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The Only Rule Is It Has to Work by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller — WisdomDeck honest review
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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.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Models meet people.
  2. Buy-in matters.
  3. Experiment anyway.

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Running a team on data.

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