Could Brad Pitt win the Premier League?
You don't get too many Premier League managers who look like Brad Pitt, although Jose Mourinho
did cool and brooding pretty well. But as baseball gets the Hollywood treatment with the UK
premiere of the film Moneyball, based on the book that detailed how Billy Beane used statistics and
analysis rather than gut instincts to turn the Oakland Athletics from nobodies to big players in
the MLB, the same principles are starting to be applied in the top flight.
Last night, BBC Radio 5 live broadcast an interesting discussion about playing "Moneyball" in
football and other popular UK sports. The discussion provides a nice overview of the issue, along
with interviews of Billy Beane, Damien Comolli, Steve McLaren, and others. Here's the synopsis from
5 live:
"On the eve of the UK release of the film Moneyball, based on the influential book, 5 live Sport
takes a special look at the growing influence of statistics in sport.
