How a Small-Market Team Can Compete With the Dodgers
Episode Description
The best analytics teams are not using data to copy each other. They are using it to find their own way to win.
Mike Petriello, Director of Stats and Research at Major League Baseball, explains why teams must build strategies around their own strengths instead of trying to play like baseball’s biggest spenders.
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Brief Summary
The Brewers, Tampa Bay, and Cleveland use data to find different ways to win instead of copying the Dodgers and Yankees.
Key points
- The Brewers zig while others zag. A chart shows the Brewers taking a different approach from the rest of baseball. The speaker says it’s a striking visual of what they do differently.
- A different way to win. The Brewers, Tampa, and Cleveland aren’t simply rejecting data or returning to old-school baseball. They’re finding approaches that let them compete without trying to beat the Dodgers or Yankees at their own game.
