Reds’ scoring frustrations hit home again

WITH each passing week, any association Liverpool have been keen to promote with Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s, which inspired the book ‘Moneyball’, only seem more ridiculous.

There are plenty that doubt that successful statistical analysis in baseball has any comparison in football but Liverpool’s director of football, Damien Comolli, is said to be a major believer in the system that allowed Oakland to evaluate players in a different way and over-achieve on a fraction of the budget of their competitors.

John Henry adopted the system with the Boston Red Sox with so much success that the team won its first world series in 86 years.