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The End of the Moneyball Era

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If you look at the standings in Major League Baseball's divisional and wildcard races across all divisional lines and in both leagues, one item pops right out at you - there are almost no small teams. The only small payroll teams still in serious contention are the Rockies and the Giants in the NL wildcard, and neither of those is truly a small market club. So, is the era of Moneyball dead?

Joe Posnanski, formerly of the Kansas City Star and now a member of the SI staff, posits thatits not so much that Moneyball is dead but that the large market, large payroll teams have adopted the same mindset and tactics so that any advantage that small market teams used to get from the Moneyball strategy are now gone. Since it was never so much about obtaining the data, as analyzing and using the data more successfully than others, once the large market teams adopted the same mindset and hired their own data experts, the advantage was lost. Billy Beane is going to have to dream up something else this time, because whatever the A's are doing now isn't working.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on August 09, 2009 (boomark / email).