21 min

The Moneyball effect Industry Interrupted

    • Entrepreneurship

In 2002, the Oakland A's did something that no team in Major League Baseball had ever done before: They used big data to build their small-market team into the number one team in the Western division. And the rest, as they say, is history.

In 2002, the Oakland A's did something that no team in Major League Baseball had ever done before: They used big data to build their small-market team into the number one team in the Western division. And the rest, as they say, is history.

21 min

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