Tom Davenport writes a good review on Moneyball. A different take on in than Roger Ebert would present - but you will probably learn more from Davenport's commentary. You can read it here: http://blogs.hbr.org/davenport/2011/09/six_things_your_company_has_in.html .
Sports analytics is becoming serious business. MIT annually hold a sports analytics conference the aptly named MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference . There is also a great company based in Chicago, but operating globally, which houses massive volumes of sports data (also aptly!) named STATS . STATS have been collecting sports data for over 30 years and supply most of the player stat data shown on screen in televised sports events. As you can imagine the demand for this type of data is increasing, as is the sophistication of the data which can be presented. STATS recently purchased the Israeli company SportVU which among other things automates the gathering of player and ball movement data. This space is set to become very interesting for data scientists.
Feel free to add to the comments - what innovative things would you be aiming to do with the base sports statistical data if you were a company like STATS?
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