of 2002 as the team attempted to implement a different strategy to make his [...]
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The NY Times had a great article yesterday profiling the increasing fortunes for advanced statisticians. As the world has become more data-driven and flush with raw numbers, the need to derive sophisticated insights from all that data has increased. Data does not speak for itself: The new breed of statisticians tackle that problem. They use [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
