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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
In Baseball advanced stats have been around longer, and they still don't predict anything at the team level. Good at looking at individuals but ignores a lot of other variables when building a team.
Look at the last couple years, the Oakland A's have still yet to win a world series. Yet a team that seems to spit in the face of all the advanced stats has won 3 out of 5 world series, on what advanced stats call "luck".
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To say that advanced stats have nothing to do with success in Baseball is extremely ignorant. WOW.
If advanced stats meant nothing on a team level then guys like Epstein, Beane, Friedman, Luhnow would not get paid millions of dollars to run a franchise.
Also SF spits in the face of analytics?
"GM Brian Sabean and manager Bruce Bochy have reputations for being old-school baseball types, but it's not accurate to call them anti-"Moneyball."
San Francisco has a small, stable front office that doesn't talk much about analytics; that's to avoid taking credit from the players, CEO Larry Baer told the New York Times. But Sabean and others insist the Giants have always incorporated statistical information and resultant strategies.
For instance, Bochy utilized the stolen base and sacrifice bunt less than any other NL manager in 2014, saying, "I believe in going for the bigger inning." And one of the pivotal plays in Game 7 of the last World Series went the Giants' way specifically because of their use of defensive analytics.
Being so close to Silicon Valley, the Giants have built-in advantages that have helped -- they have happily served as a guinea pig for Sportvision, whose technology center is in Mountain View, California, and therefore had access to PITCHf/x and FIELDf/x data before any other team.
OK, the Giants aren't exactly the baseball embodiment of Google, but with three World Series titles in five years, who cares?"