When Michael Lewis published Moneyball in 2003, it instantly became one of the most influential
books about American sports in a generation. Michael Lewis, normally a financial writer, analyzed
how baseball's Oakland A's managed to consistently produce highly competitive teams despite a
payroll that was a fraction of their biggest rivals.
CNBC has an interesting post by their "Sports Business Reporter" regarding the proposed
"Lingerie Football League" which, while it's certainly worth noting for those among you who have an
interest in seeing comely young ladies smashing into each other while wearing their unmentionables
- and let he who is without sin among us cast the first stone - there really wouldn't be much of an
excuse to mention it on BigSoccer except for this:
THE WRITER SAYS THAT AMONG THE POTENTIAL OWNERS are two MLS team investor/operators.
Michael Lewis' Moneyball changed the way we look at identifying talent in baseball, and gave
Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane an opportunity to change the culture of Major League
Baseball scouting.
Beane was able to work with mathematicians to create baseline data and statistics to support
theories on which players to identify.
