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The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller
Two baseball writers run an independent league team with pure analytics and learn what humans do to spreadsheets. Funny and humbling.
Read it if…
you want data meets reality.
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Skip it if…
you want an MLB story.
Try instead: Astroball →
Three things you will actually use
- Models meet people.
- Buy-in matters.
- Experiment anyway.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the clubhouse.
Our verdict
Running a team on data.
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