Alderson has surrounded himself with astute baseball minds who are disciples of Bill James and sabermetrics.
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Charles Reep was generating statistics about soccer when Bill James was in diapers.
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We want to help find that Bill James, not necessarily for Manchester City but for the benefit of analytics in football.
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Analyst Bill James came up with a metric called Game Score, which quantifies the elements of a so-called quality start.
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He is to stocks what player-selection guru Bill James is to baseball.
Epstein wisely consulted with Bill James, the guru of baseball statistics.
The Red Sox, directed by whiz-kid GM Theo Epstein and famed baseball statistician Bill James, had just won their first World Series in 86 years.
In the 2000 edition of Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Mays ranks third all time, behind Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner, and just ahead of Negro League legend Oscar Charleston.
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Also, is there a chance that a complete overhaul can occur and the Dodgers become ardent disciples of statistical analyses and hire someone similar to Bill James as a senior advisor?
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The second quote is from Sabermetrics godfather Bill James.
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In the book Moneyball, author Michael Lewis details how statistician Bill James showed that people overlooked the information that would reveal which strategies would be most effective in to compete and win in baseball.
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So Beane hires as his assistant a pudgy, diffident non-athlete named Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an economics major a few years out of Yale, who happens to be a disciple of the sabermetrics guru Bill James.
Even with all of the adulation and controversy that has surrounded Bill James throughout the years, one thing cannot be forgotten: most major league franchises not only mismanage ball players, but the execution of game strategies as well.
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Previous presidents have had indispensable campaign operatives: think of Bill Clinton and James Carville, or Mr Bush's father and Lee Atwater.
"We are changing the world in so many ways at once, " says another of the authors, Professor Bill Laurance of James Cook University.
Gavin is joined on the bill by Olympians James DeGale and Billy Joe Saunders and he is expecting another excitable atmosphere in Northern Ireland.
When Bill Gates, James Dimon, Nouriel Roubini and Mick Jagger choose to spend five days in the same small Swiss town, what they crave is influence.
The new collection is comprised of nine different pairs of socks in various team colors, featuring iconic photos of 10 basketball greats: Larry Bird, Julius Erving, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dennis Rodman, Kenny Smith, Bill Walton, James Worthy, and one pair that features both John Sockman Stockton and Karl Malone.
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Senator James Buckley, Bill Buckley's brother, was a leading supporter of the Endangered Species Act.
The Bill of Rights, drafted by James Madison in 1789, offered assurance to Anti-Federalists, who feared that there would be no limit to the powers of the newly constituted federal government.
George W. may nonetheless fall for it -- as his father did before him in 1992 when Bill Clinton and his Rasputin, James Carville, pronounced that it was "the economy, stupid, " and Bush Sr. effectively allowed the campaign to be fought on territory and terms of his opponent's choosing.
Moran credits his success to his affiliation with CoderDojo, co-founded by fellow Irishman James Whelton and Australian entrepreneur Bill Liao.
The Lippo group is a conglomerate owned by James Riady, a supporter of President Bill Clinton.
When the Alabama legislature passed a bill this year raising the cap, Governor Fob James vetoed it.
He wrote to James Madison that the omission of a Bill of Rights would be a major mistake.
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And critics like James Steinberg, who was former President Bill Clinton's deputy national security adviser, said agencies simply need better cooperation in the fight against terrorism, not another new agency.
But James Carville, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, signed on with the Ready for Hillary political action committee on Thursday, urging supporters to help lay the groundwork for a Clinton campaign.
His father, who had a construction business and also went by the name Bill, started the firm in 1966 with friend James Golden (Jabil blends their first names) fixing circuit-board assemblies for Control Data Systems mainframes.
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