moneyball

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Moneyball.

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   [Ben] Waber portrays the work as “moneyball” for business, enabling any organization to manage its workers like a sports team based on measures that reveal how people move through the day, with whom they interact, their tone of voice, if they “lean in” to listen, their position in the social network across a variety of office situations, and much more, all of it to produce forty separate measures that are then integrated with a “business metric dashboard.”

   2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 15, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

alternative moneyball

1. uncountableball gamesBaseball management relying on sabermetrics.

   Sure, statistical analysis has changed baseball's front offices for the better. A little. But most things haven't changed. The Red Sox version of Moneyball, after all, includes lots and lots of money, and there's nothing new there.

   2011 September 2, “The ‘Moneyball’ Effect: Are Sabermetrics Good for Sports?”, in The Atlantic

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   Sure, the Florida Marlins and some others have a shot, but the “Moneyball” approach — using spreadsheets and unconventional thinking to fell baseball’s rich Goliaths — seems to have been co-opted by the big guys themselves.

   2009 August 7, Tom Kuntz, “‘Moneyball’ Is in a Slump”, in NYTimes Idea of the Day Blog

   The moneyball formula in baseball—replacing scouts’ traditional beliefs and biases about players with data-intensive studies of what skills actually contribute most to winning—is just as applicable to the battle against out-of-control health-care costs.

   2013 June 20, John Bridgeland, Peter Orszag, “Can Government Play Moneyball?”, in The Atlantic

2. broadlyuncountableThe application of advanced analytics to any domain in order to improve outcomes.

   Campaigns are spending a lot of money, but they are not playing Moneyball.

   2011 October 5, John Sides, “The Moneyball of Campaign Advertising (Part 1)”, in The New York Times

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   The technical savvy on display was enough to show any guest that there’s more—a lot more—to the hotel business than the front desk and housekeeping. As host Wapner said, “It’s moneyball for hotels.”

   2012, Patrick Mayock, “Bill Marriott shines in primetime spotlight”, in www.hotelnewsnow.com, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2013

   Now people everywhere can bring “Moneyball” to medicine. A few months after releasing their global numbers in The Lancet, the same scientists supplied the underlying figures for 187 nations.

   2015 April 2, Jeremy N. Smith, “When ‘Moneyball’ Meets Medicine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   For years, Amazon seemed to employ a Moneyball approach to media, spreading its bets across less-than-stellar intellectual properties.

   2017 November 13, Derek Thompson, “Why Amazon Thinks You Want to Watch a ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Show (or Five)”, in The Atlantic