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.
Fed up with the brain-dead, sound bite-honking dullards at the forefront of BBC Sport? Then why
not turn them into a card game?
BBC Sport. Let's face it, it's basically dead. Once an opulent Roman empire of punditry with Des
Lynam as its silver-dusted Caesar – in the past ten years it has crumbled.
