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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Dave Studeman

Baseball writer who chronicled the spread of Moneyball-style analysis into mainstream evaluation.

Why this matters

Helps locate when measurement culture moved from niche argument to default coaching attention.

Focus in observatory

Works

article

The Triumph of Moneyball

Dave Studeman. "The Triumph of Moneyball." *The Hardball Times* / FanGraphs, January 23, 2014, https://tht.fangraphs.com/the-triumph-of-moneyball/.

Related books

Book

The Game We Think We Saw

What Sports Reveals About Winning, Judgment, and the Stories Results Cannot Settle

Sports gives us some of the clearest outcomes in public life. A score becomes final, a ruling takes effect, and one side advances. But the result cannot fully explain what produced it, why it should count, what it is allowed to justify, who carried its cost, or what the event will eventually mean. The Game We Think We Saw follows those unsettled questions from the scoreboard into the systems, bodies, judgments, and stories surrounding the game.