ABSTRACT
The one-sentence sound-bite review of Moneyball is that it describes the conflict between academic stat-head analysts and oldschool baseball insiders. Such a review is overly simplistic, but the basic conflict is real, and is a recurring theme of modern society. As Ian Ayres puts it in his book SuperCrunchers, “We are in a historic moment of horse-versus-locomotive competition, where intuitive and experiential expertise is losing out time and again to number crunching.” However, unless you’re selling books or movies you should not believe that this is an us-versus-them battle.
