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What football had not witnessed, Anderson and Sally felt, was an analytics revolution. Plenty of people were reading the numbers and taking note of what they said: these are the players who have sprinted the most, these are the number of shots we have taken and the rest. But nobody – as far as they could tell, at least – was trying to find out what
... See moreRory Smith • Expected Goals
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
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in pursuit of their goal,
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Such was his fame as a prize-fighter, newspapers reported one of his victories ahead of the storming of the Bastille in 1789.
Anthony Clavane • Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?
Baseball people believed they knew the answers to those questions, and all the others. But those assumptions hadn’t been tested in decades, if ever, so it shouldn’t be surprising that many of them turned out to be wrong. From that gap between the assumed and the actual, Beane and his assistants were able to use their limited budget to construct div
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personal and authentic.
Tony Pullin • Making Disciples - How Did Jesus Do It?
In Books Do Furnish a Room, the novelist Anthony Powell wrote: ‘It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.’