Adapting the key to success

Adapt or die.

Simon Coveney

It’s a maxim that could be tattooed onto the consciousness of the modern world and sport, with its quixotic traditions and structures and ideas stretching back well over 100 years, can’t think itself an exception to changing times and norms.

Brad Pitt’s character Billy Beane used that very phrase in the movie Moneyball when he entrusted the recruitment policy for the Oakland A’s to a kid just out of Yale with an economics degree and, in the process, sidelined a team of scouts with decades’ worth of baseball craft in the process.