Bringing A-game to Premier League

BILLY BEANE, the man behind the Moneyball phenomenon, has dismissed the notion that the principles which brought him success in baseball cannot be adapted to other sports.

’Moneyball’, first published in 2003, documents the early part of the last decade when Beane’s Oakland A’s found a way to compete against teams with much bigger budgets by finding undervalued players through groundbreaking statistical analysis.

The book was a worldwide success and recently has been turned into a film, with Hollywood star Brad Pitt playing Beane, making the latter famous in more places than the general manager of the A’s would otherwise expect to be.