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<blockquote data-quote="die_mole" data-source="post: 883987" data-attributes="member: 73648"><p>it's important to note that moneyball is not necessarily building a team through analytics* but rather through attacking inefficiencies in the market by valuing players and tactics differently than others. The hope is that everyone else would undervalue your roster and therefore you would outperform. In recent years, moneyball has shifted away towards analytics since analytics have become overvalued.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure that both have been used extensively at the elite level of rugby.</p><p></p><p>Analytics:</p><p>Every team probably has a chart for PKs that tells them whether they should kick to touch, for points, or opt for a scrum,</p><p>Most probably have the expected value for certain actions in certain parts of the field, e.g, whether to keep running the ball or to kick it.</p><p></p><p>Moneyball:</p><p>Signing players that are just below international level since you get more games from them.</p><p>Signing players from countries that play less internationals or that don't select players who play in other domestic leagues. (Ironically, having a policy that you don't select foreign-based players makes your players more attractive to foreign leagues.)</p><p>Signing players who don't fit the traditional body type (Conor Murray and Chris Cloete for example).</p><p></p><p>*SABRmetrics refers specifically to baseball (Society of American Baseball Researchers)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="die_mole, post: 883987, member: 73648"] it's important to note that moneyball is not necessarily building a team through analytics* but rather through attacking inefficiencies in the market by valuing players and tactics differently than others. The hope is that everyone else would undervalue your roster and therefore you would outperform. In recent years, moneyball has shifted away towards analytics since analytics have become overvalued. I'm sure that both have been used extensively at the elite level of rugby. Analytics: Every team probably has a chart for PKs that tells them whether they should kick to touch, for points, or opt for a scrum, Most probably have the expected value for certain actions in certain parts of the field, e.g, whether to keep running the ball or to kick it. Moneyball: Signing players that are just below international level since you get more games from them. Signing players from countries that play less internationals or that don't select players who play in other domestic leagues. (Ironically, having a policy that you don't select foreign-based players makes your players more attractive to foreign leagues.) Signing players who don't fit the traditional body type (Conor Murray and Chris Cloete for example). *SABRmetrics refers specifically to baseball (Society of American Baseball Researchers) [/QUOTE]
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