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beating rich teams by counting what they forgot mattered.
means an approach to baseball roster-building that uses statistical analysis to find undervalued players rather than trusting scouts' gut feelings.
from named after michael lewis's 2003 book on oakland a's gm billy beane, who exploited stats like on-base percentage that other teams undervalued because they weren't sexy.
key staton-base percentage, ignored because it wasn't home runs
budget gapa's spent a third of the yankees payroll
movie versionbrad pitt played beane in 2011
real pioneerbill james coined sabermetrics decades earlier, unpaid