Freakonomics meets Moneyball

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2 pointsDEinspanjer1 comment

Mozilla's metrics guru, Ken Kovash and Steven ("Freakonomics") Levitt compile statistics and explore minimax play in Football and Baseball showing interesting correlations in choices that can cost teams wins.

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Also an article in the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870442930457446...

Here is a link to the NEBR.org digest report of the paper: http://www.nber.org/digest/oct09/w15347.html

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