46 pages 1 hour read

Michael Lewis

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

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Essay Topics

1.

According to Lewis, how is baseball like derivatives traded in the financial markets? Is this comparison accurate, in your view? Why or why not?

2.

One part of the story Lewis tells has to do with the rise of personal computers in the late 1970s and 1980s. Analyses of baseball statistics really took off once people had access to PCs. What’s another industry that the growth of PCs affected in a big way? Describe what it was and explain the effect PCs had.

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Why doesn’t sabermetrics always work? What are some factors that get in the way? Think of what the author covers in the book and anything else not addressed. The events took place 20 years ago now. Has anything changed? Has the sabermetrics method gotten more or less effective? Why?

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