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We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

~Billy Beane

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The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

~Billy Beane

Topics: Also Baseball Certain Course Data Eliminate Games Individual Lot Math Much Odds Off Outcomes Over Pay Performance Play Players Predict Predictability Random Season Some Strategies Will Works You

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Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

~Billy Beane

Topics: Because Belt Best Biggest Both Build Course Down End Field Finishing Go Going Half Him How Impact Job Just Might Much Over Players Put Really Replace Support Team Trying Ultimately Up Want Which Who Winter You Your

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The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

~Billy Beane

Topics: Any Bright Business Create Forever Happen Idea Long Long Period People Period Really Same Same Thing Some Successful Thing Time Way Will Work You

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In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.

~Billy Beane

Topics: Bad Ball Baseball Catch Could Credit Databases Diving Drive Fantastic Get Historical Hit Line Look Make Pitcher Poorly Screaming Something Still Struck Throw Time Trajectory Velocity You

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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.

~Billy Beane

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We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.

~Billy Beane

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I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work.

~Billy Beane

Topics: Community Driving Love Reasons Stayed Work I Love

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Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.

~Billy Beane

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I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

~Billy Beane

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: March 29th, 1962

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