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Leicester City Football Club

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obc said:
Yes, Moneyball utilizes America's love of endless statistics and tracking everything to analyze from a different perspective. Your basic analysis is correct. A guy who hits .300 costs a lot of money. You can find a guy who hits .250, but draws a lot of walks - i.e. gets on base equally well if not better - for significantly less.

And while the A's won their division regularly (they also benefited from having three "Ross Barkley" caliber pitchers come up through their minor league system), they never won it all.

Meanwhile the Boston Red Sox employed a lot of the concepts of Moneyball, mixed with their own massive budget to build a team with superstar pitchers, a perennial all-star slugger (Manny Ramirez), and a bunch of solid, hardworking "dirt dogs" to great success, breaking an 86 year drought to win the World Series in 2004 and again in 2007.

It also helps that one of the players they bought for little learned plate discipline from the coaches and other players and developed into one of the most feared hitters in the league in David "Big Papi" Ortiz.

Not sure how you could "Moneyball" football... i guess outside of finding players who aren't the primary goalscorers or set-up men, but finding those who best operate a step or two before that. The guy who best wins the ball and threads it to the guy who assists the goal. Under the radar, of course. That's as close as I think you could do it.

Although the A's, those aforementioned Red Sox teams and Leicester also did have great team chemistry and seemingly loved showing up for "work".
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Not to mention a lot more tactical flexibility in the PL than MLB. There's really only so many ways you can shape a roster. If anything about Leicester leans Moneyball, it's the simplified approach to the game vs the glamorized.
 
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SerenityNigh said:
Not to mention a lot more tactical flexibility in the PL than MLB. There's really only so many ways you can shape a roster. If anything about Leicester leans Moneyball, it's the simplified approach to the game vs the glamorized.
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Very true. If there's a baseball parallel to Leicester, I think it might be those Tampa Bay Rays teams under Joe Maddon. Strong team cohesion, simplifying the tasks for players
 
It's a bit tiresome reading all this stuff about Leicester players being on drugs. Bournemouth have run around just as much as Leicester this season, but because they haven't won the league nobody is casting aspersions on them.
 

hallamblue said:
It's a bit tiresome reading all this stuff about Leicester players being on drugs. Bournemouth have run around just as much as Leicester this season, but because they haven't won the league nobody is casting aspersions on them.
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Yeah. They had no Europe and two extremely short cup runs. The league was all they did. They just played a lot less than their competitors.
 
Just noticed that Paul Merson is trying to sell of their best players already. Season has not even finished.
 
If a team like Leicester can become champions, and very well done to them, then that should give hope to almost any other team in the Premier League.
It just shows what the right manager, with decent players (not world class) and a superb team ethic can do. And they haven't spent bucket loads of cash either.
The chairmen of the self proclaimed 'bigger'clubs who think that they have a divine right to win trophies should be rightly embarrassed by 'Little Leicester' leading the pack all season and winning the league with two games left.
Well done to Ranieri and the lads.
And yes-I'm more than a little bit jealous of their achievements this year!!!
 

The Cowboy said:
I'll stick my neck out and say not a single first team regular will leave Leicester this summer.
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I think maherz might go depending on what teams come in for him. Hes the only slight possibilty but I wouldnt stick my neck or money on him going haha
 
The closest thing to moneyball in English football is what is happening at Brentford.
Can't say it's going amazing for them like.
 
SantaClausisanEvertonian said:
If a team like Leicester can become champions, and very well done to them, then that should give hope to almost any other team in the Premier League.
It just shows what the right manager, with decent players (not world class) and a superb team ethic can do. And they haven't spent bucket loads of cash either.
The chairmen of the self proclaimed 'bigger'clubs who think that they have a divine right to win trophies should be rightly embarrassed by 'Little Leicester' leading the pack all season and winning the league with two games left.
Well done to Ranieri and the lads.
And yes-I'm more than a little bit jealous of their achievements this year!!!
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It certainly echoes Martinez's sentiment that if you feel the need to leave a club to win, maybe the problem is with you and not the club. Didn't work well for Amartinez, but no less a valid thought.
 

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