moneyball Stories - On the Forecheck
Not Selling Jeans and Niclas Bergfors: Judging the Limits of "The Predator Way"
Despite the many positive similarities between the current Predators and the turn-of-the-century Oakland Athletics, it's the villains of the new film Moneyball, not heroes Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta, who most evoke David Poile and Barry Trotz. In the film's opening scenes, banners portraying...
Moneyball and Moneypuck
I went to see Moneyball on Wednesday, and even though I was predisposed to liking it, it was better than I expected. But it still had to make the story much more black-and-white than it really was - on the dark side, you had the elderly scouts who said they wouldn't sign a guy with an ugly...
Saturday's notes: Moneyball debut kicks off hockey stats talk
The release of Moneyball in theaters this week has the sports-geek world buzzing, and in today's hockey notes, our look around the league features two articles on that front (my look at how the Preds relate to Moneyball ran on Thursday). While a few teams are dipping their toes into the hockey...
Moneyball & The Nashville Predators
For those of us who enjoy analyzing the game of hockey at a deeper level than the standard box score or game recap provides, Moneyball is an inspirational classic, and the movie adaptation of Michael Lewis' best-selling book hits theaters this week. It tells the tale of how Billy Beane, general...
Tuesday afternoon notes: It's all about the money, money, money
You may have noticed ads for the new Moneyball movie around these parts, and this afternoon's hockey notes definitely take on that flavor.After the jump, we have a review of that groundbreaking book and how the methods described therein might apply to the NHL, an analyst's view of the best &...
Lots of front office shuffling as NHL teams are sold
To get your Tuesday started off right, here's your news & notes from around the league, including several franchises being sold (or at risk of being sold in the case of Montreal), and the impact on head coaching & general manager jobs: The Rink Episode 36 | The Rink Podcast The Rink takes a...
10 reasons to hate the..Oakland Athletics
1. "The Bash Brothers"Turns out this was a comedy.2. The white shoes"Look at us. We're so different. We're crazy out here on the left coast."3. McAfee ColiseumI've never been there, but McAfee Coliseum has to be the worst ballpark in baseball. It has tons of wasted space in the lower seating area,...
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